"How I wished I’d have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot-- an epic in itself." Jack Kerouac On the road with Robert Frank, 1958 At th outset of the meeting today we talked briefly about the passing of a photography legend, Robert Frank whose iconic work The Americans still stands today as a visual monument that we all can visit, revisit and emulate. Reminder...Jack Kerouac wrote the introduction to the book. We also noted the passing of Neil Montanus who was responsible at Kodak for creating the Colorama images that were in Grand Central Station in New York for decades. Then we moved to the visual meat of our session today...the Collage Project. But before seeing our efforts,Jim gave a presentation on definitions associated with collage. These included collage itself and montage, photomontage, assemblage, As usual, I can't insert the full set of images but besides definitions he showed collage examples from famous and less than famous photographers and artists. There are thousand of examples on the internet and in every museum. We also noted "de-collage" ...a movement of destroying or taking pieces of art and reassembling into transformative new art. Below is a definition... “a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.” Collage (/kəˈlɑːʒ/, from the French: coller, "to glue";[1]) is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. The term collage was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of modern art.[2] Also remember as a photographer you can create and photograph a collage or you can directly shoot an existing work as a collage With all that being said...let's look at some of the collages from our f8 members First is a collage created by Charley Kohlhase Next ...two collages created by Kevin Hass based on his ongoing train series John Holmes contributed a number of collages all created directly in his iPhone...will show just two Jim Staub sent along one collage Kathy Wishner created a collage from her family photo collection and other things representing her mother in an earlier time...included in that was wedding dress used by her mother and Kathy when we redid our vows on our 25th Anniversary in Paris. Obviously after creating it, she photographed it as well. Bill Wishner showed 2 prints of collages he found as he was shooting his Art of the City Wall Series, one from Barcelona the other from San Francisco Just outside the room where we meet at the Senior Center is a photo-collage that I think is one of Rene Sheret's work...I thought I would include even though Rene was not present today We then saw an assemblage (not an actual collage) from Charles's wife Zofia that will be exhibited next week at a Pop-Up Art Show downtown LA...he has sent invites to all To finish our meeting this week, Howard showed several images from his recent night trip to the desert to see the stars...below is one image
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Joe Loudermilk
9/15/2019 06:43:40 pm
Wow great stuff by everyone! Wish I could have been there to see them in person.
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