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Ah Haa

tait — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:40:40 +0000

It’s been rather quiet on the blog for the last few weeks and there is definitely good reason for it. First, I was out for a week on location in lovely muggy Columbus, Ohio which I found was quite a nice little city and great place to run if you are in to that sort of thing. Second, since returning I have been toiling away getting a new print of an older image ready to go. For a little back story: a few months ago I was contacted by Lauren Metzger, the exhibitions manager at the Ah Haa School for the Arts in Telluride, Colorado about donating a print for their annual fund raising auction.

I spend a fair amount of time in the little town of Telluride and those who follow this here blog may recall that I participated in a bookbinding and box making class at the Ah Haa last fall (check out the fruits of that labor). While I’d given them work in years prior for their silent auction, this year Lauren asked if I’d like to be included in the main event, the live auction. I felt honored and I hope that my print will help raise a little much needed cash for the small local arts organization.

Check out the print below just before it got shipped out yesterday and see the most recent image from the Hotel Delmano series here.

30″x34″ Flowers at the Hotel Delmano #1 print (1 of 5)

Hotel Delmano

tait — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:09:08 +0000

You won’t often find me leaning over to take photographs of flowers, small animals or other such things, but here are a few images from a short series I was working on for a little while called Flowers at the Hotel Delmano. Each time I’d pass it seemed there was a new bouquet in the window and each time the light and scene outside made the same window unique.

On a related note, like past years, I’ll be donating a print to the Ah Haa school in Telluride for their annual fundraising auction. I was thinking about sending one of these (probably the second or last one) mostly because I really want an excuse to print one of these and see how it comes out. I have to decide and send them a jpg of the image, whatever it maybe, on Monday, so I’ve got the weekend to mull it over.

Flowers at the Hotel Delmano #1

Flowers at the Hotel Delmano #2

Flowers at the Hotel Delmano #3

Flowers at the Hotel Delmano #5

The Edge of Vision

tait — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:00:52 +0000

Last night at the Aperture gallery, JL books hosted an opening night party for three of their new releases by Corin Hewitt, Bertrand Fleuret and Michael Schmelling. Corin Hewitt was present, working on a still-life-photography-as-performance-art projected to the sounds of ambient techno! It felt kind of like an art rave or something. Anyway, the real discovery for me was another of the JL books by Jason Fulford, entitled Crushed, and for $25 i took a copy home with me! It is a really beautiful little book (in fact all of the JL books are quite petite for photography books) and while the images have this yellowish hue, looking like it could have been photographed in the early 70’s, most of the work was produced between 1999 and 2001.

I was also pleasantly surprised to find that Aperture’s exhibition The Edge of Vision was also still on display. The collection got me thinking about the abstract potential of photography, being that it is most often such a literal medium. But it is really not much of a stretch at all, considering how an early innovator like Edward Weston* with his semi-abstract landscapes and still lives, forced you to pause, if only for a moment, to reconsider what it is that you are seeing in a photograph. Since the jury is still out on whether or not I’ll be posting the copyrighted work of others on this blog, I thought I’d dig into the archive and share an abstraction of my own, even though it is really just cross-processed and out of focus. Enjoy.

Untitled (barrier) 2008

* As a side note, i just read yesterday that James Danziger is working on what he describes as a revisionist approach to showing Edward Weston for his gallery Danziger Projects. Exciting!