A couple more of the images I collected in Farnham of the bright sunlight flooding our apartment. The one above, shot on Ilford HP5 at 6 x 4.5 cm and the one below shot digitally.
Light and Shadow
Tag: Black & White
Light and Shadow
One of the things I miss most about Farnham is living in a bright, sunny apartment. A couple of the last (digital) light play images I shot there.
Light Play
The play of sunlight on the walls in the mornings is fantastic. I took to photographing them on film but haven’t yet gotten the processed film scans, so I started taking them with a digital camera as well. Here are the digital ones.
Triangle, Streets
The triangle juts out from the corners of Principality (formerly Millennium) Stadium. A couple of other contrasty Cardiff street views I converted to black and white below.
Wrestler
The painting above, with embedded video was from an exhibition about a local man who escaped the mines by becoming a flamboyant wrestler. I can’t find any trace of it on the museum’s web site.
We also saw an interesting exhibition called The Valleys, with work by over 60 artists including Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne, photographer Robert Frank, Josef Herman, photographer Bruce Davidson, and Ernest Zobole as well as introducing the work of collier artists and makers including Nicholas Evans, Harry Rodgers and Illtyd David.
Perfectly Clear
Alternately, in black and white:
Going Down
La Petite Ceinture
Almost a year ago, I visited a delightful park in Paris called La Petite Ceinture (the little belt), created on the remains of a disused little railroad circuit. Imagine my surprise to see this photo story at the Musée Réattu taken back when the railroad still ran.
Musée Réattu
Hunting for the Transcendence show at Vague, I came upon the Réattu Museum, its courtyard and windows on the river (Rhône). I came upon a well-known French photographer with whom I was not familiar, Jean-Claude Gautrand, who documented many important stories for the latter half of the 2oth century and into the 21st. Click on images below to see them larger.
Tower Steps
In the last post on La Tour I had been trying to see Joel Coen introduce his curation of Lee Friedlander’s photographs but the crowds were too big and I was turned away. I returned the next day to see the show without Joel and capture some more of the stark geometry of the place.
I missed it
Sitting in the shade at the Place de la République I saw this priest walking across the square and reached for my camera. By the time I had it out of the bag, he had turned and started chatting with this cyclist and the shot was gone. In the meantime, other photographers were attempting images with their Leicas (lots of older men wandering around with Leicas in Arles, shooting, I don’t know what…). Anyway, I clearly missed the shot and didn’t even nail the exposure.
Darkness in the Afternoon
More Geometric Art Space
Morning Light
Several mornings in a row, the morning sunlight flooding into the bedroom and bouncing off a mirror, glowed radiantly into the hallway.
Barbara Kruger
Our next stop was the Serpentine Gallery for the Barbara Kruger show, Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You, which I had previously seen at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 (and here, and here). While this exhibit was necessarily much smaller than in Chicago it had also been greatly updated and made more use of video and LEDs (see a few shots below, click them to enlarge).
Gallery Space
The Goodman Gallery provided an opportunity to continue my collection of big, open, white gallery spaces. See more below (click pictures to enlarge).
Underground
North Downs Way
Went for a walk on the North Downs Way a week or so ago. It seems there has been a lot of trimming back and brush clearing. I tried to capture the contrast of the branches and their reflections in the River Wey, not altogether successfully and converted to black & white.
Shadow
Given the strong shadow against the building, I thought this might make a good black and white image. But it turns out I prefer the colour version.
Sculpture of the Artist
There’s more going on here than meets the eye. Below this statue on the plinth is found a plaque reading, “Non Plaudite, Modo Pecuniam Jacite,” which translates from Latin as, “Do not applaud, just throw money,” perhaps a comment on the assumption of the art world into that of commerce so nearby?
I discovered this piece changes in response to the viewer at Atlas Obscura (although I did not witness any change myself).