Fisher’s lecture will focus on action sports images, especially skiing, from personal projects and professional assignments throughout Alaska, North America, and the Himalayas, among other locales. Whether it’s hanging from a Helicopter in the middle of winter in remote Alaska or skiing from 25,000 feet in the Himalayas, he will not only highlight the spirit of adventure, but also the story behind the shot. In addition to still imagery, Fisher will highlight the rapidly evolving world of DSLR videography with a clip from his recent expedition to 8014meter Mt. Shishapangma in Tibet.
Now age 90, Charis Wilson recounts her years with Weston with great humor, candor, and some regret. She recalls the adventure they set out on and collaborations with photographer Ansel Adams. Combining insight from leading scholars, rare archival images, and convincingly authentic reenactments, Eloquent Nude presents a remarkable true story of love and loss, travel and adventure, and an intimate look at the making of Modern photography.
"I still treasure how I was welcomed into a characteristically private and shy community. Being allowed to watch their activities, and moreover photograph them, was a blessing, especially considering their reluctance to be photographed. I wrote in my original preface that they chose to trust me and trust that the pictures I was taking of them would somehow be worth it in the end. Because the Daufuskie I photographed no longer exists, I know now that these photos are an invaluable archive for the islanders and greater American society, which makes me confident that their trust was not misplaced.”
You all may know by now that JDPW is moving to Hollywood into a wonderful big space! We originally planned to move over the holidays, but more time is needed for the construction of our space. Therefore, our Grand Opening will NOT be on Jan. 22nd after all. Stay tuned for a different date. We’ll be moving sometime in February.
When photographing the Dalai Lama, you have to remain calm, centered and want for nothing. He’s very sensitive to this. I leaned forward and asked politely, with praying hands, if he would let me take his portrait in the other room. He smiled, stood up, took the reporter’s hand in a fatherly way and walked toward my setup.
"To me, I was always interested in why people come into bars alone. I have a feeling why. They're looking for a connection, for people to listen to them, for a community .... I was not looking for anything particular except I would mostly only photograph people who were alone in the bar. I was drawn to people for different reasons: their clothes, their hair, their mannerisms, their face, or their mood. I was drawn to each person for a different reason"
Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time, the time
Life is bare, gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather, just can't get my poor self together
It's raining all the time, the time
Some people ask, "What's so important or compelling about taking pictures of such unpleasant subjects like city dwellers?" . . . My work may be beautiful or it might not be, that just isn't what I am concerned with. I try to be open and face the city. . . . To me it's not unpleasant or unbeautiful, it's just life--which has to be threatening sometimes if it is going to be interesting."
--Anthony Hernandez
Sara didn’t recognize herself in the first scene. She was too busy looking at the Muppet to notice that it was sitting in her chair reading her book, with her tea mug on the arm of the chair.
But when the scene of the Sid Muppet came up playing Halo in our apartment, I felt her hand get tight around mine, and she instantly started choking up and crying. This in turn made me start crying.
So there the two of us were; watching Muppet versions of ourselves on a movie screen and crying together.
So my thought was to try to get the artwork to relate to that whilst capturing a more eerie dark atmosphere. My first port of call was photographer Marc Atkins. I've worked with him for about ten years and don't need to say much to him - he gets it straight away. This was always going to be an image-based, rather than a design-based project.
This event features 20 Photographers and Artists from around the world displaying work from some of the most interesting structures in existence today: Abandoned Buildings and Off Limits Areas.
Some locations featured claim worldwide fame, while many other locations are right here in Los Angeles and other parts of the United States.
Local photographers and artists featured: Matt Smith, Joe Holiday, David Carey, Robert Keith, Garret Baquet, Desolate America, Nathaniel Perales, Phil Holland, and many more.
The Do’s
Do something old in a new way
Do something new in an old way
Do something new in a new way, Whatever works . . . works
Do it sharp, if you can’t, call it art
Do it in the computer—if it can be done there
Do fifty of them—you will definitely get a show
Do it big, if you cant do it big, do it red
If all else fails turn it upside down, if it looks good it might work
Do Bend your knees
If you don’t know what to do, look up or down—but continue looking
Do celebrities—if you do a lot of them, you’ll get a book
Connect with others—network
Edit it yourself
Design it yourself
Publish it yourself
Edit, When in doubt shoot more
Edit again
Read Darwin, Marx, Joyce, Freud, Einstein, Benjamin, McLuhan, and Barth
See Citizen Kane ten times
Look at everything—stare
Construct your images from the edge inward
If it’s the “real world,” do it in color
If it can be done digitally—do it
Be self centered, self involved, and generally entitled and always pushing—and damned to hell for doing it
Break all rules, except the chairman’s
The Don’ts
Don’t do it about yourself—or your friend—or your family
Don’t dare photograph yourself nude
Don’t look at old family albums
Don’t hand color it
Don’t write on it
Don’t use alternative process—if it ain’t straight do it in the computer
Don’t gild the lily—AKA less is more
Don’t go to video when you don’t know what else to do
Don’t photograph indigent people, particularly in foreign lands
Don’t whine, just produce
You've got to want it really bad, and you have to be somewhat prudent so that you can survive. You also have to be curious. I'm a real map nut. I'll look at a map and wonder what's out there. Places that are off of everybody else's radar are the places where interesting things can still be found. The worse the hotels, the better the pictures. If there is a Four Seasons, forget about it
