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Turret Skylight, SFMOMA. San Francisco, California. May 31, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Midday light inside beneath the skylight in the atrium of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
For the time being I'm not going to write all that I could write about this photograph - that would be far too much to post here. Nonetheless, this might be a slightly longer "photo post" than usual.
The subject is the skylight in the turret at the top of the atrium at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Just below the skylight there is a catwalk that crosses from one side of the cylindrical upper area of the atrium to the other, and this is a place of magical light in almost any conditions. I visited this past Friday since the museum closes after today (June 2, 2013) for two years for renovation and expansion, and I wanted to have one last chance to wander around in the museum and I wanted to see the wonderful Garry Winogrand exhibit.
During the "wandering" part of my visit I went to this catwalk and thought about how I could photograph it. It is almost embarrassing to photograph in this spot, since it is one of the most obvious iconic places to grab an iPhone shot, and many other visitors were doing just that. I first made a few symmetrical photographs looking up at the skylight in a more direct way and then thought that I'd try a few "off kilter" shots, perhaps with the Winogrand images - which often tilt and twist in surprising ways - still in my mind. Having also just spent time in the museum's wonderful exhibit of classic black and white work by other photographers, I was in a bit of a black and white state of mind, and I was pretty certain that this would end up as a monochrome image.
(For those who wonder about such things, this photograph was made with the small Fujifilm X-E1 camera and the wonderful Fujifilm XF 14mm f/2.8 lens.)
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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We were lucky and saw a great Garry Winogrand retrospective, less than 4 weeks before the museum closed for expansion. More on the plans here.
Anselm Kiefer (b.1945)
Ways: March Sand
1980
Oil, emulsion, shellac, gelatin silver print, sand and charcoal on linen
SFMOMA, Cloud. San Francisco, California. May 20, 2016. © Copyright 2016 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A cloud above the new SFMOMA building
I think my landscape photographer instincts went to work on this photograph, despite its thoroughly urban subject. But imagine a valley floor, a vertical granite cliff, peaks beyond, and a cloud floating past and I think you might see the analogy. But this is a distinctly San Francisco street/architecture photograph.
I was on foot in The City, spending the better part of a day wandering around in an area bounded by the Embarcadero and the Bay, Market street more or less, and Fourth Street. I was headed south on a less crowded street, traveling more or less toward the newly remodeled SFMOMA (museum of modern art). I had been looking a the tall building on the right and the bit of the new portion of the museum poking out to its left when the solitary cloud appeared from behind the building and began to move from right to left. Having very little time to contemplate, I framed up this vertical composition and made the photograph "street" style, using the prime lens already on the camera and simply shooting handheld
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.Blog | About | Flickr | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ | LinkedIn | Email
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Sfmoma. Debated w/ my kid: is it art if the artist labels it art? And if not, who *does* have the authority to label something art?
Photo by Stephen Zielinski, used with permission, of women who tried out for the SFMOMA's Frida Kahlo Look-a-like Model Search.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Architects:
Mario Botta building (1992-1995) - Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum
Extension (2010-2016) - Snøhetta
Location: San Francisco, CA.