My wife sent me this story from the Rumpus that loosely fits with a few other posts I’ve written about photo manipulation in the 19th Century. There is a show right now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York featuring collages made by … Read More →
Tag Archives: history
More Manipulated Photos
I have written a little bit in the past about manipulated photos. Today, the NYTimes has a short story with some good examples here. In the slide show, slides 3 and 4 about a 1902 Ulysses S. Grant photo are particularly interesting because of the … Read More →
Playing with large format 5×7 camera
I have known for a long time that my dad had an old wood field camera up in the attic. I know this because I broke it when I was a kid. I was running around the house in my socks, slipped on the hardwood … Read More →
Some history: manipulated photography
This post is related to the previous post about altering images. A few weeks ago I was at the Chrysler Museum of Art and bought the catalog for a 1994 exhibit called Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision: The Photographs and Theories of Henry Peach Robinson and Peter … Read More →
The truthfulness of photography
Norm Shafer, who I know as a photographer at the Virginian-Pilot (an awesome photo paper where I have freelanced occasionally) recently raised questions about my use of both advertising and editorial content on the same blog. He had thoughts which I think other people share … Read More →
How I almost met Elliott Erwitt
I was in New York on Monday and Tuesday. The initial motivation for the trip was to have a Fine Art print made at Laumont Studios for an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center in March 2011. Laumont has printed for Stephen Shore, Mitch Epstein, … Read More →