“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” Matt Hardy Today was truly an open session with contributions from most of the folks who attended... So lets start with Chris...our analog photographer and printer who show some great digital prints on a new paper he is experimenting with...the image is entitled "New Century" see below Cyndi brought some images from the South Pasadena Car Show and also told us about the Nethercutt Collection of cars in Sylmar...below is link to site and one or two of her images from South Pas. https://www.nethercuttcollection.org The Nethercutt Collection is a multi-storied museum located in Sylmar, California, USA. Its centerpiece is its automobile collection, which has led Autoweek to call the Nethercutt Collection one of America's five greatest automobile museums. John brought in two books that contained "autochrome" images...below is the link to the Wikipedia discussion of what autochrome is...good luck in deciphering the actual process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumière The next images and narratives are about the photographers and books...the first about Heinrich Kuhn the second Jacques Lartique “German scientist and photographer Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944) was one of the central figures in the establishment of international art photography at the turn of the twentieth century. Having studied botany and medicine, Kühn made his first photograph in the late 1870s, dedicating himself solely to the medium within a decade. He achieved this dedication through the support of American photographers Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and others” “Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), celebrated photographer, and one of the greatest practitioners the medium has ever known, discovered the Riviera with his first camera in the company of his wealthy family when he was just eleven years old. For the rest of his life Lartigue was a regular visitor to the Cote d'Azur, taking many of his finest pictures in Nice, Cannes, Cap d'Ail, Antibes, Menton, and Monaco.” Jim brought in the current issue of Westways Magazine published by AAA...and their annual travel photography awards...we all agreed that the images were less than stellar but fit in nicely with consumer photography genre. Steve brought in several images taken at a local railyard Rene brought in a series he did 10-15 years ago on film entitled "The Various Lives of a Campbell Soup Can"...the series was 15 or so images but only two are below Bill brought in several articles including the magazine section from the New York Times that continues to support photojournalism...kudos to them. He also noted the imagery of Harry Chalfant a New York photographer who documented graffiti on the subway cars...now all but gone from these classic cars Bill also noted the exhibit at the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York of Hiroshi Sugimoto that must be the height of appropriation...Sugimoto photographed art in museums and now has an exhibit...below is an example from Marcel Duchamp's readymades...urinal Lastly in today's session, Bill noted the newest work and publication of Jessica Lange...actress and long standing photographer. Her newest work "Highway 61" just published....remember she lived with and was mentored by Robert Frank. Below the link is an image from the book.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/arts/design/jessica-lange-photography.html?searchResultPosition=1
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