I can see the finish line

I will include my own images once I have a chance to get them downloaded.


Unknown photographer:
Associated Press, London, England, Supporting the team: Well-dressed English lads yelling support for their team, 1930s, gelatine silver print, 15.2 x 20.4 cm.

Kids are great to photograph. They completely ignore the camera and go on with whatever they were doing. And they are so expressive. Not to mention this is black and white, and you all know how much I love black and white photography.

Juan Muñoz.
One Figure (Una figura), 2000.
Resina, pigmentos y espejo. 110×60 x 50 cm.

I feel like this a lot of the time. I so wish I could vanish into an alternate reality like the one in the mirror. This seems to have a lot of introspection in it. Really makes the viewer stop and think.

Barbad Golshiri

The Portrait Of The Artist As A One Year Old Child

2005
Print on canvas
107 x 149 cm

This image appeals to me because I am very interested in working with images on canvas. I hope to experiment with it this summer. I find this interesting also because the image is displayed upside down.

and here we go again...

I scanned my images in, but blogger hates me and won't let me upload. I'll have to try this again later.


Nan Goldin
Ulrike, Stockholm, 1998
Cibachrome print

I love how the white of the clothing highlights the baby, and the background fades away, making this child glow.


David Salle (American, b. 1952)
The Coffee Drinkers, 1973
Gelatin silver prints with affixed product advertisements; 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

I love the idea of several different people doing the same thing, and then the use of advertising labels is genius. What a great way to incorporate collage.


NELL
Australia 1975
The perfect drip 1999
enamel on fibreglass, polyuretProxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0

ne foam, wood, polyvinyl chloride pipe, filler, primer
237.0 (h) x 150.0 (w) cm

I love the idea of this kind of sculpture! I could walk around this exhibit for hours and come up with so many ideas of what this is trying to represent, or what the artist is trying to say.

Are we there yet?

Something about a snowstorm and an isolated road. I felt like I was the only person in the world.















And a cool gateway to go through to get to the other people in the world. Felt like I was in some sort of fairytale that night.















Who doesn't love the cranes all over downtown? I don't know if its the idea of expansion, growth, or just a really powerful machine. Just love them.



Utagawa Hiroshige. Evening Snow at Asukayama (Asukayama bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views in the Neighborhood of Edo (Edo kinko hakkei no uchi)". c. 1838.

There is so little detail in the image, and yet it is so powerful. A few delicate lines and a light grey background and I instantly get the feel of a snow covered hillside. Snow is so pretty when you are not stuck in it. Reminds us that less is sometimes more.


Ranjani Shettar, Sing Along, 2008-9

Wow. I would love to be able to walk around in this space. I love the idea of installation, but never can seem to come up with an idea that will work with my art. Always gives me something to think about.



I couldn't get just the figure in the skirt dancing, so I brought the whole thing in. I really want to photograph a dancer. I think it would be amazing to capture the motion blur of them mid dance step, or even, like this image, to stop them in mid-motion on a really impressive dance move. I think this image is so beautifully lit, and because of the position the dancer is frozen, the image become somewhat ambiguous.

can you feel the pressure? I can

My attempt to recreate images like Edward Weston. All about the lighting. I like this a lot, but don't see myself continuing with these types of images. I feel that I have moved beyond them. I like photographing people more now. And the beautiful night shots I made. I like the pretty colors that come out of the film when there is reciprocity failure. Only time I like failure.










This is one of the images I made when I was focusing on long exposures and night shots. I still love it and want to explore it more, but I think I'll wait until it warms up a little more. Winter and early spring are not good times to stand outside for 20 minutes for the exposure to be correct.










Wish everyone was this excited to see me pointing a camera at them. Goofiness must run in the family.


Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Sakata Kaidō-maru wrestles with a giant carp, c. 1837." title="Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Sakata Kaidō-maru wrestles with a giant carp, c. 1837." height="454" width="310">
Utagawa Kuniyoshi,
Sakata Kaidō-maru wrestles with a giant carp, c. 1837.
Colour woodblock, ōban, 37.8 x 26 cm

Woodblock prints. Who doesn't love the look of a woodblock print. And in color. Need I say more?

Robert Ryan,
Bird Lady II,
2008 Screen print, 58 x 45 cm.
Signed. Edition of 20

I must be on a print craze at the moment. I just love the dainty details that can be achieved with them. And this particular print has a nice limited color palette.


Dorothea Lange
American, 1954
Gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 9 in.
2000.43.11

Cute girl. Love classical portraiture. Guess I'm wishing it was like that these days. Now you have to be controvertial, or offensive to get noticed. I don't think I'll ever be that way.

whoa, I'm so behind

What is it about guys that makes them create "devil horns" with their hand and stick their tongue out when a camera is pointed at them? What a fabulous pose. I should do a whole series of awful poses that people think are cool just to show them how truly awful they are.
















Deserted curve in the road. Only way I could take a picture while actually driving. Love the lines crossing diagonally through the image. And who doesn't love trees?
















I love the way the blinds create unique lighting on her face. And she isn't even paying me any attention. At least, she wasn't until I took several more photos.




Eulalia Valldosera
Still de uno de los vídeos proyectados
en Dependencias (2008)

Love the way she captured the interaction between her subjects.

Elssie Ansareo

The Dance of the Flâneuses

(La danse des flâneuses)2007

Black and white prints. Love them. Wonderful detail and the way they are presented is amazing. Very engaging.


Cildo Meireles
"Desvio para o Vermelho I: Impregnação", 1967-84

This reminds me of Sande Skoglund. The installation is so overwhelming you can't help but stop and look at it. Love the matching color throughout.

More cool images

One of my favorite images I've ever taken. I love the change in the lighting and the trees surrounding the pathway. Is it ominous or enclosing?













I am intrigued with the foreground/background tension in images. The fence leaves the viewer feeling that they are excluded, or perhaps seeing something they shouldn't be.



















I love black and white images. And there is something so comforting about a square format. No need to turn the image portrait or landscape to see what the artist intended.


Anoop Srivastav
Royal Blue
Acrylic on canvas
36x36 in.

I love the different layers in this painting. And the blue apple, what a great use of complementary colors.


Friedrich Nerly (1807–1878)
Venice, moonlight on the Piazza San Marco
Circa 1842
Oil on Canvas

The lighting and angle of this image make the column seem so monumental. I like the subdued colors in it, and how the clouds embrace the top of the column.


Josef Sudek
The Last Rose, from Rose series, 1956
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
What a gorgeous still life. Yet there is still a decayed apple that makes the viewer think of death, and of how short life is.