1. Notes: 6 / 1 year ago  from jenbee

    jenbee:

    This Too Shall Pass — OK Go

    (I’m late to the party on this, but maybe not the latest? If you haven’t seen it: it’s amazing.)

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      rocks my world! jenbee:
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      True that! I used...be obsessed with Rube Goldberg machines as a kid…this one is EPIC.
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I have a small studio in a historic (really old) building on old North Main St. in Akron, OH. The place was dubbed Red Light Gallery and is reputedly a former bordello. I have always loved taking pictures of women, so I began with the idea 'Women of Red Light Gallery'. I checked out a book "Storyville Portraits" which was put together by Lee Freidlander and edited by John Szarkowski. I have seen these before, but decided I needed to pay more attention to the detail. I am asking any visitor to the gallery to pose, so I broadened the idea to include males and more clothing. As I have shot, I am expanding my poses by rearranging the objects and adding objects. The people have been gracious, and I have enjoyed talking to them about their ideas of a picture, usually narrowing to "looking beautiful, which is not necessarally my intent". I change the RAW files to black and white for the sitter to view on the web, but intend to print them with cyanotype and Van Dyck Brown asap.
Conceptually, the pictures are extremely different from Bellocq's, the people are not prostitutes, I am a female, I am using digital media and setting the props up, and always using the aged walls of the building. The circumstancs are almost 100 years different, yet when I have these everyday people pose for me, they are often vulnerable and the photographs reflect that.
Susan Sontag wrote a wonderful forward for another Bellocq book, view it at this link: http://www.masters-of-photography.com/B/bellocq/bellocq_articles2.html
My pictures can be seen at: http://redlightartists.webs.com
 
 

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