Abrazos

Are you in DC for the ‘fest at any point?

The exhibit A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks at gallery Carte Blanche in San Fran, which includes burn.01, is traveling to FotoWeek D.C. and opens tomorrow: November 9-18, 2012 (11:00-6:00 PM); The Warner, 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC

Curated by Darius Himes and Larissa Leclair, the exhibition draws from the Indie Photobook Library’s collection and features 70 photobooks along with a selection of photographs from the books (Eliot Dudik, Matt Eich, McNair Evans, Erica McDonald, Michael Jang, and Lacey Terrell) selected by Gwen Lafage (Founder, Gallery Carte Blanche). The exhibition looks at the “documentary tradition” through the lens of a 21st century, global photographic community in which the lines between journalism, art and the long-term documentary project have blurred, morphed and continue to feed off of each other.

The catalogue for A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks is now available to purchase. Thanks again to Larissa Leclair, Darius Himes and Gwen Lafage for all their hard work on this project. Featuring 70 photobooks & the prints in the exhibit, the catalogue is available at http://www.blurb.com/books/3697896 – and you can get a 30% discount through Daniel Milnor at http://www.smogranch.com/2012/11/01/blurb-30-off/ — with Patrick Aguilar and 8 others.

Feature Shoot wrote a piece called Top 10 Things to Do and See at the FotoDC Festival, which includes a visit to A Survey of Documentary Styles in early 21st century Photobooks: http://www.featureshoot.com/2012/11/top-10-things-to-do-and-see-at-the-fotodc-festival/

On a personal note, it’s exciting to be included in the exhibit/book as both photographer in burn.01 and as photgrapher and curator of Uncommon Intimacy: Amy Stein, Juliana Beasley, Amy Touchette, Erica McDonald – with Laura De Marco.

Thank you DAH and Anton and all who worked so hard to make burn.01 a reality and for continuing the tradition!

It makes me wonder sometimes, too. I blame it on a very contrarian nature. And Michael K, I thought I was a lot classier than the Rude Pundit, who is definitely rude, and some others I could point out on my side of the fence, who think it’s time to stock up on gold, guns, and canned foods because the Republic is coming to an end.

Must one depart? Remain? If you can stay, remain;
Leave, if you must. One runs, another hides
To elude the vigilant, fatal enemy,
Time! There are, alas! those who rove without respite,

The Voyage, Baudelaire.

P.

Just shows you don’t use your kitchen to cook.. nothing would survive hanging above my kitchen.. I did notice there were no coffee stains anywhere though.. you sure it’s your kitchen? ;)

AKAKIEEEEEEE…don’t forget to fool me now…:))))))))))))))))))))))

I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLL…reporting from Grecolandia…oime…

well you know how it is…you have an idea, and you try it…i always try ideas that have only a small chance to work…something that is guaranteed to work, might “work”, but yet not WORK ..only by trying something a bit chancy will something special arise, or it just does not work at all…for sure i will always do better with most work if i am alone…on the other hand the point of this was to photograph our “family trip”..that was the main goal…this three week trip might yield say 8 pictures or so..maybe in the end only 2….i just cannot say yet until i finish this project which is just getting started…

a workshop is a whole different animal..and we did have one student with us on this trip….a workshop is for me to mentor others…on this trip i was the “student” looking for a story..

Anyway, although I’m not a huge Karsh fan, I did briefly own an original vintage print of his famous Churchill portrait. I found it in a junk shop for $14 about 20 years ago. I sent it off to sothebys in New York, and it sold for $1200 back then. I paid my property taxes with the proceeds that year. I wonder what it would have been worth today. As I recall it was a pretty crummy print, grey and muddy.

Back to photography:
I followed every post of the trip, I think that La Tortuga was a wonderful funny experience, but hard to work with so much party going on and good weather in CA…

It was an interesting warm up, leading to what you did in Las Vegas with the Robles.
You needed that, after the California journey, you had to focus on the title “For a Family Drive”.

David, could the experience be different if “rules” are set prior to the departure?
I mean. What about a four/five day workshop on the road… Talking about till noon, then shooting and coming back at 6pm for editing and discussion in a bar. Everyone for its own. Alone. Solo.
Lot of discipline of course.
Thought.
But that’s the hardest about photography I know… At the end of the day, of course, fiesta is allowed :-)

Abrazo
P.

Sidney, who appointed you hall monitor? Some might say the same thing about weather reports. Or links to New York Times articles. Or Sandy photos. Or anything you or anyone else doesn’t find relevant or interesting. That said, one does have to wonder why someone in ill health entirely dependent on a government job and the excellent health and retirement benefits that go with it is a rah rah member of a movement that wants to fire him and then deny him healthcare and a comfortable retirement so that people who have total contempt for him can get a second Cayman flag flying yacht and another billion dollars or so.

sounds like a bad trip…ha ha…well my kitchen floor, under certain conditions,does move around a bit :)

the Family Drive project probably has about another year to do…the only part that is over is 5 of us in a recreational vehicle…i will continue on soonest either alone or with one other person…the responsibility of more than 3 and a vehicle as cumbersome as La Tortuga was just too much…all i could think of was getting everyone home safe…still we had a lot of fun , especially along the California coast…running into heavy snow after we hung a right and tried to get over the mountains was another story…i will go to the wall soonest with what i have…it is a scrapbook i am trying to do here, so the parameters for pictures are a bit different than normal and i am still struggling with structure…that part, the struggle for structure, is very normal…nobody can ever just “do it” …it is a process…a process that will be discussed here at length…

Brian :)
This segment of the trip was already announced to finish on the 2nd of November,
and it actually DID END on the 2nd!!!
As I wrote just above… This is only a segment , not the whole Trip, but part/segment of it…
Stay tuned for mas:)