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Ok Preping for uni interviews at the moment, I'm pretty much a bag of nevers as these are the only interviews I have ever cared about in my life! >.< So some reading to help me get in touch with my inner zen photographer....
Today we visited EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art to mainly see the new exhibition of the work of Joan Miro (1893-1983). As the photography wasn't allowed there I took only photos from Finnish toy museum which is located in the same building. These are from Mission in Space exhibition presenting scifi toys & comics from 1930 to present date.
So this time: Spock 1 - Miro 0 :)
Photomontage of American photographer Weegee (1899 - 1968) taking a photograph of a woman in a bathing suit inside a Chanel No. 5 cologne bottle, late 1950s. (Photo by Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images)
...Immediately after placing the board on the coffee table,... a strange ethereal glow filled the room, and I could've sworn I smelled the pungent effluvium of olive oil and garlic...
Oh wait a minute, that was from last night's dinner,.... still wafting through the apartment... hmmmm, nevermind..
The title comes from an episode of "I Love Lucy" where Lucy has a seance in her apartment, and this strange little guy (Mr. Merriweather, Ricky's boss) asks her.."Do you wee-gee"?... priceless stuff!!
Inspired by Azazelle,.. thanx Mari Anne ; )
Sporting the Marlon Brando style, Weegee always commands attention at any party. He can, after all, make you an offer you can't refuse. Capisce?
Pick a photo by one of your favourite photographers and try and make an exact copy of it. (Idea: Takushi Hamma)
This one was taken to be an exact replica of weegee's (www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/young-boy-with-n...)
however, only my little brother is here so we couldn't incorporate two other kids in the image. I really enjoyed using manual mode to take these images and I'm still getting used to having to set the shutter speed and f stops before taking my photos. i used photoshop to edit the image and added a warm filter to help achieve a more sepia look rather than black and white only.
MIT Flea 10-07 Part 1 of 3.
The final MIT Flea of the year is like Game 7. This is it. If you're gonna get it done, you gotta get it done here and you gotta get it done now.
For sellers, this means "Sell all that stuff no matter what." Because the alternatives are to either throw it all out or pay five months' worth of storage fees until the first Flea of 2008.". For buyers, this means "If you like it, buy it." Because if you pass up on something cool, you'll have five dark, cold months to stew about it.
Thus, the October Flea is an excellent theater for commerce. Turnout is usually high and cool stuff is generally abundant.
This was the very first outing in which I truly felt like the Weegee of the Flea. I got a hell of a lot of kind words about my pix here on Flickr (all of which were greatly appreciated!) and lots of folks were actually quite keen to have me photograph them.
Viz these two folks, regular sellers whom I know by sight but not by name. They are the king and queen of obsolete tech. It's the enormous diversity of species that makes their stall so neat. Tube testers. Typewriters. Record players. Oil lamps! All in fine nick and reasonably-priced.
And now I'm going to stew for the next five months. At $15, I shoulda bought that tube tester. I shoulda, I shoulda. I know I've shot that before...it's gorgeous but was priced above my impulse-buy level.
Yes, my Distraction Device had worked all too well. This Nikon D80 has paid for itself simply in the money I've saved by not buying things at the Flea. Armed with the Nikon, my top priority is getting photos of cool things. This sort of throws a dose of saltpeter on my lust to actually own things. So if I come home with something, it's usually because it was either something that I truly need, or it was as cheap as the dirt that collects on top of other dirt, or it was clearly something that God wanted me to own.
As you might tell from the lighting, this was taken in my first minutes at the Flea and I was eager to complete my first lap before that Altair 8080 (which I'm always certain it out there somewhere) got sold. Had I lingered, I would have noticed the price and laid out the sawbuck-and-a-half and returned home with something gorgeous.
Stew, stew, stew.
An evening in Salem, Massachusetts with Weegee style street photography, using Canon EOS40D and external flash
Peter Astor
CD :
I'm Your Fan
Take This Longing
The Song Of Leonard Cohen By
Peter Astor
Oscar
1991
Photography . Weegee
Promo Only . Not For Sale
Postcard :
Pantone 91
Manhattan
Use Hearing Protection
GMA
I assisted Cybele today on a photoshoot with musician Tim Fite. Lots of Weegee-style fun with fake blood, unique eyewear and some vintage cameras.
Dan is taking this photo of Tim, while Cybele checks her shots.
Here's one of the final images.
Photographer Nelson Bakerman took along his assistants for the Weegee Walk in the Bowery District, 3/9/12, where they recreated some of Weegee's famous photos
Carlito Carvalhosa Sum of Days MOMA 10 10 11
My intention was to photograph MOMA, not from the perspective of a tourist, but more from the perspective of representing the experience creatively with my camera. As soon as I walked in I was captivated by the 6+ stories tall shrouds enveloping participants in Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Days. The ghostly specters envisioned through the material served as a filter that isolated them from the mass of humanity that populated the museum and at the same time made their experience a public focus. I included 2 pictures of the gently billowing shroud, the first without people and the second with a group of 3 people, each person experiencing it in a visual way for the camera.
I also captured an interesting portrait of my soon to be 13 year old son. As a mother and a photographer it's my fervent hope to stop the hands of time and capture him as he once was, as he steadfastly marches through time ever changing. We shall only pass this way once and my photographs serve as a reflection of those times and ages shared together. I may not be able to stop time, ......but with the exception of a photograph.
The horizontal black and white line image was at the entrance to the Photography gallery. To the left of the image was a wall containing a B+W dot matrix graphic mural. At an art museum you can never be sure that the juxtaposition of one next to the other was intentional or if it was just a ventilation shaft that proved to be an immovable object. The mystery remains but I found the intersection to be visually compelling.
Alejandro Otero's 'Color Rhythm 1' is the picture with vertical lines with color submerged, intersecting with the ceiling. This proved to be another interesting convergence. Unlike at WDW where I feel totally comfortable rolling around on the ground to get the shot, I could not bring myself to lie prostrate and get the angle. Not even my Nikon D90's 'live view' feature could save me, hence the image is more blurry than I would like it to be. Still I count this artwork's intersection with it's surroundings as fairly interesting.
Next we have a gentleman I shall call 'The ponderer' standing still and virtually parallel to a large art installation. He stayed this way for so long that it made me contemplate just WHAT was SO INTERESTING, especially at that unfortunate viewing angle he had commandeered. 'Live View' did come to my rescue as I surreptitiously snapped his visage. I would have loved to have had the use of a tripod and a longer exposure to blur out more of the ever moving masses.... but it was not to be.
If there were 1000 people at the museum this day then 1001 of them were taking pictures..... with crappy little cell phones and flashless point and shoots, as Flash Photography is a NO NO and will get you a swift reprimand from the museum guards. I suppose I'm being a snob but it was truly comical watching as the people tried to capture fine art with less than fine cameras. Then I saw how.... less than sharp.... my own captures were and I suffered a comeuppance.
I guess that's what you get when you try to run with the masters.
The other thing that stuck me during this trip was the dearth of material on display at the museum. It then occurred to me that it wasn't the museum, it was ME! We are so used to living in a time where complete works and extended examples are a keyboard away through digital representations. When you Google Edvard Munch you get the whole kit and kaboodle, not just a single representation (and not even THE representation, which lives in Norway!) So I had to make due with just 1 Weegee photograph and be on my way.
We made it 3/4 of the way through the museum when I asked my son what he thought. It was then that he revealed that he had no idea that what he was looking at were the originals, touched by the artist's hand. I explained to him that by looking at the originals you could experience them in 3D and study the artists brush strokes. He was not impressed.
Come to think of it, I think I also prefer the digital representations, with their completeness and their comprehensiveness, with their comments and their communication, and only a keyboard stroke away....
Weegee was on hand when the cops got Andrew Izzo outside the Spring Arrow Social & Athletic Club in 1942.
Futuro 001
Futuro, or Futuro House, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The distinctive flying saucer like shape and airplane hatch entrance has made the houses popular among collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, measuring 4 metres high and 8 metres in diameter.
The WeeGee Exhibition Centre, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland is a cornucopia of museums, exhibitions and events, includes five museums, a modern art gallery, a café and three museum shops. This building, originally designed as a printing house by architect Aarno Ruusuvuori, has been transformed into a unique exhibition centre for culture and different events. It contains over 20'000 square metres of living culture, art, exhibitions and events.
Futuro 001 has been owned by TV celebrity Matti Kuusla since its manufacture. It is worth noting that despite the 001 numbering this was not the first Futuro manufactured - the prototype was numbered 000 and that Futuro has been fully restored and is on display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Futuro has spent its life on a lakeside property in Hirvensalmi where, mainly because it has never had an electrical supply, it has been only used in a very limited way.
Taken on a Sunday night on the main street in Buchanan, VA with a Koni-Omega Rapid press camera using Fuji Neopan Acros 100 and a Sunpak Auto 544 flash set to full power manual. Lens was the Hexanon 90mm set to f3.5 and a shutter speed of 1/60. Other than the flash, there was very little light, as all the shops were closed and had their signs turned off. I was standing across the street from the theatre, which was likely about 40 feet away from me. This was my attempt at Weegee type nighttime street shots. These were also my first shots taken with this camera, which was sent to me by my father.
Futuro 001
Futuro, or Futuro House, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The distinctive flying saucer like shape and airplane hatch entrance has made the houses popular among collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, measuring 4 metres high and 8 metres in diameter.
The WeeGee Exhibition Centre, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland is a cornucopia of museums, exhibitions and events, includes five museums, a modern art gallery, a café and three museum shops. This building, originally designed as a printing house by architect Aarno Ruusuvuori, has been transformed into a unique exhibition centre for culture and different events. It contains over 20'000 square metres of living culture, art, exhibitions and events.
Futuro 001 has been owned by TV celebrity Matti Kuusla since its manufacture. It is worth noting that despite the 001 numbering this was not the first Futuro manufactured - the prototype was numbered 000 and that Futuro has been fully restored and is on display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Futuro has spent its life on a lakeside property in Hirvensalmi where, mainly because it has never had an electrical supply, it has been only used in a very limited way.
Photographer Nelson Bakerman took along his assistants for the Weegee Walk in the Bowery District, 3/9/12, where they recreated some of Weegee's famous photos
Photographer Nelson Bakerman took along his assistants for the Weegee Walk in the Bowery District, 3/9/12, where they recreated some of Weegee's famous photos
Photographer Nelson Bakerman took along his assistants for the Weegee Walk in the Bowery District, 3/9/12, where they recreated some of Weegee's famous photos
(Spent) M3 bulb shown installed in flashgun.
Requires 15v 504 or 220A battery.
The 2-lens stack + the vented filter create a vignette around the edges of pics taken with this combo.
The camera doesn't have M sync so all bulbs must be shot as X sync. The bulbs do put out quite a bit of infrared. This is kind of the opposite of what Weegee used to do.
Handheld Graflex Speed Graphic 4X5
Graflex Optar 135mm
Kodak TMAX 100 - 120 roll film
Calumet 6X7 Roll film holder
Graflex 3-cell Flash w/Sylvania flashbulb
Scanner Microtek Artixscan M1
The standard "weegee" shot was:
4x5 Speed Graphic camera
preset at f/16, @ 1/200 of a second
with flashbulbs and a set focus
distance of ten feet....
Super Pan Press was rated ASA 125, and Super XX was ASA 100
Futuro (or Futuro House no. 001) (1968)
www.thefuturohouse.com/Futuro-WeeGee-Espoo-Finland.html
thefuturohouse.com/futuro_house_concept_and_design.html
Exhibition Centre WeeGee
EMMA (Espoo Museum of Modern Art)
Ahertajantie 5, Tapiola
FIN-02070 Espoo,
Finland
arch Matti Suuronen (FIN, Lammi, June 14 1933 - Espoo, April 16 2013)
© picture by Mark Larmuseau
I recently learned of the works of Weegee. Fascinating photography. I especially liked his crowd shots of Coney Island and so until Coney becomes as populated as this scene I thought I'd take the opportunity to try my hand at an Homage to this photographer.
Named after the nickname of American B&W crime scene photographer, Arthur Fellig, Weegee's is my favorite out-of-the way (as in not near my neighborhood) bars in Chicago.