Some would say I like to make things unnecessarily complicated, and that might be true. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to just press a button and be done with a picture, but I simply don’t know when to leave well enough alone. Take for example my new series Pythagoras… Named for one …
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 …
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 …
I feel like I might be the last person who is reading words on paper. I like the newspaper, I love books (I even love e-books) I love holding a real old fashioned paper book of words and pictures. But the pace of change in the publishing world is dizzying. My recent 3D printed book …
In 1864 the world was fascinated with the new technology of photography. Images were being captured in new and exciting ways, reality was being fixed using light and chemistry. Artists and enthusiasts and alchemists were experimenting with all sorts of ways to create photographic images. John Towler M.D. wrote “The Silver Sunbeam” a ground breaking …
I’ll be back at AIPAD April 16-19 at the Park Avenue Armory at 643 Park Avenue between 65th & 66th Streets. The annual art fair of the Association of International Photography Dealers is a highlight of my year. A whirlwind opportunity to see great photography old and new, see old friends, meet new friends, and …
See some amazing handmade artists’ books – including my 3D printed books “MANUAL” and “Wm. S.” The Complete Works of William Shakespeare at Abecedarian Gallery at 910 Santa Fe Drive in Denver’s Santa Fe Arts District curated by Alicia Bailey. The show opens This Friday November 7.
A classic of ancient Chinese literature Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” takes a new form in my 3D printed edition. This 3D printed book is 5″ x 3.875″ x 1.125″ printed in translucent PLA resin and contains the text of “The Art of War” on a USB flash drive and plastic toy soldiers. There …