I95 Branford is this year’s offering.  Opening is 10/8/09, come see.

Mother Nature is sure entertaining.  Ain’t she great?

Amazing sky, amazing weather, just 3 minutes.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Fraction Issue 9

Fraction Issue 9 is up and running. Stop by and take a look.

featuring work by
Alexis Pike
David Ondrik
Jennifer Ray
Keith Johnson
Bethany Souza

New book reviews from Corey Dzenko and a look at Robert Frank’s “Looking In” by Jonathan Blaustein.

Canandaigua Looking South in the Morning

I have been photographing this tree for 25 years, I may have figured it out.  We’ll see.

An amazingly fortuitous meeting with Prophet Isaiah in Buffalo.  I was told I was saved.  Bob was not.  Go figure.

After an afternoon of trying to find the meaning of life ….

A fine workshop conducted at Maine Media Workshops finished today with a good time seemingly had by all.  Students made fine progress, lots of pictures made, some of note.  The weather turned out to be spectacular all week.

I leave early tomorrow for Newport and the Jazz Festival there.  I should be a great one.  More soon.

Maine.  The morning is sunny and a bit cool but perfect for a landscape workshop.

for the second time in 34 years I spent some time at the New Topographics show at GEH.  the house has re-hung the seminal show from 1975 not in the original gallery but the adjacent one, 100 prints from the original exhibition.  Talk about a personal history of photography.  I distictly remember having a railing experience about Hank Wessel’s work for at least an hour as Paul Hester and I drove back to Providence from Rochester.  How impactful the show became when my generation began to teach the edicts of the show and then those students carried on the tradition.  My feelings have changed about the work in the show over the years and now taking a class there yeaterday heard my speaking in reverential terms about the work.  True, photography has moved along and different ideas are embraced now, and Rick Hock said “it was no big deal”,  it still remains a seminal work.  I am delighted to spen time with it.

Waiting during a 2 hour delay at DFW in March with Mark Malloy.  Joys and pleasures of business travel.

It goes on (and on).

Light grid v. 2.  Where is it going?  Stay tuned.

Miguel Zenon, Puerto Rican alto sax player/composer winner of Guggenheim and MacArthur grants is very smart, very accomplished, and a fine musician.  He played last night in the Yale Law School courtyard as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven.  Quite extraordinary.

A new/old picture made yesterday but shot a couple of years ago at the Addison Museum at Andover, MA.  Taken at the Southworth & Hawes exhibition curated by Grant Rohmer from GEH.  He contributed the title.

This coming fall I will be having three concurrent exhibitions in Boston:

Panopticon Gallery in Kenmore Square at the Hotel Commonwealth will show recent Grids

September 16-November 8, 2009;

New England School of Photography in Kenmore square as well will show Extended Landscapes

August 24-October 2, 2009;

and the Griffin Museum in Winchester, MA will show Suite Niagara

August 27-October 5, 2009.

Last night was the first of the free on the New Haven Green concerts.  Buckwheat zydeco kicked off the summer music…not bad for the money either.

Recently seen at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, CT, Ben Allison is my current hot must listen to performer.