More from the Bisa Butler exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, continuing from my last post. Click any image to see them all enlarged.
Mannish Boy
detail from Mannish Boy
Mannish Boy
Category: close-up
Dune-Nude
Living Life from behind a Window Screen
Favorites
Last week I posted a shelf of Anthony Burgess – here’s another. the second shot is more of a shameless plug for the Islers, my father’s novels, my sister’s text and a few of my own poor entries.
Grapes of Wrath?
Another home shot with the Fuji 60mm macro lens and, unfortunately, too-hot Litra cube.
Like Gold Dust
Coin Jars
Bathroom Cabinet
Still shambling around with the 60mm Fuji Fujinon and the Litra cube.
On Photography
Steidl printed a new edition of Sander’s classic 7-volume People of the 20th Century a few years back at a quite bearable price and I was lucky enough to pick up a copy for something like $75 (Amazon currently lists 7 copies ranging in price from $325 to over $1000).
If I can’t photograph anything new, I guess I’m down to photographing books of photographs or books about photography…
Time Life
When I was about 12 or 13, Time-Life Books started issuing a subscription series of books on photography. They were very cheap, but much more than my weekly allowance would cover. I persuaded my father to cover half the cost and every other month a new volume would arrive. I devoured them. Initially a series of 8, they subsequently extended the series but we had left the country by then so I only have the original set. Still a worthy source for the budding young photographer.
Kodak DC280
My first digital camera. Lovely, sleek design. Sometime in the late ’90s I decided digital had come of age and bought this 2MP beauty for something like $700 for family snapshots. That summer I had an epiphany with it on the beach at dawn, realizing how much better modern cameras with auto-focus were than my match-needle, fresnel-screen, manual-focus SLRs and soon I had switched to higher end digital cameras, sticking with Minolta (I had an srT101, an XE-7 and a couple of xD-11s) and getting the Dimage A1, a 5MP all-in-one that I loved, and then their first DSLR the 7D, now both long gone.
Ansco Viking
I don’t remember where I picked this up but I actually used to shoot with it. In fact, in 7th grade, when I was 11 or 12, I shot pictures of Greenwich Village with it for a group school report. Entirely manual and un-metered and, probably with some minor holes in the bellows I got some nice big foggy, low-contrast negatives on Kodak 120 film with it.
Duaflex II
In my desperation to find subjects worthy of photographing around the house, I’m turning to my collection of old cameras.
Glasses in a Glass
Coin of the Realm
Stack of coins from long ago travels, with a wooden clothespin on top. The brilliant Fuji 60mm macro has picked up schmutz and fine dust hairs that I can’t see with my weak, unaided eyes.
His Nibs
I used to be a calligrapher, Here, a collection of nibs in an old bicycle tire repair kit case with a few staples thrown in for good measure.
Binder Clips
Plastic Spoons
Bowls and Specular Highlights
More Glasses
