Last week I dropped in on Cheim & Read Gallery to see the show by Adam Fuss. Of course Fuss’s work interests me because I have been making photograms for the last 30 years or so. He always seems to be exploring new subject matter using interesting techniques and it always good stuff. Arriving at …
Month: September 2015
Front and Center – Markus Brunetti’s Facades
I enjoyed seeing Markus Brunetti’s show of large scale prints of photographs of the facades of European churches at Yossi Milo Gallery. Very formal and static, they nevertheless drew me in to stare and enjoy the detail as well as the magnificence of the structures. The show is on view through October 17, 2015 at …
3D printing – Reality and Fantasy
We call it spider diarrhea – when the 3D printer fails and makes a mess of extruded filament that looks like a rat’s nest of plastic. It happens to the best of us, but with knowledge and experience it can be a less frequent event. There are SO many ways for a 3D print to …
My orphans
Sometimes a friend will offer me an old camera, often it is something interesting that belonged to a grandparent, almost always it is a film camera that hasn’t been used in a long time. Occasionally it is an early digital camera. In most cases they don’t work and have become just a paperweight or decorative …