Gone Fishin’, originally uploaded by James Milstid, aka PapaJames.
Photography
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Simple White – Project Flickr: Simple
Simple White – Project Flickr: Simple, originally uploaded by James Milstid, aka PapaJames.
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Nov 11
Guernica in 3D
An extremely well done animated interpretation of Picasso’s Guernica.
I believe Picasso himself would have approved of this work.
His desire to show three-dimensions on two-dimensional media is dramatically achieved in this work. I’ve always loved Guernica, and have now seen what I believe Picasso wanted to accomplish. I have a whole new appreciation for Guernica.
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Nov 11
Four Color Crown
A stunning photo of a liquid splash. The photographer, Jim Kramer, very modestly describes his setup and method for this photo:
One of the easier shots to accomplish. You can do these without any special timing equipment. This particular shot is using heavy cream (lightly colored blue) being dropped onto a piece of black glass. In order to get the crown, a ‘primer’ drop is necessary in the landing zone. I added drops of food coloring to the outer edges of the primer drop, this adds the color.
Via: Flickr
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A Very Pricey Photograph
This photo, Rhein II, just became the world’s most expensive photograph, fetching a whopping $4.3 million.
This is Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II, an 81- x 140-inch print of the famous German river. It went on sale at Christie’s on Tuesday, smashing the previous record of $3.9 million for Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #96 sold in May. Funny enough, Untitled #96 had itself displaced Gursky’s earlier work, 99 Cent II Diptychon which sold for $3.35 million in 2006. Good to see that at least the high-end photography art market is weathering these economically turbulent times.
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Move Along, Nothing to See Here – Project Flickr: Garbage
Move Along, Nothing to See Here – Project Flickr: Garbage, originally uploaded by James Milstid, aka PapaJames.
This was a tough topic to make somewhat artistic!
The crow was looking for tidbits near the garbage can. Nothing exciting today, so he’s moving along.
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Nov 11
Robert Frank: Born This Day in 1924
Robert Frank – Photographer
Robert Frank, Photographer
November 9, 1924 – Still Shooting
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” – Robert Frank
Robert Frank is an 87 year old iconic American Photographer. Frank was born in Zurich. He is an important figure in American photography and his most notable work is the 1958 photographic book titled The Americans.
Frank was born in 1924 which allowed him to capture post war images which earned him modern-day comparisons to Tocqueville as his images were fresh and skeptical perspective of American society. He would later use film and video, and experimented with that medium.
Frank attitude to his fame is indifferent, fittingly, as his works chronically not celebrities but the marginal American on the street. It was his skepticism with secular religion of wholesomeness and cheer that gave him a unique visual.
A quote from photographer Elliott Erwitt about Robert Frank and his black and white photography:
Quality doesn’t mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That’s not quality, that’s a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy – the tone range isn’t right and things like that – but they’re far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he’s doing, what his mind is. It’s not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It’s got to do with intention.
The Americans showed a different America than the wholesome, nonconfrontational photo essays offered in some popular magazines. Frank’s subjects weren’t necessarily living the American dream of the 1950s: They were factory workers in Detroit, transvestites in New York, black passengers on a segregated trolley in New Orleans. Frank didn’t even get much support from the art world, he recalls.
“The Museum of Modern Art wouldn’t even sell the book,” Frank says. “But the younger people caught on.”
“Robert Frank…he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.” – Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation poet and novelist
“I’d never seen anything like it, Robert Frank came out here and he just showed that you could see the USA until you spit blood.” – Ed Ruscha, photographer
Parade – Hoboken, New Jersey
Trolley – New Orleans
Woman In A Car – Butte, Montana
Rodeo – New York City
Funeral – Dt Helena, South Carolina
I Am A Man Protest – February, 1968 – Memphis, Tennessee
Charleston, South Carolina
Shoe Shine