I first became aware of Joseph Minek’s cameraless photography through former Gallery 1/1 owner, Dan Shepherd’s Instagram feed. Minek’s unconventional use of light-sensitive materials echoed many of my interests, but there were other similarities. Each of us is engaged in photography in unorthodox ways while working outside of traditional art enclaves. Myself in San Bernardino, […]
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Leslie Jean-Bart: Echoes of Imagination
This past week, editor Rita Lombardi shared the work of artists who work from a studio or work from home. For photographer Leslie Jean-Bart, working from home has been a novelty because much of this practice is created at water’s edge. For the past 10 years, he has walked the shoreline of Coney Island, looking […]
Cathy Cone: Hand Painted Photographs
Cathy Cone is a photographer and painter based in East Topsham, Vermont. In her series Hand Painted Photographs she began the creative process by scanning tintype portraits dating back to 1869, which she has been collecting from flea markets and antique shops for decades. She digitally printed each piece, then applied gouache onto the surface […]
Bill Westheimer: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape
In 2015, the Getty Museum featured the seminal exhibition, Light, Paper, Process, a show that celebrated the spirit of invention and discovery at its point of departure, focusing on “investigations on the light sensitivity and chemical processing of photographic papers, challenging us to see the medium anew and provide a glimpse into the continued interrogation […]
Bill Armstrong: Falling Through History
“My goal is to extract the figures from their historical moment and connect them in a continuous stream that transcends period, style and subject matter to reveal the psychology of falling as a universal aspect of human consciousness.“ Photographic artist Bill Armstrong has a new series, Falling Through History, that examines the notion of falling, […]
Scott B. Davis: on the probability of darkness
the expansiveness of this space has a lot to do with photography. when the sun goes down the world becomes reduced to a series of shapes and tones. looking east across a valley and into the shadow of the planet i see a few shades – earth, sky and subtle contrasts between trees, cactus and […]