Looking at one photograph at a time
Having finished re-reading the Mirrors & Windowsby Szarkowski, I find myself wondering about my own particular bent in what and why I photograph. And I realize that I am somewhere in between and not sure if near one pole or the other. I think it depends on the day. So while all of that was... Continue Reading →
JiaShan (China series) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - As I continued to chew on the whole 'subtlety' question (and thanks to Paul Butzi to working the question a little deeper), and specifically to how I am developing my photographs for my current series, I tried a little test. What if I attended my monthly print review with the Photographers Exchange,... Continue Reading →
I have found myself coming back to the Human/Nature exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and mostly to one image by Bart Michiel made in the present-day of the World War I battlefields near his home in Belgium. The images have been described as very subtle by the art critic Alice Thorson. Michiel is quoted as... Continue Reading →
Watching the Olympics the past couple of days has inspired me to work on my "Business as Usual" series. I have been looking at and editing this body of work for the last four months, but I have been struggling with the thread that pulls it together. I think that I may have found that... Continue Reading →
More investigating the spacial relationships of neighbors. Missouri.
Arvada, CO copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale The question of "What makes a good landscape" is one of those questions that at one time, I felt had some relevance. Sorry, but I am now feeling that the question is only one for me personally. In fact, I have difficulty with the concept of "good" as adjutive attached to a... Continue Reading →
While I was in Eastern China at the beginning of the year, I embarked on a study of the construction and changes occuring there. Thos photographers were subsequently labeled "industrial landscape photography" at the Palm Springs Photo Festival portfolio reviews. I must admit, I was tapping into my technical background, but I thought those phtotographs were... Continue Reading →
Hopefully you will not confuse the picture posted here (Lake Elsinore, CA) with Independence, MO, but I have not had a chance to process any of the images yet. Stay tuned! So we just finished a long weekend side trip to Independence, Missouri for a surprise birthday party for my sister-in-law. Nice when something like... Continue Reading →
My friend Ellen Butler just sent me a "heads-up" and provided a link to the Creativity Network. If you scoll down, you will find: Doug Stockdale and my recent SoFoBoBo book Places Amongst Us. very nice. I guess I need to update my web site with some of the images from Places Amongst Us. That will have to go on... Continue Reading →
Still working on the editing of the work from Eastern China. Seems what is working for me now is to concurrently develop the two series, with still the idea that they may come together. But one is a collection of found images while the other is set of found circumstances that help illustrate a project in... Continue Reading →
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