“A painter works with color as the medium, a photographer works with light.” – Carlotta M. Corpron
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and time — the photographer works with light and/or time
Last Sunday Ann’s son, Josh, brought Clyde over for a visit.
Last evening I read from “Imogen Cunningham, Ideas without end” by Richard Lorenz; and again just before going to lunch with my friend, David White. These readings, and looking at her photographs, inspired me to write in my journal, “…intend to see more and deeper.”
“You have to have it in you first, you don’t learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.” — Imogen Cunningham, Dialogue With Photography by Paul Hill , ISBN: 0948797665
The two photographs made at the restaurant had nothing to do with lunch, or David, or our various discussions on business, or mindfulness (well maybe that). Yet these images will set well, in my memory, this lunch as an honor to Imogen Cunningham; even though David and I never spoke her name; or discussed her extraordinary photographs. (click on images for larger view)
melting away
under the hand of time
a tear
no longer able to distinguish
between
joy and sorrow
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Here’s what people say to do to survive this current economic slowdown:
Market
Budget
Sharpen Position
Increase Exposure
Self promotion – All the time
Develop New Business
Deliver on promise of Client-centered organization
Manifest polite behavior
Exceed client’s expectations
Sustain positive attitude
Keep Calm
See the glass as half full
Be flexible
Never take the work for granted
Maintain focused optimism
Identify solutions
Fewer desserts and Lattes
More soups
Bake our your own bread
Cook more — eat-out less
Put the “children” on eBay
So as a graphic designer, photographer and videographer I decided to look at my economic picture…
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and open up a clothing store at cafepress with a zen line of designer clothing
“Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances is it anything ever anywhere near a beach.” – Walker Evans – American Photography, 1984, 23 – 24. [“EW:100 – Centennial Essays in Honor of Edward Weston”, “Carmel: Beneficial to Bohemia” p. 48, Untitled 41, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California 1986]
A basket full of goodies came as a Christmas gift. Now empty yet remaining on a kitchen counter; Cheech has claimed it as one his preferred places to rest.
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“Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but to inspire them?” — Bob Dylan
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“I’m looking for things I’ve never seen before.” — Robert Mapplethorpe
“Constantly ask yourself, ‘what the heck would what I’m looking at look like framed, still, two-dimensional, in black and white?’ If the search for an answer gets your heart pumping, makes your throat dry and you become kind of gooey inside, it’s love. Don’t fight it. Take out that Leica M that you’re still paying off and start shooting.” — Mason Resnick
“my window” — George Lottermoser
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times gone by
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and those to come
NOW
between history and mystery
may the New Year — 2009 — bring
a shift in consciousness, however subtle, toward
non-violent, genuine communication
and compassionate understanding
“You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make a picture you find you are moved by something which is in agreement with an image you already held within yourself.” — Frederick Sommer
yesterday:
attached the 400 mm f:6.8 Telyt
to the Visoflex and M8
for the first time
then took the kit for a brief walk
this — hand held, without shoulder stock or pod,
cropped from about a quarter of the M8’s full frame
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