Dialogues with Michelangelo - the Book

It got stuck in our craws. Side-by-side pairings of Sistine Chapel figures with our photographic interpretations never seemed a proper configuration for a dialogue. A number of ideas for unfolding books were tried. Barb's lightbulb went off and illuminated the solution: vellum....and another image is revealed.

We prepared a mockup for Review Santa Fe. It worked! Now how to bind it?

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Dialogues with Michelangelo - Book Construction

Colleen Plumb lent us adhesive to make a "perfect binding," we figured good juju using Aperture to secure the pages while we bound them. Easy.

Modern Women Exhibit and Resource

Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, an exhibition, book and excellent resource. Timeless information.

Tina Modotti

Maya Deren

Atsuko Tanaka

Kindred Spirit - Julia Kozerski

We happily joined Milwaukee photographer, Julia Kozerski at Review Santa Fe. Her newest work is a physical comparison with contemporary icons. Instead of assuming the trappings of authority and wisdom, Julia questions the dictates of the fashion industry. Stills from her video are featured on F-STOP photography magazine.

100 Most Influential Photographers of ALL TIME

Thirteen women photographs have made it to the top 100 most influential Photographers of All Time list.  Hmmmmm! Compiled by the UK's Professional Photographer, it's a bizarre list, for both ranking,  inclusion as well as omissions.  Sorry about that Dorthea Lange, Anna Atkins, Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Imogene Cunningham, Lisette Model, Tina Modotti, Ilse Bing...to name just a few dead white women.

  

7. Diane Arbus American 1923-1971
Freaks, loners and people on the edges of society’s norms were Arbus‘s subjects. Her direct and simple portrait style and subject matter have inspired ever since. www.diane-arbus-photography.com

14. Cindy Sherman American 1954-
The ultimate self-portraitist, Sherman’s use of herself as the model was at the forefront of photography being recognised as art

22. Annie Leibovitz American 1949-
She started out as the staff photographer at Rolling Stone and is now at Vanity Fair. She’s shot everyone and her portraits define our times.

36. Nan Goldin American 1953-
The queen of grunge, Goldin turned her lens on her drug-using and transvestite friends to create shocking images that saw personal reportage re-born. www.artnet.com

47. Mary Ellen Mark American 1940-
Mary Ellen Mark started photographing the streets she lived in and developed into one of the world’s leading reportage photographers.

50. Corinne Day British 1965-
Influenced by Goldin and Clark and a close friend of Kate Moss, Corinne Day’s fashion images and personal reportage create controversy and commercial praise. www.corinneday.co.uk

70. Leni Riefenstahl German 1902-2003
The controversial photographer and film maker whose images from the 1936 Nazi Berlin Olympics have inspired photographers every where 

75. Sarah Moon British 1940-
Moon’s fashion and personal images have influenced every photographer who’s seen her work and marvelled at her use of colour.

78. Julia Margaret Cameron British 1815-1879
One of the few female photographic pioneers, Cameron photographed her family with very little technical expertise and created soulful sepia portraits that still inspire today.

80. Deborah Turbeville American 1938-
Turbeville bought a magical quality to her fashion and interiors work and popularised the use of grain to create atmosphere. www.deborahturbeville.com

83. Eve Arnold American 1912-2011
As a member of Magnum, Arnold used her gentle manner to create iconic images of the greatest movies of the last century. www.magnumphotos.com

84. Jane Bown British 1925-
The quiet newspaper photographer for The Observer who only uses one camera and takes exposure readings off the back of her hand. An inspiration and still shooting today.

94. . Helen Levitt American 1913-2009
Levitt only worked as a photographer for a short time over two specifically intense periods. The images she created then of children playing and the street life of New York are timeless. www.npr.org

JeongMe Yoon - Pink & Blue and Lots of It

L is  familiar with the pink "phenomenon," having washed loads and loads of exclusively pink clothes for 3 years.  L spent her own childhood in blue hand-me-down clothes, a victim of her own mother's practicality having grown up during the Great Depression. JeongMee Yoon's work reminds us all why some colors should be banned (except in the case of Elsa Schapiarelli). 

As girls grow older, their taste for pink changes. Until about 2nd grade, they are very obsessed with the color pink, but around 3rd or 4th grade, they do not obsess with pink as much anymore. Usually, their tastes change to purple. Later, there is another shift. However, the original association with the color-code often remains….. 

Seowoo and Her Pink Things

Sunjae_Seungjae and His Blue Things

Buddist Shop

I am fascinated with the accumulation of things. Themes of my past photographic series include: “Zoo” (1998-1999); “Natural History Museum” (2001); “Space-Man-Space” (2000-2004); and images of a toy collector's possessions (2004). The “Zoo” and “Natural History Museum” series explored artificial environments that are arranged and organized through predetermined classifications.

Ultimately, more interesting and  disturbing in The Pink & Blue Project is the reference to the lessons we teach our children about  obsessing/materialism/consumerism. It's an impressive example of contemporary "natural history,"as well as pretty darn grotesque.

Gwen Hardie - Written on the Body

When we began the photographs which have become All Things Are Always Changing, we saw that the scars we accumulate on our bodies are the documentation of  life's experiences: childbirth, fracture, rupture, disease.  

Gwen Hardie's paintings view flesh intimately,  evoking thoughts of identity and an ancient genetic heritage.

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Of her work, Body Tondi, Hardie writes, "The surface of the human body is an amazing membrane. It bears witness to the person living inside; an independent individual and yet closer inspection of the skin reveals that the body is made up of moving elements that are universal and part of the greater natural world."

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