Showing posts with label art photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art photography. Show all posts
2020/03/02
2020/02/15
New Publications in 2020?
This year I am publishing a new book. A self published booklet entitled ‘Body Bags & Other Misdemeanours” It is a 42 page book printed on 100 gsm inkjet paper with 27 colour pictures, stapled in an edition of 5.
The book examines ways is which the human form is represented, or even misrepresented. It will be available on sale all weekend at the gallery.
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2019/12/22
Focus is overrated!
I was out having lunch with friends, recently. The weather was not conducive to one’s health. The smoke from the bushfires raging in NSW had drifted south. A blanket of smoke covered Melbourne. We had hoped to have a drink in a little rooftop bar in Carlton. It was closed due to weather! But I did mange to fire off a couple of pictures. Sadly I was too quick for the camera’s focussing function to activate, so, the pictures are all out of focus. Still perhaps it amplifies the mood!
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2019/12/08
2019/11/13
Arthur Tress
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| Boy with Hockey Gloves 1968 |
Arthur Tress was an early inspiration, and one of the early photobooks I bought. Here's a link to his work on All About Photo. There are a handful of images I've not seen before.
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2019/11/04
2019/10/05
2019/10/01
2019/09/30
Infrastructure in Melbourne
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| Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2019-09-30 15:54:53 |
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2019/09/28
External reviews of BIFB
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| Kantor Portrait Prize. Image courtesy of Imaging Insider |
There is also an intersting poll on their mainpage, scroll down and see what readers think about the question. "Is it right that BIFB founder, Jeff Moorfoot, is not mentioned on the BIFB website or program?"
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2019/09/27
2019/08/30
BIFB 2019 impressions
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Interior National Centre for Photography
2019-08-25 15:05:00
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I had my first visit to this years Ballarat International Foto Biennale. It was a Sunday. It was a typical cold winters day in Ballarat. Which is often colder than Melbourne being at a higher altitude. I was surprised by the lack of crowds, given it was the second day of the festival. I focused on the core program.
I was also very interested to see the new National Centre for Photography as well. The exhibition there titled Capital was engaging thought provoking and several works stunning visually. Sadly one projection/movie wasn’t running, but overall the work was professional and worth exploring. The rest of the work on show at the new National Centre for Photography required a return visit two days later. The second visit revealed work that was eclectic and engaging even if some of the subject matter was difficult to encapsulate in one exhibition. The building so far is well fitted out and the exhibition spaces a mixture of sizes and scales making them a great venue for small photographic exhibitions. One exhibition I visited 2 days later had large scale prints.
2019/08/24
2019/08/02
The power of images?
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| Looking South along City Road Southbank from the NGV. 2017-08-01 13:18:11 |
As an artist this is one of my own biggest concerns. Yes images can move us from stasis to action. Pictures however are not always designed for this. Robert Adams talks about hope and how art can provide this in many of his essays. It is a driving factor in my own work and one that is difficult to articulate both in words and pictures.
Instagram gets a mention in his article. Another discusses its impact on young tweens and teens. Sadly the link is broken but he rightly claims I think that the sheer volume of images we are exposed to on a daily basis makes these kind of responses difficult. This could also be an argument for a bigger return to film. As these images are time consuming to make and difficult to propagate as analogue objects.
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2019/07/21
2019/07/12
Emmet Gowin on Ralph Eugene Meatyard
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A quick image search on 12/07/2019 at 11:00am
produces a plethora of images by Ralph Eugene Meatyard
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This is the image from page 103
and is the one refereed to by Emmet Gowin
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Here is his quote from page 102.
“This time the mask is in here hand. This tie the mask isn't needed, nature has provided the transformation.
Normally, the female adult in Gene’s pictures is his wife Madelyn. This time I’m unsure. And still, i think it is. For there is a rare level of intimacy in this image, of warm flesh, the whole body is ready and moving forward. And there is a ripeness, a willow thinness, and the sensuous curve of her jaw and chin and the fullness of her breasts. Thisis a real women fully alive.
In 1966 when this image was made, Gene was at the height of his visionary powers. We first mt the next year. I had just finished Graduate school and was beginning to teach in Ohio. Even before we settled in, a postcard arrived from Gene: “We hear you are ging to be good, send me your thesis, I want to show it at Eyeglasses of Kentucky.” Happily, I already recognised Gene as one of the three most important visionary photographers in America, so I did not hesitate.
Over the next five years we met at least a dozen times. In 1970, Gene travelled to Dayton to meet photographer-philosopher Frederick Sommer. Each recognized the other as a Master Artist. In spite of the many differences there was a genuine kinship. Both were visionaries of the fist order.”Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.” Sommer tells us. “If we did not dream, reality would collapse.”*
The images in the book are finely reproduced even though many I have never seen before.The work of Ralpg Eugen Meatyard is the work of an American original. Everything about his photography speaks for and of the right and importance of human imagination,If we did not dream, life would be less interesting.
*Frederick Sommer, “Frederick Sommer: 1939-1962 Photographs: Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller images Tomorrow,” Aperture 10, no, 4[40] (1962): 163
To hear a story about the relationship between two of my favourite photographers being described in such glowing terms make me glad I do what I do.
Roger Ballen also has a quote, along with Duanne Michals & Marvin Heiferman.
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