“Fear is like a disease. When it moves, it moves like wildfire. But what happens when, even in the face of that fear, you do what you've got to do? That's called courage. And just like fear, courage is contagious." Damon Davis / Courage is Contagious Before we began discussion in todays meeting we reviewed the picture that Joe sent us from his sojourn in Asia. In his physical absence we were free to comment on the picture from a critical standpoint...but we'll wait for his return and revisit the picture at that point. We miss you Joe, come home safely. We then started the official meeting we our weekly Trumpian Diatribe and review. The less said about that...the better. PDN had some interesting articles we reviewed. From the New Republic, the photo essay in Charlottesville by Mark Peterson "Faces of Hate" The interview with Mark is worth reading as it explores his angst with getting the pictures. A link is below and several pictures from the article / (c) New Republic & Mark Peterson pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/08/mark-peterson-photographing-hate-charlottesville-close.html We then looked at an article from the same PDN issue that looked at a system that breaks down the composition of a picture...Dynamic Symmetry Composition / Tavis Leaf Glover. Most of us suggested this kind of analysis was mostly useless. There were two 15 minute videos looking at how the system could be applied to Cartier-Bresson classic photographs. See example below. We then reviewed some pictures from the Lens Culture website...pictures from recent graduates from the Yale Photography MFA program. Each prompted discussion as to composition and intent. Also we discussed the differences between schools of photography eg Art Center vs Yale vs Seattle School with influence of Jeff Wall. Here is link to all the pictures in LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/casemore-kirkeby-doublespeak-work-from-this-year-s-yale-photography-mfa-graduates Several examples are below Paul brought in several dye-transfer prints on glass. You can send Paul images and he will do samples of these prints ...gratis. I guess 8x 10 images are ok. Sorry, no visual example to post.
Bill participated in the second Vroman's "PechaKucha" (chitchat) event with 9 other artists. The presentations are limited to 20 pictures (slides) for 20 seconds each...a total of just more than 6 minutes. He presented "Stakes & Arrows: ...following a path to success in life. (Note: the series was shot in the Galapagos several years ago. The event was a huge success. I encourage you to attend next years' event. Below is one picture that does absolutely nothing to explain what I showed and said.
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Joe Loudermilk
8/28/2017 10:05:25 pm
Looks like I better be careful sending you guys "snapshots" during my travels. See you all on the 9th.
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