"I thought I was taking pictures of things I hated. But there was something about those pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.” Robert Adams Today we had multiple visual contributors but the discussion centered on landscape photography esp an aesthetic that emerged several decades ago from a group of photographers called the "New Topographers"...an example of which is above showing our natural environmental landscape modified by the built or human additions. The term "new topographics" was coined by William Jenkins for an exhibit at the Tate Modern in 1975. That exhibit was reproduced at the Eastman House, NY MOMA, Austin and SF MOMA....below is the description from the SF MOMA exhibit. Described as "banal" by many critics and curators, it does introduce a new interpretation aesthetic of what we think about as landscape photography. Below are several examples of the aesthetic...and following those are two examples from Jim & Bill our f8 new topographers. Also note Jim's image gracing our home page of our blog site Finally, we turned away from landscapes to images by three f8'ers....Joe, Cyndi and John. "A collection of street photography images taken in Shanghai and Xiamen China was presented today by Joe Loudermilk. The photos were taken between 2014 and 2018. Many of the photos captured scenes of local people at small street front stores and street food shops. Unlike most of Joe’s previous work, these images were all in color. The images have been worked using blur, darkening backgrounds, and vignette to create a soft, dark context around a sharper, more colorful main focal subject." Next the magic of John Holmes with his iPhone Last but not least Cyndi Bemel...emulating John in one image (on Right) and mist on lettuce at a Korean Market (on Left) Lastly, Bill tried to show images from a NYT Magazine article on Richard Prum, an evolutionary ornithologist. The macro images of bird feathers in the article and below are by Kenji Aoki Too much good stuff...
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