I've been playing with diptychs a lot recently, usually with two images of the same proportions, however I think this lopsided diptych works well.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Diptychs - Celina Tractor
I've been playing with diptychs a lot recently, usually with two images of the same proportions, however I think this lopsided diptych works well.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Polaroid is dead, long live polaroid!
I was just looking at this old photo a Polaroid of a " Big Swinger 3000", shot with Type 55 pos/neg film, (A Polaroid of a Polaroid! ) and lamenting the death of Polaroid film...
So, I decided to take a look at the Polaroid corp, website and was flabbergasted to see the new 'digital instant' camera they just unveiled.
"But digital is instant" ,you say, "How can this be different?"
It is a digital point and shoot camera with a built in printer! Seriously! This thing can print a 2x3 inch print on the spot, directly from the camera! Bizarre, but ingenious!
http://www.polaroid.com/CES/PressReleaseDetail.jsp?prod_code=090108
http://www.polaroid.com/en/products/polaroid-pogo/polaroid-pogo-instant-digital-camera
Obviously this has no Pro application and is just a fun party camera, but what a great idea! The photos are described as "sticky back", so basically stickers. What is particularly interesting is the paper which is ZINK Paper™, the prints use no ink, but develop with heat sensitive crystals... amazing.
I still have 6 sheets of Polaroid Type 55 left, they are like gold these days. I will have to save them for a very special project. My 73 year old Mother is visiting in March, perhaps I''ll burn them all on portraits of her and her granddaughter.
So, I decided to take a look at the Polaroid corp, website and was flabbergasted to see the new 'digital instant' camera they just unveiled.
"But digital is instant" ,you say, "How can this be different?"
It is a digital point and shoot camera with a built in printer! Seriously! This thing can print a 2x3 inch print on the spot, directly from the camera! Bizarre, but ingenious!
http://www.polaroid.com/en/products/polaroid-pogo/polaroid-pogo-instant-digital-camera
Obviously this has no Pro application and is just a fun party camera, but what a great idea! The photos are described as "sticky back", so basically stickers. What is particularly interesting is the paper which is ZINK Paper™, the prints use no ink, but develop with heat sensitive crystals... amazing.
I still have 6 sheets of Polaroid Type 55 left, they are like gold these days. I will have to save them for a very special project. My 73 year old Mother is visiting in March, perhaps I''ll burn them all on portraits of her and her granddaughter.
Monday, January 19, 2009
MLK Day and Barack Obama
Back in the 1990's I was a photo assistant in NYC and I was honored to assist on a cover photo shoot for Upscale Magazine featuring three incredible women. Myrlie Evers-Williams, Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz, the widows of Medgar Evers, Dr. Martin Luther King jr. and Malcolm X. The photographer I was assisting that day was J. Van Evers, son of Medgar Evers.
I was told that this was the first time these women had been together in one place, it may well have also been the last, as Betty Shabazz died not long after.
I am so proud to have been involved with that photo shoot
I was equally as proud to be involved in the Dr. Martin Luther King jr. celebrations this weekend at Collin College, and that tomorrow the first African American president will be sworn in in Washington D.C.
We've come a long way, let's keep it up!
P.S. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a copy of that photo to link to...
I was told that this was the first time these women had been together in one place, it may well have also been the last, as Betty Shabazz died not long after.
I am so proud to have been involved with that photo shoot
I was equally as proud to be involved in the Dr. Martin Luther King jr. celebrations this weekend at Collin College, and that tomorrow the first African American president will be sworn in in Washington D.C.
We've come a long way, let's keep it up!
P.S. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a copy of that photo to link to...
Civil rights, Dr. Martin Luther King jr. and our new President.
Back in 1997 I attended this anti police brutality march in Manhattan, which was held in response to the brutal assault of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima by members of the NYC police department. (Details may be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Louima)
Today I attended a power breakfast in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King jr. at Collin College on the eve of the inauguration of the first black President of the USA.
I can tell you I am very much more proud of America today than I was then!
Today I attended a power breakfast in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King jr. at Collin College on the eve of the inauguration of the first black President of the USA.
I can tell you I am very much more proud of America today than I was then!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Louisa, and wasteful America
I made this shot of my daughter, Louisa, at a closed down Mexican restaurant near my office. It's been empty a while and has some interesting funky architecture, great for backgounds.
Unfortunately, on return from the holiday break, I found it surrounded by a chain link fence. It seems it is slated for demolition
It's a good solid structure, one would think it could be reworked easily but, as seems to happen all too often here in the suburbs, it will be bulldozed... what a waste!
Unfortunately, on return from the holiday break, I found it surrounded by a chain link fence. It seems it is slated for demolition
It's a good solid structure, one would think it could be reworked easily but, as seems to happen all too often here in the suburbs, it will be bulldozed... what a waste!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Polaroids from my days as a photo assistant.
Assisting on my first shoot in the USA. A shoot of the "Counting Crows" out on Long Island, winter 1993 - Mark Seliger was the photographer.
It was around a 16 hour day, but we assistants ended up at a great restaurant in the west village in the early hours of the following morning! Good memories!
I still have a photocopy of my paycheck from that job somewhere... $45!
For the photo geeks, this was shot with a Hassleblad on polaroid type 665 which was never coated hence the image degradation.
It was around a 16 hour day, but we assistants ended up at a great restaurant in the west village in the early hours of the following morning! Good memories!
I still have a photocopy of my paycheck from that job somewhere... $45!
For the photo geeks, this was shot with a Hassleblad on polaroid type 665 which was never coated hence the image degradation.
New York City diptych - reworked
Sometimes time can improve your images, going back over old shots you can end up seeing them in a new way.
I shot these images in late 1994( perhaps early 1995). I always like them individually, however a couple of years ago I decided to pair them together as a diptych. I think they are much more powerful together than apart.
The first time I paired them I put white space between the images... I like this treatment better.
Lower East Side, near the corner of Rivington and Suffolk streets. 1994/95. Shot with a Mamiya C3 TLR.
I shot these images in late 1994( perhaps early 1995). I always like them individually, however a couple of years ago I decided to pair them together as a diptych. I think they are much more powerful together than apart.
The first time I paired them I put white space between the images... I like this treatment better.
Lower East Side, near the corner of Rivington and Suffolk streets. 1994/95. Shot with a Mamiya C3 TLR.
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