Tag Archive | "Photographer"
As Follow-up: Heather Elder Get’s A Return Letter From an Art Producer
Dear Rep. - An open letter from an art producer. Another read worth seeing over at Heather Elder's Blog. It's the answer to her open letter to Art Buyers.
Continue reading...Heather Elder’s Open Letter to Art Buyers
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Dear Art Buyers, We have been working together for over 15 years now, have grown professionally together and have become good friends.
Continue reading...Why Do You Take Photographs?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Call it our passion but if you’re anything like me, it’s mostly taken for granted until discovering a void. If I'm selling my value and forget my "WHY", then my cause is lost. Here's me starting with "WHY".
Continue reading...Stephen Shore interview video from Phaidon.com
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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Video interview of Stephen Shore - photographer
Continue reading...“Sometimes You Just Have to Get Butt-Naked” – Keith Carter
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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I visited the National Portrait Gallery and rediscovered Keith Carter – a photographer I’ve long admired. I saw his portrait of American Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote in which the Carter limited focus using forward lens tilts. I had forgotten him. I saw it and mumbled, “there it is”.
Continue reading...Moments of Interaction, Emotion and Intimacy – Doug Menuez
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
We’ve been dealt a line of crap so many times we don’t believe as much of what we see and less of what we hear. What started as a 70’s T-shirt, “question authority”, has morphed into a societal mantra, “question reality.”
Continue reading...Photography and Quantum Physics Need “The Ideal Observer”
Friday, June 18, 2010
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Many cultures fear loss of soul through photographs. In brutally frankness, photographers characteristically pinch intimacy and trigger vulnerability that only close examination bares. Anyone retouching a high resolution image can tell you they risk knowing way too much about their subject.
Continue reading...Influenced by Weegee the Famous – Who?
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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I've been influenced by Usher Fellig (aka Weegee the Famous). I had no idea. But I’m in good company from Diane Arbus to Cindy Sherman, and the rest of us. It’s hard to peel away the nostalgia from his photos from mid 20th century NYC, but as I try the feeling of intensity remains; as though one held a candle under humanity fluid and let it reduce.
Continue reading...Heightening or Cheating the Creative Encounter
Thursday, May 20, 2010
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Artistic creativity is an act of intimacy or not; it’s genuine art or it's artifact. Learn to manipulate tools and their crafty mechanisms so they become secondary or not.
Continue reading...Mapplethorpe isn’t famous for flower pictures
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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It’s not hard to find the uniqueness of Mapplethorpe’s work whether it’s a flower, a penis or a portrait. R.M. civilized the shock of sex, violence and race - localized our fears, lust and hopes with ambiguous well crafted works. He succeeded in such a powerful way that it’s spawned countless derivatives.
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