tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63542596127537261222024-03-13T06:44:52.404-07:00Not bad. But is it art?Random postings about visual art, largely photographyronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-28690311933900811722023-12-19T11:46:00.000-08:002023-12-19T11:46:36.710-08:00<p> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: 700;">Why did I do this, anyway?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.04px;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17.4533px;">That's a very good question. Nineteen years ago (well, not quite since it's 10 days short) I started this blog. It's not that I posted every day or even every week. That said, the total is about 75,000 words. The very first post (reprinted below) was my motive, or maybe justification or rationale, for adding to the Mississippi River flood of stuff on the internet.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.04px;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17.4533px;">After I finished the previous post I idly clicked on "older posts" and reread my first post. This popped out at me: </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">"<i><b>how irritated I get at the lack of coverage of visual art in my local media -- and how lame the little coverage that visual art does get seems</b></i>." Alas, that hasn't changed and I really didn't have any expectation that what I posted would trigger a change but I'm sad that it hasn't. In fact it has gotten worse. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.04px;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">So with thanks to my loyal followers (all eight of you), the random visitors who have left comments from time to time, and those who read but didn't leave any tracks -- this will be the last post on NOT BAD BUT IS IS ART and I'll take the blog down when I can figure out how to do so. I now have a mostly-monthly newsletter "The Occasional Rumour" to which you can subscribe on my website www.ronfstop.com if you want to keep up with my own photography.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.04px;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.04px;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DECEMBER 29, 2009</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 119%;">Why am I doing this, anyway? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 119%;">That's a very good question -- it's not as if I have a lot of time hanging heavy on my hands. I suppose my biggest single reason for doing a blog about art is how irritated I get at the lack of coverage of visual art in my local media -- and how lame the little coverage that visual art does get seems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 119%;">The immediate spur came from my friend, Joe, giving me a full-page article from the NY Times of Sunday, November 8. It is about one of my heroes, Bruce Davidson, whose work is the subject of a new, three-volume retrospective published by Steidl as well as two concurrent shows in New York. The article is informative, witty, carefully researched, and articulate. It is accompanied by several photographs by Mr. Davidson and an excellent environmental portrait of him by a NYT staffer, Damon Winter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 9.0pt; language: en-US; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none; text-transform: uppercase;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 119%;">Dang, what a concept! Real writing and in some quantity about visual art? I'll bet I would have to scrape bits and pieces from the local paper for at least a month to make up a full page. The only bit I can remember from the last few weeks that was accompanied by a </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 119%;">photograph was about the <i><b>closing </b></i>of Benham Gallery (that, by the way, was the best and longest running photography gallery in Seattle). Oops, I let slip where I live (almost) so you can now identify the local paper. Oh, well. I might as well add that they just finished a three-part, front page series of articles on </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 119%;">sports fans</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 119%;">. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;">Not to be entirely down on the local Times, they do have reasonably good coverage of books since Seattle is a very bookish town. They do have reasonably good coverage on music, even classical. They have reasonably good coverage of movies, especially the Film Festival and NW Film Forum. Visual art? Well, not so much. When Seattle Art Museum has a blockbuster show it gets some coverage. The other museums and the galleries ... pretty slim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;">A couple of years ago a new magazine "City Arts" appeared on the scene with three localized editions. It is a side effect of the publishing company that does the excellent programs for most of the local performing art venues -- opera, symphony, ballet, theater. What a good idea. It looked promising for a while. Between the economy flop and their merge with the local music magazine, the prospect for a lot of visual art coverage beyond the calendar doesn't look good. Their feature articles are beginning to look sort of like "what the hip artist is wearing".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;">Why me?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;">Another excellent question. I do not claim to be an authority. I do not have a degree in art history or studio art. I don't even claim to be an artist. I am a photographer. Some of what I do is art, some is just for fun, most of it is rubbish -- just like every other photographer, painter, sculptor, (writer). I read about art a lot. I look at a lot of art. I have a lot of strong opinions about art. Considering a lot of what gets published, I'm not a really bad writer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;">So why not me? I have no good notion of how this blog is going to help, how it is going to shape up, even how long or how often I will continue to write for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-74603683957728117022023-12-18T11:00:00.000-08:002023-12-18T11:00:08.299-08:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 3.6pt;"><br />Echoes of the 2023 Bumbershoot</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 104%; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 104%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-currency-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-default-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-greek-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latin-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ligatures: none;">In my just previous post I mentioned that I had a few prints in the photography show co-sponsored by Photography Center NW and A/NT Gallery in the latter’s space across from the International Fountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a big show — something over 90 prints — all of which were printed for the show at PCNW from the jpegs that were submitted for judging. In sizes from 16x20 or so to likely 36x48 (big).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had five prints in the show — I suspect mostly because mine were black and white (of course) and from way back in the lifespan of Bumbershoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only one other photographer had more (six prints) in the show.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 104%; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 104%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-currency-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-default-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-greek-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latin-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ligatures: none;">Time passes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 104%; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 104%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-currency-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-default-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-greek-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latin-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ligatures: none;">The curator at PCNW decided that the show was too much work to only have it up for only a weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 104%; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 104%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-currency-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-default-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-greek-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latin-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ligatures: none;">Background:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PCNW recently (like early this year) negotiated with a developer to build them a new facility in the street-level floor of a mixed used building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When complete it will cover both the existing footprint of their building (in serious need of repair) and the parking lot to the rear of it., also owned by PCNW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The developer’s plan was to begin demolition early in 2024 so the gallery would be idle until the new building is done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 104%; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 104%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-currency-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-default-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-greek-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latin-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ligatures: none;">Back to the Bumbershoot show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Facing closure of the gallery starting that soon she decided to host a replay of the show in the last month of 2023, which they did and the gallery and auditorium were barely big enough to wedge nearly all the prints in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The show came down last week and the photographers were invited to pick up their prints (for free) which I did.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 104%; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 104%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-currency-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-default-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-greek-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latin-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ligatures: none;">I’m pleased and more than a bit flattered that my five prints were among the largest prints in the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My usual prints are small and these are big.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of them, my favorite, looks spectacular big but what am I going to do with them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t have a shelf or closet space big enough to hold them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 104%; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsPsR-1zAd0LB95jAf7Li_61qHCSEI5QunRG0Sna-JOryuHwlm4IeLfO04Sy5MlJgPtSqSQEEPyvlWynbE9LX_fO3Ue8tWA-E36gVGAK8ZMsCJ97KsO6gCfEIo0Rk1DNoqRwEcblioE4hjMj8Web0Xx3o-V2dVSVhTHFAqakrNbRSwAvcVVBlArtbPbxrG/s1280/0780-14-20180123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="965" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsPsR-1zAd0LB95jAf7Li_61qHCSEI5QunRG0Sna-JOryuHwlm4IeLfO04Sy5MlJgPtSqSQEEPyvlWynbE9LX_fO3Ue8tWA-E36gVGAK8ZMsCJ97KsO6gCfEIo0Rk1DNoqRwEcblioE4hjMj8Web0Xx3o-V2dVSVhTHFAqakrNbRSwAvcVVBlArtbPbxrG/w188-h250/0780-14-20180123.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 104%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-currency-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-default-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-greek-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latin-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ligatures: none;">In the interim the schedule for redevelopment of the PCNW property has (big surprise) slipped to demolition beginning January </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 104%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-currency-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-default-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-greek-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latin-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ligatures: none;"><span dir="ltr"></span>2025.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 104%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-currency-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-default-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-greek-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latin-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Avenir LT Std 45 Book"; mso-ligatures: none;">I presume that there is a mad scramble in progress to plan next year’s shows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I picked up my prints the curator wistfully noted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that she hopes there will be on further delay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(optimistic?)<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-10417122795216622032023-09-03T20:11:00.001-07:002023-09-05T17:07:48.908-07:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A not so brief review of the
2023 Bumbershoot<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">In 2019 I posted about the demise and hopeful rebirth of Bumbershoot. Well, it finally happened.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">Summary:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>needs work</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">Bumbershoot
is an umbrella festival for the arts, music, visual, dance, what have you held at
the Seattle Center in the fall – near or around the Labor Day weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been a Bumbershoot devotee since 1975
or 76.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It and the Folklife Festival over
Memorial Day weekend have been the bookends of summer for me for a very long
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first post-pandemic Folklife
festival was in 2022 and, while a bit more mellow than the earlier ones it, and
the 2023 version maintained the traditional home-grown and loosely organized
flavor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">A
bit of history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the 50<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the first Bumbershoot but the first post-pandemic so only the 47<sup>th</sup>
actual one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the festival is actually
52 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 1971 and 1972 versions
were officially the Mayor’s Festival of the Arts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sparkplug for them was Seattle’s first
Arts Coordinator Ann Focke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I met her a
time or two early on but can’t place when or where.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was also the sparkplug behind the
creation of Artists Trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With some
kind of magic she convinced the city council, in the midst of the most serious
financial crisis since the great depression, to earmark $25,000 (about $200,000
in today’s dollars) to a festival to act as sort of a ray of hope during the
then-current “<i>Last person out of Seattle turn out the lights</i>.” Boeing
faceplant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I missed the first few festivals
because we had fled to New York State until said faceplant had sort of blown
over.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">The
first festival was five days and the calendar shifted back and forth for a few
years until it settled in to “Free Friday” and the three days of Labor Day weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was initially no entry charge but a modest
charge became necessary as city support waned but it was still a mostly volunteer
driven event – a lot like the Folklife Festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a wide variety of music on several
smal stages, several well curated art shows, and a good deal of spontaneous
goofiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Free Friday there was not
a lot of music that I recall but the visual art displays were open and the
mayor actually turned up to present several annual arts awards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">So
it went until 2008 or 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the face
of further declines in city financial support the festival contracted with One
Reel Vaudeville to organize the weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Under their leadership it became, well, more organized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entry fees went up, Free Friday went away,
the emphasis changed to fewer but more “headline” music groups and much less of
the spontaneous goofiness that is the result of a volunteer organization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">After
several more years of decline, organization of the festival went to AEG, a
national producer of music festivals and the emphasis lurched very much towards
bands with national recognition and a shrinking component of other arts – and a
big increase in attendance fees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Attendance numbers dropped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
the 2019 festival it went dormant in honor of the pandemic and AEG threw in the
towel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.25in;">During
the three year hiatus two local groups stepped up to organize the 2023 edition
and hopefully return it to its homegrown roots.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">The
Crosscut Arts and Culture editor wrote: “<i>After a three-year pause,
Bumbershoot returns this weekend with more local music, more visual arts and a
lot more old-school Seattle quirkiness.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><i><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">This
is good news for those of us who in recent years felt the fest had lost its
way. Under the direction of mammoth producer AEG Presents, Bumbershoot
gradually traded the creative oddities and locally conjured surprises it was
founded upon in favor of huge musical acts — and huge ticket prices to finance
them</span></i><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">Yep.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">Which
brings me back to this year’s Bumbershoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again: “<i>needs work</i>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">The
hunger for a return of Bumbershoot was quite clear and the crowd was huge and
cheerful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">It
had shrunk to two days instead of three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The single day-of-event pass was $75 and the claim was that it was
cheaper than it was for the 2019 version (but without national headliner music groups.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I scored a free pass to the Saturday/Sunday
festival by having a few photographs in the 50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary show
held in the A/NT gallery across from the international fountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had every intention of going both days but
gave up after one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">Yep,
it was organized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My major gripe was
that there was absolutely nothing happening that had not been planned and choreographed
with no elbow room for anything spontaneous or old-school Seattle quirkiness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">While
the music was not by national names it still was the obvious anchor for the
festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were three large stages,
one at the Horiuchi mural -- one on Fisher Green, and one on the north end of
the fountain lawn -- each with elaborate video support and bands that, to my
jaded ear, all sounded alike and were loud to the level of near pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From a block or so away the sound levels were
loud enough to drown out conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walking
down the avenue south of the fountain I felt like I was being pummeled from left
and right stages. The crowds surrounding them were dense and enthusiastic so
maybe that is my problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between sets
there was video on the stages and there were large scale video displays
scattered about the grounds, many with corporate sponsors. There were a couple
of much smaller stages that seemed to only be populated in the evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">There
were a number of smaller areas with sundry attractions – fingernail painting,
fashions, and a “cat circus” that had a line more than a block long waiting to
get in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the area that formerly was
the amusement park there was a space for double-dutch rope jumping, roller skate
dancing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">Visual
art included the 50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary photography show, the Flatstock
poster show and several “<i>out of sight</i>” exhibitions – a large show in the
Fisher Green <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pavilion and sculpture on
the plaza of the Pacific Science Center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">Then
there was the matter of entry, security, and exit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were two entry gaits, one through the
Memorial Stadium and one next to the Exhibition Hall – both with metal
detectors, bag searches, and very long lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were also metal detectors and bag searches to enter the Pacific
Science Center plaza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were, I believe,
eight exits on the map – but all clearly marked “emergency exit” with a guard
posted at them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turned out that the
guard would open the gate if you wanted to exit (and would remind you that
there was no reentry.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;">Praising
with faint damns -- It was better than no Bumbershoot at all but a far cry from
a resurrection of the Bumbershoot of old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Better luck next year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span face=""Avenir LT Std 45 Book",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-41151300984103421452022-06-19T13:45:00.000-07:002022-06-19T13:45:32.387-07:00I just shredded a print.<p> I just shredded a print that I made the other day.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I hate it when that happens.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I tried my best in the darkroom and it wasn’t enough.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An acquaintance had the privilege of attending the last
workshop that was led by the great Ruth Bernhard – renowned both as a
photographer and as a teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of
the workshop was, as usual, a review of the portfolio the student brought to
the workshop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said that Ms. Bernhard
went through the 20 or so prints making perceptive comments about each but came
back several times to one print.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
asked him more and more penetrating questions about it and he grew more and
more uncomfortable with his answers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She finally said: “<i>You like this print a lot, don’t you</i>?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“<i>yes</i>”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“<i>You really want it to work, don’t you?</i>”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“<i>yes</i>”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“<i>You know in your heart that is doesn’t, don’t you</i>.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Long pause – “<i>yes</i>”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Editing your own work is the hardest bit of the entire
creative process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew in my heart
that the print I shredded “didn’t work”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had printed it a couple of times earlier – it didn’t work then either
but I didn’t shred it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead I put it
aside with the hope of trying again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
liked it a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted it to
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was time to give up and press on.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That isn’t always the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another print in my “try again” box did work this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">"Marche Rue Edgar Quinet, Paris 2014"</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkPPtxHDlWjKlbcC67v8Ui4UXJhmZFQF8lmfZv8-l8R7f9n0Nb16Bv4WMsrn_DWl_9gwWT83cHbZqwoeJp-aUvt20zQcdxxvTk22Iz7OOcZBT-E7DnRU6FEE8fx5s43QPGZ5o2E1scbieiqMWN3wwFQFq0BhV_evwCD0b_cDemXrrVj97P7Y4fOz2dg/s1280/1670-02-20151026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1280" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkPPtxHDlWjKlbcC67v8Ui4UXJhmZFQF8lmfZv8-l8R7f9n0Nb16Bv4WMsrn_DWl_9gwWT83cHbZqwoeJp-aUvt20zQcdxxvTk22Iz7OOcZBT-E7DnRU6FEE8fx5s43QPGZ5o2E1scbieiqMWN3wwFQFq0BhV_evwCD0b_cDemXrrVj97P7Y4fOz2dg/w400-h297/1670-02-20151026.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-51609611383453277502021-12-28T15:26:00.000-08:002021-12-28T15:26:32.264-08:00In the Manner of ....<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">I am weary of the pandemic (what a shock!). In addition to the obvious restrictions it has imposed I have been seriously constrained from my usual photographic practice -- wandering the streets, the sidewalk markets, the music and art festivals. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have spent a great deal of time combing through my 35000 or so negatives looking for ones that I did not (or could not) print when they were new. I added perhaps 100 prints to my metaproject "Spying on a Memory". </span><span style="font-size: medium;">But now I've done that. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have wandered the mostly empty streets in my neighborhood looking for "pandemic" pictures and I've found a few. But my heart isn't in it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">One of my favorite photographers, Frank Horvat, did a series of photographs taken no more than 60 meters from his front door showing the dreary winter around his home. (In my opinion he hedged his bet pretty seriously since he lived in an over 100 year old stone house in Provence.) I tried that out but my negatives just look, well, dreary.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvCp7D2bPdTVGHVeV_2IYT3CQLp-YsbYDK4amdkcf1dCIORnPdTb4DPdNrgGsmNRrt_n-knr3zqra7aL2rAlPcgVUSLZBxeBJwI7A2G5Tb9JoIT5r36rPeLlW1I6zbdRpQNbFX46MwFE0zRiL4iBq4l7qNbZ1G-NZjGh_Ih2Z6jAH-vtOoFVYp9qadyA=s1280" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvCp7D2bPdTVGHVeV_2IYT3CQLp-YsbYDK4amdkcf1dCIORnPdTb4DPdNrgGsmNRrt_n-knr3zqra7aL2rAlPcgVUSLZBxeBJwI7A2G5Tb9JoIT5r36rPeLlW1I6zbdRpQNbFX46MwFE0zRiL4iBq4l7qNbZ1G-NZjGh_Ih2Z6jAH-vtOoFVYp9qadyA=w150-h200" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Poking through boxes of loose prints I found a portrait in which I consciously tried with, shall we say, modest success to duplicate the pose of <i>Vermeer's Girl with a pearl earring</i>. I intended this not to be a costume piece but to be "in the manner of" to help me understand the pose and the lighting.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Then I found a print I made while trying to understand how Gustave Caillebotte used multiple vanishing points to make his paintings so convincingly plausible. I sure as heck didn't expect my print to look like his painting but to be "in the manner of" to understand his use of perspective. This is a composite of two negatives -- one looking down the street on the left and the other looking down the street on the right. It is more "real" looking than a print made from a single negative looking at the corner of the building.<br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA_-7n3MzYDBIYh0dWUCWJjoDUoYxcW9jem0X7Jf6hOTlyMXheYtcYLkg3SM9dFmjtowNfRdrhypYZq9uGOAEPkx8ASSwXU43sF1LbgAEtziFhN7P37lIRMsmLp2Kh0azHAwa_BjKs7XkbMyV3488vDf-KghsyDN97JDmX48w7KGsSmrm3As0Dmk6S6w=s1280" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1280" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA_-7n3MzYDBIYh0dWUCWJjoDUoYxcW9jem0X7Jf6hOTlyMXheYtcYLkg3SM9dFmjtowNfRdrhypYZq9uGOAEPkx8ASSwXU43sF1LbgAEtziFhN7P37lIRMsmLp2Kh0azHAwa_BjKs7XkbMyV3488vDf-KghsyDN97JDmX48w7KGsSmrm3As0Dmk6S6w=s320" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Ok, maybe I'm on to something to keep me busy until I can get back to my usual practice.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Norman Lundin is a Seattle painter who had a show at the Kucera gallery a couple of years ago. His paintings knocked my socks off and the gallery manager was kind enough to give me a copy of the show catalog. Lundin does landscapes -- unpopulated and often slightly spooky, even just a tad surreal. He also does interiors -- simple arrangements of items found in his studio. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1uqITcd1lAsOpzmiazg2qhlbqHhu2zdFzLXFuNyuVYvRhGQz7MRYhg-DKj_p5dwXwKo9horj732ohOA4Xa9VPG1ZAfUGIMKfbYnTeJDEzqILhVlQ2iXTIHgSgmRxBBRZmJTBoo3jrG1XZu8gicEui2Tg_qFM3LorCwM-V1TcoA0h2YruqAin-ssG5Fw=s1280" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1257" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1uqITcd1lAsOpzmiazg2qhlbqHhu2zdFzLXFuNyuVYvRhGQz7MRYhg-DKj_p5dwXwKo9horj732ohOA4Xa9VPG1ZAfUGIMKfbYnTeJDEzqILhVlQ2iXTIHgSgmRxBBRZmJTBoo3jrG1XZu8gicEui2Tg_qFM3LorCwM-V1TcoA0h2YruqAin-ssG5Fw=w196-h200" width="196" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Again, not to try to look like his paintings but "in the manner of" I did a couple of still life photographs (the first such in many a year -- I even had the camera on a tripod). Neither of them look anything like a Lundin painting but they do seem to me be "in the manner of". </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLEIr126Dlx7MimynCrmjoDFfMJfMchF0cwu4FrFI41s_-PSFRN-Fn6VHQGwV8IjlwxabmicBb7GhvMYlSv7G0pW7g0eRlHa-QYU2EOngzfyWcwnGemTVH3Ibvgm0Kcy_XOj5odiOwWX5EkBlwqZr8tuT7ZxfIBHEBXwWhvoRcxDGmrNJTgLdvmHThQg=s1280" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLEIr126Dlx7MimynCrmjoDFfMJfMchF0cwu4FrFI41s_-PSFRN-Fn6VHQGwV8IjlwxabmicBb7GhvMYlSv7G0pW7g0eRlHa-QYU2EOngzfyWcwnGemTVH3Ibvgm0Kcy_XOj5odiOwWX5EkBlwqZr8tuT7ZxfIBHEBXwWhvoRcxDGmrNJTgLdvmHThQg=w200-h200" width="200" /></a><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I just finished studying ("reading" is not an intense enough term) <i>Andrew Wyeth -- retrospective</i>. His iconic works are spectacular but I find his portraits even more so. Hmmm. Portraits are not very practical right now. How about how he used the winter light of Chadd's Ford to illuminate an interior?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Part of the training of an easel painter is copying master works both to hone their skill with brush and palette and to solidify in their bones how the masters used light and composition to make their works sing. I have often wondered why the training of a photographer does not include "copying" master works. Well, "copying" isn't exactly practical but perhaps "in the manner of" is. 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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“The Dirty Sock Syndrome”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(I’ll get back to the title shortly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bear with me.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every now and again I’ll say “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have just <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">got</b> to tidy up
my work area</i>.” to which my wife usually responds with bit of a snort and “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You spend as much time tidying up in there as
you do working in there</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not quite
true but close enough to be worthy of a snort.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I try to put tools and materials back where they belong as
soon as I’m done with them (even for a minute) but I am not by nature a neat
and orderly person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a consequence the
cruft tends to build up – especially when I’m in the middle of, say, mounting
and matting prints – until there isn’t enough vacant space on the work surface
to put anything else down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess the
price of tidiness is eternal vigilance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But that’s a short-term issue.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A longer-term issue is that of the dirty sock syndrome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read of it in (of all the unlikely places)
a chapter on building maintenance in an excellent book on church governance*.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In it the author says that if you see a dirty
sock on your bedroom floor you pick it up, put it in the laundry basket and
forget about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come laundry day it
gets clean, you put it in a drawer and all is well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">don’t</b>
pick it up – leave it there for, say, three days, it becomes part of the décor
and you stop seeing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will stay
there until your spouse (or whomever) picks it up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exasperated parents will instantly recognize
this phenomenon in occasional visits to their child’s bedroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not
seeing what is obvious to a stranger</i>, is a longer-term issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once in a while I have to spend some time
picking up the dirty socks in my work area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Looking around me as a write I see about eight – starting with an ink
bottle containing maybe 2 ccs of ink standing proudly beside a full one and a
small kitchen timer that stopped working even after I put a new battery in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no idea how long they’ve been there
but now that I’ve noticed them they are gone.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;">Art on a wall works the same
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After it’s been up for a while (a
lot longer than three days) we stop seeing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Galleries and museums change their shows – why not our homes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chances are good that if you are reading this
you have more artwork than wall space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(If not, support your local artists, buy reproductions from museum
shops, frame your own pieces.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;">When we moved to our current house
three years ago one of my smarter ideas was to put hanging rails on a lot of the
walls, making it easy to change our “show”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I walk past it 20 times a day and as soon as I don’t occasionally stop
to smile and say to myself “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">George Tice
certainly makes beautiful prints</i>!” it’s time to change the show – roughly
three months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only a few of our
particular favorite pieces are on “permanent display” but even they move from
place to place so they will stay fresh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The hanging rails are really helpful but it isn't that big a deal to add or subtract a few picture hooks. With a bit of forethought the new piece will hide the pinhole left by the former hook. In our previous house I kept a small jar of filler and another of touch-up paint at the ready.<br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* “Moving on from Church Folly Lane”, Robert Latham,
Wheatmark Press 2006</p>
ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-87719656836726116402021-03-03T13:49:00.005-08:002021-03-03T13:49:59.899-08:00How to Respond.<p> <!--[if !mso]>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 119%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">This is a bit heavier than my usual blog post content but this has been on my mind a lot.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> Philip, a photographer friend, and I were talking (virtually of course) about how we as photographers could/should/might work in response to the pandemic, the political upheaval, social unrest ….</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> Both of us had been carrying a camera while walking around our respective neighborhoods. Photographs illustrating isolation, “social distancing” … are a dime a dozen. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">What </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">are we not photographing? </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">How</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> are we not photographing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> Certain photographs, like the recent photograph of the nude woman facing down a wall of heavily armed and armored officers in Portland, will become icons -- much like the photograph of the single protestor in Tiananmen Square facing down a line of tanks – or of the sweet faced young woman putting a flower into the muzzle of a rifle at Kent State – or the horribly burned child fleeing from her napalmed village in Viet Nam. They each record a powerful, moving incident in a specific dangerous, chaotic time and place. Not knowing the time and place would be likely to make me ask “what was going on here?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> David Douglas Duncan’s “</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">Captain Ike Fenton</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">” does a bit more. Its anti-war message does not require you to know that it was Korea, 1950, that the company he commanded was low on ammunition, pinned down by artillery fire, and could not expect immediate help. But you know that something terrible has happened – is happening – and that this is the face of a man who has stood at the edge of the pit, looked in, and cannot turn around. It gives you enough visual cues to imagine a time and place – or maybe the specific time and place don’t matter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> But Philip was thinking more along the lines of Picasso’s “Guernica”, works that are conceived from the get-go to comment or express the artist’s response to what’s happening in the world. I would add the likes of John Heartfield’s pre-WWII anti-Nazi posters and illustrations (which resulted in him departing through a window as the Gestapo came up the stairs to his studio).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> Philip’s question was what can we photographers do </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">apart from photojournalism</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> -- if we are not (choose to be not) eye witness to momentous events.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> But that question bumps us up against one of the basic facts about photography. Photographs are spectacularly good at showing what something or someone looked like at a specific time and place but are seldom spectacularly good at showing “about”. How do photographs translate from “images of:” to “images about”?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">The great Henri Cartier-Bresson, during World War II, said “</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are still photographing rocks</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;"> Photography is not good at allegory – as evidenced by Henry Peach Robinson’s “</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">Fading Away</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">” -- or historical or literary references – as evidenced by Gertrude Käsebier’s “</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">Blessed Art Thou Among Women</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">”. George Bernard Shaw, a photographer himself, noted that “</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">The painter gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse from Shakespeare underneath, and the picture is admired beyond measure. The photographer finds the same pretty girl, he dresses her up and photographs her, and calls her Juliet, but somehow it is no good — it is still Miss Wilkins, the model. It is too true to be Juliet</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">.”</span></p>
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ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-62589985311230028242021-02-08T14:49:00.000-08:002021-02-08T14:49:08.431-08:00I Hate Zoom<p> <!--[if !mso]>
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</p><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">I hate Zoom.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">This nonsense of sitting in front of a com puter and staring at artwork on a screen instead of staring at </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">the real artwork </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">is getting pretty old. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">While I’m at it, I hate sitting in front of a computer looking at a face in a little box instead of looking at </span><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;">a real face </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">Moreover I hate looking at art on a screen, Zoom or not.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">One of the pundits said that the history of art as you see it in a textbook is really the history of artwork that will reproduce well in a quarter-page illustration.<span> </span>Michelangelo's David is the same size as a Japanese netsuke.<span> </span>My addition to that is that all artwork looks the same represented by a 1024x960 pixel jpeg created on a computer screen with unknown color balance and viewed on another computer screen with a different unknown color balance.<span><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;"><span>A friend was the judge for a show at a not-quite-local gallery. He chose about 125 prints out of the 2000 or so that were submitted -- by jpeg -- from all over the country. He told me that when the actual prints arrived about 20 of them were so different from the jpeg (and not better) that he didn't want to hang them.<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">All that said, just today I watched a lecture by Todd Hido (photographer in the Bay area) arranged by the art gallery of the University of Kentucky.<span> </span>About 100 peo ple attended from </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">all over the western world.<span> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">I regularly attend a critique hosted by a Portland (Oregon) photographer — with attendees from upstate New York, Tennessee, Burnaby BC, northern California, Chicago, Calgary.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">Tonight I have a Zoom meeting with a local group of photographers with whom I have met in person for about 20 years -- sitting around a table with actual prints strewn over it, looking at them and at each other. </span></span></p><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">I guess that Zoom and it’s ilk have a place, an important place.<span> </span>But, dang!<span> </span>It’s not the only place. <br /></span></span></p><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="bodytext" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-char-tracking: 112%; mso-ligatures: none;">Back to the real world ASAP</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Since the pandemic hit I have been reading the, I believe,
weekly newsletter from Aperture – part of my “any port in a storm” approach to
staying in touch with the photographic world without leaving my lair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I confess, however, that my usual examination
of it consists of the first couple of paragraphs of some of the articles and
looking at the photographs, usually with as much puzzlement as amazement.</span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Today I received an email from Aperture from their “development”
department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bait to induce me to
donate to their annual fund drive was an interview with Dawoud Bey titled “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Changes to the Photography World in the
Twenty-First Century</i>” and it was worth a careful read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I became a fan of Bey’s work when I saw some
of his portraits at the Tacoma Art Museum (an institution that takes
photography seriously) in the biennial portrait competition sponsored by the
National Portrait Gallery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing his
work in the flesh, so to speak, is a different experience than on a computer
screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact that distinction appears
in his Aperture interview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes so
far as to state that to him “photograph” implies a physical object and “picture”
applies to what we see on a computer screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Picture” seems too generic to me and I believe that we need a new word
for “image captured in some light-sensitive way but displayed on a computer
screen”.</span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bey’s 29 year old son works in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>social media production for a living and is
advising him on how to create a presence on Instagram and make it useful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Bey confesses a degree of skepticism
and puzzlement about how that can happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(I’m with him there!)</span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The interviewer for this piece is the executive director of
Aperture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speaking of the changes in
their magazine that they recently introduced, he stated that: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hello, Photography” (Spring 2013), an
optimistic assertion of the value of photography; the Aperture magazine issue
we did with Magnum Foundation, “Documentary, Expanded” (Spring 2014); and
Charlotte Cotton’s book Photography Is Magic (2015), among others. I think
Photography Is Magic was the apotheosis of a distinct ontological moment in
photography.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Holy Dektol,
Lensman!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bey lowered the artobabble
level in his response to that statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But that brings me to the rant section of this piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Asked how he became visible to Aperture, Bey
says: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I was surprised, one day, to get
an email from one of the editorial staff at Aperture saying that someone (a
mutual friend, whom I knew from the Studio Museum in Harlem’s administration)
had told them they should take a look at my work. The email went on to ask,
“What kind of work do you do, landscapes?</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What colossal arrogance</b>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writer of that email didn’t even have the
courtesy to spend five minutes or less to find out what Bey’s work was
like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting even an uniformed tickle
from the rarified heights of Aperture was enough?</span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Alas, that has been my opinion of Aperture for a long
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I subscribed to the Aperture and
to Art News for several years and found the writing in both, well, dense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kept feeling that I should be able to
untangle the articles but somehow never did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I dropped both subscriptions after reading a letter to the editor in one
of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writer stated that he was a
trained librarian and had read the magazine regularly for nearly a decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The previous issue, he was glad to report,
contained an article that he actually understood.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Where did you get the
delusion …</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some years ago – to be honest about it a lot of years ago (try
40) – I took a portfolio of my photographs to a review for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact it was the first time that I had the
temerity to show my photographs to anyone but my wife and a couple of
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was searching for a direction
for my work and for sure was still struggling with technique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried 4x5, doing it until I was convinced that
if I stayed with it I could do so with some facility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a flash of insight I noticed that I wasn’t
having fun so I stopped doing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
tried color negative printing, doing it until I was convinced that if I stayed
with it I could do so with some facility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another flash of insight squashed that idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Same with gum bichromate printing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Same with several other alternative
processes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In that remotely distant past there was a short-lived
institution, “The Factory for the Visual Arts”, housed in a repurposed school
building in Seattle’s Green Lake district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It sponsored a variety of classes, rented studio space in wonderful old
second-floor classrooms with tall windows, had a small performance space, and
even hosted the student company of Pacific Northwest Ballet for a couple of
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When they announced a weekend photography event I signed up
immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The speakers were from the
university and their talks and the portfolio reviews were, well, more than a
bit cerebral and not helpful to me either in finding a direction or improving
my technical skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the
reviewers, an MFA student at the university, said to me: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where did you get the delusion that anybody would be interested in
photographs of people that they don’t know?</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also obvious that she regarded those of
us without an art degree as naïve and underprivileged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These were bitter pills for a midcareer
engineer with a passion for photography to swallow.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Years passed – about 15 of them – with me still looking for
a direction for my photography but enjoying what I was doing and struggling a
whole lot less with technique.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At that still long gone and lamented time Rainier Photo
Supply, a local photographic supplies vendor, sponsored an annual Saturday event
at a local community college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
included a modest trade show and talks by local and regional photographers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my favorite memories of it was a talk
by Wah Lui, an excellent portrait photographer, who famously said “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One of the less effective ways of becoming a
photographer is to go to college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
college you intellectualize about photography until nobody knows what the hell
you are talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m puzzled that
people go to school to learn photography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Imogen Cunningham once said that ‘</i>as soon as one learns to print, go
off on your own to make pictures<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is some value in workshops but after
the fourth workshop it’s a waste of money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The money would be better spent on film</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That made me feel a lot less self-conscious
about my autodidact approach to learning photography and I scribbled his
statement down in my notebook as fast as I could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also said that one should keep an eye out
for books of photography that excite you – and if you have fewer than a hundred
of them in your bookshelf to look harder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even at that early day the count on my bookshelf was way over a hundred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His statements made me feel a good deal
better about my autodidactic approach to learning photography.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This event also offered portfolio reviews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reviewers were mostly photographers as
opposed to curators and gallerists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
was quite a demand for reviews so they were short, as I recall 15 minutes, and
you registered for four reviews – who you got for a reviewer was pot luck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three of the four reviewers I drew gave me a
lot of help with technique – both with the camera and with printing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To my confusion and later amusement some of
what reviewer A said and some of what reviewer B said were mutually
contradictory.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But I digress.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Many more years passed but the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where did you get the delusion …</i>” statement still haunted me – and
to some extent still does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Arnold Newman photographed the likes of Igor Stravinsky seated
at his grand piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henri
Cartier-Bresson photographed John Paul Sartre on Pont Neuf on a foggy day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I may not know Igor or John Paul personally
but I certainly know who they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does
that count?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would those portraits lose
their significance if the subjects were unknowns?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think not!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the lexicon of art a “tronie” is an image of a person but
not a specific person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vermeer’s “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Girl With a Pearl Earring</i>” and Frans
Hals’ “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Merry Drinker</i>” are
tronies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were almost certainly
painted from a live model but not as representing a specific pretty girl or specific
ruddy cheeked man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet a lot of people
still seem to be interested in these and many other images like them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbEs8J_REbNZXxNSzzM5yB_D4krE2m3fWGhr5cHsrwX9fiFOFy1o-a5AQBu_yjnAXtPjpYkXA5evuF96TB4dLOubMB9T2o3U1HxsA92nvhYY9oPWLV7QjJYHkHx1aXBqFQDGJwI6y5W-Gi/s1280/1779-05-20191014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="887" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbEs8J_REbNZXxNSzzM5yB_D4krE2m3fWGhr5cHsrwX9fiFOFy1o-a5AQBu_yjnAXtPjpYkXA5evuF96TB4dLOubMB9T2o3U1HxsA92nvhYY9oPWLV7QjJYHkHx1aXBqFQDGJwI6y5W-Gi/s320/1779-05-20191014.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">It was only after I discovered the work of the likes of
Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, and Edouard Boubat that I realized how compelling
photographs of ordinary (read: not celebrity) human beings can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, a photograph is by its very nature much
more specific than a painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can a
photograph of a person be a tronie and be of interest on its own without the
context of “knowing”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hold that I do
not have to know who Lella or the winemaker are in Boubat’s “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lella, Brittany France 1947</i>” or Ronis’ “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Winemaker, Gironde 1945</i>” to be
interested in them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know a lot of celebrities (you can say that again)
so what I hope for my photographs of people is that they will be tronies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recently showed some of my photographs,
including this one, to a small group of non-photographer friends and was
delighted when one said: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You make
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;">The great Henri Cartier-Bresson noted that "<i>Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. You cannot develop and print a memory</i>."</span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"></span></span></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">One of the very few nuggets that I mined out of the heap of words in Roland Barthes' "Camera Lucida" is this (paraphrased). <i>Photographs more than any other medium can create a window into the past.</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So while you cannot develop and print a memory, if you have the negative then you can at least catch a glimpse of the past -- spy on a memory. I use this title "<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Spying </span>on
a Memory</i>" for my long-term retrospective (gee, that sounds pretentious)
project of combing through my negatives and reprinting. I'm a bit over
600 prints now. But I digress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic reminded me of an incident of spying on memories that are not mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For a very long time my wife and I spent at least one long weekend a year at the Seabeck Conference Center on the Hood Canal. For those not of the northwest, the Hood Canal is a body of saltwater between the Olympic Peninsula and the mainland. We had become friends with the then newly installed manager of the center. As part of a very successful effort to build good will between the local population and the center he invited the "old timers" from the community to a spring barbecue on the beach adjacent to the center. He asked them to bring along any photographs of the village that became the conference center in the early 1900s from their family albums. He also asked me if I would photograph and copy some of these to hang in the center's buildings. Of course I would!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The barbecue was a lot of fun and I photographed 60 or so vintage prints from the 200 or so that were there on the spot so that the owners could take the originals home again. Over the next few months I made 8x10 or so copies of them. Along in the fall he organized a second barbecue for the "old timers" and I brought along the new prints. I laid them out on a long table for everybody to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">When Seabeck was still a thriving village there was a dock at which the "Mosquito Fleet" steamboats called. These were small coastwise boats that swarmed (like mosquitoes, thus the name) around Puget Sound carrying passengers, cargo, and mail among the many isolated villages. One of the photographs was of the dock with a boat there, men in flat caps were unloading cargo and a couple of women in fancy dress with umbrellas and a man in a derby were walking towards the camera. An elderly man with a white shoe brush mustache looked at my print and said "<i>That's the (I can't remember the name of the boat.) I was a deck hand on her -- that picture was from before 1923 because in 1923 she hit the dock in (somewhere I don't remember) and the pilot house didn't look like this any more.</i>" I got his address and later sent him a copy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But now the connection to the current pandemic. Another one of the photographs was taken in a bedroom in one of the village houses that became part of the conference center. Two small girls in white dresses, perhaps 6 and 8, one with a big white bow in her hair, were seated on a bed. A tiny elderly lady in a print dress looked at it and tears came to her eyes. "<i>That's me and my sister. Our father was the first manager of the conference center. I remember when this photo was taken. I knew it existed but never saw a copy of it. It was 1917 -- I know that because my sister died in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic</i>." I made a copy of that print for her, too.</span><br />
ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-81369089120051456872019-12-26T21:34:00.000-08:002019-12-26T21:34:27.271-08:00RIP Bumbershoot, Long Live Bumbershoot<br />
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“Bumbershoot” was (is?) an
annual festival held at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Seattle</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> over the Labor Day
holiday weekend. “Bumbershoot” as in an
umbrella for a festival of music, art, dance, and general good cheer.</div>
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The notion for Bumbershoot was
pretty much hatched by Anne Focke — an arts administrator for the City of
Seattle — as a morale builder during the “<i>Last
Person Out of Seattle Please Turn Out the Lights</i>” days of the late 60s as
the City Arts Festival. By 1971 it had
evolved into Bumbershoot, a goofy, volunteer-powered, community event with free
admission (later low cost admission) that featured mostly local music in a wide
variety of styles, an extensive visual arts exhibition, and a steady stream of impromptu
performances. Each day of the festival
there was at least one ad hoc parade of some kind, often accompanied by a lusty
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“The Big Naso” was leading one
such parade.</div>
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So Bumbershoot remained for
perhaps thirty years. A combination of
volunteer burnout, declining individual donations and reduced support from the
city during the recent recession precipitated a search for a sugar daddy to pay
the bills. Enter AEG, a national
promoter of music festivals, who contracted with the city and One Reel but took
over booking and management of the event.
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Over the next several years, AEG
morphed Bumbershoot into a high-priced, high-intensity, headliner-driven, music
festival that eliminated or downsized areas for dancing, squeezed out most of
the visual art, seriously restricted pop-up performances, buskers, and prohibited
cameras with interchangeable lenses, ostensibly because the headliners “don’t
permit photography during their performances.”
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Three years ago I was denied
admission even with a paid daily pass because of my vintage Canon SLR. (Hmmm, how do the modern pancake 20 megapixel
digital cameras with ISO 10,000 and 20:1 zoom lenses fit into this picture?)</div>
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I haven’t even bothered to go
since then <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">— </span>long lines of
people waiting to get into the headline venues (all staring at their smart
phones) don’t seem like good photograph fodder to me.</div>
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The tide may have turned once
again. AEG, noting a precipitate drop in
patronage and a national overabundance of headliner festivals, declined to
renew their contract with the local One Reel organization and the city after
the 2019 event <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> crowds were
less than 50% of expected. </div>
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My opinion: <b><i>good!</i></b></div>
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One Reel took over once more as
the festival organizer and says: “<i>While
the details won’t be announced until early next year, we can tell you this:
Everyone at One Reel is excited to usher in a new era for Bumbershoot that
embraces the festival’s long legacy of multi- generational programming and
community participation. We are
currently working with the City of <st1:city w:st="on">Seattle</st1:city> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Seattle</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>, to create a new model for
Bumbershoot that honors both the festival’s origin and history, while ensuring
the festival is sustainable for the long haul</i>.”</div>
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My opinion: <b><i>hooray!</i></b></div>
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Best of luck to One Reel, the
city and a small army of volunteers. This
will be the 50<sup>th</sup> Bumbershoot and all of us ol’ timers are holding
our breath.</div>
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My cameras still work.</div>
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ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-70054745070935387642019-12-24T12:33:00.000-08:002019-12-24T12:33:46.119-08:00Acquiring a tiny bit of art karma<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVACkfKGSCMt3gHGj_kDdLzHBertDvN4rRp_zrjtEj7A5puuQMcoq-v-vNF8c53wEa1oddLrKc9563qzOHy9WEgbjoH36i3jCxP-YB1er9iPKmTLBMNwLQTRRToUm3VarBFA_frLHJMs1v/s1600/fear-no-art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1523" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVACkfKGSCMt3gHGj_kDdLzHBertDvN4rRp_zrjtEj7A5puuQMcoq-v-vNF8c53wEa1oddLrKc9563qzOHy9WEgbjoH36i3jCxP-YB1er9iPKmTLBMNwLQTRRToUm3VarBFA_frLHJMs1v/s200/fear-no-art.jpg" width="190" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">At a place and in a time I do not remember I bought this button. I thought it was a giggle and I agreed with the statement it makes. I have worn it on various sweaters and sweat shirts for years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have received quite a few comments on it -- most recently from the toll booth at the ferry terminal in Anacortes where the attendant looked me over and said "Ok, I'm not afraid." as he handed me my change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A couple of months ago at the Pike Place Market the young woman behind the cash register at the tea shop said "Ooooh, that's a Miripolsky!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Does the name Miripolsky ring a bell? (It didn't with me.) But I said "It sure is." and looked him up as soon as I got home. Turns out that Andre Miripolsky is a big-name pop artist from Venice California (where else) and this was kind of his break-out piece. Ok, cool, here's an 81 year old geek like me running around with a pop art icon on his sweater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Earlier this month I went to the opening of a middle-school student art show at the local community center. The event was fun, mostly because the kids from all over the school district who had pieces in the show were having such a good time. The I believe 6th grader who took the first price was a rather shy girl. Her piece had a cartooney, kind of goofy look that reminded me of Miripolsky so after the awards were all done I asked her if she would show me her piece and tell me about it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was obviously pleased to have a random grown up take interest but told me with a straight face that she wasn't good at talking about it. Then she treated me to an articulate, well-reasoned explanation of why she did that particular piece and what it meant to her. I loved it. As we walked back towards her proud parents she very quietly said "</span><span style="color: #999999;">I really like your button.</span><span style="font-size: large;">" What would any softhearted parent do? I gave it to her and she pinned it on her blouse. I also wrote down the url to Miripolsky's website for her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That ought to improve my art Karma just a bit.</span><br />
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<br />ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-65167521476805746462019-10-23T18:15:00.000-07:002019-10-23T18:15:12.350-07:00Stendhal Syndrome Anyone?<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Once in a
while some piece of art or music catches me out and I have a very physical
response to it. I call it the "weak knees and cold chills"
response. I love it when that happens. It leaves me feeling very alive
and at peace.</span><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">The finale of Mahler's
Third Symphony does it every time. Live performance is better but the CD
of the Berlin Philharmonic will do.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">As does "<i>In Moses
Soyer's Studio</i>" (photograph by Larry Fink -- Portland Art Museum has a
copy) does it, too.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So does
"<i>Paris Street; Rainy Day</i>" (painting by Gustave
Caillebotte -- at the Art Institute of Chicago)</span><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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however, is "<i>Girl with a Pearl Earring</i>" (Painting by Vermeer
-- at a show in the de Young in San Francisco). I walked from left to
right in front of it. When I got to the far right my eyes met the sight
line of the girl in the painting. I stood there dumbstruck until my wife
came and dragged me away.)</span><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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a visceral response to art isn't that unusual.</span><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">I stumbled across
"Stendhal Syndrome" while looking for something else (the only way I
find unusual bits of information). The first definition according to
Professor Google:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;">"<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Stendhal syndrome</span></i></b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">, Stendhal's syndrome or Florence syndrome is
a psychosomatic condition involving rapid heartbeat, fainting, confusion and
even hallucinations, allegedly occurring when individuals become exposed to
objects or phenomena of great beauty</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">"</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I have a
mild case of it and I wouldn't want to lose it.</span><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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sufferers out there?</span></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-89552245776344930482019-05-17T17:55:00.000-07:002019-05-17T17:55:38.741-07:00A Contrarian View of Garry Winogrand<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">Apart
from seeing a print or two in books on the history of photography I have had
only three brushes with Winogrand’s work: the book “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Man in the Crowd, The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand</i>”
(Fraenkel Gallery and DAP, 1999), the retrospective at San Francisco MOMA
(“Garry Winogrand”, 2013) and the recent PBS program (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Masters</i>, 3306, 2019, <a href="https://kcts9.org/programs/american-masters/episodes/3306">https://kcts9.org/programs/american-masters/episodes/3306</a><span style="color: black;">.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">His
photography was the hot item at the time I was becoming serious about
photography and it puzzled me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact,
it still puzzles me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Masters</i> episode combines a good
deal of Winogrand’s work with interviews and commentary by photographic
luminaries and Winogrand’s three wives as well as by Winogrand himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">The
director’s statement that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">His ‘snapshot
aesthetic’ is now the universal language of contemporary image-making</i>.”
strikes me as considerably more than a bit too broad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One writer, Leo Rubenfien opined that
Winogrand was the defining photographer of the American 1970s in the same was
that Robert Frank was for the American 1950s and Walker Evans for the American
1930s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that is a more accurate
statement – but still not very satisfactory to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">The
“American Masters” program set me to thinking about my mixed reactions to
Winogrand’s work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went through the
1999 book (again) and read my own journal entries about the 2013 SF/MOMA
show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m still sorting out my thoughts
and I have come to some (tentative) conclusions about his work that I find more
satisfactory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">Winogrand
was your prototypical brassy, outspoken, pushy, often sarcastic New
Yorker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had no use for those that
philosophize about photography – a position with which I whole-heartedly agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His statement that he “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">photographed to see what things look like photographed</i>” or that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anything and everything is photographable</i>.”
are about as analytical as he got.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
a critic stated to him that his work was “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very
subtle</i>” Winogrand’s answer was “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Subtle?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My work is about as subtle as a sour pickle</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also was adamant about being purposeful in
his photographing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When asked how often
he shot without looking through the viewfinder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He hotly stated that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">never</b> shoot without looking through the
viewfinder</i>.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">Digression:</span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be easy to think that he didn’t look
through the viewfinder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Videos of him at
work show him continuously fussing with his camera (and likely doing nothing
but keeping his hands busy and looking like he wasn’t ready to take a
photograph) then raising it to his eye for perhaps two seconds before going
back to fussing with the camera and unobtrusively advancing the film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One tidbit from the PBS show was that he
worked with a 28mm lens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That allowed
him to hyperfocus the lens to get enough depth of field that, combined with his
“in your face” practice of being close to his subjects he rarely had to focus –
and depending on the legendary latitude of Tri-X for shutter speed left him
with nothing to do but glance through the viewfinder and tag the shutter
button.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had done that so often and
for so long that he was able to see what was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">about</i></b> to happen and in
the 2 seconds or so the camera was at his eye get the negative – sometimes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus endeth the digression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">That
is not to say that Winogrand was an unpleasant person or that his taste in
photography was narrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the
interviewees in the PBS show seemed to have warm regard for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Robert Adams, landscape photographer and writer
about photography says: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Garry
Winogrand’s subject was, I now believe, also perfection, though many of his
street scenes appear to tip under the weight of roiling confusion – so much so
that for a long time I did not appreciate his accomplishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even wondered if I would like him in
person, though when I met him one afternoon at a conference in Carmel I certainly did, as anyone would
have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was cheerful, ardent, and
without pretense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… After Winogrand
died, a mutual acquaintance told me that he had said he wanted to make pictures
related to mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could hardly believe
it because our work seemed so far apart</i> …” (Robert Adams, “Why People
Photograph”, Aperture, 1994, pp18, 19)</span></div>
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the following paragraph Adams noted “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he was accepting of complexity in a way that
I admire</i>.” (op cit, p19)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">And
that statement, after several more leaps of thought, kind of turned on another
light bulb for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I propose that Winogrand
was one of photography’s equivalents of the great Louis Armstrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the world of jazz there are a handful of
musicians that are respectfully called “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">horn
changers</i>” – that introduced a new way of using an instrument.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Armstrong was one of them – probably the best
known outside of jazz circles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before
Armstrong came on the scene small group jazz was almost exclusively that of
collective improvisation by the entire ensemble reacting to what else was going
on and hoping for the best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Playing
that way is really fun, by the way.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Louis Armstrong introduced the notion of featuring a single instrument,
trumpet in his case, improvising a melodic line with the ensemble reacting to
what the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soloist</i></b> was playing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
added a new way to play jazz – but by no means invalidated the older way nor
did it become a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">universal language</i>
for future jazz musicians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">Winogrand’s
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">accepting of complexity</i>” (I would
say “chaos” or “disorganization”) was in a way a reaction to the then-gospel
notion of “the decisive moment” (more accurately translated as “images on the
run”) pioneered by the great Henri Cartier-Bresson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did Winogrand invent the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">snapshot aesthetic</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well,
no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every family album full of 4x6
prints on glossy, deckle-edged paper has lots of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What Winogrand <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</i></b> do was to take that
style of photography from the (private) family album to the (public)
arena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did he add anything?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was very good at what he did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
he took it there to an extreme that could never be matched until the dawning of
the digital age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His thousands of rolls
of film are no match for the billions of photographs on photo-sharing websites
now. </span></div>
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also quarrel somewhat with his statement that he “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">photographed to see what things look like photographed</i>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He left thousands of rolls of film, many not
even developed, when he died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that
way he could be compared to the much less famous Vivien Maier – who also left a
lot of undeveloped film when she died and seemed to be obsessed with leaving a
record of the world around her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">Which
brings me around to the SF/MOMA Winogrand show of 2013 and the much smaller
Photographic Center Northwest show of Vivien Maeir, also in 2013.</span></div>
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SF/MOMA show was about half of negatives that Winogrand selected and either
printed or were printed under his direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The other half were selected after his death – by friend and fellow
photographer Tod Papageorge and printed by Tom Consilvo, who printed for
Winogrand during the last decade of his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The great John Szarkowski, who championed Winogrand’s work from the
beginning, commented that he felt Winogrand’s later work, largely from Los Angeles, was losing
its edge – an opinion that was hotly debated at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In my opinion neither the content nor the print quality had quite as
sharp an edge as the prints from negatives that Winogrand himself
selected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether that reflects a change
in Winogrand or, in my opinion more likely, the difficulty of going through
thousands of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">somebody else’s</i></b> negatives and trying to second guess what
Winogrand would have selected and how he would have printed them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">Vivian
Maier made few prints during her lifetime and was, it seems, an indifferent
printer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her show was made from
negatives selected by a person who had never even met Maier and was printed by
a master printer using his own judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">Both
shows were a peek into the world in which the photographer lived – one the
uneasy streets of New York and Los Angeles and the other the gritty streets of Chicago’s south side and
snooty streets of an upscale suburb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">In
discussing Winogrand’s work with my wife she noted that in a way both of these photographers
may have been trying to record and even make sense out of the world around them
and that the eventual artifact of a print was a side effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The act of photographing may have been the
important bit – almost in the way of a hoarder or perhaps a diarist trying to
compile a record of their life and times.</span></div>
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On the train into Seattle a
few weeks back the morning sunlight streamed in the window and onto the face
and wonderfully braided hair of a young Latina
woman sitting in front of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked her
for a photograph and she said it was ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After a few photographs I gave her my card and my standard “Send me an
email so I can send you a print.” then showed her a couple of samples of my work
that I “just happened” to have in my shoulder bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
oohed and aahed at them and asked if I was on Instagram.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I allowed that I was not and she said “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You should be!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People would see your photographs</i>!”</div>
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I get that comment from time to time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I’m certainly not averse to people seeing my work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather to the contrary.</div>
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I do have a website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The traffic to it is, well, modest <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span>
a couple of hundred page views a month (not counting mine).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have made some contacts, met (in a virtual
sense) some interesting people, sold some prints, sold some books through
people finding my website by keyword search.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One as far away as Poland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far it’s just enough to make keeping the
website up to date worth the trouble.</div>
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I do have a subscription newsletter with a vanishingly small
(by internet standards) audience that grows slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Unpaid advertisement:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>see ronfstop.com to subscribe) However, the
“open” rate is 80%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The average “open”
rate for an online newsletter is 20%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hmmm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would rather have my
newsletter go to a few people who are interested in what I’m doing than go to a
larger audience most of whom don’t even bother to open it.</div>
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But Instagram?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
suppose I could let those who subscribe to my newsletter and those who reach me
through my website know that I’m on Instagram and ask them to “follow” me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I just looked it up:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> there about 40 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">BILLION</span></b> photographs on Instagram and 95 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">MILLION </span></b>go
up each day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The probability of anybody
who isn’t already familiar with my work finding it amidst that tsunami of
images is vanishingly close to 0.00000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
I went full court press and did all the right things with marketing tricks to
bring my work up out of the noise level maybe I could get the probability up to
1% (but I doubt it).</div>
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This leads to an interesting question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does an aspiring photographer “get the
work out there”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The signal-to-noise
ratio of the image sharing sites is so low that’s no it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither are the portfolio reviews that (see a
previous rant) are little of anything more than a cash cow for the sponsor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The media” is depending more and more on underpaid gig
photographers or volunteer PWC (persons with cell phone).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You don’t get your work in a gallery without a reputation and you don’t
get a reputation without gallery representation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It is no shock that in an annual survey of professions “photographer”
was rated as one of the worst <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span>
both in getting into it and in making something vaguely resembling a living out
of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-84758882463568444232019-03-05T21:10:00.000-08:002019-03-05T21:10:11.532-08:00“Here’s a Thought”<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Brooks Jensen is
publisher, editor, designer, and probably janitor of the magagine “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lenswork</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a lot to admire about him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his wife thought up the idea of
<i>Lenswork</i> and made it happen – and keep making it happen – with a barrage of
marketing ideas, some luck, and a whole lot of hard work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They moved <i>Lenswork</i> from a home-printed rag
one step above a memeographed newsletter to a very high quality, tri-tone
printed monthly with state-of-the-art reproductions of photographs and a
high-quality digital edition that even publishes color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He does workshops on project development, has
a podcast and even gets some of his own photography done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">He writes a column
for<i> Lenswork</i> and his latest project is a “usually daily” short video – a minute
or less – called “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Here’s a Thought</i>” –
available free to <i>Lenswork</i> subscribers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">All that said –
his field of view on photography is very narrow and he is very prone to
grabbing an idea and pushing it to what I consider an outlandish extreme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which statement brings me to the grumpy part.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">I watched a sample
edition of “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Here’s a Thought</i>” in
which he was discussing how big a print can be made from a given sized negative
(and, by extension, a given sized digital file.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His going in position is that a well-exposed
and carefully developed negative can make a 3x print.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is, a 2 ¼ square negative could be
enlarged to 6 ¾ x 6 ¾, a 35mm negative to about 3 x 4 ½ inches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fine negative can go up to 4x and an
exceptional negative to 5x.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond that
the smooth mid-tones begin to break up, the grain begins to show, the print
isn’t critically sharp.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Hello?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">He has just dismissed nearly every photograph
not made from a 4x5 or larger negative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cartier-Bresson, Kertesz, Eugene Smith, Helen Levitt, Eisenstadt,
Boubat, Doisneau, Ronis, Mary Randlett<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–
you folks all missed the boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sorry
(no I’m really not) to say that I have seen spectacular prints – not only
content but print quality – made by each of these folks and many others in sizes way more than 5x.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The problem here
tracks back to an observation made by Ted Orland in the book “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Art and Fear</i>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Orland was Ansel Adams' printer for several
years and his own photographs were, by his own statement, baseline west coast,
tack-sharp, 10-zones, fine-grain prints with lens-cap-to-horizon depth of field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But then, in a blinding lightning bolt of insight, he realized that he
doesn’t lead a tack-sharp, 10-zone, fine-grain life so that kind of print does
not express what he wants from his photography.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">All Jensen had to
do was to add “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To make the kind of prints
I want to make </i>…” to the beginning of his pontifical statement to make it an
expression of his taste rather than a sweeping generalization.</span></span></div>
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by his apparently narrow view of photography but this one really got me.</span></span></div>
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<br />ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-89168379647283276092019-02-15T11:46:00.001-08:002019-02-15T11:46:42.400-08:00Let me count even more ways.My friend, Christopher, added to my list of ways to neglect details in the darkroom. (my responses in red).<br />
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<li>have you ever put the negative in upside down? <span style="color: red;">Yes</span></li>
<li>have you ever forgotten to stop the lens down after focusing? <span style="color: red;">Yes</span></li>
<li>have you ever forgotten to close the door tight? <span style="color: red;">No, but in my former darkroom there was a crack under the door that needed a throw rug pushed against it -- that I forgot from time to time.</span></li>
<li>have you ever forgotten to rinse AND dry your hands before going over to the dry side (sorry, i couldn't resist)? <span style="color: red;">No, but likely only because I wear a glove when sloshing about in the trays.</span></li>
<li>have you pushed your chemistry past it's pull date? <span style="color: red;">Only very mildly -- "one more print to do before I quit for the day"</span></li>
<li>have you ever missed the stop bath, putting your film in the fix right after development? <span style="color: red;">No, missed that one.</span></li>
<li>this is one of my favorites, have you ever forgotten your prints in the wash, leaving them there for a couple of days? <span style="color: red;">Yes</span></li>
<li>and can't forget, have you ever left the wash water too warm,
remembering just in time to see your print's emulsion peeling away? <span style="color: red;">No, but I did do that to a tank full of Ektachrome once. Does that count?</span></li>
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i didn't think it fair to mention leaving a throwaway work print on the bottom of the sink to dry emulsion side down <span style="color: red;">and over the drain hole. Yes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">It's reassuring to hear that photographers whose work I respect klutz it up too.</span>ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-17214755414142739402019-02-01T16:43:00.000-08:002019-02-01T16:43:47.816-08:00Meeting Mary RandlettMary Randlett died last week at the age of 94. Her passion was landscape photography -- done with a 35mm camera in defiance of conventional wisdom about landscapes. Her modestly-sized prints, 16x20 or smaller, were very nice indeed. My favorites of her work, however, are portraits. She did portraits of artists, writers, art administrators, curators ... for decades, largely for the Seattle PI. Dozens of portraits, hundreds of portraits. Most of her portraits are casual and all are in available light. She was friends with nearly every heavyweight in the Northwest art scene.<br />
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Her reputation was that of a kind of Imogen Cunningham "I don't put up with much." person who did her own thing and wore comfortable shoes.<br />
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She continued to work in her darkroom nearly every day until a couple of years ago.<br />
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While I heard her speak a couple of times later, I had the pleasure of meeting her only once -- at the time of her wonderful show at the Tacoma Art Museum in 2007. She was scheduled to give a talk about the show on, I believe, a Saturday afternoon. Always unsure of traffic, I got there about an hour before the talk was due to begin. Pulling into the nearly-empty parking area behind the museum I saw an older woman getting out of her car and pulling a portfolio box out of the back seat.<br />
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Suspecting the best I went over to her and asked if, by chance, she was ... and offered to carry her portfolio box into the museum. With an obvious "I'm perfectly capable of carrying it but since you offered." attitude she handed me the portfolio box and we walked in together. We had a friendly conversation about scouting locations, care and feeding of portrait subjects, film, the craft of printing, the upcoming show -- for about 15 minutes until TAM's curator grabbed her to begin getting ready for the talk. <br />
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Another hero gone.ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-6969369717511851882019-01-22T19:58:00.000-08:002019-02-15T11:36:15.398-08:00Let Me Count the Ways!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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since my darkroom is (finally) finished. Sloshing about in the darkroom is a good time
to think – even with music playing on the stereo. (Jock Sturges says “It’s a <i>dark</i> room, not a <i>quitet</i> room.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a rather orderly work flow in my darkroom. I contact print my negatives then stare at
the contact sheets for a while before marking the negatives that look
promising. I make 5x7 (or so) work
prints on RC paper of each of these and stare at them for a while before
deciding which ones that look good enough to finish print. I make all the work prints using a #2 filter
and a guess at the exposure time based on the look of the contact print. This makes the work print a good source of
further guesses on how to begin a finish print.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First I decide what <b>HAS</b>
to be right – in most of my photographs that is the skin tones – and I make one
or more (usually more) test prints until I’m satisfied with that part. Then I make further test prints to make the
remainder of the print look like I want it to. Now since I do not live a Zone System life, by
this stage of the game I have used at least two contrast filters and added
dodging and burning with each of them. It’s
not unusual for me to have a dozen or so steps (written down, by the way)
before I’m ready to make the final prints.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here’s where the thinking noted above kicks in. During last week’s darkroom day I was making a
mental catalog of the various ways to botch up the final print ….</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Forgetting to close the cover on the filter tray
so that when the enlarger light comes on white light fogs the paper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thinking about changing:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Enlargement
factor,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">b.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Filter
grade,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">c.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Exposure
time,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Or
f/stop</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is not equivalent to doing so.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Dropping the dodging tool on the floor and not
being able to find it without turning on the room lights.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Forgetting one or more steps.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>And my very favorite – after I have the printing
strategy in mind I usually rehearse it a time or two before actually putting
paper in the easel – forgetting to put paper in the easel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have I missed one that you do?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-- and one more from my printing session yesterday.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When using more than one filter on a print, forget to take the first one out of the filter tray before loading the second one in. </span></span></div>
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ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-48265011725039685562019-01-04T16:47:00.000-08:002019-01-04T16:47:24.952-08:00"Craft Doesn't Matter" -- Oh?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I have no idea where this blog
post is going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are several,
intertwined issues involved and getting them braided in a way that makes sense
isn’t going to be easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A journalist
friend, Elliot Marple, was noted for the clarity of his writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He rated his essays by the number of “trips
through the meat grinder”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of
the post I’ll let you know how many trips this one took.</div>
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Thread #1:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A friend, photographer with a razor-sharp eye
who is also a master printer, was asked to review the work of an aspiring (but
not by any means beginner) street photographer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When said friend noted that many of the photographs were interesting but
that the prints were diminished by blown out highlights, blocked up shadows and
muddy midtones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The haughty response was
that content was all important and print quality is merely craft that doesn’t
matter.</div>
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Thread #2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blue Sky Gallery in Portland Oregon recently showed still photographs, films, and books by Robert Frank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The announcement of the show states:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Conceived by Robert
Frank and Gerhard Steidl, this exhibition shows Frank’s work in photos, books,
and films in a direct, accessible manner. Frank’s images are printed on sheets
of newsprint and hung on the walls or from the ceiling. Frank’s films and
videos, which are so often overshadowed by his photographic work, are shown on
small portable “beamers” projecting them directly onto the walls. Finally, the
exhibition will be disposed of after display, thus circumventing the normal
cycle of speculation and consumption in the art market. When the idea for this
pop-up show first reached Frank in his small, crooked house in the Canadian village of Mabou, he said: “</i>Cheap, quick, and
dirty, that’s how I like it!<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”</i></div>
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Well, that’s not exactly how it is.</div>
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The prints are not on
newsprint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However a copy of Süddeutsche
Zeitung, in which the prints <b><i>are</i></b> on newsprint, is on display in the
gallery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reproductions are no better
than you would expect in a newspaper.</div>
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The work in this show is ink-jet
printed on long strips of semi-gloss paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Print quality is scattered — from barely ok to what I would regard as
throw-away.</div>
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I understand, even applaud, the
emphasis on availability as opposed to the creation of precious objects only
seen by the elite in upscale galleries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the other hand — I question the assumption that “cheap, quick, and
dirty” is an appropriate display strategy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It would have been pretty easy and not at all expensive to tweak the
digital files and produce high-quality digital prints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would that have diminished their availability?
No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would that have made them more
compelling?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would that have compromised the notion of
destroying the prints after the show comes down?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No — at least not significantly since the
digital files would be available to print them again for the next venue in
which the show will be shown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(That
practice, however, strikes me as pretentious.)</div>
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The prints are accompanied by
copies of the many small books that Frank produced in his long career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had no idea how many!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In most cases the reproductions in the books,
while smaller, are more compelling than the prints on the wall.</div>
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Thread #3:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also in Portland,
the Art Museum was simultaneously showing early (1938-41) photographs of the Portland river front by Minor White.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great (and I say “great” even though I’m
not a fan of his work) Minor White lived and worked in Portland from the late 30s to the early
50s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before he moved to the abstract
style for which he is best known he did a lot of more documentary work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among other things, he photographed the Portland riverfront and the historic downtown in Portland for the WPA.</div>
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Work from that period was on
display in the photography gallery at PAM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His riverfront work was up then and the downtown work later that spring.</div>
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What is obvious, at least to me,
in the riverfront work is that even then White was obsessed with the shapes,
the lines, the fall of light on an object as opposed to what the scene
showed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the exception of perhaps
four portraits they are totally without living creatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They see more than a bit sterile to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is also obvious is that he was a superb
printer!</div>
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Thread #4:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I subscribe to mydailyphotograph.com <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> a service of the wonderful Duncan
Miller Gallery in Santa Monica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each day they post a few photographs <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> one “vintage”, one “emerging” and
one or more just because.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the
“vintage” are not by the top tier photographers but sometimes are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently an 8x10 of Margaret Bourke-White’s
“Gold Miners, Johannesburg”
was listed at $1500, discounted to $950 as their daily bargain. In the same
post the “emerging” photograph was a 13x19, ink-jet print of part of the roof
and dome of a 1950s vista dome passenger rail car listed at $450 discounted to
$400.</div>
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Thread #5:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each year I go to the BFA show for graduates
of the Cornish College of the Arts and to the
certificate-completion show at Photographic Center Northwest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a little something for nearly
everybody at both of these shows but there is a common thread <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> the pieces, by hatchling artists
without a non-academic show or publication to their name, are prices from
several hundred to a couple of thousand dollars.</div>
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Thread #6:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A photographer in Portland (name on request) makes sensitive, exquisite
studio portraits, still lifes, and nudes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He sells them for modest sums, $225 for the platinums and a bit more for
the one-of-a-kind wet plate and polymer prints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A second Portland
photographer (name on request) does environmental portraits of his friends and
neighbors with an 8x10 view camera and contact prints them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know how he prices his prints <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> he doesn’t seem to be very
interesting in selling.</div>
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OK <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> here goes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are three issues tangled together here: one is the how art and craft
interact in photography, the second is the setting of prices, and the third is
how fame influences prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How art and craft interact:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t know where the “art” and the “craft” collide in photography <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> or painting, or sculpture, or
drawing, or music composition, or music performance, or dance or …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For everything but photography my guess is
that “art” is seeing or hearing the finished piece in your mind and “craft” is
the ability to make the reality look or sound like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the practice of photography as done
with a large format camera on a tripod emphasizing pre-visualization of the
print fits that definition as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe it doesn’t even have to be a large format camera <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> Mary Randlett did pretty well with
35mm.</div>
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For the kind of photography that
I do it seems to me that “art” occurs twice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first bit is the ability to see what is before me and get it on a
negative before it vanishes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, wait <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> if I don’t have the craft of
camera handling down to muscle memory then how clearly I see what is before me
probably doesn’t matter because it doesn’t hang around long enough for me to fumble
about with camera settings before I record it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
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Second is looking at the contact
sheet and deciding which frame should be printed <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span>
and visualizing what the finished print should look like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then craft takes over <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> in the darkroom or on the computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is there room for changing your concept in
mid-craft?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You bet <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> another collision with art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I often wonder how photographers
such as Imogen Cunningham could work with a printer without standing over the
printer’s shoulder and directing each step.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even Ansel Adams, with his “the negative is the score and the print is
the performance” seemed to deal successfully with a printer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps he was willing to accept Ted Orland’s
or Al Weber’s performance in the same way that a composer accepts the
performance of his or her music by another musician.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the photographer has worked with the
printer for so long that the printer has absorbed the photographer’s way of
seeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the photographer and the
printer should both sign the finished piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Actually, that sounds like a very good idea to me.</div>
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What I do know about the
collision of art and craft in photography is that craft does matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ability to look at a negative or a work
print or a raw file and decide how you want it to look is art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making it “look like that” is craft and
without the craft at your fingertips or your printer’s fingertips it is going
to take a long time to do so.</div>
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Saying that you don’t care about
craft is a cop out unless (and this is a very big “unless”) you have good
enough chops to make if look any way you damn well please and you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">choose</i></b>
to make it look it look like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salvador
Dali once noted “: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Learn to draw and
paint like an old master. … then you can do whatever you want.</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dali could choose to paint like Rev. Howard
Finster but certainly not vice-versa.</div>
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The aspiring photographer in
Thread 1 has neither the keenness of vision (unlike Robert Frank) to make the
content strong enough to carry the day nor the chops (unlike Minor White) to
make the prints beautiful enough to carry the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I’ve seen quite a few of his prints.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My guess is that Robert Frank does have the
chops <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> and that his choice
for the appearance of the prints in this show reflects both his very gritty
view of the world and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>using them to
reflect his dystopian approach to recording shape, line, light
and shadow.</div>
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John Barth said (slightly
paraphrased) “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My feeling about technique
in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking.
Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but success
comes with PASSIONATE VIRTUOSITY.</i>”</div>
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While I understand and certainly
admire both the work of Robert Frank and Minor White I would, in simplistic
terms, place White on the “heartless skill” side of the fence. I wish I could place Frank on the
“heartfelt ineptitude” side but I cannot because I believe he has the chops to make a splendid print but chooses not to do so .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I’m
being simplistic I’ll place both of the photographers in Thread 6 and the
friend mentioned in Thread 1 as “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PASSIONATE
VIRTUOSOS</i>”</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How fame influences prices:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>The
short answer is “a lot” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no kidding</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Photographs are an oddity in the art world (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no kidding again</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My art purchase budget does not include
popping $950 for the Margaret Bourke-White “Gold Miners” <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> no matter how much I admire that image
(a lot).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would I be equally happy with a
modern silver print of that negative at, say, $200?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You bet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I happen to have a beautifully printed book with an approximately 8x10
reproduction of that print in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I
ripped that page out of the book (an immoral act in my opinion) matted and
framed it and put it on the wall could I tell the difference between it and a
silver print?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, yes <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> with a careful look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would I admire it as much as I would the
silver print?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, very nearly <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> every time I walked by it.</div>
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That’s not the case with other
mediums <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> at least not that
clear a case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of that, of course,
is that a modern silver print of “Gold Miners” would be indistinguishable from
the original <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> at least to the
naked eye <span style="font-family: "Humanst521 BT";">—</span> at least to my
naked eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, the making of such
a copy would be relatively inexpensive, albeit requiring the skill of a master
printer to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would the copy carry
the same price tag as the original?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course not.</div>
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Paintings, well not so
much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would a skilled copy of “Girl with
a Pearl Earring” carry the same impact as Vermeer’s original?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, when art museums in the United States
were being established they often sent copy artists to European museums to copy
famous paintings that were unavailable to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many of these very expensive copies are still hanging in sundry
prestigious museums and the few I’ve seen look pretty good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would they hold up well when hung next to the
original?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d love to find out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would the auction price or insured value be
as much as the original?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Meat grinder count is up to six
and I’m still not satisfied with how it wound up but I’m going to post it
anyway.</div>
ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-62692088602300377622018-11-16T16:56:00.000-08:002018-11-16T16:56:09.482-08:00Remembering Joe Budne<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Joe died September 29 at the age of 94.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He and I became friends shortly after they moved to the Seattle area about 20 years ago. Before retiring he was a photographer and, especially, an art director for major advert. agencies in New York. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As a young man, Joe was an artilleryman with Patton's 5th army during their march across the low countries and across Germany. He came back with a serious hearing loss that it took years to convince the VA that it just might have been caused by standing around a howitzer for several months firing as many rounds in an hour as they were trained to do in a day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Joe, having started college just before going into the army, resumed his studies on the GI bill. He had thoughts of staying in France and going to the Sorbonne but really wanted to go home to New York. He originally decided to study engineering -- not one of his better ideas since Joe and mathematics were not (and are not) friends. With a BFA and, later, an MFA he soon found his niche in advertising. While he was a plenty good photographer, etcher, sketcher, ... his real talent was design. After we became friends, when I had some piece of photographs and text looking good I took it to Joe for a review. He would leave a trail of red marks all over it -- "this font is 1 point larger than it should be", "right-justify this picture and make it 1/4" smaller", "set this title in a sans serif typeface" .... None of the changes he proposed were major (well, rarely) but after I made them the difference was <i>very</i> obvious. I learned a great deal from him and repaid him by keeping his computer files more or less (often less) organized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijiUN0xNo1qogmxp6ReOWl2r3zVPcExu9s7_9n45WbR8kuBcSYoq1J_CyU676EsKToSVoU6HSKwqc0lZAcrtylpQWXXyo264JvCnHJBsFsQvqW1l5DZSg802JeBg-i7IbEaHwDrWAdtO6u/s1600/1696-07-20151026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="951" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijiUN0xNo1qogmxp6ReOWl2r3zVPcExu9s7_9n45WbR8kuBcSYoq1J_CyU676EsKToSVoU6HSKwqc0lZAcrtylpQWXXyo264JvCnHJBsFsQvqW1l5DZSg802JeBg-i7IbEaHwDrWAdtO6u/s200/1696-07-20151026.jpg" width="147" /></a>After Joe and his wife moved to a retirement community he got out his sketch pad and pencils again. We had lunch together nearly every week and up until a month or so before his death he came to lunch equipped with pencil box and sketch pad to do quick portraits of people in the cafe. As soon as he picked up the pencil the tremor from his Parkinson's disease stopped. Even as his memory failed as soon as we started talking about art he was 30 years younger. Earlier this year he worked with a young artist to do an etching based on one of his Life Magazine prize-winning photographs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He was a talented, unceasingly optimistic, witty, gregarious man with a quirky sense of humor and an excellent way with words. Making friends with him was very easy. I miss Joe and a lot of other people do, too. </span><br />
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<br />ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-53364342865943760312018-01-02T13:29:00.000-08:002018-01-02T13:33:04.856-08:00Harold Balasz -- Another Hero Gone<div class="font_9" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Today's Seattle Times had an obituary for Harold Balasz. I had the pleasure (and it certainly was a pleasure) of being on staff with him for one of the annual Centrum Foundation workshops for gifted high school students. Apart from being an exceptionally talented, skilled, hardworking artist he was a splendid human being -- warmhearted, open minded, funny ... I wrote about my portrait of him in my </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-content="http://notbadbutisitart.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-portriat-of-harold.html" data-type="external" href="http://notbadbutisitart.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-portriat-of-harold.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">blog </span></a></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b> </b>in July 2014 </span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(complete with misspelled "portrait" in the title that I just noticed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another "Harold" anecdote that I just remembered. At the end of the class days at the workshop we of the staff were likely more tired than the students -- they were a lot younger and overcharged with the experience of being in a group of kids each as motivated and eager as they were. One of the older students -- high school senior -- was badgering Harold to draw her portrait. He was tired and ready to throw in the towel for the day but she wouldn't give up. He finally said "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh, all right. Take off your clothes and I'll draw you</span>." She, flustered, gave up. At the faculty meeting that night somebody asked Harold what he would have done if she had taken off her clothes. Shrug of shoulders -- "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She's 18, I would have drawn her</span>."</span></div>
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ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-13686808832629597952017-12-02T16:53:00.000-08:002017-12-02T16:53:08.234-08:00Another "I want to be like him when I grow up."<div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Seattle Art Museum is
currently showing a wonderful retrospective exhibit of 110 paintings from the
long career of Andrew Wyeth. (He was actively painting until shortly before his
death at 91. He's my new hero -- I want to be like him when I grow up.) I saw
the show earlier this week and I'm going to go back and see it at least
once more before it closes -- likely several times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ever since I saw this show each time my mind goes into idle one of his paintings pops up like a mental screen saver. I love it when that happens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He is categorized as a
"realistic" painter and that he certainly was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, he hotly denied
that he was painting exactly what it looked like but how he felt about what was
before him-- putting his own stories, his own memories on the board rather than
a photorealistic likeness. That said, his skill as a painter makes looking at
them strictly as a likeness quite plausible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Painters have it easy (the
photographer says with tongue firmly in cheek) -- if there is something they
don't like in the background they just don't paint it in. We photographers are
stuck with what is actually there (Photoshop helps but ...). But I
digress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wyeth is primarily known for moody, introspective paintings of his beloved Chadd's Ford PA and the coast of Maine -- and for nudes, especially the "Helga" series. He also did portraits -- lots of portraits -- spectacular portraits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wyeth's portraits fascinate
me -- most are "environmental" in that the subject is presented in context that
adds to the story he was hoping to tell. Unlike Arnold Newman's
environmental portraits, however, the context is not nearly so explicit --
Newman's portrait of Stravinsky at his piano, for example, would not allow you to think of the
subject as anything but an accomplished musician. Wyeth's portraits are
certainly made more rich by knowing <i>his </i>story but are also rich in that I
can see a story of my own in them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am going to round up some
reproductions of Wyeth portraits so I can study the poses and the lighting in
depth. There is a lot for a photographer to learn
there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thinking about this (a lot)
the light bulb that finally came on is that I am trying to do the same thing
with my photographs. The great Henri Cartier-Bresson once
said:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Photographers deal in
things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no
contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You cannot develop and print
a memory."</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes, photography demands
that you be there, point the camera in the right direction, release the shutter
at the right time. But when you <b>are </b>there, you <b>do </b>point the camera
in the right direction, you <b>do </b>release the shutter at the right time —
then you create a window into the past in a way that no other visual medium can
match -- well, unless you can paint like Andrew Wyeth. Then you <i>can </i>develop and print a memory or at least glimpse it —
spy on it. Or maybe when a viewer looks at a photograph they see their own
story in it. I hope so.</span></div>
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ronfstophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04280771577074080339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354259612753726122.post-32978008478867716732017-07-31T13:13:00.001-07:002017-07-31T13:13:03.311-07:00Art Fairs and the Four Os<h2 style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: 4.0pt; mso-pagination: none;">
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 119%;">I went to the Bellevue Art Fairs, BAF, last Friday. Yes, “fairs” plural. In addition to the main (and biggest) of the three, sponsored by the Bellevue Arts Museum, there are two sort of salons des refuses for those who were not accepted in the main fair -- or that were put off by the entry fee, previous rejection, or just annoyed. As always there were a lot of walk-by booths but also a lot of booths with well executed work — much of which doesn’t appeal to me, but that’s my problem. There were a </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 119%;">lot </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 119%;">of photographers. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">Last year I also went to the Seattle Art Fair, SAF, held at the CenturyLink event center. This is an enormous, big name event with galleries from all over the world paying huge bucks for display space. (I’ll go to the 2017 SAF later this week.) There was a lot of photography shown there also. Apart from big names from the past — Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Sally Mann, Gordon Parks … — almost all the remaining, more contemporary photography was, to my eye, best described by the three Os:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">The Seattle Times reviewer, Michael Upchurch, commented “<i>If you’ve seen one gaudy anime-inspired painting, frankly, you’ve seen them all</i>.” Not only do I agree with him (there were a lot of those) I would add “<i>If you’ve seen one oversharpened, oversaturated, oversized, landscape or nature photograph, frankly, you’ve seen them all</i>.” (and there were a lot of those, too).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">Which circles me back to this year’s BAF. With only a few exceptions, the photography was oversharpened, oversaturated, oversized, landscape and wildlife work — with the addition of a fourth O, Overpriced. A few thousand bucks for a photograph (or triptych of photographs) is not only way outside the range of my art budget but, since it’s about the size of a ping-pong table it wouldn’t fit on any wall in my house. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">Duane Michals once quipped “I never trust any photograph that’s so big it can only fit into a museum” and “An eight-by-ten inch photograph by Robert Frank can be heroic. An eight-by-ten foot Gursky is just a billboard with pretensions.” </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">Just this morning the light bulb over my head came on. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">Last year’s big photography thing from upscale galleries at SAF became this year’s big photography thing for the way-less-prestigous BAF. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">I’ll bet that if I had paid more attention to the paintings in both events the same phenomenon would be visible there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">Vitali was there again this year — with painterly, mostly moderately-sized landscapes from eastern Washington (different images from last year) — and his work stood out from the crowd even more than last year. He is doing the work that moves and interests him rather than leaping on whatever square-wheeled bandwagon happens to be rumbling by. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-default-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-greek-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latin-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ligatures: none;">I wonder what will be the big noise at the SAF this year? Will it filter down to the provinces by this time next year? Maybe it will be small, black and white, silver prints mostly about people (but I won’t hold my breath.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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