Looking at one photograph at a time
Hutong Re:Development #17, China, 2008, photography copyright of Douglas Stockdale Last week I essentially finished the last of the 40 color triptychs for my series Re:Development - China, Business as Usual (Zhou Chang Ying Yeh). And over this week I have been looking and re-examining the triptychs that I assembled to be sure of the emotional content and... Continue Reading →
Arizona Monsoon, copyright Douglas Stockdale - With the May 2008 bankruptcy of the Camera Arts magazine by Tim Anderson, the Publisher & Editor, I thought that the magazine was a goner. Which was sad after I had a great conversation with Anderson at the Palm Springs Photo Festival during my portfolio review session. This discussion... Continue Reading →
I just received a photograph of my clam shell artist proof for the Limited Edition In Passing book and folio. This is being constructed by Transient Books, but before a I provide a full endorsement, I will wait until the end of next week when I receive it and review the worksmanship. So far, they... Continue Reading →
Hutong Redevelopment #5, China, 2008 photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale - As I complete the 37th triptych for my series Re:Development, it felt like this series was coming together and I was getting some traction. As a result, I completely reworked my web site for my China portfolio Business as Usual, renaming it Re:Development and deleted all... Continue Reading →
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 →
