this is the final week … only a work table and flat file left to move out. it’s been a wonderful experience and i’m eager to move into the new space later this fall. i guess i’ll be making photographs mostly as i’ll have limited spaces to make messes. i did purchase a baren and i’ll be able to do some kitchen table printing soon. until then …
Not really, but I wanted to take the opportunity provided by a sleepy Darteboard Sunday to announce my new photo venture, Photo Flood Saint Louis.
Photo Flood STL is a group of photographers (currently 50 strong and growing) whose collective aim is to create a sort of photographic map to St. Louis. At our events, we set a map with parameters for where we can wander, and then we go forth and shoot. Later on, the best of our shots are added to the blog. Click on either link to see the results of our first Photo Flood, which took place in Downtown.
Now, back to your regular programming….
Last week, I posted a pic from a new series of photographs that I am working on. This week, I am showing off more shots of some of the men from the series, and next week, I hope to have some of the women ready to put on display. It is interesting to me to observe how differently the women versus the men approached posing for this; the women had a sort of default “pose-face” whereas the men kind of let their guard down a bit more. I guess that’s culture….
All Nikon N80 with the Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G lens and Kodak T-Max 400 film. Prints are on Adorama-branded, variable-contrast, fiber paper. Please excuse my dusty and orientation-moody scanner.
I am back to working on the subject of identity. This time, I have photographed portraits of 47 strangers, 23 men and 24 women, and hope to show the degree of visible variation between people of a certain place (I staked out a spot at a local community college). More to come on this.
Nikon N80 with Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G lens and Kodak T-Max 400 film, printed on Adorama-branded, variable contrast, fiber paper.
Every year, the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis sponsors an event that brings the art viewing public directly to local artists. The premise behind City-Wide Open Studios is for St. Louis’ artists to open their studio doors in an organized fashion, choreographed by CAMSTL, so that art viewers, art buyers and art interlopers have the chance to peruse the local talent at hand.
This is the first year that I will be participating, so come out and show me some support. I will have dozens of paintings, drawings, and photographs on display. I will be showing on Saturday, July 30th, and my studio is located at 3434 Magnolia Avenue in Tower Grove East.
The event kicks off with a reception for the artists at “the Contemporary” (information from CAMSTL’s site below).
JULY 26TH. 6:00-9:00 PM.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, NO RSVP REQUIRED. CASH BAR. 3750 WASHINGTON BLVD.
To kick-off the week-long celebration of local art, CAM will be hosting an Open Studios Preview Party where visitors can visit CAM’s Main Galleries to see one piece of artwork by each participating artist. For that night, and the entire following week, each piece of art will be displayed with a label of the artists name and number that corresponds with the printed map – allowing the public to see the artwork beforehand and map out their weekend studio visits. Join CAM and over one hundred local artists for a night of celebrating the local art scene and all that it has to offer. Pi on the Spot – Pi’s mobile pizza truck – will be selling mini pizzas all night!
Some of you might recall a series that I started several years ago, and that was somewhat erroneously referred to as “Photo-Impressionism”. In any case, here is a slight expansion on that old, abandoned project; picked back up in the city where it began. Enjoy.
All Nikon D50 with Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens.
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Well, maybe not quite, but I did use copper to tone these. This is a short series (meaning these may be it; let me know what you think) in which I attempted to reduce real birds to 2D “cutouts”. I have been playing with the illusion of the real lately, in my photography, and I think that these are a good example of that.
“In painting, the curve is a hill; in photography, the hill is a curve.” -Arnaud Claass
All Nikon N80 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens and Kodak T-Max 3200 BW film.
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The Armour Meatpacking Plant in National City, Illinois rests its hulking, decayed mass on the former site of the National Stockyards. This complex, formerly consisting of crisscrossing train tracks, bellowing pigs, and the rhythmic clang of industrial machinery, represented the second largest hog processing center in the world (behind Chicago’s Union Stockyards). If you were wondering, it was Chicago’s Armour Meatpacking Plant location that inspired the colorful tale, “The Jungle”, by Upton Sinclair; one can only surmise that the conditions probably weren’t much different at this location.
In any case, the plant was abandoned in the 1950′s and it certainly looks that way. More information on this site can be read at Built St. Louis and at my friend’s site St. Louis Patina (if you haven’t checked out his site, definitely do!).
All shot with Nikon N80 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens on Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO film.
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Here are my latest scans from my explorations around the STL of long ago. Enjoy!
All Nikon N80 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens and Ilford HP5+ 400 Film.
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I am continuing my exploration of the city of Saint Louis and its unique mixture of what was with what is. As mentioned last week, most of these photos were taken in an abandoned (except for the homeless) building downtown.
All Nikon N80 with either Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D or Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G lenses; Ilford HP5+ BW Film.
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In the last two weeks, I have switched from focusing on the small patch of woods in the urban park where I work to the more industrial side of St. Louis. My city is a strange place that still makes things, all kinds of things, from chemicals to jet planes. This reality means that there is a lot of space (most manufacturing centers stopped building up and started building out at least by the 1940′s), and since most of my city’s population had left for the suburbs by the end of the 1970′s, that means a lot of empty space. So “space” is what I have been concentrating on lately (with a few exceptions). Enjoy!
All Nikon N80 or Nikon n8008s with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D or Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G lenses.
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As promised, here is the first round of work that I have been producing on 35mm, black and white film. Last January, I enrolled in courses at the St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, which gave me access to a great, black and white film lab. Since then, I have been working on a group of pictures that centers around a wooded area in Forest Park (the urban park of St. Louis). I have made a few exceptions to that, as you will see. Enjoy.
All Nikon N80 or N8008s with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D or Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G lenses.
2010 has been a looonnng year, or at least it’s sure seemed long. This year, I have experienced innumerable highs and lows, which is strange because the entire time while they were happening, I felt sort of distracted. Realizations in hindsight… Anyway, here are 25 of my favorite pictures that I took this year (kind of a tradition now for me). Enjoy!
I did an interview with him and more here.
I finally developed the five rolls of film that I’ve had sitting around since the end of summer, and here are some of the highlights. They were all shot in the St. Louis environs with the obvious Chicago exception. Viva la 35mm!
All Nikon N65, N80, or N8008s with either the Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D, or Nikkor 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5 AF Lens attached and Fuji Superia ISO400 Film.
Andy Holman is a St. Louis-based photographer, whose work has had a big impact on me. I first came across Andy’s art in an internet forum dedicated to Classic Cameras, of which I was just beginning to learn about. His photography has a very quiet, very introspective quality that instantly fascinated me. What’s more, Mr. Holman only shoots film; this, eschewing the popular trend in photography towards digital sensor cameras. This man is a master of what he does, and deserves some D’ArteBoard love.
A short interview with Andy, and some more of his photos (all are untitled, BTW), after the jump.
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