Today, Chris discussed his recent workshop experience with Alan Ross and his “unsharp masking” technique that he pioneered. Check out Ross’ website link below. https://www.alanrossphotography.com Chris also discussed the legacy of Ansel Adam's production assistants through the years and viewed an inspirational video by John Sexton in regard to the value of making photographic prints. Print Your Legacy | John Sexton The discussion moved on to “Visualization” and Chris’s recent successes and failures. Visualization is a central topic in Ansel Adams' writings about photography, where he defines it as "the ability to anticipate a finished image before making the exposure".[2] The term previsualization has been attributed to Minor White who divided visualization into previsualization, referring to visualization while studying the subject; and postvisualization, referring to remembering the visualized image at printing time. However, White himself said that he learned the idea, which he called a "psychological concept" from Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. Below are two links to discussions of visualization ..one by Alan Ross Rick Keller / Process of Visualization Alan Ross / Process of Visualization Chris also showed and was professing the use of a simple black cardboard frame to help facilitate our photographic seeing…visualization when we’re out shooting Lastly, Chris showed some recent work he printed using his new found techniques of Ross' workshop on masking
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Today' discussion was largely taken up with f8 logistics but we did touch a couple areas of photography interest We noted the continuing change in the camera moving it into a future where the shape of cameras morphs into all shapes and sizes, the innards become modular and the lens is replaced by a sensor only...not there yet but I suspect by 2022 the lens will begin to disappear We discussed the journal Aperture and its conversion of all 230 issues to digital. Bill talked about his review of Aperture #1 (January 1952) and articles by Minor White and Nancy Newhall. Minor White had a long essay on the Exploratory Camera...the use of the miniature camera..35 mm He explored every aspect of a photographers task...the development phase; printing phase, the display phase and finally the seeing phase. Nancy Newhall (and White) discussed the associated narrative including...title, caption and narrative...the mutual relationship between words /photographs. The comments of both White and Newhall are cogent even in today's world of photography...ignoring the analog comments of production. Aperture is now at #230...it has evolved from a narrative mag to visual and now has come back to the narrative side. You get the digital version (extra $$) when you subscribe to hard copy.
"Photography, if practiced with high seriousness, is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere..." John Szarkowski Today we had a great open, eclectic meeting with lots of photography from John, Cyndi, Jim, Kevin and Rod Williams... First up is John showing some work he created on his iPhone using an app called "Union" which allows you to combine pictures from your photo archive. As always, John provided some artistic combos...severl of which are below...both untitled Jim showed some work he shot post Rose Parade entitled "Provisional Property: Lines to Post"....visually noting the lines of demarcation for those staking out their space on the streets for the parade....seemingly following in the style of Walker Evans....some images are below untitled Cyndi showed some shots that were taken at the aftermath of the South Pasadena Color Wars event. She pointed her camera downward and shot the cement with the splatters of the colored powders Rod Williams showed two prints...real pictures...variations of his shots of a Willet (bird)...again, the pictures are untitled... Kevin brought a You Tube video of an interview with photographer Huntington Witherill...worth the 15 minute watch
check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ptA1v5LNU then check out his website https://huntingtonwitherill.com |
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