New Book – Process

My new book Process details the many aspects of my creative process. I hope you’ll find it to be useful as well as interesting. “An artist’s creations come out of far more than the activities in their primary medium. How artist’s get there is, perhaps,...

Aaron Siskind – Literally Abstract

If he wasn’t the first, Aaron Siskind was certainly the preeminent abstract expressionist photographer. The abstract details he presents as new hyper-flat surfaces stand independent of their original subjects. Abstraction in non-representational art celebrated in the modernist movement early 20th century has taken many forms;...

Edward Burtynsky – Manufactured Landscapes

Edward Burtynsky’s photographs deftly weave together aspects of a well-researched documentary expose and a beautifully constructed formal artistic statement, but it’s unclear which is more dominant, or if they’re something else entirely. Burtynsky let’s the things he photographs speak for themselves. Yet he photographs specific...

Jerry Uelsmann – Visions From The Mind’s Eye

Since the 1950’s Jerry Uelsmann has created his surreal photographs entirely in the traditional black-and-white darkroom combining multiple negatives seamlessly into new visual realities, ones that didn’t exist before the camera eye at one moment in time but were found in the mind’s eye over...

Richard Misrach – A Life’s Work

Richard Misrach has dedicated himself to a single project for a lifetime – the Desert Cantos. Begun in 1979, the Desert Cantos is a series of series that takes its name from its location, the American desert southwest, and the structural term for a subsection...

Eliot Porter

“Celebrate the life and work of Santa Fe photographer Eliot Porter. For more than a half of a century Porter pursued the natural world with his view through a camera. He had numerous publications, most notably with the Sierra Club. “In wilderness is the preservation...

Eliot Porter – Environmental Advocacy Through The Arts

No other photographer is more influential to me than Eliot Porter – save my father. I knew Eliot through my mother’s long collaboration with him designing and overseeing the production of over twelve of his books during my formative years. His influences on me are too...

Adam Fuss – Visible Traces

Adam Fuss’ photograms encourage you to think about photography, in different ways and much more broadly. His life-sized camera-less photograms represent one man’s attempt to work with, explore, and see subjects, media, and perception more directly. By making camera-less images, Fuss eliminates many distortions inherent...

Exploring The Expressive Possibilities Of Aspect Ratio

Distortions of the same image explore aspect ratio expressively The proportion of an image’s frame is a fundamental part of its statement. Unlike many documentary photographers who keep the proportion of their image frames constant to reduce their presence and suggest that their images haven’t...

Andy Goldsworthy – Ephemeral Collaborations With Nature

Andy Goldsworthy considers his sculptures collaborations with nature. It’s Goldsworthy’s pieces that don’t persist that impress me most. Why? It’s not because they reverse traditional expectations, that through art an individual and culture achieves extended longevity if not immortality. It’s because Goldsworthy is free to...