Photos Based on Art
“Photo-Based Art” is where you start with a photo and then do something to it/with it to turn it into a different kind of art. Some of Chris’ digital artwork is of this type, where he will start with a … Continue reading
“Photo-Based Art” is where you start with a photo and then do something to it/with it to turn it into a different kind of art. Some of Chris’ digital artwork is of this type, where he will start with a … Continue reading
The fountains in front of the Neue Aula building are my favorite fountains in Tübingen. In years past, the fountains have been turned off in October for the season, so a couple of weeks ago Chris and I headed over … Continue reading
Maybe it was because I had just seen some interesting photos taken of people seen from above. The photos were by André Kertész and are currently on display at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, the museum is housed in the … Continue reading
Tonight was my latest lecture about 20th Century American Women Photographers (3rd in a series), and I was been busy putting the finishing touches on it today, so I never got around to a proper blog post.
I’ve been using the Library of Congress Photo Archives a lot recently to find copies of photos by early 20th century American women photographers. The LOC has a fair number of works by those women available, many of which have … Continue reading
This past Tuesday I gave another talk at the German-American Institute (d.a.i.) here in Tübingen on 20th Century American Women Photographers. It was part 2 of the lecture series, and I presented the women who were what I called the … Continue reading
It took me a while last Friday, on a dark and dreary morning when everything seemed clothed in a grey veil, but I finally located the tourist information center in downtown Omagh, a town about 70-80 kilometers west of Belfast. … Continue reading
Just a quick postscript to yesterday’s post about the first day I took photos with the new cell phone camera. As I mentioned, I did take photos in rooms other than the bedroom, but my favorite photo, yesterday’s LLM’s Unmade … Continue reading
There’s a story that the American photographer Imogen Cunningham used to tell about her friend and fellow photographer Dorothea Lange. The two women were contemporaries but had different styles of photography: Cunningham once said that she “need never photograph ugliness”, … Continue reading
I just realized I’d never written a third post I’d planned about the fog we wandered around in last month. So far, you’ve seen the fog hanging over Tübingen that day, as well as the patches of blue mixed with … Continue reading