Comments on: Spring https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: Ross Nolly https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-173141 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:45:03 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-173141 Paul; “Few retain the same energy and age as time goes by. Perhaps they’ve “said” enough as it is. Even though their record companies and bank managers will disagree”

That seems to apply a lot in music (take the Stones for example); a couple of stand-out songs per album and the rest like a “paint-by-numbers” version. Few seem to keep evolving and trying new things. Maybe it’s a case of being comfortable, or not wanting to “ruin” their legacy?

Yet in other arts; writing, painting etc may artists seem to keep evolving Not in all cases, but it does seem to be a trend. I suppose that’s why I admire Tom Waits, Neil Young etc; they’ve done it their way the entire time and are not afraid to take chances whether they work or not…. Sort of what Patti Smith said in that interview…

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By: a civilian-mass audience https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-173131 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:22:07 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-173131 Hello BURNIANSSSSSSSSSSS…I miss you ALLL…

some amzing news for one of our BURNING boys…
http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2278636/michael-christopher-brown-joins-magnum-photos

Bravoo MICHAELCB…!!!…BBQ on you…!!!

back to our regular program

“COMMON GROUND”,we are here…!!!

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By: Pete Marovich https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-171336 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:31:46 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-171336 Hello All.

I am posting a plea to help my friend and fellow photojournalist Scott Strazzante promote his Kickstarter project to bring his long-term project “Common Ground” into book form.

“Common Ground” brings to life his documentation of the disappearance of the American family farm, and the grave cultural and environmental impact of the resulting suburban sprawl. In over 17 years of looking and listening, Scott set judgment aside as he explored the evolution of one plot of Illinois farmland, and the people who live their lives there.

Now Scott hopes to give this personal project permanence in book form. And he needs our support to do it.

Common Ground started as just another daily assignment for a suburban Chicago newspaper and turned into a nearly two decade long ongoing project that has graced the pages of the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Mother Jones and National Geographic.

The project has been honored with Pictures of the Year International’s Community Awareness Award and 1st place in Feature Video in the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism contest.

Scott Strazzante has been a staff photographer for The Chicago Tribune since 2001. A 10-time Illinois Photographer of the Year, Strazzante has covered the Super Bowl, the World Series and three Olympic Games, but he is more proud of his work that uncovers small but universal moments in daily life.

Please take the time to watch the short video about the project and read more on his Kickstarter project page at the link below.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottstrazzante/common-ground-the-book

A $50.00 pledge would be a great show of support and it gets you a signed copy of the book!

Thank you for your consideration to support this exceptional piece of community journalism!

Best Regards

Pete

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By: Paul https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-170561 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 05:13:53 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-170561 Henri Cartier Bresson interview:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/henri-cartier-bresson-living-and-looking/

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By: Carlo https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-166727 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:49:49 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-166727 Don’t know how it works but Look3 set up a livestream and it’s starting soon:

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/4257752

This will start in about 10 minutes:

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/4257752/events/2177538

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By: a civilian-mass audience https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-166094 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:55:36 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-166094 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJP9wDhDoI

THANK YOU

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By: a civilian-mass audience https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-161871 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:54:02 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-161871 I know I am early …hihiii… but I might be without internet for the next few days and I just wanted to be sure that I will have a piece of the cake …hihii

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By: a civilian-mass audience https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-161856 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:14:31 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-161856 HAPPYYYYYYYYYYYY

BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

MR.HARVEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!

From Greece and the Greek family…we wish you to keep BURNING !!!

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By: a civilian-mass audience https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159960 Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:16:28 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159960 Thank you All for reporting…EVA,thanks for the weather report…it feels good to have “neighbors” like EVA!!!

oime, I have to send good energy to my “east side neighbors” in Turkey, “Everywhere is resistance, everywhere is Taksim!”…be strong…

Keep shooting…the “next generation” is watching you,ANDREWB …:)))

I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL…Happy 1st!!!

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By: Cesar https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159705 Fri, 31 May 2013 19:36:14 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159705 Interesting words about snapshots, having fun and energy… Sometimes, with my mobile phone I take pictures I like more than the ones taken with the Fuji X100… With the mobile is like if you lost the obligation of taking the best picture, the best composition… You just see and shot, without concerns, and many times, the result is nice!
About creativity, once in a training about “time management” the teacher told us about the % of creativity has a little boy.. 99%, and how it disappears as we age… Over time, we are more governed by discipline, responsibility, social norms, … and that “cuts” creativity … Hence, many of the great artist in History were identified as eccentric, out of the norms of the “rigth way of life”…
That´s waht that teacher said… ;-)

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By: andrew b. https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159428 Fri, 31 May 2013 02:24:18 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159428 Actually, I think he was joking about the flash – he was having great fun, we know quite a few of the venders, and he’s taken portraits of some of them consistently for a couple years now…he said a couple p[eople asked him if he was shooting for a story or school – he told them it was a personal project :)

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By: Imants https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159392 Fri, 31 May 2013 00:24:41 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159392 Markets are generally great safe havens for kids most people are quite receptive and forgiving.

The “desire” could be where things go awol……

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By: andrew b. https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159340 Thu, 30 May 2013 21:46:37 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159340 FROSTFROG
Know exactly what you mean. I’m convinced the WorPress template used by burn hides typos until you hit the “submit” button :)

ALL
Thank you all for the suggestions and inspiration….and yes, Imants, stepping away sometimes works for me as well, until the desire to create overwhelms whatever it is that has pushed me off. I shot for my high school and college paper, and then quit for many years….

I, too, have found if I have a song in my head it helps…I have a playlist on my iPod called “shoot” that are some of the songs I find that get me moving creatively….even if I just listen to them on the way to where I am going.

David, I think you especially would have enjoyed watching my 15 year old son last weekend at the farmers market. We went just to wander around and take photos….he had seen the video of Bruce Gilden working the streets of NYC, from the thread when we were talking about approaching people ….anyway, while I was walking around pondering what was there – and thinking too much, and not getting much of anything, he was walking quickly, taking a shot, then moving quickly on…and getting some really fun street photographs of the venders and the people in the market….when I told him I liked the way he was working the area, he said he was trying the way he saw Bruce shooting in the video… but beyond that he was truly just instinctive with what he was shooting…

http://photos.imageevent.com/j_andrew/alexflying/web-0844.jpg

Of course he then asked if he could use my flash and a remote cord :)

I didn’t have them with me and told him to practice a while and next time maybe he could use them. Look out, people of Lexington!

good light all,
A.

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By: Ross Nolly https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159339 Thu, 30 May 2013 21:26:28 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159339 David/Paul/Andrew. It may sound silly but the greatest bit of recent inspiration for me was seeing Neil Young in concert a couple of months back. Seeing someone who is still so creative and constantly trying new things is still resonating.

Also; you just knew they (Neil and Crazy Horse) were so into it that night. Jamming, head to head (literally) in a tight circle for massive solos lasting up to 20-minutes. Young’s solos were something I’ve never heard come from a guitar. It was like watching (and felt like) a band jamming in the garage; into it for the music and nothing else (even after40-years)… For me; inspirational. …. :-)

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159286 Thu, 30 May 2013 18:55:25 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159286 “never fails…” See what I mean?

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159285 Thu, 30 May 2013 18:54:57 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159285 Damn. It never fells. No matter if I read these things over two or three or even four times, I don’t see the typos and errors until right after I post. Then they just jump out at me. To clarify the worst of the errors:

“…I must spend of my time indoors putting all this together, when I should be out shooting.”

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159282 Thu, 30 May 2013 18:49:55 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159282 First, just to be absolutely clear, although I wrote in jest the sentiment was real. This is a beautiful and amazing photo. It should live throughout the remainder of the time of humanity – and beyond. Of course, David has many photos one must say the same about.

Now, speaking of spring – last week, our lakes were still iced over. It felt like we never going to see a warm temperature again. Now, over the past two days, our most popular lake, because it sits right on the highway in the middle of town, transformed once again into Wasilla Malibu. Yesterday, the temperature rose to 83 degrees.

Right now, I am both blessed and cursed with a couple of good, well-paying projects. Blessed, for the obvious reasons; cursed, because the shooting is complete on both and now, that the cold and dark of Alaska winter has been replaced by the constant light and sometimes warmth of the Alaskan summer, I must spend of time indoors, when I should be out shooting, putting all this together.

But yesterday, with the temperature at 83 degrees, I had to get out and roam about for a little bit and shoot a few pictures – all from the car – part of my quest to document a mostly roadless state from the roads of its roaded areas. These are all snapshots of marginal quality, most blurred a bit due to camera movement caused by car motion, the fact I was holding the camera in one shaky hand and pointing it blindly at crowds of people and things I was not looking directly at and just leaving it to my lens to decide what to focus on.

Still, it is fun to do and see what happens and I think it does present some impressions of the Far North I think most southerners seldom envision:

http://www.logbookwasilla.com/logbookwasilla/2013/5/29/wasilla-at-83-degrees-as-seen-from-the-car-a-teen-and-his-bi.html

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By: Paul https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159234 Thu, 30 May 2013 17:00:40 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159234 David…

Thank you very much for the Magnum invitation! Is the party on the 23 of June?

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By: kathleen fonseca https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159217 Thu, 30 May 2013 15:59:55 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159217 Imants,

that´s a very cool site..saw this about autochromes..potato starch, who knew?

“The picture of the Algerians above was made with such an autochrome plate. Microscopic grains of potato starch were dyed red, green, and blue-violet, then mixed evenly and coated onto a sheet of glass. A black-and-white emulsion was then flowed over this layer.

During exposure, the grains of potato starch on each plate acted as millions of tiny filters. The light-sensitive emulsion was then reversal processed into a positive transparency.

When viewed, light passes through the emulsion and is filtered to the proper color by the starch grains. The resulting mosaic of glowing dots on glass gives autochromes the look of pointillist paintings.”

Autochromes were the first true color pictures, and the only industrial color photography process until 1935.

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By: a civilian-mass audience https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2013/05/spring/#comment-159176 Thu, 30 May 2013 13:41:18 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=16395#comment-159176 RENOIR or simply… DAH.
Congrats !!!

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pierre-auguste-renoir-the-umbrellas

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