Looking at one photograph at a time
Stockdale and Framani, photography copyright of Tim Anderson While doing some catch up reading this morning, I did a quick check of the Camera Arts site and noticed that Tim Anderson (publisher Camera Arts) had posted some images he made during the Palm Springs Photo Festival (4/3/08). Canon had lent Tim a 5D with the 24-105mm L lens... Continue Reading →
While passing through Denver, I had a chance to spend a half day at the Camera Obscura Gallery with Hal Gould and Loretta Young-Gautier. We had a great conversation as we walked the three galleries of images, including the current exhibit of Christopher Burkett. I provided a copy of LensWork #74 with my series In Passing,... 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 →
When creating bodies of work, I see similarities between photograph and other creative works, such as music, novels and poems and plays. I guess that it can be argued a photograph is like a poem or perhaps a short story. I find myself thinking of comparisons to music, e.g. a musician will write a song... Continue Reading →
There seems to be a lot of dicsussion about the manufactured photographs again, such as Amy Stein's work. I suppose that it has to do with the idea of a totally created work, such as a painting or drawing. An idea or concept is developed and you create the set and find the players. Not surprising, they look... Continue Reading →
Yes, editing and more editing. Does the image capture my heart, does it have an emotional connection, does it work with my head and stay within the boundaries I have arbitrarily chosen, is it a keeper, dud or maybe I just don't know yet. The photograph (an instant recognition and reactionary shutter release) that has taken a brief moment to... Continue Reading →
I am where my emotional connection is developing with regard to my photographic projects from Eastern China, specifically the industrial landscape, such as this photograph. Kinda like the let down that occurs weeks, months or even years after a tragic life event occurs. At some point, the defenses are far enough down that the events wash over and... Continue Reading →
One thing that I have been striving to do is to include a stronger human presense in my landscape photographs. And seems that others have noticed as well. What I did not notice until it was pointed out to me recently, is that the people in the photogaph seem to be moving away from the... Continue Reading →
Well, I continued to think about the publishing strategy for my softcover version of In Passing. It seems that my logic for holding back the softcover version until I complete the Limited Edition was based on traditional book publishing rules. But I am not doing traditional book publishing, eh? Now for me, developing the softcover book... Continue Reading →
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