“When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!” – Ted Grant Today was a shorter session with fewer f8'ers but the discussion was animated as usual. Jim showed prints from his archives dating back to 1973. "In 1973, when I shot this series of photos one night at a roller rink, I was already taken with the idea that I was following a succession of documentary photographers. Bruce Davidson's work informed me on subject...the human condition, while W. Eugene Smith showed a tonal scale in printing that placed an emphasis on minimal light falling on the subject to draw us into that drama of life." Below are several images we looked at and discussed These images prompted the continuing notion of aesthetics...one aspect is the aesthetic of B&W vs Color...see quote at the beginning of this blog post today. More later on the subject. We reviewed a few B&W images from Dawoud Bey Dawoud Bey is an American photographer and educator renowned for his large-scale art photography and street photography portraits including American adolescents in relation to their community, and other often marginalized subjects. He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 2017. We looked at Photobook Journal...edited by Doug Stockdale Douglas Stockdale (www.douglasstockdale.com) is a anartist/photographer, book author and educator. He is the influential Editor and Publisher of PhotoBookJournal, (www.photobookjournal.com) the contemporary photobook magazine, which has continually ranked the #1 for photobook reviews. Stockdale is a submission reviewer for LensCulture. He frequently curates and serves on juries for international photographic exhibitions and photobook competitions. He provides mentoring on the development of photographic projects including the concept, editing, sequencing, layout, and design which is equally applicable towards an effective project, portfolio, submission or a published book. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museo d’Art Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale University), Reminders Photography Stronghold (Tokyo) and other photobook archives. He has self-published five books and two artist books, Pine Lake and Bluewater Shore, were Best Photographic Books of 2014 and 2017 respectively. His first monograph, Ciociaria, was published by Edizioni Punctum (Rome) in 2011. He is represented by Fabrik Projects (gallery), Los Angeles.
He even reviewed by first publication from the Art of the City Wall…”Artifacts” …see review below https://photobookjournal.com/2019/05/10/bill-wishner-artifacts/ Finally, Paul brought more samples of his UV prints on various substrates. We will visit his studio sometime in the future
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