Charles Adams (my assistant both in the studio and in the field) is having his first exhibition this coming Friday, May 4th at Asymmetrick Arts in Rockland, Maine. It will run until May 25th.

24  of his images will be on display, along with sculpture from artist Vic Goldsmith. For those that cannot make the opening, there will also be an Artist talk on May 19th.

May 4 – 25
Asymmetrick Arts
405 Main Street, Rockland ME
207.954.2020

Learn more about Charles Adams and view his images here.

Visit Asymmetrick Arts here.

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Jay Maisel Speaks

December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Find out more about Jay Maisel here.

Jay Maisel quotes.

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The latest issue of View Camera Magazine features my father, Paul Caponigro with a special portfolio of unpublished work from 1959-2009.

64 pages of images with inspiring and insightful text.

“The eminent designer Eleanor Morris Caponigro has established a pace and rhythm here that allows each picture to breathe.  See how each refers to the one before it and sets up the next. A record of an amazing life – an astonishing achievement – climbs to elusive harmonious heights. ” – Michael Moore

Find more at View Camera

Read our father son conversation

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rmacholbert.com

September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment


R Mac Holbert’s (master printer Nash Editions) new website is live and growing
You’ll find …
Information on Mac’s workshops and seminars.
Free PDFs and Actions that complement Mac’s workshops and seminars.
Mac’s Acme Educational DVD The Dirty Dozen: Eliminating Common Imaging Mistakes.
Mac’s book Nash Editions / Photography and the Art of Digital Printing.
Like any website, it continues to evolve.
So, check it out now.
And, check back later for more useful resources.

Check out my conversation with Mac here.
Check out our workshop The Fine Art of Digital Printing here.

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New Braasch Images

September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment

You’ll find new images for two Gary Braasch posts on climate change.

Click here and here.

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Tim Wolcott  announces his self-published book “Along the Water’s Edge”.

“Gallery of the American Landscape is proud to present a major new release by master photographer Timothy Wolcott, “Along the Water’s Edge.” Tim’s new release is a celebration of some of the finest landscape photographs ever captured. This book covers 20 plus years and over a quarter of a million miles traveled. These 79 images, represented in this large 12 x 12-inch fine art coffee table book have been exhibited worldwide in museums and fine art galleries. This book sets a new standard for the photography world, it’s masterfully printed to exacting detail, printed in the hexachrome process to capture all the amazing color and subtle detail that articulates Tim’s work. This special offer is released in three editions: Museum Edition, Collector’s Book Edition, and Trade Edition.”

You can get your copy of “Along the Water’s Edge” here.

Tim very generously shared a lot of good information about what it takes to make a self-publishing project successful in the following Q&A session …

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Annie Leibowitz

May 3, 2009 | Comments Off

Interesting.
What a production!
A few nice insights.
Don’t “forget to build your own.”

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Duane Michals

April 19, 2009 | 2 Comments

One of the most creative voices in photography. Period.

If you don’t have time for the full 30 minutes, skip to 6:00.

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Kathy Beal has a thoroughly unique approach to making images, capturing out of focus fields of color on location and using them as a jumping off point for creating unique compositions in Photoshop. Though still inspired by specific places and their palettes, her images take you to entirely new places with a palette all her own.

Kathy’s one of my long standing alumni who has come so far so fast it’s thrilling to watch! It took a combination of many things to make breathroughts – commitment, research, persistence, risk, courage, feedback, sensitivity, passion, and the most important of all hard work. But she enjoys what she’s doing so much, it doesn’t seem like hard work. She’s become incredibly productive, producing thoroughly unique work. Her growth can only be described as an explosion of creativity.

Check out more of Kathy’s work from Antarctica here.

Check out my workshops here.

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Robert Adams

March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment

Robert Adams is an exceptional photographer who writes and speaks exceptionally well about the photography.
Check out his classic books Why People Photograph and Beauty in Photography and other books I recommend reading here.

Light

Working Along Freeways

Books & Gravures

Wood

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Hiroshi Sugimoto

February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of our finest contemporary photographers.
Elegant. Insightful. Experimental.



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Check out Rick Sammon’s conversation with Scott Sheppard on IDP Radio where he discusses his recent trip to Antarctica.

Then find out about his three new books this year.
Face to Face: Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Photographing People, Rick Sammon’s Exploring the Light: Making the Very Best In-Camera Exposures, and Rick Sammon’s Digital Photography Secrets.

And finally, check out Rick’s YouTube station here.

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“I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person…I guess what you’d call the human condition.”

For more than twenty-five years Steve McCurry has covered areas of international and civil conflict, including the Iran–Iraq war, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, Beirut, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Gulf War, and Afghanistan. Face of Asia concentrates on his extensive work from Asia, including images from India, Afghanistan, as well as recent work from Cambodia and Tibet. McCurry’s vivid color images and descriptive titles give us in the West a window into the cultures and peoples of Asia.

Check out this podcast at eastmanhouse.org.

Find out exhibition venues and dates here.

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NVIDIA graphics cards offer better performance for many different types of creatives. They’ve spotlighted a number of people and their work on their website Speak Visual. We all use similar tools but often do very different things with them. The diversity is really interesting.

Check out Speak Visual here.

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“There’s nothing more exciting for an artist than an exhibition showcasing new work, unless that show also features the work of an equally acclaimed and beloved spouse. Such is the story of photographer Jerry Uelsmann and artist Maggie Taylor at their recent “Just Suppose” exhibition at the University Gallery, University of Florida (UF), Gainesville, Fla.

Although the content of their art has a similar ethereal quality, both have very different approaches. Jerry Uelsmann rose to fame in the 60′s and 70′s as a master black-and-white printer creating composite images with multiple enlargers and long hours in the traditional darkroom. In contrast, Maggie Taylor produces her dreamlike color images by scanning objects into a computer using a flatbed scanner, manipulating the images with Adobe Photoshop, and printing them in a digital workflow using Epson Stylus Pro printers.”

Find out more about the production of their new work for this exhibit here.

Read my conversation with Jerry Uelsmann here.

Find Jerry and Maggie’s books here.

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Father and son talk art.

Here’s an excerpt.

JPC O’Keefe once made the statement “You must learn to love the paint.” I think this quote very much emphasizes the process of being alive to one’s materials. I think the same needs to be said for one’s subject and oneself. I feel a work of art is great to the degree that the artist is truly alive to all three of these things. We touched on how to identify a work that is truly alive. If it is, is it a great work of art? If so, why is this so often confused with technical mastery and historical or ideological relevance.

PC The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn’t belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like “this is mine”, “I did it”, “this is original”, “nobody else has done it”, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit. No matter how simple the idea might be, it is compelling. Because the source has been allowed topermeate or inspire it.

Read the rest of the conversation here.

Find out about the new Running White Deer inkjet print here.

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Prices for photographs have hit historic records. Contemporary artists are now selling photographs for more than $3,000,000. Richard Prince created one of the most controversial and expensive photographs; an appropriated image used in advertsing, represented in large scale, printed on inkjet, in an edition of 2.

Here’s Sam Abell’s reaction to Prince’s appropriation of one of his images.

Here’s Richard Prince speaking about his work in general.

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Photographer Richard Benson is the man behind the highly informative new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC – The Printed Picture (on exhibit through June, 2009). Anyone who goes will expand their understanding photographic printmaking and it’s short but rich history. I did. In it you’ll see exceptional examples of a wide variety of printmaking methods from offset to gravure, platinum to silver gelatin, and inkjet. I highly recommend the exhibit and the accompanying book.

“The Printed Picture traces the changing technology of picture-making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies. The book surveys printing techniques before the invention of photography; the photographic processes that began to appear in the early 19th century; the marriage of printing and photography; and the rapidly evolving digital inventions of our time. From woodblocks to chromolithographs, from engravings to bar codes, from daguerreotypes to modern color photographs, the book succinctly examines the full range of pictorial processes. Exploring how pictures look by describing how they are made, author Richard Benson reaches fascinating and original conclusions about what pictures can mean. Includes 326 illustrations.”

Also visit the exhibit of Benson’s personal work – Found Views, Chosen Colors – at the Pace Macgill Gallery in New York through November 29.

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Find out more about The Printed Picture here.
Get the book here.
Visit Found Views, Chosen Colors online here.

Read my conversation with Richard Benson here.

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David Wright, my fabulous assistant for the last two years, principle architect of the ambitious Pause to Begin project, is leaving soon to work with socially conscious organizations in Africa. He’s raising funds for his trip with a print offer. You can help two good causes with one action. Here’s how.

“In January 2009 I leave Maine for Alebtong, Uganda, where I will spend two months volunteering and photographing for A River Blue, a non-profit arts empowerment project for the children of internally-displaced persons in Northern Uganda.

I will be using my large format camera to photograph the people and landscape for a traveling exhibition and book that will be used to raise funds for A River Blue. Details will be announced in the spring/summer of 2009.

To raise funds for the trip, I am offering a selection of my limited edition prints at substantially reduced prices.”

Please visit davidwrightphoto.com to support his trip, A River Blue, and Africa.

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“Legendary photographer Pete Turner still knows how to punch up the color and get people’s attention. The master colorist, who broke all the rules in the pre-computer era, is taking his creativity to an entirely new ground with the unprecedented control of digital technology. His photographs are best known for their blazing hues, atmospheric effects, daring perspectives and surreal landscapes.

Turner personally printed 50 of his most loved images, with colorful names like “Lifesaver, USA” and “Hot Lips,” for the recent retrospective, Pete Turner: Empowered by Color. The photographs were on view in his hometown of Rochester, N.Y. at the renowned George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.”

See the short 6:33 video on Turner from Epson Focal Points here.

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