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Jim Dow: Americana (1968 - present)

website link  (1978)

Carlos Loret de Mola: Rivington

Photo-eye book taster link & artist website link 'Photozine r elating an ambiguous encounter of a woman and a man in the city. Printed and bound in a numbered edition of 100.'

Heat

I saw the video by Dylan Winter (appropriately enough) a few days ago and tried it today.  My candle-power flowerpot heater is too hot to touch after 30 mins so the science holds good.  I'm walking around in t-shirt and shorts, practically .

Intent content

When I bought a camera recently it was probably the camera I would have preferred to be using for the last year - it has a lot of pixel power.  It can do everything.  It was the most expensive camera I'd ever bought.  It is even marketed as semi-pro. But being an amateur it seemed to come with unreasonable expectation and added responsibility built in - features that hadn't been discussed on any of the review sites.  The casual and fun aspects had been completely engineered out, unless I've missed those in the complex set up menus. So after this brief upgrading I only took a few photos and decided to downsize. Interestingly, seeing the technically bad Disuke Yokota photos a few days ago made clear that I don't relate very well to doing things very well either.  So, it's not just me - as well as it's just not me.  There are a lot of serious art photographers with very high production values - which goes far beyond their equipment, extending to ...

Daisuke Yokota: Site

Tate photography curator Simon Baker mentioned Disuke Yokota in a recent interview

BEETROOT

Piet Mondrian / \

zen garden

   

Beth Moon:

Photo-eye link  

Getting the image

"The most decorated combat flight in U. S. history didn’t take place in a major battle. It was a photo-reconnaissance flight" - story here   Bud Thues, Zeamer, Hank Dominski, Sarnoski (Front Row) Vaughn, Kendrick, Able, Pugh.