I suppose I could thank Dave Mason. Yes, THAT Dave Mason, the guitarist, member of that great band Traffic, a rock n roll legend. Back in 2003 I took some photographs of him (it’s a long story and I’ll get to it later) and I couldn’t find them. I knew I had taken the photographs, …
Returning to the basics, the Elementary series are wet-plate tintype photograms made using a cube, sphere, cylinder, pyramid, and a few other shapes designed in a CAD program and created with a 3D printer, I also returned to the most elementary image making technique: photograms and one of the earliest photographic technologies: collodion wet-plate to …
It all makes sense seen from above. I recently flew from Denver to Newark in seat 34A in a Boeing 737, and that being a window seat behind the wing I was busy with my camera. I love looking down at the earth and imagining geologic time and how earth’s features were created. Equally fascinating …
The first annual Edison Concours d’Elegance was held October 18, 2015 in my neighborhood Llewellyn Park New Jersey. The cars drove down the road past my house at first light on the way to the car show at Glenmont, the home of Thomas Alva Edison. These were among the finest collector cars ever assembled in …
From the first annual Edison Concours d’Elegance at Llewellyn Park October 18, 2015 There are 37 of them for your viewing pleasure… Auburn, Bentley, Bugatti, Cadilllac, Duesenberg, Ford, Franklin, Hispano-Suiza, Horch, Huffmobile, Isotta-Frachini, Mercedes, Packard, Pierce Arrow, Rolls-Royce, Steyer, Stutz, and some yet to be identified.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Actually, I don’t miss film at all. I love digital photography and carry a real digital camera (not just a phone camera) on my belt all day, every day. When I do want to shoot analog I go back to the 1860’s and do wet-plate collodion pictures. I am perfectly happy to skip the 20th …