I just watched this powerful documentary last night on the photographer Tim Hetherington. I think it illustrates the dangers encountered in this hyper news/ documentary world where getting the shot in all too many cases is paid for by the life of the photographer.
Leaping Outside The Box: Reimagining Photography by Stephen Schaub
Rutland, Chaffee Art Center – 7 p.m., Chaffee Downtown, 75 Merchants Row, (802) 775-0356
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Ok so maybe I do live in a cave- I only recently discovered this web site…. http://www.americansuburbx.com/
Amazing collection of videos and interviews… enough to keep any artist busy watching and learning for quite sometime…
Some of my favorite:
Viva la Revolution– Stephen
My wife Eve and I watched this movie last night on Photographer Bill Cunningham… it is available on Netflix Streaming and I am sure other venues… very enjoyable and yes he shoots film!
Also… Ilford Photo announced the release of a pinhole camera “system”… more info here: http://www.ilfordphoto.com/pressroom/article.asp?n=140
Viva la Revolution- Stephen
All on film!!!!
Viva la Revolution- Stephen
Listen in as artist Stephen Schaub and professional writer and former gallery owner Eve Ogden Schaub discuss important questions for the working artist today: to edition or not to edition?, the problem with online art, why artist statements matter and more. 28 minutes in total length.
LINKS:
First look at the images in this link by New York Times photographer Damon Winter’s photo series, “A Grunt’s Life”:
http://www.poyi.org/68/17/third_01.php
Now read this post:
http://www.e-ariana.com/ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/384DCFFD0D8AC102872578380074884A?OpenDocument
My quick thoughts…
1. A good image is a good image.
2. It’s not the camera, it’s the photographer. The camera is just a tool. No matter how much you spent on a camera, in the end it is a dumb block of mechanics that needs your vision and creativity to work. For those who feel that the iPhone app Hipstamatic is somehow “altering” the image I would say this:
What about grain? That’s not “natural.” What about the particular color palette of a film- Velvia, Kodachrome (had to get that one in for historic sake!)? What about TX pushed? What about print size, lens choice, framing decisions, depth of field— all of these affect the visual quality of the final image and are not “real” or neutral… and I have not even touched on the darkroom or Photoshop as editive creative elements! All photography is manipulation, all photography is editive!!!
3. Photojournalism has the word PHOTO in it for a reason.
Viva la Revolution- Stephen
PS- Thanks to Art for sending me these links and for helping start this conversation here on FR.
Good interview with Stephen Spielberg… if you want you can fast forward to 4:27 and listen to him speak about film… as I have said before, as long a motion picture film survives so does our medium…. suggestion- becomes friends with your local cinematographer as you both have a lot in common these days.
After watching this movie last night I knew I had to share it here with a few of my own thoughts…
1. I really love paper and the Origami in this video is amazing (some more so than others).
2. Listen to the creative language used by the Origami masters… simplicity, technique, does it look real / does it matter if it looks real, art with emotion… sound familiar?… it should if you listen here on FR or if you’re one of my students.
3. The voice of the narrator is a bit hard to listen to at times and it drags a bit, but in the end it is a video quite well done.
A definite watch for creative people.
Click on the LINK below to watch online at PBS…
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
— G.K. Chesterton
Quick video on advertising and perception… many of the points raised mirror thoughts in the Figital Revolution Manifesto… thanks to Eric for sharing this.
Viva La Revolution- Stephen
Figital Revolution 