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Paramount

tait — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:23:02 +0000

When the circus comes to town I get similarly excited.

Paramount

Definitely Not Cuba

tait — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:01:30 +0000

I read this morning that a US state department official met with authorities in Cuba to discuss a number of small but significant issues between the two and apparently are making some small inroads into thawing the 50+ year icy relations. I think the most amusing of these gestures is that we’ve turned off a sign that “streamed anti-Castro messages on the windows of the United States Interests Section [in Havana]“. Apparently in return the Cubans have lowered large black flags that obstructed the view of those windows. Promising…

Having never officially been to Cuba myself, I though I’d share a few old images from my travels through other caribbean island countries (but definitely not Cuba).

The Saxophonist (2003)

Untitled Ride (2003)

Julius Shulman

tait — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:04:15 +0000

Shulman, the preeminent modernist architectural photographer died wednesday in Los Angeles at 98.

I had the chance to see a Shulman retrospective at the Getty in LA a few years ago and even own a copy of his book Photographing Architecture and Interiors. He had an incomparable sense of composition and as far as I’m concerned is the god-father of modern architectural photography. You can see more of his iconic work here.

©Julius Shulman

Venturo

tait — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:39:44 +0000

Here’s a recent image of my good buddy Venturo, looking thick like a body builder. Taken the same day as the Yuengling can below and shot with one of my pride and joy/piece of photographic history cameras: the Leica M6 TTL. After an inspiring conversation with a friend recently about this camera, I decided to break it out again and see what she could do. Needless to say, I’m never disappointed with this camera, and every so often it delivers a piece of magic that i didn’t think was possible. Serendipitously I suppose.

Venturo

Lower East Side

tait — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:42:47 +0000

Repulsive, I know, yet there is something oddly alluring and telling about garbage and a clogged sewer.

Untitled 2009

New Black and White

tait — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:57:05 +0000

After finalizing the pagination of my new book, i realized, as if it hadn’t been entirely obvious before, that the entire book is in color. Truth be told i haven’t shot much black and white in the last year, so it makes sense. However, there was a time where I shot almost exclusively in monochrome, so lately I’ve been shooting a bit more of it and finding that my way of seeing has fundamentally adjusted after a year and a half of shooting color exclusively. In thinking about an image and projecting it in my minds eye, I realize that where I once was really only aware of light and color as it would translate to shades of gray, I’m now imagining completed images that not only depend upon color, but are often the focus of the image itself. Needless to say it has been something of an adjustment to get back into the monochromatic way of thinking about light, but as a change it is a welcome one.

Here are two recent images. First, John during a day in the park and then from a day at the beach.

John in the Park

Day at the beach