Koyaanisqatsi full film

I thought this would be interesting.  There are commercials in this film that take away from the experience.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/27800

Maxwell Museum Exhibition

Here is an Interesting Exhibit on Collodion Process Images by a Navajo Photographer at the Maxwell Museum... Check it out!!

Light Painting!

Remember to bring different types of lighting tools for next Monday! Try different colors and strengths of light, the more you have to work with the more fun it will be!

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/light-painting-evolved-introducing-the-pixel-stick/

Simon Carter Presentation

Here are some other good sources of information for people further interested in Simon Carter.

Onsight Photography

Interview

Behind the Scenes Video
The Rock Climber - Behind the Scenes with Simon Carter - Nikon D3S from My Nikon Life on Vimeo.

Why Didn't People Smile in Old Photos?

Over at the Public Domain Review, Nicholas Jeeves has written up an in-depth piece on this subject that comes to some different conclusions.

First off, Jeeves dismisses the notion that people of old refused to smile because their teeth were rotting. It wasn’t that people didn’t have bad teeth, as dental hygiene really was awful, but rather that bad teeth were so common that seeing them did not take away from a person’s attractiveness at the time.

So what were some of the real reasons people didn’t smile? Jeeves writes that in addition to the simple fact that nice-looking smiles are difficult to create and capture, one of the main reasons was how smiles were perceived centuries ago.

Although nowadays we think of smiles as being indicative of happiness, humor, and warmth, they apparently had a very different meaning back in the day:

By the 17th century in Europe it was a well-established fact that the only people who smiled broadly, in life and in art, were the poor, the lewd, the drunk, the innocent, and the entertainment

Want to be seen as upper class and as a person of good character? Don’t smile.

For this reason, both the creators and the sitters of portraits had good reason to keep the smiles out of the resulting images, which explains why we don’t see photos of famous figures donning a grin in their official portraits.

Abraham Lincoln, although known for his humorous personality during his time, is now remembered more by the extremely serious expressions he chose to wear during official portrait sessions:

Another man Jeeves cites is author and humorist Mark Twain. He was quite a funny guy as well, but Twain hardly let any of that show in his portrait photographs:

In a letter to the Sacramento Daily Union, Twain wrote, “A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.”

Group Project

Cooperative Project!

Amy & David's Cooperative Assignment

Portrait!

Cooperative photographs

These are the photos we will be printing. Photos by Kevin Brown and Zachary Crozier. 

Portrait and Cooperative Assignment

Alicia & Kelley

Portrait

Cooperative Assignment

Ruben and Tyrell

Portrait, skin tones; Ruben & Tyrell

by nadine wade and paul phillips

How to take a great picture - Carolina Molinari

Saw this a couple of weeks ago.

Lightroom Tutorial- Global & Local Adjustments

At First Sight MFA Talks Tonight

Hey everyone, here are the details for the At First Sight Artist Talks that I mentioned. Please go and support Ray and the other first year MFA grads!

6-8 pm
[AC]2 Gallery
301 Mountain Rd NE 87102 (Mountain and Broadway)

Lisa M. Robinson Presentation Preview

Lisa M. Robinson is a photographer I encountered when I was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona. I first saw her photographs at the Etherton Gallery of Fine Art Photography. Her photograph below is what I saw.

www.lisamrobinson.com

This image intrigued me because it looked frightening but beautiful at the same time. The frozen water on a pier was interesting because all I knew was the hot desert air and intense sunlight of Tucson and the southwest. I researched further and found that this image was within a series of photographs in a book called Snowbound. I also found that she was a hybrid photographer meaning, she photographed in large format film negatives and scanned the images. The merging of the traditional photography with the digital enabled me to accept digital photography and pursue that further. I hope you enjoy her photographs as much as I do.

Enfojer Smartphone Enlarger

Caleb Charland's Image in This Month's National Geographic!

Caleb Charland. 2012

Latoya Ruby Frazier

http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com

LEGO Art by Reggie Ballesteros

 


I find myself not wanting to write again and I am looking at photographers and their art for inspiration. I came across this guy and his LEGO art and I love it. Its comical, fun and reminds me of being a kid. The photographer is Reggie Ballesteros, he doesn't have a website yet but his work is on this cool photo blog, P/B. Check it out.

http://www.photographyblogger.net/kid-at-heart-23-lego-portraits-from-reggie-ballesteros/

A very serious Equipment Collection

Mumbai-based photojournalist Dilish Parekh, the Guinness Book World Record holder for the largest camera collection,  smashed his own record earlier this month when he revealed that he now owns 4,425 cameras.

If that sounds like a lot that’s because it is, but these aren’t just your standard Sony CyberShots or Nikon DSLRs, Parekh collects mostly antiques. By comparison, the 1,000+ camera collection that was auctioned off on eBay in February seems a bit meager now.

The whole obsession started when his father gave him his collection of 600 cameras, a collection Parekh has been adding to ever since. His previous record sat at 2,634, meaning that he’s acquired almost 2,000 new cameras since they last counted.

Truth be told, his collection has been this large for some time now, but Parekh admits he was waiting for World Photography Day on August 19th to reveal it. “Cameras are my life,” Parekh told dna. “I can’t stay without them."

One of the jewels of his collection is the camera pictured above, a Leica 250 Reporter made in 1934. The camera is one of only 1,000 ever made, and can hold bulk film rolls that are almost 33 feet long — that’s 250 exposures per roll, hence the name.

Another impressive find among Parekh’s massive collection is his Bessa II, a camera made by German manufacturer Voigtlander back in 1962 that was such a status symbol in Japan, even Japanese royalty owned them.

So next time you think you’ve got problems with GAS, take heart. If you only own a few cameras, you would have to buy one new (or antique) camera per day for over 12 years to catch up to Parekh.

Surreal Illusionism Photographic Fantasies of the Early 20th Century

The Surreal Illusionism features nearly 500 photographic postcards that offer a surprising wealth of pictorial ideas, high artistic quality and photographic allure. Surreal fantasies, mysterious dreams, role-play, glamorous divas and irony are running wild in the postcards. All these will transport viewers into the fascinating, forgotten golden era of industrial photography in the early 20th century and the early history of modern photographic art.

The late 1890s saw the emergence of a number of factories in Europe that were involved in the creation of a new art form. Photographs were not printed on the cards, like today, but, instead, real photographs were produced by using mechanised exposures and development processes. The production of photographic postcards, also known as "real photo postcards", became a sizable industry, and the end products were distributed as far away as South America and Australia. The phenomenon only lasted for two decades but resulted in millions of photographs. Today, these cards are coveted collector's items.

From today's perspective, photographic postcards are fascinating particularly because of the photomontage techniques used. The combination of images and drawings, and multiple exposure were some of the methods used in industrial photography a hundred years before "photoshopping". Because industrial colour photography was yet to be invented, the cards were coloured by hand. It is the craft that makes these mass-produced images unique. The synthetic world of colours further increases the mystery of the images.

The golden age of photographic postcards drew on the urban popular culture that began to emerge in the early 20th century. The rise of the cinema, the modern culture of sun-bathing, eroticism, circus and variety shows inspired the imagery of the cards. Technical innovations, such as the aeroplane, stimulated the imagination.

The heyday of postcards began to wane after the First World War. The various innovations, however, lingered on. Artistic ideas such as synthetic cubism and collage are based on expressive techniques that were used in the postcards as early as the beginning of the 20th century.

In the 1920s and 1930s, a group of avant-garde artists and poets began to draw inspiration from dreams, fantasy and the depths of the unconscious. An art movement known as surrealism emerged. The photographic postcards presented at the exhibition were "surrealist" before the word was even invented!

The exhibition also includes an installation Which and Ever created specifically by Jouko Korkeasaari for this show.

The curator of the exhibition is art researcher, docent Harri Kalha. Kalha's book Ihme ja kumma: surrealismia ja silmänlumetta 1900-luvun alun postikorttitaiteessa (WSOY 2012) serves as a good companion to the exhibition. Books (in Finnish) are given to journalists during the press conference.

http://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en/nayttelyt/nyt/event/70/207---surrealismia-ja-silmaenlumetta

My Photos

Christopher Capoziello Photography

I came across this photographer when I needed a break from writing and I found it an intriguing series. This photographer photographs his brother who has Cerebral Palsy and the images are stunning. The intimacy of the photography is captured well and I like that It is in black and white then color.

http://chriscappy.com/feature_tdbu_images.php

My favorite photographer

These photos are down by my favorite photographer, Nelleke Pieters. Her photos are quite unique, as they all have a colorful fantasy-ike-vibe. Her color alteration gives her a more personal "style", which is quite a feat for photography. 

http://monica187.blogspot.com/2013/08/187-images.html

Tim