i am just a mess sometimes…but, i think most of you have probably already figured that out by now…you should see my apartment…or rather, you should not!! nightmare!! anybody who walked in here right now would imagine that here is a man in turmoil and they would not be far from wrong…i swear, for me it is a winter thing…this time of year is not my time of year…got my eyeballs on spring…
but, somehow i also get stuff done this time of year…i can’t ride my bike, so i get work done instead…one of the things "done" in the last few days was to secure your work some kind of presence at the Festival of the Photograph this june…either a projection or small print show of your work….i think also we will have a presence at Visa Pour L’Image (Perpignan, France) in september…
i may award one or two "assignment stipends" this spring, funding up front, just to make sure we are looking fine…very soon i will list a selected "jury of peers" for the Emerging Photographer Fund…respected peers who will help me to think about our Fund and how best to make it work….we have already gotten some good notice online from PDN (Photo District News), there will be soon something in American Photo magazine, and Magnum will issue an international press release about our project soonest…
some of you have received private e-mail critiques from me…and some of those same people have never returned to comment or communicate with me in any way either!!! i guess my analysis of work is usually on the tough side for some…but, that is just how i do it…that is always how it has been in the world in which i live…critical but constructive….maybe it is somehow "softer" in person, as in my workshops…words on a page can be like a hot engraving in steel…..well, my only intent is to give you something to help you move forward….and i only sent critiques to those who asked….please let me know through blogquestions@gmail.com whether or not you want a review…it is time intensive to give even a short review, so i will only do it upon request…
michael says he can post all of the remaining essays and singles on our new link within the week…he and i will be operating by "remote control" and with an 11 hour time difference since i fly to India today, so please have your usual patience…the website is still not exactly what i want and you may see changes from one hour to the next…we will not go "live" with this new site until we have it pretty much perfected…
http://www.davidalanharvey.com.temp.livebooks.com/
please be of good cheer…..and i will be "on" again from India by the weekend….
Wow, David, you really are a busy bee in all fields even if you write about avoiding procrastination! Good update in the website.
David,
We have exchanged one message only and that was through Lightstalkers. I would hate to think that you responded to some of my e-mails and I have never received them or worse that you asked me some questions and you never received a response. Would it be possible by not taking too much of your time to just say that I don’t owe you any e-mails and that you are not going to send me any? Or something like that?
Hope you get out before they close Kennedy! Laguardia? 4″ snow and still coming down here…I hear it’s headed your way, may be already there? Go man, go!
Mind how you go David. Safe journey.
Would love to meet up with you at some point before my move to London in July. Just got a new folio done and would love to show it to you before then.
The site’s terrific. Smooth.
Best,
Paulyman.
Rene…new website? I don’t remember that look…pretty damn nice!
Love the work, too. Old Car and Dour Protege especially.
Don’t worry David: your not the only one who feels a bit off this time of year. It’s supposed to get to 14 below zero here in Minneapolis this week. I can’t ride my bike either, but yes I get lots of work done too. I don’t think man was supposed to live in this environment. Why did we choose to live this far north of the equator? Enjoy India – wish I was joining you.
Website is looking better all the time.
You will probably have wireless internet where you are staying in India. It is often easier there to get online than it is here so you should have no trouble checking in on us if time allows.
As far as future assignment stipends I would suggest/request an entirely new assignment rather than selecting more from the submissions you have already received….Don’t know if this is what you are thinking. I know this creates more work for you but it gets ALL of us out shooting and gives us new work to see.
@Michael Kircher – Thank You Michael!
Critique me please! (I think I can take it.)
Enjoy your trip, David! The website is MUCH better now – finally I can show it to friends without risk of too many where-what-when-why questions ;-) – however the festival news are something I’m really happy to hear about!!! ;-) You rock, man :-D
Have a safe’n'quick flight :-)
Cheers!
Alkos
David
whatever you do.. just thank you
Aleksander
w sprawie tych filmów to ciagle aktualne?
greetings for all from dark side of moon
martin
David
I got your msg – pretty much floored me.
yeh, its all 4×5, I have a nice little drk room that I put together, on a shoe string, its pretty well gerry rigged, but it works good.
yeh man, that was a real boost, I was really pumped that you stopped over, thanks!
counters- just to track how many hits your site is getting, and I think they can also track the general location that the hits are orginating from.
its the new science, tracking all that info. all the lrg multi nationals and large corperations, they are on that like white on rice.
personally I don’t like to see counters on a site, but if there is a way to cloak the counter but monitor the info, I think its worthwhile.
anyway, I would love to meet sometime, its a bit tough for me though, just coz of the doll-hair situation, but if you come to LA, that would work if you had time?
I am glad you are a part of the Festival of the Photograph again this year-and your plans sound really great. I plan to be there again and am working on a project now that I hope will develop into something I want to bring.
For those of us who did not submit work in November, will there be another opportunity to have our work looked at? I would suppose that the workshops at the festival will offer this.
Good luck with your projects and your travels. One thing that I like about this site is that you and many others “tell it like it is.” Perhaps because you are documentary photographers. Well, I need to go clean my house–maybe it could compete with your apartment!
Marcin – powiedziales ze nie chcesz i w koncu nie sprawdzilem, sorki ;-) Zadzwonie jutro do “mojego człowieka” i dam ci znac czy cos jest ;-)
“counter” easy… Try ” google analytics”… Amazingggg…
not only you see details like who and when someone visited your Site… But it also goes deeper: it even tells you what kind of internet connection !!? your visitor has, what’s his hometown… Etc… Pretty accurate…FBI stuff… Scary but super informative…
Hi David.
I received a critique from you a while back and I replied in an email thanking you for doing so. It was very much appreciated and I was very happy with the positive words you had to say.
I may not have communicated much with you since and I’m sorry if that has annoyed you…I’m just worried I’m one of the ones you are referring to.
Anyway I think I may have shied away from the blog a bit because due to circumstances I never got round to completing a project you set for us in the summer..anyway excuses aside, that’s my problem.
Cheers, talk soon!
Paul
Lots happening- very cool!
I just bought a ticket for Look3- I hope to meet you face-to-face there, David!
I would really appreciate a critique of my essay- I’ll send you an email as you requested above. And- not only can I take anything you have to say, I want it and need it. I thrive of brutally honest criticism.
Look3 would be a good place for a lot of us to meet face to face. I went last year and it was so much fun. Great photography, fun parties, and lots of pretty girls!!
David McG…great suggestion, about a Look3 meeting… but when my girlfriend read about that…”lots of pretty girls!! thing……..
Did someone said “pussywept”????
Wrobert…didn’t i tell you, your medium format work is amazing???
I know i did.but nobody pays attention to what i say…
Joni,thanks for the info about cardiff and the links of the 3 other photographer’s work…
BBlack, i cant believe you put me in the same “boat” with T.J.robert..you hurt my feelings a little bit…
I’m going to ALKOS’S website again for more inspiration….now..
Michael Kircher… thanks for all the weather info…and sorry for “picking” on you…I wouldn’t do it if i knew you couldn’t handle it…just remember that you refer to me as shitty human been…
I would suggest our “BEEF” should be over…or if not…a break should be o.k… what do you think?
CATHY POSTED:
“Don’t know if this is what you are thinking. I know this creates more work for you but it gets ALL of us out shooting and gives us new work to see.
Posted by: cathy scholl | January 17, 2008 at 02:08 PM”
PANOS says…: “I even agree with CATHY …what the hell is WRONG with me today????????????
don’t worry Panos were not in the same boat; TRUST ME.
Panos…
No beef. Water under the bridge. All is cool.
Peace.
also Panos f.y.i. i don’t use canon or any of their products for that matter. Before you start criticizing Canons products you should definitely consider the work of both Pep Bonet and James Nachtwey.
as for my project in Tijuana i used a small contax film camera..
DAVID:
all of these new events are wonderful news and the website is starting to look really good. let us all know when you are coming out to LA, a meeting between you and panos – not since anwar sadat and menachem begin, bush II and gore, dre and tupac, colbert and o’reilly, red sox and yankees, protestants and catholics, dodgers and giants…well, maybe not that historical but certainly not to be missed. please make it sooner rather than later, when the WGA strike is over some of us will have to go back to work…..enjoy your travels.
ALEKSANDER AND MARTIN:
come on guys, how are we supposed to interpret that?
MICHAEL LILLIE:
man was NOT supposed to live in that environment, that’s why you guys have buildings that connect – so you don’t need to go outdoors….i’m cold thinking about it. but come to think of it, it has dropped to 67 here today, so i feel you when you speak of the harsh winters….i just put a sweater on…..downside of course is that we have to live in LA. and we didn’t invent prince, plus that whole uptown area is pretty cool, in the summertime anyway. plus garrison kieler…he’s cool too.
back to the last post. i try to keep my mouth shut with the exception of a few close people whom i trust to bounce ideas off. LA and to some extent NY (williamsburgh anyway) are full of people in cafes talking incessantly about how they are going to do this, or going to do that, or are thinking about this…all they seem to accomplish is their coffee….
“Just do it”
i just came up with that term off the top of my head if anyone is interested, catchy no? i’m working on a few others – “we should do lunch”, “call me”, “your work is……interesting”, “she can’t come to the phone right now, she’s washing her hair” – also a good one….
David McGowan: Absolutely- I’m up for joining in a “Look3 DAH blog-minifest”. As far as the “pretty girls”, I’ll be bringing my own two beauties: my wife and my daughter… (and my son- a real hunk!).
Seriously- maybe when David has a little more time we can arrange for a time and place for all DAH bloggers to meet for a beer (or 2… or …)
Robert I love contax… I’m not sure if I really hate canon that much either… A great photog should be able to use everything and anything … Its that ” canon ” philosophy that I hate… I mean all the sporty white lenses … All the gadgets… Multi autofocus etc… Canon forced all the other brands to follow a retarded race about more buttons and more automatic bullshit- programs… But LEICA or contax resisted and still do…
whatever happened to the “less is more”????
plus what a ” superfast” canon can do in the hands of a ” slow ” photog???
that was my point… I think
peace
PANOS – T.J.ROBERT:
no offense meant (to either Cali Guys! :)).(remember, i was an LA pointer too (4 yrs)..
..just tossing up names who wrote comments that I wanted to address, in support (by calling attention to them) and to offer another pointofview (against): :))…
like MC competition in the old days (my days) :))…
no worries, to both P and TJR…
running, flight myself…
b
PANOS found this info on the web:
from blogger Jon Porter
Jon Porter, Mar 17, 2005; 07:26 p.m.
James Nachtwey: What is his combination?(equipment he used)
It looks like Tri-X developed in D76 to me. My guess is he liked to keep things simple, plus most news darkrooms used D76, Acufine or HC-110.
In a 1991 interview he said he used a (Nikon) FM2 and F3P and took 90% of his shots with the 28mm, 35mm or 50mm lens. Occasionally he used a 20mm and 75-150mm zoom. So you don’t need a lot of expensive lenses to shoot in his style, though that may have changed since the switch to digital…
Panos comments:
I really dont know and DEFINITELY I COULD CARE LESS… if its canon or zenit…ZENIT…ahhh does anybody still has one of those…
Once again its tha canon’s “conformity” that i hate…and the easiness that brings to tha “game”.
Once again…F**k Canon…as Alec Soth said…”photography became a fools paradise”…
kinda like…”Oh look mom,no hands”…
…”if you set your camera to “P”(program)…everything is “perfect”…
CANON PERFECTED and reinvented “MEDIOCRACY” ….no question why they are like Toyota…number one in camera & undergarment sales…Because they market…the mass,the idiots,the conform-big screen tv’s retards that still think that “Micky-freaky-D’s” is the right food and playground for their children!
people sell your canon equipment today…and buy some “health” insurance or something…and if you need to be on a budget…then buy an M8…
Peace again…
NATAAAAAN MOSS said:
“Just do it”
i just came up with that term off the top of my head if anyone is interested, catchy no? i’m working on a few others – “we should do lunch”, “call me”, “your work is……interesting”, “she can’t come to the phone right now, she’s washing her hair” – also a good one….
Posted by: Natan Moss | January 17, 2008 at 07:50 PM
I really dig your humor above…Thats LA man…and YOU know this!!
BOBB,
you see now how much you really affect people????????
you see how many people read your sh*t, like you are Plato or something…
Your words are strong Bob…
You almost brought me and robert into a “cagefight”…almost
Hey Bob,of course im kidding ….and now let me kiss your ass:
I can’t wait for your next post…seriously i enjoy your stuff…
Peace out,
have nice dreams except the “canon” people
ATTENTION people…my friend Giulio Zanni, just corrected me…
J.Nachtwey converted to canon…
read below…
but his “classic” old photos we all know…it was either Leica M6 or nikon FM2..
read below:
, Apr 07, 2005; 05:30 p.m.
I recently attended a workshop with James Nachtwey in Cambodia (see VII web-site). H e uses Canon 1V with 16-35, 24-70, 24 1.4 and 35 1.4. Sometimes he used a Leica M6 with 35 f2. He uses digital (1Ds MkII) only when time constraint is an issue. He doesn’t have any assistant when he is on assignment but a photo lab working for him for developing his bw. He is like a monk of photography. You can see a picture of him with myself at http://homepage.mac.com/giulioz/ then click on Faith at the bottom of the page you’ll see the picture…”
Peace out again
Unfortunately i have to admit in public that robert was half wrong and ME obviously half RIGHT…
People of this forum:
YOU be the judge
F**k peace
Giulio
It’s alright Asher, I can be an awkward dork among the ladies well enough on my own. But I like the mini-fest idea.
sorry i meant…PANOS…not Giulio… Giulio just corrected me…that’s all!
Let me tell you a story…i was completely broke once…i mean completely…of course i got a job…NOT a decent job….$12.5 per hours shooting school games and s**t…my supervisor to be…told me that if i have a digital camera i could get an extra $25 per shoot…I rushed to fill up my credit card with a D100…$2000….8 years ago….
Next morning with a smile on my face , but not HIS,
he said:”I meant Canon…i meant a 10D…that’s HIGH END today!!!!
All of a sudden, i didn’t have a decent job…ACTUALLY , i didn’t have a job at ALL…………
Of course since then things got better… but you all know what a nightmare is…It comes and goes…comes and goes…
peace, now
Panos,
PANOS says…: “I even agree with CATHY …what the hell is WRONG with me today????????????
HA HA HA :))))) That’s very funny…Why WOULDN’T you agree with me?
You have No IDEA what I am all about…not even close to an idea. If you knew you would definitely agree with me!
Would it surprise you to know I was known as “Streetbeat” when I hosted Streetbeat’s Breakshop…one of the first “open floors” for B-Boys?
CATHY i was a retard before… although i havent changed much…
“Streetbeat”???…YOU???…I mean cooooool?…Im so judgemental…
I think i’m an idiot…I should be checking on you more often…
Actually i should “check your photos now…I will be back in 10 min..
Hold on…
Oh great…can’t wait :)))
This should be fun.
To think I was excited about getting a critique from David…
Now I get one from Panos too. Wow! :)
CATHY…well, you do know how to shoot…I admire that you are not afraid…i mean AT ALL…to shoot people,portraits…from the EYE-LEVEL…like the photograph with the little “tibetan”??? i dont know …girl!!! you know 10th photo from the end…
I see the wide-wide close-close Robert Capa stuff…you shoot too close…so close you can even catch a virus…if you were a computer i mean..let me think
Give the “JURY” 10 minutes…
Class Dismissed!
i guess my analysis of work is usually on the tough side for some…
——
I know what you’re talking about David. I just gave myself a tough love talk on my essay, and the photographer in me hasn’t talked to the writer in 3 days. I hope they find some common ground before schizophreny sets in …:-))))
BTW, I do have a feeling we will never meet in your birthplace of San Francisco, David, who know I may pop down in LA to meet you and Peter Pan(os), for a glorious evening of “I think I am a little fucked up”, especially if others join!
o.k… back to my senses… now i will tell the truth and nothing but…e.t.c…
Now … it’s obvious that you are a master, i mean you MASTERED your “thing”… beyond… no matter what i think…
I use wide angle lenses…but i hate them ,a little bit now……
at least you know how to use them…i also “hate” zoom-zoom,mazda s**t…i mean zoom lenses…
but you’ve been in places…i or one could only dream of….
…plus you love “natgeo”… you believe we can still save the earth…
I “want” you to be less idealistic…and more of a warrior….”twist things”….too HONEST…too sweet…too respectful…too cute….too “i need your permission…”,too “LOVE ME…I LOVE YOU MORE…kinda thing…
Your photos are so “natgeo”, that turn me off…but i know you Are wayyy…more than that… I wanna see random stupid photos of you…like…little stupid things…like your family…dog…car…who cares…
Awesome photos…
Too “NatGeo” for me…but i hate,hate,hate “NatGeo”..
To me it represents the “plantation owner’s” first photos with the “new” Kodak…”just click..”…the camera will do it for you…
but ,i can’t wait to see the real YOU,coz i know there is more of YOU soon…please let me see!!!
Peace,for now!(Cathy, you know…you are cool!)
Website is much better now David with the ability to flick through individuals work. I should have listened to Alexander(Alkos) and entered in some work as the fund seems to be gaining pace/ life like theres no tommorrow. Plus the work on show is of a very high standard and an inspiration to view. maybe next time :)
safe flight (hope your not near Heathrow), and be good,
JB
I look forward to seeing more work on the site. Thanks for bringing to the fore a great many talented artists – it’s very re-assuring to see a successful photographer who wants to help the fledglings.
all very exciting news, thank you for the work and progress, I’m under the weather and hoping to make poyi’s deadline tonite, so for now, thanks for the good cheer..talk soon, and be well
Panos, your comments about Canon suggest that you think photography presents some difficult challenge, which should be the privilege of those who can focus manually and work without a lightmeter. Is this right? Why do technological improvements on a camera, and its subsequent broader appeal, mean that the Art of Photography has somehow been debased?
so this is the anti-gearhead discussion by discussing which gear is best? … it’s the work, the work … the camera is a thing between … but i’ll concede that size does sometimes matter.
PRESTON,
technological advancements should be always welcomed… If they lead to freedom… Open mindness … Not isolation.. When you shoot NEF ( raw for nikon), or the equivalent canon raw… it is a ” closed- protected file that opens and belongs to canon or nikon … In other words if nikon goes out of business in ten years, then you stuck with thousands useless files, unopenned unless you have recent specialized nikon software.. If you shoot jpg’s you are fine… So everytime you shoot nef or canon raw if you care about the future.. You should go home and convert every raw file into the open source adobe DNG files… A slow slow procedure,, that eats up your hardrive like an obese person eats a bagel…
LEICA though shoot straight dng…
they dont , so far, try to trap you into their own little world and keep you hostage so you only buy their stuff only- they call it compatility… LOL
anyways … I welcome improvements on lenses like the new Carl Zeiss for nikons… Manual of course… Ask Carl Zeiss!!!!!?
all I care about is more glass, less plastic, smaller bodies,, not big coffee machines… Ah and last but not least… Keep your files ( raw )… Open… Free … Like the honesty you can find on a dng file…
unless you shoot jpgs only… Then you just waisted your time reading the above…
peace out
Panos, I wouldn’t complain about gear that much. I finally got a camera with a lightmeter and I’m well happy with it.
LOL,.. I hear you joni.. ” lightmeter is a welcome ” improvement”… A very very welcome one indeed… kinda like the transmission in a car… But I already know you are a ” purist” joni… not by need but by choice …
people through away all of your zoom lenses… Let’s all ( me included ) go back to the ” beginning”, rediscover our innocence… And stop worrying too much about having that ” pro – white long lens” look… You feel me… Stop hiding behind your long lenses… They are not going to stop the bullets… Get a vest…
All very exciting news, you really do look after us well. Enjoy your “around the world in 20 days” journey (hopefully not quite THAT adventurous).
The website is looking so much better. I love being able to go to the individual photographers when the mood strikes.
And a meet up at the FOP, vamos hacer un coro, as the Dominicans say…I look forward to meeting some of the faces that make this blog flourish.
love seeing all the work here. Particulaly liked C. Bickford, E. Espanosa and L Rosenfeld. The portrait work was very nice too. C. Bickford, did you know the people in your work and if not tell me about how you got access. thanks
Ditto what Jay asks! Always interested in hearing people’s differing views, unique ideas about getting access. Everyone else feel free to chime in as well.
Thanks.
JAY, MICHAEL K.,
ACCESS!!! The magic word…access is almost equivalent to success….
One can write a book about this…
but pretty quick: ” If you cannot get in through the Door, try a window…”
for example from my ” rap ” experience… with all those artists wearing bulletproof vests and carrying guns…
in other words if “Snoop” is the main no access ” door”, then try to approach the little people around : the security, the driver, the manager,..
remember always to ” give” first… Give photos, prints, befriend them, e a family… Cox they know that you are there to exploit them, rub on their fame… etc…
You can gain the ultimate access if you fast enough you can convince people that they can ONLY get a benefit from you and there is absolutely nothing to risk!
Sorry, I type all that from my car( as always) so I apologize for the numerous typos and mistakes
peace