On this Site: Landscape in Memoriam is best summed up, in my mind, with a quote from Sternfeld himself. In his Afterword, on going to Central Park (in 1993) to photograph the spot where Jennifer Levin was strangled (in 1986), he writes “It was bewildering to find a scene so beautiful . . . to see the same sunlight pour down indifferently on the earth.”
Continue reading “Joel Sternfeld – ‘On this Site’”Andrea Modica – ‘Treadwell’
Sometime in 2019, Andrea Modica moved and set up a new darkroom. In the process of moving, she came across an unopened case or two of her long out of print book Treadwell.
Luckily for Charcoal Book Club members, Modica had just enough copies to pass on to us, and Treadwell became the photobook selection for September 2019.
Continue reading “Andrea Modica – ‘Treadwell’”Enter the Instax Wide…
Last year, my dear Mom gave me a Lomo LC-Wide with the Instant Back package for it, and since she was gifting a LC-Wide, she picked up a pack of Instax Wide film for it…
My employer uses this Bravo! thing for employee recognition, and after several years* I built up a bunch of reward points…
What does one have to do with the other? And what do either have to do with the entry of a new camera into my collection? Well…
Continue reading “Enter the Instax Wide…”Huw Alden Davies – ‘Prince’
As a sort of counterpoint to Paul Graham’s Mother, here’s Huw Alden Davies‘ brilliant portrait of his father, Prince.
Continue reading “Huw Alden Davies – ‘Prince’”Gregory Halpern – ‘Omaha Sketchbook’
Omaha Sketchbook was the Charcoal Book Club selection for August 2019. Had it not been for Charcoal, I probably wouldn’t have picked up a copy of it. First off, I’ve been on a photobook buying hiatus since June 2019; second off, well, I don’t have a good reason. Gregory Halpern’s work is excellent, and Omaha Sketchbook is definitely interesting.
Continue reading “Gregory Halpern – ‘Omaha Sketchbook’”On ‘Annie on Camera’
You’re probably not too familiar with Annie on Camera. I hadn’t heard of it, and don’t remember where I found out about it, but I’m glad I did.
In 1982, Ray Stark produced the film adaptation of Annie. At a party during filming, he engaged Anne Hoy to hire some photographers to come and photograph the production. These photographers were outside of and in addition to the unit photographers that worked making stills, continuity shots, and the like, and they had to stay more or less out of the way of actual production. Hoy talked to people and hunted, and in the end found and hired 9 photographers to more or less wander around and photograph whatever they liked, and Annie on Camera was the result.
So who got the nod? Well, some stars of the time, and a few newbies: William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Jane O’Neal, Stephen Shore, Neal Slavin, Eric Staller, Robert Walker, and Garry Winogrand, all collected together in one volume…
Continue reading “On ‘Annie on Camera’”Paul Graham – ‘Mother’
What is there to say about Paul Graham’s Mother?
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