Friday photographers : 5.29 ’26

uncorrelated link of photographers . they made my curiosity think

The book is not a niche, the book is the main street of Photography.

THEN LINKS === ‘The exhibition will foreground Monroe’s collaborative approach to image-making and her creative agency. De Dienes’ portraits offer some of the earliest photographs of Monroe — Muus Collection

=== ‘Throughout his career Hujar recorded more than a thousand photo shoots in his job books. These documents, transcribed and annotated by Olivia McCall, illuminate the contact sheets, rich in never-before-seen images as well as the earliest iterations of Hujar’s best-known works.’ Hujar:Contact — Mack https://www.mackbooks.us/products/hujar-contact-joel-smith

=== ‘Through extensive research and collaboration with women chasers worldwide, Chaplin Espenon advances a critical visual position in which storm chasing becomes an allegorical terrain through which broader structures of power, visibility, and autonomy come into view.’ risk as a gendered condition through storm chasing, : https://loosejoints.biz/products/blinded-by-your-grace

=== Thirty Cuts, Jim Goldberg. ‘His use of collage has been a mainstay of his practice apparent since the publication of his second book Raised by Wolves, published in 1995 by Scalo. This edition of only 750 copies from the Japanese publisher’ — https://www.dashwoodbooks.com/pages/books/30822/jim-goldberg/thirty-cuts

== OTHER THAN ==’Scholars @ Silver Eye is a year-long, intensive, work-based training program for college seniors from Pittsburgh-area universities with interests in photography, graphic design, arts education, art history, arts administration, and museum studies.’ https://silvereye.org/events/scholars-silver-eye


AIPAD 26 has concluded; press releases are at this link. YT will have public lectures… YouTube.com/AIPADPHOTO

I used AIPAD in the early 80’s as a sales place, a customer finder, a watering hole.. it is a trade organization, a gathering spot for showing wares. A showcase of the stable. As it is these things it attracts young or mid- career photographers. I found people in need of printing I also talked with some gallerists .. these people formed a small part of my contact and mailing list. I knew that if they knew about me but didn’t contact me or only wanted a price list, they weren’t a likely customer. I didn’t know that at first, but I learned. I also learned that going to trade shows and being on the floor isn’t as effective as being outside the trade-show talking with people gathering and discussing non-floor portfolios…

Beginnings1965: MFA fine arts photography within schools of art, and within universities with an art school
had to proceed a trade-show given to selling photography for the wall.
First comes understanding, next comes standing. The studio experience is key to the growth of photography as a wall art. It took approximately 15 years of art schools teaching photography as a studio art before there were enough galleries selling photography for there to be an association such as AIPAD.

The mature market for photographs as collectible items, as museum items, required the university and the educated collector .. The person prepared to treat a photograph as a fine art on paper suitable for putting on their wall.. work that they would live with; not the sterile work found in offices, but the vibrant work found in the home of the dedicated, mature collector.. beyond the sunset and moon-rise… more, some morning soon.

photographs are always colorized, it’s just that some tell better color lies

finding lavender advice

AeIoU.. continuing the walk into growing the lavender patch…

Coaxing the answer out of the machine has become more difficult now that the machine seems to think in found words. Rather than providing links, it summarizes and provides an outline.. The answers that it provides assume that you are trying to buy something, or that you have bought something — that’s been the problem Google has had ever since “adult leadership” took over making it a sales rep at an ad agency. The corner news stand. Glossy on top.

Equally revealing is the absence of government or state agriculture sites, or growing association references in the results. Instead, what is present or links to sales sites. Places with prices.

Oh, Cursed Incentivized Civilian Net…

Off to an ag-center in France…

I wasn’t looking for a growing plant, nor was I looking to buy seeds. I was trying to find out the stages of the seed …growth of the plant for transplanting at stages. Dirt, and care needed at each stage, by size of plant.. not found in open ended searches. Not even after several phrasings…

what goog knows but doesn’t understand.

onto my current process of growing lavender from seed:

  • set seeds into damp paper towel lining a sandwich container. this is placed in refrigerator for 5 weeks. keep moist.
  • when the seeds sprout, they can be put into growing pots. I use palette knife. the soil is a 50-50 mix of cactus soil and seed starter soil
  • can put into well drained ground when plant as small as 3-4 inches.
  • should have 12inch deep prepare soil…mix sand into loamy ground
  • light sand-gravel as ‘compost’ to reflect into plant

p2: from seed to first flower == 4 months, spring 2026.