Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
Pictures from two bands playing at a farm where we went to get pumpkins about a year ago. The first and third are “Nashville Drive” (at least according to the sign). The second and fourth are from another band – I didn’t get the name.
Samuel Beckett, 1976
I’m somewhat ashamed to say that I had never heard of Jane Brown until I read some of the numerous obituaries, this one from “The Guardian”, the newspaper for which she worked for many years.
Throughout her long career as an Observer photographer, Jane Bown, who has died aged 89, produced a consistent and singular body of work that straddled many areas of photojournalism. However, she will be remembered above all for her deeply insightful portraits.
via Jane Bown obituary | Art and design | The Guardian.
For more examples of here work see here: Jane Brown: a life in photography – in pictures.
Jay Maisel. Light, Gesture & Color
Fascinating book containing about 250 of Jay Maisel’s images, each one accompanied on the opposite page with with a short comment on it. It doesn’t focus on the technical stuff as much as it focuses on how to see a compelling photograph. I found it to be a very easy read. I read fairly quickly and was able to get through almost all of it while drinking coffee at a local Barnes and Noble. I was rushing a bit though and could easily have spent more time studying the images. It’s worth buying for the images alone and the text is very tasty icing on the cake.
Amazon.com: Light, Gesture, and Color Voices That Matter 9780134032269: Jay Maisel: Books.
Found on an opened vault in an old, abandoned cemetery behind the Reformed Church in Beacon, NY.
Not too far from our house Roaring Brook runs into Roaring Brook Lake. These were taken on Roaring Brook not far from where it enters the lake. Sometimes the brook is quite dry, but we’d recently had snow and the snow melt caused the brook to be fairly full.
