A visit to Storm King Art Center with Family – Family Fun

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Approaching the elevator to the mansion

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Granddaughter running.

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Father and daughter planning the tour.

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Granddaughter resting on Butterfly Chair by Johnny Swing.

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Mother and daughters by Three Legged Buddha by Zhang Huan.

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Three Legged Buddha, this time showing scale.

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Mirror Fence by Alyson Shotz. Both granddaughters loved this one.

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Mirror Fence Again.

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Both granddaughters running.

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Running towards Bitter Sky by Anthony Caro. (I think).

Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and a variety of Fuji lenses.

A visit to Storm King Art Center with Family – Overview

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Above: Clouds over the South Fields. On the right a red metal sculpture called “Mother Peace” by Mark Di Suvero (I think). On the right just barely visible is a dark sculpture also by Mark Di Suvero: Pyramidian

My younger daughter and her family (husband and two granddaughters) came to visit last August. It was a gorgeous day and since they hadn’t been then before we decided to go to Storm King Art Center. In case you don’t know it the Storm King Art Center describes it as follows:

Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley, where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky. Since 1960, Storm King has been dedicated to stewarding the hills, meadows, and forests of its site and surrounding landscape. Building on the visionary thinking of its founders, Storm King supports artists and some of their most ambitious works. Changing exhibitions, programming, and seasons offer discoveries with every visit.

I took quite a few pictures, but even these only represent a small fraction of what there is to see. For a more complete view I can heartily recommend: Storm King Art Center Sculpture Guide. If you can find it that is. It seems only to be available used or possibly from the Storm King Art Center Gift shop (which is where I got it).

To me it’s quite unique. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II

On Street Photography and the Poetic Image

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I’ve had this book by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on my Amazon.com wishlist for a number of years. It’s called On Street Photography and the Poetic Image and it’s part of the Aperture Photography Workshop Series. Since nobody seemed inclined to buy it for me I decided to buy it (along with two other volumes in the same series) for myself.

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I very much like the simple approach: Each page consists of an image and some text (usually no more than a couple of paragraphs) commenting on the photography, sometimes the specific photographs and sometimes broader photographic concepts.
The images are not limited to those of the two authors (Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Web). Photos by other renowned photographers (e.g. Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka Charles Harbutt, Eugene Richards, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Bruce Davidson and others) are used to illustrate matters that the authors considered to be important.

It was attractive to look at, easy to read, and yet challenging to the intellect.

I really liked it.