As a person who often explores an expression of gender and violence in their own works, I have found an enlightening (and additionally somewhat depressing) perspective in the writings of Susan Sontag. The following sentence and reflections are ones which I have found correlates well with certain themes which I try to discuss with the…Continue Reading Regarding the Pain of Others
With his vast body of works, ranging across an impressive timespan – Duene Michals has exercised a wealth of knowledge in areas far beyond just the technical aspects of photography. The most masterful manipulation seen in his works is a temporal one, wherein the medium in which he works has remained the same (largely film…Continue Reading Duene Michals
Born 1963 in Switzerland, Peter Maurer (who also somewhat ironically shares a name with the global director of Red Cross International) uses his mastery of the analogue medium to craft images which often sit just on the edge of disbelief, held back only by the suspense of the physical media itself. High grain and high…Continue Reading Peter Maurer
Coming from the stellar extremes of portraiture study comes Albert Watson (Born 1942, Scotland), renowned for his portrayal and play with images of celebrities and works in the studio. He is among the likes of Annie Lebowitz in the sense of subject matter and surreality, but I’ve often found his works deviate in the way…Continue Reading Albert Watson
Experimentation moves people forward and makes them unique, in art there are new processes and new perspectives that bring a medium forward in time; even though it may seem entirely tangental to the worlds of science and other progress. Ralph Gibson is an excellent example of this experimental effect, personally his use of a traditional rangefinder…Continue Reading Ralph Gibson
Furthering my usual discussion on the importance of medium manipulation is Michael Kenna, while on the surface Kenna appears as a figure of staunch regularity by forwarding extremely traditional forms of landscape photography, if you look into the subtleties of his work there is nonconformity in the very fibre of his greatest images. Kenna is…Continue Reading Michael Kenna
One of the things that really invokes thought within me concerning the art of photography is the ability or willingness to work with the medium, to manipulate it. As a technology it can interpret visual information in any number of ways, and one way that Adam Fuss manipulates that is with the temporal distillation of…Continue Reading Adam Fuss
The tool of the photograph, the power to mediate time and image to make something that appears definitive but is ultimately false. It is the raw power of these things to manipulate perception and augment our experiences that I find most fascinating. The Datification of images is an interesting perspective expressed in Heiferman’s essay, how…Continue Reading Marvin’s Heiferman and what Photography means to me…
May 21st, 1971, it was the end of the life for this end of the line – the section of track, commonly refered to as a Rail Spur was built in 1930 to service Pilgrim State Hospital, the largest hospital ever built….Continue Reading Project 1: Spur
A horse? A horse? My kingdom for a horse! Well, a pony more specifically. Featured here are fine portraits of people horsing around with their OC’s or Original Characters for short. Can you see the resemblance in each shot? The many proud members of Bronies-NYC would certainly agree with you……Continue Reading Task (?): Portraiture