Worth seeing: Through the Nanny’s Eyes.
Update: Thomas added this link to a Vivian Maier fotostream in the German newspaper “Die Zeit”. Worth following.
Her images and her life give certainly enough matter for contemplation, namely the artistic part. The recent discussions I have followed over the last years in my little corner of the blogosphere sound immensely self-centered, while her work and life had a completely different balance.
Even if you would be a non-carnivalist (like me), you should have a look at my friend Bernd’s take on carnival here: Kölle Alaaf.
Mike Johnston over at TOP had his take on humor today, albeit an almost (at least so I feel) brute one.
I’d recommend today’s Blackandwhitecolours. No, I won’t spoil things for you by showing a preview. Enjoy it yourself, and remember: It’s not how things really are settled in the Alps – might come close however.
¢ Dania Maxwell
Through a post on Conscientious I was directed to the work of Dania Patricia Maxwell, a graduate student in the School of Visual Communications at Ohio University. Strong work in her portfolios (check out at least “Home Drive” and “Singles”) as well as her blog. She really manages to transport her vision through the lens.
Can’t resist to answer Tyler Monson’s duplicities in “American View”, which gave me such a lasting smile today.
That late summer look was achieved by some curves magic in bibble5.
© Carl Weese
Time is running: The Pt/Pd print sale on The Online Photographer will end on Friday midnight! There is still enough time to order one or more prints of three images from Carl Weese, one of them is “The Pike Drive-In” from his series of American Drive-In Movie Theaters.
The prints are offered as a Pt/Pd version or an inkjet print for exceptional prices. Just head over to “The Online Photographer” to see all the details.
The three images each stand on their own, and I had a hard time deciding which one to order. In the end the iconic character of “The Pike” won for me: Born 1960 in Germany, those Drive-Ins never had any real (speak manifest) importance for me. But their principle, connected so tightly with Auto-Mobility and big cars, the world of industrial glamour of the Hollywood studios, and now in Carl’s image that visible decay, painfully connected with the 9-11 caused ejaculatory prayer “God bless America”, in deadjusted, already weathering letters, for me form an exceptional complex image of the U.S. of today. And Carl offers them not only as up-to-date and probably extremely durable inkjet prints, but also as handmade Pt/Pd images. The latter keep alive a long photographic tradition, refined in excellent craftsmanship and probably withstanding all attempts to industrialize. For me this offer was a must.
"Days End" ¢ leeming + paterson
Morag Paterson and Ted Leeming recently published an article on Luminous Landscape, titled The Light Fantastic – Capturing the Inner Sense of the Scottish Landscape. The image above is from their website leeming + paterson. This certainly is a special approach to landscape photography, away from what you might now from Charlie Waite or Ian Cameron, to name just two British landscape photographers.
Leeming + Paterson’s images do resonate with an inner landscape and express it in a way for which William Turner had found a way to do it with brushes and oil-based paint about 200 years ago. And whilst photography has brought us the ability to record and reproduce the finest detail, the most gorgeous light and given us great works of art going the f64-way, as a counterweight this precise rendering and careful emphasizing of the physical world needs and deserves a balance in form of an impressionistic path connecting the landscape within to the physical world.
The discussion on Luminous Landscape following the article brought up some negative comments. I am just wondering (but then, I am not) about the lack of tolerance and maybe generosity when it comes to classifying contemporary art. The universum of art for sure has place for many ways of expression, and I see my path more in the learning of the different methods of seeing and expressing and finding my own way. What remains to be seen as art only history can tell.
For myself I only can say that Morag Paterson’s and Ted Leeming’s work has opened my eyes to a new and convincing style of seeing, perceiving and recording the landscape and the light.
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