living in extreme climates: skin cancer or frostbite
why glop on photopaper. why not paint
cause i'm a photographer
ready access
difficult to make
materials beyond.
why fight Serra
marks // remind myself of the two galleries 49Geary.
scanson syllable
vale visible
NYC school
drip layers on surface
Barnett newmann was the spokesman. intelligent, articulate.
Rheinhart-- about rejections.
Hans Hoffman:
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don't watch it on Youtube. You must get a DVD, but VHS is best.
return to the Beta past
Watching old YT how to of darkroom. Notice she (Nathalie Lopparelli) uses ferricyanide to lighten tones in the print. see: 10:25 for brush/water work
British names: Michael Walden. Robin Bell. Bill Rawlinson. Larry Bartlett. Gene Nocon.
Clement Greenberg reviewed Steichen’s “A Life in Photography.” [1964] and wasn’t impressed… only one photography was worthwhile: the 1921 Dancer’s Hands.
“one wonders at what must have been the lack of a capacity for self-criticism that let Steichen abandon the straightforwardness of these (early) works..”
Clement Greenberg reviewed Steichen’s “A Life in Photography.” [1964] and wasn’t impressed… only one photography was worthwhile: the 1921 Dancer’s Hands. Saying: “..nicely composed … would be artistically inert were it not for what the woman’s arms evoke of attractive femaleness…”
“Photography’s advantage over painting… the enormously greater ease and speed with which it achieves realism. This speed and ease have radically expanded the literary possibilities of pictorial art.”
The windblown “Wind Fire” image is of a student. It strikes me as being one flavor of the terpsichorean image of John Wimberley (a key person in the revival of pyro negatives)
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