#tbt Dawoud Bey’s Zabar Lecture at 205hudson ✨⚡️
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Bey talking about the influence Roy DeCarava has had on his life and work.
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life was recently reprinted and is available 📚
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“In 1952 DeCarava became the first African American photographer to win a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. The one-year grant enabled DeCarava to focus full time on the photography he had been creating since the mid-1940s and to complete a project that would eventually result in The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a moving, photo-poetic work in the urban setting of Harlem. DeCarava compiled a set of images from which Hughes chose 141 and adeptly supplied a fictive narration, reflecting on life in that city-within-a-city. First published in 1955, the book, widely considered a classic of photographic visual literature, was reprinted by public demand several times. This fourth printing, the Heritage Edition, is the first authorized English-language edition since 1983 and includes an afterword by Sherry Turner DeCarava tracing the history and ongoing importance of this book.”
I'm not usually a fan of photographing flowers in a vase, but I thought these poppies might work. What do you think?
Another one from Bodie. This was shot on 8x10 Tri X film. Drum scanned and printed. I have 60 inch X 40 inch print of this image. Amazing detail in the print. Sure miss shooting large format film.
A moving portrait by ... beautiful work! #moderncollodion
Wrinkles always look amazing in large format -- Credit: #moderncollodion
The tortuous yet delicate stems of nasturtiums make them one of the more difficult species to work with, but the results are usually worth the effort.
The animated leaf and stem structure of these nascent tulips has made them a pleasure to work with this winter when so few species are available.
Ilford FP4 with Shen Hao PTB45, Angulon 90/6.8.
Teacher that I am, I can’t help sharing the behind the scenes of how things are made. This is the other large format camera I use, pictured here in the Paradise Valley in Montana in 2017. This camera a Murer express (I also use a Svenska Express) box camera. It’s over 100 years old and it must have been a huge step forward to be able to mechanically advance thru 12 9x12cm glass plates. It surprised me how many of my favorite images from this project came from this relatively little brown box. Swipe to see the resulting paper negative and positive image (an outtake from Emigrant Memoir). Photo of me at work by my documentarian mother #emigrantmemoir #largeformatcamera #largeformatphotography #murerexpress #svenskaexpress #boxcamera #papernegative #contactprint #paradisevalley #montana
After a long snowy winter here in Colorado it was no small joy to walk into the nursery and see the first spring poppies blooming. One is hard-pressed to find a more photogenic species..
Last days to discover “Dying Flowers”, the exhibition we're presenting with French photographer !!! Poppy, Plate 2/3 by Gaëtan Bernede 2018, 105x105mm Edition of 9 Chromogenic print on Fujicolour Crystal Archive Professional Velvet Paper from a clear glass ambrotype £250 framed _ Until April 28 at 5 Cheshire Street London E2 6ED #poppy #contemporaryart #contemporaryphotography #bw #glassplate #largeformatphotography #stilllife #caravanserail_london #exhibition #cheshirestreet #london #eastlondon #visualart #contemporaryart #show #gallery #creative #instaart #art #bricklane #culture #shoreditch #london #eastlondon #artshowlondon #artcollector #frenchartist #photograph
Test shot of latest batch of J Lane Dry Plates. ASA2 Kodak Ektar 127 f/4.7 @ f/8, 16s exposure on my workhorse Speed Graphic. #analogphotography #blackandwhitephotography #largeformatphotography #dryplate #filmisnotdead
Another one from Bodie. This was shot on 8x10 Tri X film. Drum scanned and printed. I have 60 inch X 40 inch print of this image. Amazing detail in the print. Sure miss shooting large format film.
#tbt Dawoud Bey’s Zabar Lecture at 205hudson ✨⚡️ . Bey talking about the influence Roy DeCarava has had on his life and work. . The Sweet Flypaper of Life was recently reprinted and is available 📚 . “In 1952 DeCarava became the first African American photographer to win a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. The one-year grant enabled DeCarava to focus full time on the photography he had been creating since the mid-1940s and to complete a project that would eventually result in The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a moving, photo-poetic work in the urban setting of Harlem. DeCarava compiled a set of images from which Hughes chose 141 and adeptly supplied a fictive narration, reflecting on life in that city-within-a-city. First published in 1955, the book, widely considered a classic of photographic visual literature, was reprinted by public demand several times. This fourth printing, the Heritage Edition, is the first authorized English-language edition since 1983 and includes an afterword by Sherry Turner DeCarava tracing the history and ongoing importance of this book.”
#largeformatfilm #largeformatphotography #ilfordfp4 #4X5FILM #parcodoratorino #linhof
The end of winter is always great for finding interesting looking ice formations. The ice on this log was gone when I went back the next day so I am glad shot it when I did. #Nature #Photography #FilmPhotography #LargeFormatPhotography #4x5Film #Kodak #Tmax #BlackAndWhite #Winter #BoulderColorado #NaturePhotography #IShootFilm #FilmIsNotDead #AnalogPhotography #LongExposure #Ice