Some Food for Shots (Camera, that is.)

We went to a little outdoor street fair that extended from the Saturday market at Union Square Park and saw several really interesting artists, actually. Street art can be a real mixed bag, of course, but being New York there were a some really interesting people there: photographers and an illustrator and a political silk screen artist. Most particularly we were struck by the pinhole photographer, Michel Bayard. This video captures some of what it is that is captivating about the guy and his work: http://homepage.mac.com/trorb/BikeTV/iMovieTheater68.html
And here are a bunch of his images:
http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/29806.html

I told him I’ve been experimenting with pinholes for a number of years now, but with less obvious success than he. He eyed my Canon 30D accusatorily and said, “What’s that?” I said, “Well. . .” (Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned, its been several months since my last pinhole.) I felt so dirty. And there he was, a John the Baptist of photography, carrying his whole shop around on his reconfigured bike, popping honeyed locusts in his mouth, muttering French-Canadian.

Josef Koudelka- Just starting to get to know this guy. I was drawn in.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/K/koudelka/koudelka_articles1.html

Diane Arbus-what struck me looking at her prints is how they live in the dark a big “take that” on level correction in the digital dark room. Her work appears so dark and rich-I can’t help but wonder what the histograms would have looked like and if they were corrected in the computer, how they may have lost that twilight richness. Makes me really rethink what the computer tells me about exposure. Makes me rethink the computer.

August Sanders. Just struck to see his work in person. The portraits need to be seen that way, as though you just walked in the room (and became really tiny) and saw the person sitting or standing there.

Gertrude Kasebier
http://www.museumofnewmexico.org/mfa/ideaphotographic/artists_kasebier.html

http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/pict/ho_33.43.132.htm

Gary Winogrand
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/W/winogrand/winogrand.html

Steiglitz portrait of O’Keefe Hands on a Horse Skull

Great stuff in Chelsey, but I forgot the names.