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Your middle image tickles me the most, rides that balance beam between Illusion Of Real and Dreamlike.

Not having seen the VC mag article and with only your summation to go by, some memories...

Both of these are wonderful and scary.

I pray to never encounter that damn dwarf. Ever.

Running/stumbling down the asphalt, heart pounding, dread and cold sweat. THEY were out there, behind...

Hi Paul

Your photos do convey the dreaminess you describe/desire. I like them. I wonder: What if the women's hair and/or dress were messier or more archaic-seeming; in accord with said...

This is lovely. Eerie and plainspoke together. Paul Klee's distant relations. What is VDB? Where is Edirne?

The small contact print you loved?

Have you ever seen Marjorie Content's photos?

Smallish negs, many contact-printed.

I've only seen her photos via a book...and a few on-line.

Photo by...

Captain, Captain! My girlfriend got stuck in the Vortex Shift Accelerator! Come quick! Hurry! :)

Odd image. What does the woman think of it?

My taste tends towards photos as intimate objects, in both the making and the viewing.

LF contact prints seem plenty big. Enlarging rollfilm or 35mm to about 7" maximum in any dimension seems...

What RJ Lam is trying to describe seems kindred to Steiglitz's notion of Equivalents, yes? No?

Maybe the exact same blend of mind/grace/awareness/perception intended by Steiglitz's term.

My Accelerant Of Choice is diet Pepsi or diet Coke--whichever is on sale at the supermarket this week. Me blab then.

But seriously, I LOVE to think about photography, probably moreso than any...

There's criticism and then there's criticism. Ya know?

Some of my all-time fave writing is criticism. The music critic Lester Bangs was one. I own the anthologies of everything he ever published....

Interesting, John. Dunno if I ever thought much about seasonality when photographing, especially in B&W. I went to my prints and only two contained or conveyed any personal sense of season.

The...

I have no idea if there's a proper way to critique.

In my experience, I gained the most from critiquing by mentors aka bonafide instructors. The trick is finding and recognizing the right mentor...

There are several related threads within this topic which I've been following with interest. This one, the 'artistic license' thread, the 'moonrise' thread--perhaps a few more.

Many thoughts've...

....or 9x12cm or 35mm or 6x6cm or Polaroid SX-70 or anything else with a lens :)

There's a good documentary about Evans.
I forget the title--the local library has it on VHS.

Produced for PBS...

Tho loving good accompanying text & context-info in photoland, I equally love the Mystery Stuff (Joel-Peter Witkin & Cindy Sherman come to mind) where part of the fun is bafflement at how such images...

Yes.

I also consider 6x7 as LF when movements, GG-focus etc are part of the recipe.

I'm in the process of building a 6x7 view camera--like a tiny Eastman 2D--and am also on the lookout for a...

Aw, come on. Everybody knows that's a Cindy Sherman photo. She 'plays all the parts', got herself one of those multi-exposure prism gizmos from Porter's. It's one image from her new Italian Pre-Nuevo...

Much synchronicity floating hereabouts recently and that's always welcome.
Last week I got a battered wartime Speed Graphic. Dirt cheap.
I've had several press cameras, but never one with the...

Regarding Tim's statement and this entire discussion....

For years Vermeer's paintings hung in 'minor league' provincial museums. Craftsmanlike work, nothing special. Until a noted art critic...

Hi Jim

No the Seneca is long-gone. It was a 6.5" x 8.5" camera. I found the body first, backless. It took a few months--searching fleas, junk shops etc--to find an 8x10" back, which I...

Wow, this is nice, David It gave me such an an odd sensation: as if the portrait was life-sized! A pixie baby. Charming image and lovely child.

You say 'lens coated by B & J'...do you refer to a...

Tied
8x10 neg. Seneca camera.
I Forget what kinda lens.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g249/janepaints/Tied2.jpg

Nice photos, George. In case you haven't heard: There's been much talk recently of closing public access to Lockwood Gorge. Not sure if the proposed prohibition would be solely for vehicles or if...

YAY! Dang. Yassuh. Wonderful. Blossom, that's a right powerful picture and then some.

Thought-provoking statements & questions, Donald.........

No matter what combination of lens/recording media is used, the resultant image has little to do with three-dimensional visual reality...

Lovely.

Thanks to this thread a photo-series idea arose, and since I have cameras and film once more, it can be attempted.

Walkers Evans' work inspired/motivated me as Ansel Adams work did for many other...

AMEN!!!! AMEN!!!!

I think any object is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it, no more and no less. But the true value of an object? How much is a river worth? I wanna buy the...

Paul, your thoughts bring to mind a maxim learned from a friend who grew up in the eastern bloc, 1940s & '50s:

Under capitalism man exploits his fellow man, but under communism it's the other way...

Hi Vaughn

Sometimes it amazes me that any one image or imagemaker can gain widespread--or even narrowspread! :)-- recognition in a world that is so SO image-saturated. It's kinda bizarre and crazy...

Having to deal with industry-standard notions of 'accurate color' drove me NUTS when deaing with photos--whether mine or by others--destined for process printing and publications.

I ended up...

Hi Vaughn

Respectfully: most painters, especially those educated within the classical western fine art tradition, do not work from photographs. There are many exceptions but, in general,...

Hi Ash

There may be another option, in regards to dealing with the voids left by removal of the focal-plane shutter: incorporate them (and/or create more voids) in a pleasing-to-the-eye fashion....

We must quit using these modern soul-less computers for communication and henceforth carry on these conversations the only proper way!

...via letters written on handmade watermarked paper using...

Unknown, Pissed-Off, Suddenly Out-Of-Work Painter, circa 1840:

Merde!!! I find it sad. Just another example of the shallow, "machine age" mentality of our society. Gone are the days of hand...

Recording and Photography are kissing cousins. Maybe even siblings. Diana and Orpheus. Both are recording mediums--capturing evidence of the Universal Waveform.

Photography records evidence of...

One of the 1880's british masters of photography gave it up when his preferred materials became unavailable or too-expensive. Sorry--his name escapes me: middle aged memory syndrome. Was it Emerson?...

The old-time music world is chock full of such genre-deprecating cornball jokes--I love 'em. They're also easy to adapt-convert to the topic of LF photography. Examples:

[i]* Large Format...

Another gem of advice: "Unless the right kind of outfit is obtained, there certainly will be scores of organs that will be too difficult to take. Extreme rise and fall of front is of utmost...

Q: Why did Johann Sebastian Bach father so many children?
A.: Because his organ had no stops.

http://www.theatreorgans.com/southerncross/Journal/photography.htm

typical excerpt: "The study of...