Posted in Exhibits, Photography on January 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
© Michael Kenna
Via Gallery Hopper, I found the newest work of the great Michael Kenna, a series of New York City that was exhibited at the Robert Mann Gallery (images here) in New York. It is wonderful to see the unique “Kenna” style, with dark shadows, high contrast and clean lines. His work [...]
Posted in Exhibits, Photography on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is my great pleasure to introduce a guest contributor, photographer and blogger Doug Stockdale [Singular Images], who is now in China. He provides in this post a very interesting snapshot of his experience while visiting the fine art scene in Sanghai, at the heart of the M50 district, where modern art and fine art [...]
Posted in Books, Exhibits, Photography on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
This book [The photographer's eye] is an investigation of what photographs look like, and why they look that way. It is concerned with photographic style and with photographic tradition: with the sense of possibilities that a photographer today takes to his work.- The Photographer’s eye, by John Szarkowski, 1966.
The Museum of Photographic Arts in San [...]
Posted in Exhibits, Photography on January 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
© Martin Schoeller
Martin Schoeller did what looks impossible to achieve. He created “Big Heads” that look astonishing, beautiful, unique. The faces, in a way distorted from the perspective of the close-up and shallow depth of field, look at you with penetrating eyes reveling a subject that could look familiar but at the same time different. [...]
Posted in Exhibits, Photographers, Photography on December 3, 2007 | No Comments »
©Pablo Lopez
Pablo Lopez is a photographer from Mexico whose work is now on show at one of the newest galleries in New York City (opened in October 2007), Sasha Wolf Gallery.
The Terrazo series was photographed in Mexico City and surrounding areas between 2004 and 2006. The images are quite impressive, they have three dimensionality [...]
Posted in Exhibits, Photography on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Gerda Taro by Robert Capa
In 1933, the photographer then known as Andre Friedman met Polish photographer Gerda Taro in Paris. They created the identity of American photographer “Robert Capa,” and sold Friedman’s work under that name. The newly-created Capa travelled to Madrid to cover the Spanish Civil war in 1935, and took this photograph of [...]
Posted in Exhibits, Humanitarian Causes, Photographers, Photography on February 12, 2007 | No Comments »
© Spencer Platt /Getty Images
This year the winning image of the World Press Photo of the Year Award is different from the past. Yes, it is about war, but rather than just showing a tragic scene of human suffering it conveys the contradiction and stupidity of war conflicts. The conflict between Israel and [...]
Posted in Exhibits, Photographers, Photography on January 15, 2007 | No Comments »
by Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Philipp Scholz Rittermann, a photographer located in San Diego (California), will be giving a talk entitled “A Personal Perspective of Landscape” on Saturday, March 17, 9a - 10:45a in the San Diego Natural History Museum. I had the pleasure to attend one of his classes in the past so I am certain [...]
Posted in Exhibits, Humanitarian Causes, Photographers, Photography on December 11, 2006 | No Comments »
by Kristen Ashburn
The power of inspiration and purpose … Bloodine by Kristen Ashburn.
I began this project to give a voice to the people behind the statistcs- Kristen Ashburn
The AIDS pandemic continues to devastate sub-Saharan Africa. Two million people died from the disease in 2005 alone. Twelve million children have lost at least one parent. The [...]
Posted in Exhibits on November 8, 2006 | No Comments »
The second annual Photo Expo in San Diego (Del Mar fairgrounds, November 18-29th) will have several known photographers on site giving seminars. I don’t want to miss fine art photographer Vincent Versace and the iconic celebrity photographer Douglas Kirkland. Others also of interest include Eddie Tapp, photographer and Photoshop guru -Eddie was inducted to the [...]
Posted in Exhibits, Photographers on October 31, 2006 | No Comments »
Image: Alison Shaw
“I have chosen a very formalist, minimalist, deliberate way of composing the images. To me, the square format provides balance and symmetry, further enhanced by the deliberate placement of the horizon dead center in nearly all of the photos.”-Alison Shaw
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I am impressed about the simplicity and the beautiful color of [...]
