“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph.” Bruce Gilden The picture above will be part of an exhibit of Bill’s photography project “Art of the City Wall: Mixed Message” at Curatorial Assistance Gallery in Pasadena. The opening reception will be on January 28th 2016…SAVE THE DATE ON YOUR 2016 CALENDAR...details and invitation to follow. Thanks to f8 member Debra Lamattre for hosting f8 Pasadena at her new studio in South Pasadena. Debra’s newly rebranded production company Good Citizen Media Group incorporates both photography and video into their business model. Her company focuses on “non-profits but takes on “for profit’ assignments for businesses and individuals focusing on branding, strategy and production. Previously her company was Stretch Media Group. You can find their information on this website while they continue to “rebrand” their company. A SPECIAL CALL OUT TO SEVERAL OF OUR F8 PASADENA MEMBERS... Steve Lewis 2016 Recipient of the Whitney M.Young Jr. Award As the son of an architect who practiced during the Civil Rights era, R. Steven Lewis saw early in life the unique challenges that faced black architects attempting to work in what he described as a "white gentlemen's profession." His own career has been dedicated to helping people of color enter and navigate that profession as it evolves to be more inclusive than even a generation ago, and to documenting the stories of those who have fought to make it so. Lewis has been a tireless advocate for social justice and diversity within architecture, where less than two percent of the nation's licensed architects are black and less than three-tenths of one percent are black women. The practice of architecture "casts its seductive spell widely and indiscriminately," Lewis has written, "yet there remains in play a certain structural inequality that disadvantages people of color, who simply aspire to practice this thing that we all love, equally. Now an associate vice-president of TRC Energy Services, he co-founded and headed Los Angeles based RAW International in 1984, he has served as president of the National Organization of Minority Architects (and edited its magazine, where he published profiles of the work of pioneering architects of color), and he played a key role in forging a partnership between NOMA and AIA. In 2006, while a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Lewis explored the structural inequality that serves to keep the number of practicing architects of color so low. At the end of his fellowship, he convened a symposium on the issue, entitled "Forced Perspective: Widening the Lens Through Which Architecture Views Itself." The symposium bridged Lewis’ career of advocacy with an urgent question for architecture’s future: what existing attitudes and practices need to change in order to create equity within the profession. His decades of work on behalf of minority architects, both present and past, has been a tribute to the people he saw while trailing his father as a child. His work on their behalf has been fruitful, wrote Marshall E. Purnell FAIA, a founding partner of the firm Devrouax+Purnell Architects-Planners and Professor of the Practice at the College of Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. "Steve enlightened a generation of architects on the importance of knowing the history of those who came before them. He built bridges that they crossed," Purnell wrote in support of Lewis's nomination for the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award. "He has mentored minority architects through his brilliant leadership by example. Paul DuPont has been appointed to a new role with Canon USA where he will be a consultant in Canon printing and color management. While not getting an “award,” he will be the recipient of many of the newest Canon printers. Paul will try to arrange a visit to the Canon facility in Orange County sometime in the new year. Rene Sheret will have a number of his pictures displayed with DTLA Art Walk this coming Thursday. Rene will send out a note listing the exact details and location. Today we chatted about several things related to photography… The reports of the first non-lens camera from an academic center back east. This continues to fulfills Bill’s predictions from 2010 re future cameras: - the disappearance of the lens - the physical morphing of cameras to other physical forms - removal/replaceable nodular components to consumer cameras - 100% capture field the photographer can work from in post production The winners of the 2015 exhibition of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. This was juried by a single juror, Robert Hirsch. The discussion after looking at the winning pictures was not only why but how juror bias plays a role in photography competitions esp commercial contests. The importance of having a critical eye and not an emotional eye when judging in contests; and the importance of specific criteria in the judging process. Reminder.... PasadenaPhotographyArts Forum #7 Thursday / December 10th / 7pm Dhyandra Lawson / “Magic and Collecting Photography” Location: Jackie Robinson Community Center 1020 North Fair Oaks Avenue Pasadena CA 91103 Dhyandra Lawson, a member of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LACMA), will give an overview of her installation, The Magic Medium, currently on view at LACMA through February 7. This display, which uses magic as its entry point, investigates the strategies photographers use to manipulate the apparent veracity of the photographic medium. With key examples from the installation, Dhyandra will discuss her curatorial process and the ways in which museum collections are assembled more broadly. Finally....Bill showed one print from his recent trip to Pfeiffer Beach at Big Sur...and so the meeting ended as did our 2015 year for f8 Pasadena. Stay tuned for our adventures in the art and aesthetics of photography next year. / Bill
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