Looking at one photograph at a time
In Passing, Speical Edition, Artist Proof (A/P) I by Douglas Stockdale Seems like a number of things have been coming together this week. First, as a result of publishing The Photo Book and linking a number of publishers and gallery bookstores to my journal, I now have an accepted gallery industry trade name for what I... Continue Reading →
Detoriating Wreath, Texas, 2006, copyright Douglas Stockdale Initially I thought that converting my folio to the Harman FB Mp paper from the Moab Entrada was just going to entail a little bit of image tweaking. Now in my book, to tweak an image means making some minor adjustments, that probably mean a lot more to... 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 →
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 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 →
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 →
When I was writing about our trip to Las Vegas a couple of days ago, I just realized that I had an image to post with it, which is this one Heart Broken Fence, part of my project In Passing. In the introduction I wrote about how these road side memorials continue to change. What I saw during... Continue Reading →
In Passing (I Love You), hand-colored cyanotype, copyright 2007/2023 Douglas Stockdale - One question that seems to come up often with regard to my photography; how do you come up with your photography projects? This was a frequent question during the development of my published project In Passing (working title Bad Trip - Sad Trip),... Continue Reading →
In Passing series copyright Douglas Stockdale - While finishing the artist proof for my next Edition Folio and thinking about a Blurb book for the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip, I am now rethinking the title for the series. When the series was published in LensWork magazine, they provided this body of work with the... Continue Reading →
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