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Saturday, November 28, 2009

3 Photographers from Zone Zero

Digital Bouquet: This is the kind of stuff I most like to do; studio close-ups of interesting flowers and plants!

http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/dietz/index.html

Evgen Bavcar's work interests me too. It's good in itself, but his story is very interesting to me; he embarked upon his photo project while slowly going blind from damage from a land mine. As someone who enjoys photography, I've often thought about how I might take it if I lost my sight.

http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/bavcar/bavcar18.html

The third photographer I picked was Barry Lewis, whose portfolio shows us Atlanta in a way that most of us don't and will never experience. It is the 'mapping' aspect of photography:

http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/lewis/default.html

Thursday, October 29, 2009

And the winners are...

If consensus agrees with me, these are the three best blogs:
http://bentoforlife.blogspot.com/
http://www.simplebeauty-s.blogspot.com/
http://maybeokfine.blogspot.com/

Thursday, October 22, 2009

3 Photographers I Could have Emulated

So this one comes a little late, but I'd already really found my inspiration by then: Imogen Cunningham.

Ed Weston was another possibility, but I really admired the sensuality of Imogen's forms. Weston's here are slightly less subtle.

Now I *REALLY* like the scientific close-up photography at the Photo Synthesis blog, but that's not for an art class I suppose.

3, 3, 3

I had a lot of fun shooting my 3, 3, 3 at the Oberlin Culture Festival:
3 People I know:

3 People I DON'T Know (And by implication would not like t0?)
Why, the ARMS CROSSED SQUAD!

3 People I would LIKE to know:

Socks guy! Now there's a classily-dressed fellow.

Olympus guy! I see this guy at every community event with his Olympus SLR. We even shared a few words about how the light was nice and contrasty, but maybe too much for digital cameras. Small talk for photographers..!

Lion dance lady! She looked damned cool in that mask with her crazy moves.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

What is Offensive?

Context: Brazilian Ads for lite yogurt.

The Most Influential Picture in My Life:

Cliche, perhaps, but out of all the iconic photographs in the world this one comes most easily to mind. It is all it is said to be - from a redefinition of bravery for the modern world to an empowering vindication of the strength of one man - but it is also very clearly a photograph. Without the element of truth, of 'it really happened' that is unique to photography, the image would lack its power. Its realness gives it depth beyond the message too; I often wonder when I look at this what 'Tank Man' was thinking. What was the lead tank driver thinking? What was said over the radio between the tanks and the soldiers' superiors? More importantly, what kind of conviction could compel a man to put himself in front of a line of tanks? I often find myself jealous, in a way, of that conviction - I feel that in our comfortable American lives we are nearly never tested, and I believe that the value of something is the sum of the trials you must undergo to obtain it.