“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” Susan Meiselas Today we had the pleasure of having Elizabeth Kingston Young as a guest speaker. Her work "Stills" is being featured at the Girdner Gallery. Elizabeth traced her involvement in photography to her formative years on Cape Cod. After college and a 10 year stint in her family business, she made the decision to pursue photography as a full time career. She also made the decision to settle in the Pasadena area. Her photography evolution has been from street photography to landscapes (Cape Cod in the east and Joshua Tree locally) finally transitioning to portraiture. More recently she has been hired to be a still photographer on several movie projects. That is the genesis of the current exhibit at Girdner. The pictures on display were shot behind th scenes of the production at the Salton Sea. Elizabeth describes her aesthetic evolving with each photography genre she shoots. Unfortunately, I do not have shots from the exhibit at the time of writing this blog post as we are leaving on holiday at 3am...several hours from now. But I do have some examples of her work hijacked from her website... www.kingstonyoung.com For those not there today, take a moment and visit the Gallery. . The exhibit ends August 27th. We finished, or started, our discussion commenting on the picture of the "Aleppo Boy" published in the NYT yesterday. Below is the cropped picture and a link to a video you should look at after you evaluate this picture below Click on the link below for the video
How Omran Daqneesh became a symbol of Aleppo’s suffering and yet another icon of the damage it does to those least protected http://nyti.ms/2bAFeT0 To me the picture reminds me of the Vietnam Napalm Girl. Both represent the visual anti-war statement so many of our conflict photographers bring to the world...thank god they do. Howard sent another op-ed piece that headlined..."can a picture stop a war"...not likely
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