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What I Learned from John Maeda, I Used on the Beach
Complexity assaults me because I’m not close enough to what’s important or it overwhelms me because I haven’t stepped back far enough. John Maeda wrote the laws of Simplicity a few years ago and I pressed a few into service on a trip to Bulls Island, SC.
Continue reading...Behind the Scenes – December Vogue Arts Issue
Thursday, January 14, 2010
This is a great behind the scenes look at the creation of the Vogue Magazine photo series in the December Arts Issue with Annie Leibovitz and Grace Coddington featuring Lady Gaga and Cate Blanchett.
Continue reading...Photographic Point of View – Ralph Gibson
Monday, January 11, 2010
Listening to Ralph Gibson speak, and reviewing his work, something hit me. Yes, his work is simultaneously complex and simple. Its complexity is hidden by simplicity. His chosen frame is the disguise. But moreover, his work over five decades is astonishingly similar and that, to me, is especially remarkable when bearing in mind that I consider changing my approach daily.
Continue reading...The Space Between Your Notes
Thursday, December 17, 2009
“Music is the space between the notes” – Claude Debussy I thought of this quote before discovering someone much more intelligent said it first. I was at a show listening to bluegrass virtuosos play so fast that it was hard to discern a space between notes. It made me realize that there was only one interpretation possible. There were no spaces for me to think or feel anything but the energy of their content.
Continue reading...Permission To Suck Manifesto 16, 17, 18 …
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
This time, an addition of three items to the Permission To Suck Manifesto comes from my own attempts recently to reignite my passion for photography. It's not that I stopped enjoying the work but it's that I had forgotten what it felt like when everything felt new. Suspension of disbelief might be the answer - whatever works - but these three points have been rolling around in my head the past couple months.
Continue reading...The Afghanistan Portfolio of Photographer – David Guttenfelder
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Photographers learn early to capture contrast. Most serious photographers – pre digital – started seeing frames in black and white so the word “contrast” is etched into our professional consciousness. Yet, contrast is more importantly seen as paradox. In this group of images taken in Afghanistan by Photographer David Guttenfelder, we are confronted with some of the most profound examples.
Continue reading...Making a Human Connection – David Griffin
Monday, November 23, 2009
Your frozen mental picture is attached to a narrative. Dreams feel like movies but the meaningful moment is a photograph in your mind with an ascribed story. Precise and complete recall isn’t called video graphic memory now is it? Video Presentation by David Griffin, National Geographic Magazine Director of Photography with links to Photographers featured in the presentation.
Continue reading...Don’t Tell Me What to Feel
Monday, November 16, 2009
The artist has success with me if feeling threads don’t break as he/she reels me in. A paradox, an emotional a-ha moment; whatever the established connection can be destroyed if the artist comes on too strong by telling me how to feel about my journey. Simultaneously beautiful and ugly, Edward Burtynsky's photos of manufactured landscapes are perfect examples of artistic paradox. Featured: Video Interview of Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky
Continue reading...The Message Follows Motivation – Terry Richardson knows
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Terry Richardson reminds us that photography can be a very basic tool. By reducing it to a simple capture of emotions the authenticity is preserved, the blather is eliminated and it feels as personal as discovering photos on a friend’s Face Book page. Needless finesse of the craft is sacrificed to capture the raw motivation of the moment.
Continue reading...Talking with Photographer – Bruce DeBoer
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
In 1970, a 12 year old boy enthusiastically picked up the family Kodak Instamatic and started pointing it at anything. Or was it everything – hard to tell – but after only one twelve exposure cassette, he was running to the corner Drug for processing. Every photographer knows the ecstasy of repeated shutter clicks whether more »
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