Woman Aircraft Worker © 1942 David BransbyLabor Day weekend I will be doing some serious laboring. A good friend is getting married in Washington, DC, on Sunday so I will be making the three and half hour trek down I-85 for the big event. Of course, this means I will miss the opening of The Interactive Landscape at Mt. Tremper Arts. I am happy my friend found true love, but it sucks the...
Friday, 31 August 2007
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Travels With Charlie
Posted on 10:54 by election
© Charles TraubOne of the joys of my time with the Do You Know What It Means project has been working with Charles Traub. I have known Charlie for a while now, but our relationship has been defined by highly structured situations. First, with me as MFA student and Charlie as department chair at the SVA and next with me as Director of DYKWIM and Charlie as the visionary and leader behind the...
Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Monday, 27 August 2007
Back to the Big Easy
Posted on 20:07 by election
Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, 1970Tomorrow I am traveling to New Orleans for my last stint as Director of the Do You Know What It Means project. This week marks the second anniversary of Katrina and I will be there speaking at a press conference as we officially hand off the photo archive and the Web site to the Historic New Orleans Collection. You can read more about the event here. I have...
Saturday, 25 August 2007
Griffin Opening Recap
Posted on 09:18 by election
© Colin BlakelyThis past Thursday, Shen, Natasha, and I made the journey up to Winchester, MA, for the opening of the 13th Annual Griffin Museum Juried Show. Any time I am covering that much ground on the highways I take along my tripod and the RZ just in case there are some stranded motorists along the way. I am always looking to fill out the series and I was secretly hoping to show off my...
Friday, 24 August 2007
Behind the Scenes of a Crewdson Shoot
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© Gregory CrewdsonBoston.com features a photo and text slide show behind the scenes of a recent Crewdson shoot in Pittsfield, MA. With massive budgets and a crew of over thirty that includes grips, a lighting team, interns, models, firemen, and police it's spooky how similar your typical Crewdson shoot resembles one of my shoots. Smart guy award goes to Pittsfield local, Robert "Skube" Skubel,...
Richard Misrach: This Photo is Blowing My Mind
Posted on 05:32 by election
Desert Fire #153 (Man with Rifle) © Richard MisrachWhile I was visiting Corey Arnold in Portland, I was flipping through his copy of Richard Misrach's Desert Cantos and rediscovered this remarkable photograph. All of Misrach's photos in that book are amazing, but I kept coming back to this one ima...
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
Griffin Museum Juried Show Opening Thursday
Posted on 10:30 by election
© Shen WeiI will be on the road again tomorrow traveling all the way to Winchester, MA, for the opening of the Griffin Museum of Photography's 13th Annual Juried Show. My traveling companion this time will be good friend, Shen Wei. I'm hoping he understands when I pull over to photograph stranded motorists along the way. The Griffin show will feature a number of pieces in the Main Gallery and...
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Greetings from New York City...Sigh
Posted on 12:13 by election
It's strange how one day you find yourself at the apex of mental and spiritual satisfaction stretching out in the vast unspoiled beauty of Mendocino County and the next day your joy is stripped clean to the bone as you fight with your fellow New Yorkers for an extra inch of space on the AirTrain from JFK. New York is all about compression and I realize now more than ever that my future may...
Friday, 17 August 2007
Greetings from Point Arena, California
Posted on 22:27 by election
Another long day of traveling through beautiful country. We only ran into one stranded motorist, but I think the photos will be great. Possibly a triptych. Normally I would be disappointed after driving for an entire day and only shooting one situation, but this trip was just too amazing to complain. We started in Eureka down Highway 101 toward the Avenue of the Giants. Standing in the...
Thursday, 16 August 2007
Greetings from Eureka, California
Posted on 22:54 by election
5th Street and Broadway, Eureka, CA © Stephen ShoreWhat a haul. Today we traveled the length of Oregon on Interstate 5, across to Crescent City on Highway 199, and down the Redwood Highway to Eureka. Along the way we photographed five stranded motorists including a one-legged hippie named Josh in Humboldt County. All day long the light was perfect and each situation proved better than the...
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
Greetings from Portland, Oregon
Posted on 10:16 by election
We rolled into the Rose City yesterday after a hike through Oneonta Gorge and a stop at the Edgefield for a couple of beers. We found a couple of stranded motorist, but the next couple of days are all about exploring Portland and taking a rest from photography. Last night we hung out in the Hawthorne neighborhood with the fabulously talented Corey Arnold and crashed at his home for the night....
Monday, 13 August 2007
Greatings from Cascade Locks, Oregon
Posted on 22:19 by election
Another long drive today, but the stranded business was good. We left Boise and found a couple stuck under an overpass not ten minutes later. The photos from this shoot should be a little different and I am excited to print them. A short while later we saw a woman and her children stuck in the east bound lane of I-84. We were heading west bound. As is often the case with my Stranded trips...
Greetings from Boise, Idaho
Posted on 08:39 by election
Long day yesterday. We drove from Winnemucca, Nevada, to Wells, Nevada, and then up Twin Falls, Idaho, and west to Boise. Many miles and only three stranded motorists. We did stop at the Snake River Canyon in Twin Falls and saw the site of Evil Knievel's 1974 jump attempt. There is a lot of beautiful open land out here, but not many stranded motorists. Today we are going to poke around Bo...
Saturday, 11 August 2007
Greetings from Winnemucca, Nevada
Posted on 23:19 by election
What a day on the road. Here's a quick recap: Last night we arrived in San Francisco around midnight, rented a car, and headed east toward Sacramento. The plan was to drive for about an hour and then find a hotel. Just outside of Richmond we hit a major traffic jam and only made it to Vallejo. You have to love California.This morning we left Vallejo and made our way through Folsom. Funny,...
Wednesday, 8 August 2007
I Love This City, I Hate This City
Posted on 06:45 by election
If you live or work in New York City, then you know how much fun this morning has been. Severe rains have flooded the subway system and crippled the city. I am currently assisting a class at the ICP, but it looks like I won't be able to make it in. I also have about 5000 other things I need to do in the city before I leave for my Stranded trip this Friday and now I am pretty much stuck at h...
Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Humble Arts Foundation Offering Limited Editioned Prints
Posted on 04:52 by election
Peri, Route 80, Kentucky 2006 © Amy SteinStarting today Humble Arts Foundation will be offering small editioned, signed prints from three photographers: Corey Arnold, Jessica Roberts, and your's truly. The purchase of the prints will help support Humble's mission of advancing the careers of emerging fine art photographers. The prints are priced to move, so you better grab one (or two) quick...
Monday, 6 August 2007
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Stranded Tour Hits the Northwest
Posted on 19:31 by election
2007 © Amy SteinNext Saturday I will be heading west for the next leg of my Stranded series. For eight days I will be driving the highways of northern California and Nevada, southern Idaho, and most of Oregon searching for stranded motorists.As I've mentioned before, making pictures for this series is hard work and there is great deal of chance involved. Hopefully, the many miles traveled...
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