Up an Coming: Erin Graboski
Erin Graboski is a Colorado photographer based out of Denver Co. Erin is new to the art scene here in Denver just recently making her work available to the public. She recently launched her website under the name Cosmic Autum. Erin has a interesting style and approach to photography. Like most great artist she does not follow the main path that many people see as traditional photography. Here subjects may be everyday things, the way she manipulates her images in post processing is brilliant. Many of her images have a nostalgic feeling with a combination of vintage film and lomographic feel. The coloring and tone of the images scream dark yet leave you with a tranquil sensibility. ...Read more
A New Breed of Artists
As we move into a technology savvy world day by day the way many of us create and share art changes as well. Looking back ten years ago in order to share your artwork out side of your social circle you jump through hoop after hoop. You would need to go through curators, art directors, and other advancing artists. Many Times these limitations left many artists undiscovered standing out in the rain with no one to open a door. However with the revolution of technology these barriers are no long an issues to some extent. Thanks to the Internet it has open on a worldwide gallery that can be seen by billion. Blogging has been at the forefront of helping artist put out there work; you have the op...Read more
For the Love of Photography, Discovering Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier was a privately independent woman who was recently uncovered as a inextricably prolific photographer. She worked at shaping her craft in New York in the 1950's before moving to Chicago where she would spend the rest of her life. She was notably un-materialistic and earned money as a nanny. Late in her life, three of the children she had nannied split her bills, and in 2007, Maier's storage locker would be auctioned and her life's work which she has hoarded away would soon be discovered. Films, Audio, and documentation of a unique urban Americana of the 1950's through the 1990's were found along with over 100,000 negatives. Her work is now being exhibited. What a gift! Alt...Read more
Art education: Nathan Erfurth’s new twist.
In an effort for a more informed generation, Nathan Erfurth is at the forefront of taking photographs that are in a sense historical fiction, and blending them with education materials in order to create a more rich learning environment for students. When I had first come upon Nathan’s photographs on display at Margie’s Java Joint on 16th street in Greeley, I was taken back to what appeared to be a black and white slideshow of the lives of others, and events that had come to pass. I couldn’t help but feel the images as mildly suggestive of old pulp comics and noir films-- they are an effort, however, to blend what new generations are culturally inclined to notice with his...Read more
Light House, Dark Box, Meg Dreyer
Sometimes one gets so caught up in ones life, one never really has a moment to stop and reflect on the whole picture. Life can move very quickly past present moments that pass into our memories Sometimes simplicity is overlooked and forgotten and it is often that the the simplest things are the most challenging to recognize as the most exquisitely and masterfully made; such as a classic chocolate chip cookie, or pin hole photography. And so I bring you a series by artist Meg Dreyer of pinhole photographs entitled Light House, Dark Box. The images are solid and pure exhibits of image making. There is a limitless amount of metaphoric ambiguities that each image could lend itself to. One ca...Read more
"The Future is Analogue" -Lomographers
Lomography is the name of this lo-fi/hi-fi, analogue technique that was instigated by two Viennese students touring Prague. The fairly recent activities responsible behind “a magazine, a shop, and a community,” as the website spouts. The history is seemingly more interesting than the fashionable home page leads one to believe. The word “Lomography” stems from the LOMO LC-A camera, which was a soviet modified Cosina CX-1. The Lomo was put into production in 1982, and features a sharp glass lens and a very high light sensitivity. The camera was found in a hole in the wall camera shop in Prague by visiting art students in 1991, and it has been their project to br...Read more
Fink is my Friday Favorite
Larry Fink is the American born photographer most well known for his hand held flash, which captures the candid moments of celebrities and common-folk alike. From the age of 13 on, Fink found that social participation was less stressful behind his lens. Indeed, Fink’s images do not portray an outsider looking in, but instead, an active player in the moment he captures. His work is very well known, and is housed in such prestigious institutions as MOMA, site of his first one-man show in 1979, as well as the Whitney and the Guggenheim. But these anecdotes, impressive as they may be, don’t amount to the reason behind his greatness. In my opinion his greatness as a photo...Read more
Ant's Eye View and Jaques-Henri Lartigue
One of the most inspiring master’s of photography began his career at six years of age. The French boy Jaques-Henri Lartigue shot in stereo, on glass plates, and also was responsible for making some of the first autochromed prints towards the end of the 19th century. The subject of his photography was his immediate surroundings and the day-to-day life of a French bourgeois adolescence: sporting events, automobile races, friends, play and fun. Lartigue presents us with a complete autobiography of his life at the turn of the century. I find that his use of the media to document his early years, unprecedented. Not because he was a bright boy who made impressive photographs,...Read more
Happy MOP Denver
This month the photographic community of this state as well as communities across the globe are celebrating The Month of Photography! Galleries all over Denver are a buzz with showings of photography from traditional, alternative, and digital, and everything in between. The month of events was organized by RedLine Gallery, and fun will be had all month long. As for myself, I plan on celebrating by attempting a blog a day, highlighting the masters and the master amateurs, discussing history/theory and also technique. If there is anything you, my readers would like to know about the media, let me know and leave me a comment! There are 27 days to find out everything you’ve ever...Read more
Stephen Shore Remembers When...
Today I look again at the images of one of my color photo inspirations, Stephen Shore. For those who know Shore's work, you can probably skip this blog. Shore's image gallery is hosted at 303 Gallery's web site. I survey his selected works and I'm filled with desires to road trip across the country. I think of Vonnegut quotes, and I think of the recent retirement of Kodachrome. Those were the days. I'm really not sure why I want to talk about all this old news; writing about Shore's work seems like Vonnegut, and the topic of American dissent - so cliche. But I still love to look at Shore's photographs, read Vonnegut, and bitch about the things that I cannot control. Bl...Read more