The Wicked Burns of Chris McCaw
As the story goes, photography is the capturing of light, both in the literal and metaphysical senses. If you can imagine a sunlit room containing cushioned furniture and any number of little articles, and imagine all the light that falls and curls under the objects into shadows. Using light sensitive materials to burn those objects; reflections onto a document, is lightwriting, photography. Are your palms sweating and is your mouth as dry as mine? Chris McCaw is a San Fransico based photographer who salivates when contemplating this wonder of a medium for sure, otherwise he would not have investigated the methods he used to produce SUNBURN, a series of paper negatives that have been s...Read more
fiat lux!: Alan Jaras plays with light.
Photography: the art of painting with light. Most of the time, a print is made from a projection onto photographic paper via an enlarger, but in the case of Alan Jaras, prints are carefully made form the beauty of light itself (typically not through a lens). Jaras is a master of shining light through pieces of glass, or whatever other transparent objects he can get his hands on. Alan Jaras does not alter his images digitally; the color on the prints he makes is true to what he has captured. Here is a link to a blog page with more pretty photos. http://www.neublack.com/art-design/alan-jaras-light-photography/ here is his website, with even more pretty photos. ht...Read more
Twilight
Normally, when a hit series comes out, I make my scorn widely known. Harry Potter, for instance, which I believe are probably great books but everyone and their mother and grandmother have read them. Someone asks me if I'm a fan and I sniff loudly and say I'm saving that series for retirement. I thought Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series would be the same. Massive hoopla surrounds this teen love story of a mortal/vampire love affair staged in the hallways of a rural highschool, and by November when the movie came out, I had already put on my smug face, ready to claim it didn't interest me, too mainstream you know. Then I read Manohla ...Read more