Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
Over the Summer, I have noticed a number of changes in my photographic work, perhaps with a little too much introspection. Nevertheless, I have found that I am working my projects with a little more intensity and as a result, reducing my blogging efforts here and else where. I am still not sure how this will eventually... 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 →
I am currently reading my annotated copy of Mirrors & Windows, American Photograph since 1960 by John Szarkowski. Which discusses aspects of photography in the 1950's which influence if not set the stage for contemporary photography in the 1970's (book published in 1978). In retrospect, my habit of making a bunch of notes both in... 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 →
In photograph magazine (Sept/Oct 2007), in an article written by Mia Fineman, she has the following quote from Richard Kalvar (Magnum photographer); "I like to play with the relationship between reality and the appreance of reality, which is the photograph. But you have to play by the rules. If not, the tension is lost."
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 →
By Lyle Rexer in the May/June 2008 issue of photograph magazine; "As with identity, so with photography; apperance is a costumed pose, and what lies beneath it can only be implied, never fully revealed".
"Brie, France, 1968" photograph copyright of Henri Cartier-Bresson During a recent photographic image review on Stills, one landscape image brought up a reference to this photograph above by HCB. It is one of those images that is also similar to another photograph by Brett Weston, that I have always enjoyed. Something about that tree lined road that pulls me... Continue Reading →
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