“I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.” – Alec Soth More about Alec Soth later in this blog. Before that we had a photographer visitor from the other side of our city, Judi Hochman. Howard met Judi while they both were volunteering for a National Geographic conference. Judi's background was in the business world where she worked as a professional recruiter. In the past few years she has devoted her efforts to the creative side...photography. She has traveled widely and attended a number of workshops. She brought with her two portfolios of pictures largely of street portraits. An example of her work is below as well as Jim's shot of f8 Pasadena at work. So, what about Alec Soth.... We explored several New York Times photo centric articles in last weeks NYT Magazine; the first of which was an article by Alec Soth entitled "Unselfies." As Alec noted "What do you look like...you are the world's leading authority on the subject...you are also the least qualified person in the world to know what you look like...you have no idea." In the NYT series of pictures Alec distorts his own selfies to display his notion of his self image. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/magazine/the-unselfie.html?_r=0 We next discussed an article exploring the proposition...is shooting wild animals completely different from trophy hunting. Looking at the changing environment in the wild as influenced by safaris of ll kinds. Read the article.... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/magazine/shooting-a-lion.html We next discussed the work and passing of a photo icon Hilla Becher. She and her husband, Bernd, produced over decades a body of minimalist and conceptual work rooted in the post war industrial state. Check out this NYT obit and search the internet for more examples of their work. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/arts/hilla-becher-photographer-who-chronicled-industrial-scenery-dies-at-81.html Next in this busy f8 Saturday was Howard's visit to the new Broad Museum and his use of his iPhone. Below is the resulting abstract image...nice work, Howard...and with an iPhone...imagine that! Paul recounted his experiences at Adobe Max convention...and showed an example of image transfer that apparently was quite popular during the meeting. Unfortunately, I can't explain it completely or at all...hopefully Paul will discuss it more completely next week
Finally Chris brought a guest: Dr Steve Lopuck...
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