They say that everyone complains about the weather but no-one does anything about it, well, I’m blogging about it. And shoveling. This winter in the New York region we have had more snow than I can remember. The piles of snow from shoveling and plowing and blowing are huge. Someone else who did something about …
The opening reception has been rescheduled for Thursday February 3 2011 from 5:00 to 9:00 pm. I plan to be there from 5:30 until 7:30 pm. Four of my tintypes are in the Working In Wonder show at the Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University from January 18 through February 11th 2011. The opening reception …
Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography is a fascinating and beautiful book about 5 artists who make photograms. Written by Martin Barnes the book features work by Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller, and Adam Fuss. The book is more than just beautiful reproductions of their pictures there is ample reading about each artist’s …
I was honored to be asked by Gary Schneider, Director of Education, of the Montclair Art Museum to jury the photography entries for the 2010 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Together with photographer and gallerist Andy Foster of Montclair’s Gallery 51 and photographer Claire Rosen, we reviewed the photography entries and selected gold, silver and …
As part of my collaboration with Leonard Seastone we made salted paper prints 22″ x 30″. We were fortunate to find a facility which had a large darkroom with a giant sink, several 30″ x 40″ trays, and an ultraviolet exposing system. It took us two days to make 24 prints. One day was just …
CRICKETS is a new project I am working on in collaboration with Leonard Seastone of Tideline Press. Leonard is a poet and artist and a genius maker of books. He wrote poems about crickets and I have created the illustrations for a handmade limited edition book. We spent two days last week making salted paper …
At the Metropolitan Museum the exhibit of early 20th Century photography by Stieglitz Steichen and Strand will remind us how we got to where we are today in art photography. These three guys, more than any other photographers, have influenced how we photograph and what we photograph. Always experimenting with their style, their equipment and …