Posts tagged: photography
Sightseeing, Tenderloin, USA
I’m into this composition. It’s the “seesaw”, or two subjects at either extreme of the frame balanced across a central axis or pivot, in this case simply the void at the center. In fact, there is an inherent tension across said axis because of the relative “weight” of each subject, where the perceptually lighter subject on the left (the woman) sits on a line slightly above the group on the right.
This photograph also contains, in the plane of the image as well as diagonal to it, other axes, specifically relating the woman taking a photograph and the hydrant. All of this within a fairly shallow, well-defined depth-of-field.
Richard Misrach’s “Destroy This Memory” is heartbreaking. I’m glad I went to the museum alone so no one I knew could see me cry. The fact that there are no people present in the photos only make it more haunting, more painful. We’re so desensitized to death…but loss is another thing entirely.
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art presents Mississippi Photographs, 1860s-Present. It takes a look back at 150 years of the state’s history and natural beauty through the lens of thirty-one photographers. The exhibition closes September 17th.
images from show: Maude Schulyer Clay 1983, Kathleen Robbins 2007 and Jack Spencer 1995.
December is shutterbug month in the Crescent City. Photography buffs can seek out more than 50 exhibits and events featuring camera-wielding artists from coast to coast during the fifth annual PhotoNOLA festival through Dec. 11. PhotoNOLA is presented by the New Orleans Photo Alliance, an…
It’s great to see so many events happening in New Orleans this week, particularly since I’m headed down there tomorrow. In addition to this exhibit, I plan on checking out DesCours architecture and art festival which is presented by the AIA New Orleans.
Macro photography studies, Patricia’s Green, San Francisco, California, September 2010
New toy No. 1, September, 2010
Magnetic Gorillapod purchased at Photojojo, a great site with unconventional photography accessories. It’s hard to beat their enthusiasm about the art of taking pictures. Now I just need my new toy No. 2….
Visual Acoustics Trailer - Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the worlds greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry.
