Blog 4

http://www.lissongallery.com
I have always found a sort of beauty in roads, the line, the shape, the sometimes striking opposition to surrounding landscapes, as a formal element i find them quit nice to look at.

Weng Fen's "Bird's Eye View: Guangzhou," 2005
Weng Fen's
I have recently fount the urban landscape to be something of interest to me, it poses all kinds  of new ideas about humanity and and the overarching human condition. This photo i feel also speaks to that situation, about what a city is metaphorically more that a physical place.

Vito Acconci. Blinks, Nov 23,1969; afternoon. Photo-Piece, Greenwich Street, NYC; Kodak Instamatic 124, b/w film 
http://aleph-arts.org/art/lsa/lsa39/eng/1969.htm

I chose this photo for two reasons, first i like the black and white grid, second I have always likes work taken with unexpected equipment, or shall i say non "professional" Equipment. 


3 by me.

 

This house is on my way to work and school, i find it interesting and lost in time, it now is property of the Colorado Historic Society. I stopped to photography it today and decided to jump the fence, the opportunity for a photo was well beyond the fear of trespassing charges.

 

This is also a photo from that house, this one of the entryway door, the house is elegant in its simple with a very square looking exterior, i would like to gain access to the inside some day.

 

I think I like the meaning behind this work, to overcome things that some times overwhelm you, the toy pulling the gigantic horse. I also like the composition and movement in the work. 

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
 
Hunter S. Thompson 

This is good reason to evaluate if making money at the art you love is worth succumbing to a system that alters you own creative potential. Just something to ponder.  

Blog-3   22 Sept 2010

Robert Doisneau
Sunday Morning in Arcueil 1945
www.masters-of-photography.com

I found this photo too intriguing because of the social implications created by the segregation, the way the women and the men are within the same area but do not seem to be engaging with one another.

Roger Fenton
Sebastopol from Cathcart's Hill
1855
www.masters-of-photography.com

 I'm not sure what to say about this photo, I feel like I could wright a book from this one scene, the mood of the action taking place and the position of the camera create this void, or a safe separation as if the act is something you may not want to be to close to.

John Gutmann
The Artist Lives Dangerously
San Francisco, 1938
www.masters-of-photography.com 


This almost seems like a twisted form of foreshadowing, as if the boy who is playing in the street is making his own chalk outline before he is run over by a passing car. I also like the playful way in which it is made as if to say death is staring us all in the face and all you can do is smile back.




3- Photos by James 

I have always found self expression to be something interesting in the behavior of people, in this case to place your political views on the back of you car is something like yelling through a bull horn at a deaf man, although I do find them entertaining and on some level I may even agree with the statement of some of them, I just don't relate to this approach.



 

Miss Butter Cup
So my daughter Riley has a rat for a pet and while that sounds appalling she is in fact a very sweet animal and is fun to play with, so I took her photo as now she is part of the family.

 I was sitting on a park bench wen I noticed this house in the trees with an interesting light on it, this is one of the last Polaroids I have shot and soon will be out of film, marking the passing of a time and a technology that once was.

The Decisive Moment - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Genius of Photography Ep1 'Fixing the Shadows', Daguerreotypes.

 

Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
April 27, 2010–October 31, 2010 (weather permitting)
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 
http://www.metmuseum.org 

I find the Starn brothers work to be amazing and to see their progression from photography to sculpture to installation work is amazing.
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Mel Bochner, The Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Ca 
Sept 9th through Oct 30 2010 

http://www.fraenkelgallery.com


The work was presented with a note card stating that a "photograph can not record abstract ideas" Websters Dictionary. 
I found the idea of this to be interesting as I am currently debating, even if only with myself, if indeed there can be abstraction or thoughts of abstraction in a photograph. 


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David LaChapelle
Rape of Africa
chromogenic print
52 x 120 inches
At: Paul Kasmin Gallery, NY
www.paulkasmingallery.com

I chose this photo because this style of work is what I would like to be doing as an artist, creating photographs that fully fulfill the execution of an idea and a feeling through the creation of a scene, that and I just really like David LaChapelles work. 


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3 Photos by James

Ilford Delta 100 4x5, Neg.
 I found this house on the other side of town from me, the way the plants are taking back over reminds me how fleeting life is, and how sooner or later the earth will take back what it wants with or without us.

Ilford Delta 100 4x5, Neg.  
I hope this house doesn't get torn down, I think it would be interesting to see over the years the progression of the takeover or taking back.

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Independence pass, Colorado looking South at Mt. Massive 14,421 feet 
Photo on Ilford Delta 100 4x5 Reversed to a slide by Dr5 Chrome in Dev 1
1/15 th. Sec @ F-45 Schneider 210 mm 


I chose this photo because it was part of a film test for tonal range of films reversed as slides by Dr5 Chrome, The results are stunning I would say somewhere around twelve stops of latitude (a Digital Camera has around 5-7 Stops of latitude) so its very pleasing to look at.


MTC.

TEDxDU - Aaron Huey - 5/13/2010

Photo IV 6 Sept 10

For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

May 21–September 12, 2010

From: The International Center For Photography, NY 

I found the movement and feel of the photo to be interesting, as well as bringing light to the situations of current America and the immigration debate that still burns in American society.
http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/for-all-the-world-to-see

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Perspectives 2010:
Carol Bove, Lena Herzog, Matthew Porter, Ed Templeton, Hong-An Truong

May 21–September 12, 2010

From: The International Center For Photography, NY

I find the look and feel of old film to be interesting and to some extent more believable than new digital photographs that look over saturated and fake.
http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/perspectives-2010

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Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

Joan Jonas

Mirror Piece I

1969

I like the idea of this photo, the play with perspective and the connotations that mirrors create along with the fact that I find it to be simple and elegant.

http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/secciones/programacion_artistica/nombre_exposicion_imagenes.php?idioma=en&id_exposicion=135 

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3 new photos by James,

By: James Hoard 

Bristlecone Pine Mount Evans Co. 

Ilford Delta 100 4x5, processed to a transparency by DR5 chrome. 

There is something captivating about how this tree makes me feel, it may be its age, knowing that I can stand among a living forest that is over 3,000 years old. 

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By: James Hoard

From: American Racing, 2010 (continuing body of ongoing work)

Ilford HP5 35mm, shot on a 1952 Kodak Signet II

There lies in America a strange and intriguing subculture of racing, events like County Fairs, and private functions in places like the Bonneville Salt flats which host racing events that have no big celebrity or million dollar race teams just a group of enthusiast that get together to do what they love. This photo is of the York County Fair figure eight race in central Nebraska. 

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By: James Hoard 

iPhone photo of a praying mantis

I chose this photo because I find it interesting how the shadow has become the subject, this photo came about because I was standing on my porch and this praying mantis almost landed on my head.