| Photos as art: The 'Wandering Photographer' revisits a few creative favorites | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 3:09:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | Last month when Linda and Larry Brunz and I visited about their high school and college days, "Linda X-3" came to mind. It was an experimental portrait of Linda Riddoch, now Brunz, which was quite successful when I entered my work in international exhibitions of photography. In 1971, I submitted it to the prestigious Rochester, N.Y., salon, home of Eastman Kodak. I was quite disappointed when I got the minimum score, three points out of a possible 15. It would be the poorest score and the only rejection it ever got. I convinced myself to re-enter the color slide in the 36th annual Rochester International Salon in 1972. After all, the panel of three judges would be different. The second time, the picture received 14 points and was judged one of five color slide division's best of show photographs and was printed on the cover of the exhibition's catalog.... | |
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| | | CLIX Photography Franchise Adds Top Positions | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:16:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | CLIX, an Atlanta-based, rapidly growing franchisor in the portrait photography industry announces two recent promotions. Julia Burns and Kate Spencer were promoted to newly created positions as CLIX franchise training specialists in the Rochester, N.Y., CLIX Training Office. Both promotions come at a time of continued national growth for the company.Burns and Spencer will train new CLIX franchisees to successfully open and run their photography business. They will focus on teaching the new franchisees digital portrait photography, including lighting, posing and composition, digital photography software and portrait production and printing."We are thrilled to promote Kate Spencer and Julia Burns to CLIX franchise training specialists," said CLIX president and CEO, David Asarnow. "As we continue to expand CLIX nationally we saw a need for full-time training specialists to assist our franchisees with learning all facets of operating a CLIX photography business.... | |
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| | | FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:06:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | In Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, the photographer (Nicole Kidman) seeks relationships with her photographic subjects. She doesn't know this as she begins her work, but she appears restless, haunted and afraid. In part, this look is a function of Kidman's embodiment: She's pale and slender, almost encased in perfect '50s dresses. But the look is also conditioned by the film's effort to make her comprehensible. Her old life, as the wife of fashion photographer Allan Arbus (Ty Burrell) is complicated: She works as his assistant, but she knows the business, so her decision to make her own portraits is also a decision to express herself. Fur presents this decision through a personal journey, imagining that she leaves her husband because she finds herself in another man: Lionel (Robert Downey Jr.), who moves in upstairs and begins to seduce her.... | |
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| | | A Diane Arbus portrait loses its focus | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:16:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Early into Steven Schainberg's fantasia on the genesis of Diane Arbus' photography, a restless Arbus informs her husband, Allan, that she is going to take an evening walk. His response? "Be careful." He's too engrossed in his own work as a commercial photographer to ask where she's off to, and besides, what kind of trouble could his mousey mate get into, anyway? Mr. Arbus may not know where his wife is going, but we do. Since she's being played by the preternaturally intrepid Nicole Kidman, we can be certain she's about to take a walk on the wild side. .... | |
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| | | Images to idolize at Berra Museum | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:24:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's understandable if you don't immediately get the point of the photography exhibit currently at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center in Little Falls. "Barbies and Baseball," which combines the iconographic toy with the National Pastime seems to come out of -- well -- left field. Only after you see the large-format color Polaroid images by David Levinthal do you get it. Levinthal's photographs feature tiny action figures of famous baseball players with portrait-style images of America's diminutive sweetheart, all greatly enlarged on 20- by 40-inch prints. Before you see most of the images, though, you must pass Joe DiMaggio's original Yankee Sta dium Monument, one of the museum's exhibits. Then you see Levinthal's take on the Yankee Clipper hanging alongside a head shot of Barbie, who seems to be eyeing Di Maggio as his wife Marilyn Monroe might have done.... | |
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| | | Moss the star in fashion exhibition | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:15:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kate Moss is going to be the star of a show at the National Portrait Gallery - marking another step in the supermodel's phenomenal comeback. Images of Moss, whose career nearly collapsed last year over her alleged cocaine shame, will grace the walls of the London gallery for its new Face of Fashion exhibition. The show features about 100 photographs taken from 1990 onwards by five of the biggest names in contemporary fashion photography. Moss, 32, will make the most appearances in work by British photographer Corinne Day, Italian star Mario Sorrenti and the duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Day is famous for her collaborations with Moss over the last 15 years and credited with helping to discover her. Her "heroin chic" portraits of the young model in 1990 will appear in the show, including a photograph that was not published in Face magazine at the time.... | |
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| | | Portrait Studios Thrive in Fast-Paced Digital World | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:27:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | With easy access to cheap and fast digital photography services and devices, consumers may be surprised to learn that the portrait studios of yesteryear continue to thrive in todays culture. Although pictures are available everywhere from todays cell phones to popular mall retailers, portrait photographers have loyal clients who come back again and again to document their lives in a more intimate fashion. Portraits by Thomas Balsamo of Barrington exemplifies the life-long relationships that can develop between a photographer and his clients. People come back to me from all over the world, said Balsamo. Recently, a client who moved to Singapore came back to me to continue their collection. I have clients throughout the world in places like Spain, Iceland and Argentina.... | |
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| | | Kentucky calendar | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:21:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nov. 6 Intermediate Microsoft Excel, 6 p.m., Gateway Community and Technical College Boone Campus, 500 Technology Way, Florence. Class builds upon basic skills in spreadsheet program. Monday and Wednesday through Nov. 13. $100. 859-442-1170. Nov. 7 How to Deal With Difficult People, 8:30 a.m., Center for Great Management Practice, 2416 Royal Drive, Fort Mitchell. Free. Presented by Center for Great Management Practice. 859-331-4333. .... | |
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| | | Edwards photographer joins Denver show | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 3:36:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | What: "Mask: A Portrait Show" photography exhibit. When: Reception from 5-9 p.m. today. Where: With Artists Gallery in Lakewood. Information: Exhibition ends Dec. 3. Call 303-837-1341. EDWARDS - Raymond Bleesz, an Edwards-based documentary photographer, will show his image "Joe Berry, Christian Cowboy, Prague, Oklahoma" as part of the exhibition titled "Mask: A Portrait Show." Photos were chosen by Grant Leighton, a Denver portrait photographer and instructor who once served as famed photographer Richard Avedon's assistant. Bleesz photographed cowboy Joe Berry in Georgetown in March 1987. Berry was essentially a drifter holed up in a city park while looking for work further west. Bleesz put up the cowboy for the night, fed him and made arrangements for employment at a local dude ranch in return for a portrait session.... | |
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| | | Graham Nash to Make Northern California Appearances November 1 & 2 | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 11:44:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Art, photography, music and politics are all on the agenda as legendary singer-songwriter, fine art photographer, digital realm pioneer and activist Graham Nash makes a swing through Northern California this week. Nash's Northern California itinerary begins Wed., November 1 as he joins former President Bill Clinton, Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Congressman & DCCC Chairman Rahm Emmanuel for a 6PM event at S.F.'s historic Warfield Theatre. In an effort to win back the House through the Nov. 7 mid-term elections, the event will benefit the progressive Democratic congressional candidates who oppose the Iraq War. Graham -- whose long history of passionate political, environmental and social activism has always been integrated into his music career -- will give a special performance on a bill also including Jackson Browne and Fred Martin & The Levite Camp.... | |
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