The Story Behind Every Photograph
The Story Behind Every Photograph…November, 2022
American Girl, 1951 This month's image is NOT my photograph, I'm always looking to change up these monthly Blog stories to keep my own mind fresh and keep subscribers interested in the content. This months story revolves around a good friend and photo collector extraordinaire Paul Paletti, owner of the Paul Paletti gallery in Louisville, KY. The Paletti Gallery does handle my work in the commercial gallery world along with some of the most iconic photographers in history. The backstory...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…October, 2022
Unfortunately the email service I use to distribute these group emails no longer allows me to choose the time of day the email is sent. The present "free" version chooses the the least opportune time to send the email, so apologies on my end, my hope is you still find the content of value. One last opportunity to promote the Photo Arts Xchange in Rocky Hill, CT on October 7 & 8th. Images born from any type camera from cell phone to huge large format film cameras will be...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…September, 2022
I love to write about trends that seem to go outside normal thinking. I read the book Art & Fear every time I get on an airplane for a photography trip. The biggest takeaway from the book is a college art professor divides the class in half and charges one half with making one supreme work of art in a given time frame. While the other half of the class is instructed to make as much art as they can in the same given timeframe. The time-frame ends and the work is evaluated, invariably...
The Story Behind Every Photograph…August, 2022
This Back Story came about waiting at a traffic light going to my granddaughter's softball allstar game last month. For context, growing up in the 60's, my Dad would constantly admonish me, sometimes several times each day and in different tones...to "Pay Attention". If there were a high school course in day-dreaming, I would have been the teacher's pet. This month’s Story is more about the metaphor of the two versions of Lower Antelope Canyon seen above, then the actual execution of...