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4x5 Handheld, Negative Scan
Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic
152mm Ektar f/4.5
Kodak T-Max 400
Graflite 3-Cell, 5" Reflector, P25 Flashbulbs
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
Ape in the background looks like the security monitor monkey from Toy Story 3 movie.
From Finnish Toy Museum
4x5 Handheld, Negative Scan
Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic
152mm Ektar f/4.5
Kodak T-Max 400
Graflite 3-Cell, 5" Reflector, P25 Flashbulbs
Irving Penn
Irving Penn's still lifes are masterpieces of understatement. Building a sculpture of frozen foods - carefully stacked by contrasting shape and colour for maximum effect - Penn took the photograph at precisely the moment when the food was beginning to thaw, its frost softening and the true colours of the fruit and vegetables beginning to peep through. At the same time, he unites the sculptural form with photography's abilities to stop time and describe in minute detail.
[Photographers' Gallery]
From Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography (October 2019 - February 2020)
Exploring the rich history of food photography through some of the leading figures and movements within the genre including: Nobuyoshi Araki, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Weegee.
Encompassing fine-art and vernacular photography, commercial and scientific images, photojournalism and fashion, the exhibition looks at the development of this form and the artistic, social and political contexts that have informed it.
Food has always been a much-photographed and consumed subject, offering a test ground for artistic experimentation and a way for artists to hone their skills. But even the most representative images of food have rarely been straightforward or objective. Food as subject matter is rich in symbolic meaning and across the history of art, has operated as a vessel for artists to explore a particular emotion, viewpoint or theme and express a range of aspirations and social constructs. With the advent of social media, interest in food photography has become widespread with the taking and sharing of images becoming an integral part of the dining experience itself, used as instant signifiers of status and exacerbating a sense of belonging and difference.
Feast for the Eyes looks particularly at how food is represented and used in photographic practices and brings together a broad-range of artists all of whom harness the history and popularity of food photography to express wider themes. Crossing public and private realms the works on show evoke deep-seated questions and anxieties about issues such as wealth, poverty, consumption, appetite, tradition, gender, race, desire, pleasure, revulsion and domesticity.
Presented over two floors, and featuring over 140 works, from black and white silver gelatin prints and early experiments with colour processes to contemporary works, the exhibition is arranged around three key themes: Still Life traces food photography’s relationship to one of the most popular genres in painting and features work that is both inspired by the tradition and how it has changed in the course of time. Around the Table looks at the rituals that takes place around the consumption of food and the cultural identities reflected through the food we eat and people we eat with. Finally, Playing with Food shows what happens when food photography is infused with humour, fun and irony. The exhibition will also feature a number of magazines and cookbooks which provide an additional visual and social history of food photography.
Feast for the Eyes traces the history and effect of food in photography, simultaneously exploring our appetite for such images while celebrating the richness and artistic potential of one of the most popular, compulsive and ubiquitous of photographic genres.
[Photographers' Gallery]
4x5 Handheld, Negative Scan
Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic
152mm Ektar f/4.5
Kodak T-Max 400
Graflite 3-Cell, 5" Reflector, P25 Flashbulbs
I wouldn't make it as a 40s press photog like Weegee. This is as close as I get to crime.
Field text of the Meridan 4x5 with flash: Press 40 in a Heiland Research Sol 3-cell with 7" reflector; 20ms delay on the Acme No. 3 Synchro shutter; 1/100 @ f9
I should have used 1/50 @ f11. This isn't as sharp as it should be, and its somewhat under-exposed.
MeridianFoma100HC110_06
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.
Built in 1931 and designed by J. S. Siren. The building is located in Helsinkin, the capital of Finland.
I also took part in a lego architecture contest at WeeGee with this.
Cropped from a 4x5 Handheld Negative Scan
Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic
152mm Ektar f/4.5
Kodak T-Max 400
Graflite 3-Cell, 5" Reflector, P25 Flashbulbs
Arthur Fellig (1899 - 1968), known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City.
Trying to do my best Weegee impersonation. Handheld 4x5 photo. Here is a fun fact: I set the camera up to shoot at f/16, but forgot to stop down, so this picture was taken at f/4.7 instead. A wee bit of an overexposure there. Still printed nice though. Got to love compensating developers.
Check out my photography blog for more thoughts and images about street photography.
The king daddy of all my cameras at the moment, even if it has an inoperable shutter and it's dusty as hell. Still the coolest conversation piece I own. Almost just like Weegee shot.
This very popular banner showing Coney Island Beach on July 4, 1935 is on the front of our free exhibit center and is a popular spot for a taking a souvenir photo. We're open for the Fourth of July from 12 till 6, stop by after the hot dog eating contest or on your way to the Beach or Brooklyn Cyclones game! Location: 3059 West 12th Street at entrance to Deno's Wonder Wheel Park
Note: This is NOT WeeGee's photo from the '40s. It is a 1935 photo from Charles Denson's Archive
Hey there's a pretty big screen on the back of this camera, that's bigger than I though for a camera from that long ago! Can you delete that image, please?
++There's no corrosion on the contacts inside the flash battery tube, but there is evidence that at one time one cell leaked a bit.
Oh! A Super neat old medium format view/press camera: Busch Pressman 2-1/4x3-1/4, along with a Heiland flash in great shape (the original Light Sabre was made from one of these!).
Everything works. The camera's in lovely shape, with smooth motions, rangefinder coupling (RF windows need cleaning but I do believe it's functioning and with correct lens). Everything locks down tight and the bellows seem to be tight and supple, not creased or buckled. Shutter seems to operate right (to my ear) and the glass is clean and clear. The rollfilm adapter is a wonderful piece of mechanical stuffness. I think you could load this thing up with film today, get some batteries and bulbs for the flash, and to make like Weegee tonight.
This thing is so sweet… it's hard to imagine NOT wanting to have one just around. But I have a 4x5 Busch that fills that duty and gets shot once in a while.