Tag: art

quickstep across

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— Although The video is not mine... it is worth my time, perhaps yours also. What does it consider?

YouTube (YT) is a key supplier of opinions. It is the Hot Media. It is widely dispersed, with sense, nonsense. Its basis is advertising, so like water in a desert it may nourish, it may also poison. YT channels stratify the field. Entry layers gaining greater advertising hits. This is like the threaded online boards, except they are in decline, with YT continuous increasing attention. Even in the time after TikTok and pulse viewing.

I wouldn’t link to a poison. I don’t know this person, not even his work, other than what is shown in the video. His imagery isn’t my reason for directing you to his video.

one video about roadtrip… my response after the video. My response is here, rather than on YT, so I can better remember my shorthand. YT responses are better for a short statement sent into the bucket. Please watch the YT version.

The nature of film is the image is not seen immediately. Polaroid was in every commercial studio as part of the solution to this boundary. Polaroid along with messenger service and a quick turn lab within a few blocks was the method of New York photography. Why we dominated. We had the community, the infrastructure nourished its own. Manhattan was home to Madison Avenue, the source of work and seemingly unlimited funds to maintain this intense group of photographers.

selected transcript from the video.
  • Travel with chemicals -[else] keep them concentrated. Process one-shot.
  • Pickup distilled water at gas/rest stops. Also, ice for temperature control of process.
  • learned to stay, shoot enough to “distil” the composition.

This equipment he takes surprises me: a scanner. His reasoning is to verify that his camera and process are producing useful results. This is a hybrid thinking solution. I carry duplicate cameras. For bellows based cameras, carry electrical tape, or “bellows” patch (scuba glue).

I suspect he is now a digital first photographer, since it seems he was using film as input to scanner. He liked the camera, had fun with film. So it goes.

Travel opens the world. The road trip is a standard of photographers. Even studio photographers make road trips (Avedon) , just rarely is that considered their prime work.

–> other bit about travel to tripod spots.

Grokking Atget

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What does the print look like? Getting “that” look. Printing out albumin or gelatin paper was the look. Atget’s prints were also marked by lens falloff; usually the upper corners are dark because the lens didn’t cover for the camera movement used. This “technic” wasn’t important to satisfy the goals Atget set himself– sell images to other image makers for their purpose of study and reference.

The schematic of Atget’s image tones produced by his effort, and by the work of successors making reprints from his originals.

Prints made by Atget. Same negative at different times. The tone/colors show some of the variations of his “technic”
Two different printers’ efforts at reproduction. Their toning is closer than their contrast scale.

POP Refs:

Click to access albumen-reilly_delivery.pdf

PDF Book of Albumen

Click to access BBQ1Q10-ChAlbumen-REPRINT.pdf

Click to access CAW_POP_Historical_Notes.pdf

Albumin Works history

Click to access DW_Data_Sht_2006-06.pdf

Kentmere Paper instructions

and for info about toning ‘salt prints’ this: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/15614798.pdf

Photography’s Prize

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[price/prize] Photography arrived as entertainment, as substitute skill for the leisure class. By 1970 it had gained acceptance in many Art Schools. The 1980s was comfortable for specialized photography galleries; collectors had appetite.

Understanding the awards as assignment; what you should have known. These are Digests of the great works, those artists changing barriers, sometimes by crossing them; sometimes by crossing them off. Self-study assignment: use this to dig into yourself.

They began with an historian building meaning, making a market. The later recipients have re-evaluated the history of photographic uses.

The MacArthur foundation issued its first prize in the field to a historian, Beaumont Newhall in 1984. Photography had much sand to walk before attaining this acceptance. The most recent fellow is Wendy Red Star. Her stated area of focus: 2-D Visual Art, Photography, 3-D Visual Art That she doesn’t list herself as being a Photographer has caused the TOP, Part Time Salesman, concern about his beloved Photography. She may not even use a camera. What will happen to photography without cameras. What can we review. What will we sell.

Wendy Red Star, Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven), 2014, from the series 1880 Crow Peace Delegation. Original photograph by Charles Milton Bell, 1880, from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

[https://aperture.org/interviews/people-of-the-earth-wendy-red-star/ ]

Some win more… the contest of merit loves to use another’s choice… path dependency isn’t just for mountain climbers. Get one award, another follows.

https://www.macfound.org/ [ based in Chicago, and in 2014 it was the 12th-largest private foundation in the United States] The Fellows Program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program

awards are signs

winning one prize, gaining grants or exhibition history becomes easier with prior recognizitions.

Offer something rewarding to the awarding agent, without being so novel to cause doubt. The more conservative the award, the more palatable must be the recipient.

to those who don’t have them who don’t make signs . Awards are more important to those who have not won an award … they guide the young and disappoint the old

Why Some Hate Art

art travels greater boundaries of space, time, legal, geographic as well. Art transcends; can remain dormant until some future needs it.

non-artists are pissed off, but they can’t change art. Although they can’t participate in art they can participate in church, business, in the commerce of church, in law. They cannot participate in Art, other than as consumers. and has blockades so if they don’t want to consumer set up a blockade 

within the US, public grant and award are used to diminish by those believing God as money 

In constant refrain: dig deeper than the advertisers understand. If the applause goes to the amount of the award, then the clapping is noise.

The prize provides access. Sometimes that is good.

“If I could make an income and have a couple of friends to enthuse with me over ideas and things, I should never enter the Art market, and never exhibit.” Man Ray 1922.