The quote above attributed to Thoreau is a nice segue to todays main event... a visit to the Norton Simon to look at and hear about a new photography exhibit: “Human/Nature: Photographers Constructing the Natural World” 3-6-15 to 8-31-15 The discussion was lead by the curator of the show Caitlin Silberman. Our thanks to Howard for making the contact and arrangements. To summerize... Long-revered conventions have held that landscape and nature photography should minimize evidence of human presence. In this framework, the best images offer up the pristine vistas that photographers characterize as “the privileged world of pure nature.” The ten artists whose work is displayed play with and against this tradition. These artists treat signs of humanity, and our activities, as essential, constitutive elements of their image-making practice rather than as undesirable or unfortunate inclusions. It was a engaging tour and discussion with great turnout by f8 Pasadena For those not able to join us today...stop by and take in the exhibit. Bill reviewed the current issue of Aperture #218 This issue was devoted to the photography surrounding the gay, lesbian and transgender community through a series of essays...a few titles are listed below: PICTURES DEAL WITH GAY SEMIOTICS Essay / Hal Fischer RISE OF GAY PICTURE “ZINES” Essay / Shannon Cane RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SAM WAGSTAFF & MAPPLETHORPE Essay / “Lovers’ Discourse” / Phil Gefter We next discussed our visit last week to Freestyle and the "factoids" we took away from our session with Eric Joseph Jim Staub has best summarized our experience: (paraphrased here) "Eric Joseph's talk...impressed on me with the idea of the print as a tangible document...a tactile quality found in the paper expands the range of our senses and emotional responses...beyond vision. Eric reminded us about the inkjet print being a different animal from the silver-gelatin darkroom...we don't have to emulate what we know from our chemical past" Some of us tried some new papers as a result of our Freestyle visit... here're some images BUT no way to show the effect of "new" paper on this blog. Steve Lewis showed several pictures he shot in Ghana ...one of which is below And even more pictures today... From f8 Pasadena's recent field trip to Red Rock Canyon Below are several pictures from two of our f8'ers Last but never least Rene showed several of his "stitched" images.
These images will be posted on our blog site "front page" in the next few months...stay tuned One last thing that was briefly and inadequately discussed. Kathy, Bill and Jim attended a lecture at Cal Tech...part of a series looking at the intersection of art and science This lecture was entitled: Remote Sensing and brought three speakers and disciplines to the table discussing intersection of art, robotics and mapping. It was a long esoteric evening ...and thought provoking as well. Long blog post today...too much information and pictures to share in a single post
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