#photographer: stephen shore

[internatlvelvet]

Susan Bottomly in her apartment

[espantajerias]

Stephen Shore.

[slack-wise]

Stephen Shore

[photobookjunkies]

From our personal bookshelf:

Uncommon Places by Stephen Shore

Photobookjunkies.com 📚👀

[historybetweenthepages]

2022

‘US, Arizona, June, 1972’

‘Granite, Oklahoma, July 1972’

‘Broad Street, Regina, Saskatchewan, August 17, 1974’

‘Presidio, Texas, February 21, 1975’

‘Kingman, Arizona, July 2, 1975’

‘Burbank, California, August 11, 1981’

‘Yucatán, Mexico, January 4, 1990’

‘Self-Portrait, New York, New York, October 1997’

Unknown photographer, ‘Dead Cowboy’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2022/04/18/this-book-is-meditation-not-only-photography-life/

[oakfern]

stephen shore / ryan pfluger brandon t. brown / roman spataro / kwabena sekyi appiah-nti andrea urbez / roman spataro roman spataro / sem langendijk / roman spataro

[uwmspeccoll]

Indigenous People's Day

DR. HENRIETTA MANN Cheyenne

On this Indigenous People’s Day, we are featuring Matika Wilbur’s recent publication Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America, published by Ten Speed Press in 2023. Wilbur (b. 1984) is a visual storyteller and member of the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples of coastal Washington. She holds a degree from the Brooks Institute of Photography alongside a teaching certificate that has shaped her style of educating through narrative portraits.  

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America, a book born from a documentary project of the same name, resolves to share contemporary Native issues and culture. In 2012 Wilbur set out from Seattle to visit and photograph all 562 plus Native American sovereign territories in the United States.

Wilbur’s engagement with the communities she visited resulted in the creation of hundreds of dynamic portraits and documentation of conversations about “tribal sovereignty, self-determination, wellness, recovery from historical trauma, decolonization of the mind, and revitalization of culture.” She refers to her portraiture approach as “an indigenous photography method” that includes several hours and sometimes days of interaction with the participants, an exchange of energy and gifts, and asking sitters to choose their portrait location. The outcome is a stunning collection of Native narratives and portraits.  

GREG BISKAKONE JOHNSON Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians

HOLLY MITITQUQ NORDLUM  Iñupiaq

J. MIKO THOMAS Chickasaw Nation

MOIRA REDCORN Osage, Caddo

HELENA and PRESTON ARROW-WEED Taos Pueblo/Kwaatsaan, Kamia

STEPHEN YELLOWTAIL Apsáalooke (Crow Nation)

LEI'OHU and LA'AKEA CHUN Kānaka Maoli

ORLANDO BEGAY Diné

KALE NISSEN Colville Tribes

GRACE ROMERO PACHECO Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians

ISABELLA and ALYSSA KLAIN Diné

NANCY WILBUR Swinomish

DR. JEREMIAH "JERRY" WOLFE Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

RUTH DEMMERT Tlingit

MARVA SII~XUUTESNA JONES Tolowa Dee-Ni' Nation, Yurok, Karuk, Wintu

Matika Wilbur will be speaking on UW-Milwaukee's campus Thursday, November 16 from 6-7p.m. in conjunction with her exhibition Seeds of Culture: The Portraits and Voices of Native American Women on view at the Union Art Gallery November 16 through December 15, 2023. 

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

We acknowledge that in Milwaukee we live and work on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homelands along the southwest shores of Michigami, part of North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present.

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Stephen Shore

[retropopcult]

5th Street & Broadway Eureka, California, 1974 photographed by Stephen Shore

[60sfactorygirl]

Lou Reed and Andy Warhol photographed by Stephen Shore at the Factory, NYC, between 1966–1967.

[portraituresque]

Stephen Shore. Self-Portrait, New York

Stephen Shore (b.1947) is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography.

[internatlvelvet]

Susan Bottomly, Andy Warhol, and Ingrid Superstar in 1967

[espantajerias]

Stephen Shore.

[stephensheffield]

This 42”x55” version of my photograph Smoke will be on display with many others at the South Shore Art Center starting February 23, with an opening on March 2nd! I am exhibiting in a 3 person show with @jiranekmosaics and @andreawilliams.365 and the show is titled, I Say Hat You Say Chapeau. More details to come, but please save the date! It promises to be a hoot! #Filmphotography #film #largeformat #analog #analogphotography #darkroom #mauermag #4x5film #monochrome #bwphotography #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #speedgraphic #graflex #silvervisionfilm #selfportraitphotography #analogforevermagazine #analogforever (at Stephen Sheffield Photography & Fine Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoubiHIuoOZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[notesonphotography]

"The contingency of photographs confirms that everything is perishable; the arbitrariness of photographic evidence indicates that reality is fundamentally unclassifiable. Reality is summed up in an array of casual fragments - an endlessly alluring, poignantly reductive way of dealing with the world."

- Susan Sontag

We seem to barely hold on to the technologies we create. The moment we unleash it, it runs away and tells US how we should behave instead of the other way around.

Now that we find ourselves face to face with the unreality of Ai and all that it will potentially disrupt, it is even more important to be aware of how powerful images can be.

We are still trying to make sense of photography - the Point Zero - the building blocks that thicken our modern environment.

We are still reeling from the introduction of the internet that has fundamentally changed how the world operates.

Now we are facing the next evolution which will exponentially raise the stakes.

And we seem poorly prepared - it’s shocking to see how people take images that one would think are OBVIOUSLY fake - as reality....gawk over Ai art that is vacuous, saccharine and sentimental.

And I'm a Concept Artist, we specialise in a lot of that. 😅 The Ai is not coming up with this by itself! We created the beast. 😬

But at the very least WE were/are responsible for it, and unable to pass blame to a nebulous algorithm...

Or maybe it's going to free us to do more meaningful things…

Maybe visual literacy courses should start being mandatory in schools.

Lots of maybes…

There are many great writings on images and how we have been dealing with the “crisis of photography” in the age of mechanical and now digital reproduction.

The preface to Guy Debord's "Society of Spectacle" is a quote by Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach - from 1841 - that hits the perfect note.

“But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness."

I've been, for a while now, slowly trying to pick out the nuggets from books and share it as part of learning and understanding myself.

@notesonphotography (Instagram)

I plan to continue this as long as I can, and if I do stop, it will not be for the lack of material, as the amount of literature on this subject is overwhelming, increasing exponentially as we try to make sense of a world that slowly reconstructs itself into its doppelgänger - that of one vast mirage.

I can’t say it better than the descriptor by Roland Barthes “I am trying to render the special quality of this hallucination”

IMAGE: Stephen Shore

#photography #images #technology #ai #art #Stephen Shore #Susan Sontag

[chris-makes-art]

Pedro - Acrylic on Canvas - 11" by 14". This one is based on a photograph by the great Stephen Shore!