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Erupting from within a forgotten single-wide mobile home is where curator Stefanie Schneider and other artists including Carmen de Vos, Sven van Driessche, Julia Beyer, and Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde show their polaroid work in a permanent installation that may – or may not- be open should you visit. I captured this image on a visit to the Bombay Beach Biennale last week.
What a treat to spend some quality time with the skate legends of today and tomorrow (and regular folks who skate, BMX, rollerblade, and ride some other stuff) this week for the official grand opening of the spanking-new X-Park La Quinta – California’s awesome competition-caliber Skate Park from the folks over at Spohn Ranch.
Here’s a few photos of the place – it’s going to be big! Well done everyone who made it happen!
Photographed @LukeCombs and the band last night in Las Vegas as part of the #ShootFromThePit crew.
Here are just a couple of my favorite photographs captured during last night’s concert. A very special thanks to Luke, everyone in the band, and the crew for a truly amazing experience, especially to an amazing master and teacher of concert photography, @davidbergman.
What an incredible treat to photograph one of the world’s most legendary automobiles, known simply as “Ruthie @277.9mph” – the Koenigsegg Agera RS – under the big Chimera lightbox at Ancillary Studios, thanks to the generous hospitality of Tim Cadiente and the folks at FujiFilm, Samy’s Camera, and Broncolor. This very automobile holds several world’s records including reaching a top speed of 277.9mph.
Ruthie’s beautiful wrap was created by artist James Jean based on one of his paintings, “Pomegranate” to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Festival of Children Foundation.
It was my first chance to handle FujiFilm’s GFX large format digital camera with its massive 43.8mm × 32.9mm sensor. It is most impressive, to be sure.
Two chairs sit ready for a couples therapy session, in juxtaposition between Michael Daniel Birnberg’s (also known as Midabi) “The Only Other Thing is Nothing.”
The message is profound in the context of the relationships we have with others as members of the human race. Midabi created the installation for the 2019 Bombay Beach Biennale.
The Polaroid Land Camera model P66 with a built-in flash was offered from 1961 until 1963. This example has been in our family since 1961 – sixty years next month – when it was a gift from my stepmom’s family to ours for Christmas.
Occasionally, I was given permission to make a photograph using this very camera. Those first photos are long gone, but it introduced me to the joys of making pictures – and the photo that magically appeared just seconds from pressing the shutter.
Old timers will remember the print coater stick soaked with a mystery sweet-smelling chemical that needed to be wiped across the newly developed photograph to preserve it. A cartridge with a dried-out coating stick was still in the leather case, as well as a few unspent flash bulbs, all shown above.
Somehow the camera, which sold for about $90 (almost $700 in today’s dollars) has survived countless moves and garage sales and emerged from a dusty box hidden towards the back of the workshop earlier this week. The image was created as a faux advertisement for a photography class assignment I’m tackling this semester.
P.S., the family photographs shown as “props” of this faux advertisement were made in the late 1950s and early 1960s – but not taken with this camera – they are likely from a Kodak camera. The subjects include my sister, brother, and me.
This week’s photography lighting study assignment is now complete. Can you identify which is “Paramount (or Butterfly)” lighting, “Split (sometimes called Hollywood)” lighting, and “Rembrandt” lighting.
Our subject for this week’s assignment is Kartell’s “Attila” whimsical gnome designed by Philippe Starck.
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