Category: photographers
Eugene Richards and Dorchester Days
BB8 and Chicken, University Farm, August 19, 2016. (photo by me, humbly placed here as a nod and a thank you to Eugene Richards) While looking at the revised edition of Eugene Richards’ book, Dorchester Days: photographers are like time-travelers. They photograph, convinced that the future will look back on this moment with wonder and understanding photographers are […]
Jeff Jacobson: Notes from a workshop
[lastupdated] Jeff Jacobson, photographer. At Shakerag Workshops, 2013. I spent a week studying with Jeff Jacobson who has, over some four decades, built a deeply poetic body of work. Jeff has a distinctive and highly photographic vision. While consistently shaped by what distinguishes photography from other visual media, it also keeps driving at visualizing phenomena […]
Robin Gillanders’ web site
Robin Gillanders: Pradip Malde, 1988 Fellow photographer, teacher and dear friend Robin Gillanders has just activated his web site. He is an extraordinary image-maker and consistently melds the rational with what is felt and transitional. His photographs are readable, yet always in a state of flux. They are very present, even arresting, but never just […]
Fayum: Geoffrey Frosh
Geoffrey Frosh, photographer 8×10 inches, platinum-palladium print on Fabriano 5 In a recent interview with photographer, printer and blogger, David Chow, he asked How do you normally approach taking a portrait of someone? A number of specific things have to be present or in place, and this is easy to talk about: atmospherics, equipment, the […]
Fayum: Sebastian Mera
Sebastian Mera, Duckspool. 1989 8×10 inches, platinum-palladium print on Fabriano 5 Here’s something else about the Fayum portraits – they were intended as a part of a process, a becoming. The person, (in almost all cases, as far as I understand) alive, presenting him or herself to the painter, knew full well where the painting would […]
influences: George Tice
A Sequence for Dave Williams – Desert Plant*, 1987 Platinum-palladium print on Fabriano 5, from original 8×10 negative The nature of influence is cyclic, and full of surprise and synchrony. I will never forget the sense of wonder and promise I felt on seeing George Tice’s demonstration of the platinum printing process in the ‘Life […]