July 2013 Portraits

[goamules]

Thanks. Yeah, it's almost like that other, modern female wetplater who has all the fame from her plate's flaws, and shall go unnamed!

[SergeiR]

Thanks. Yeah, it's almost like that other, modern female wetplater who has all the fame from her plate's flaws, and shall go unnamed!

eh? Do tell

History must know her heroes!

[SergeiR]

I made a conscious attempt to shoot like Julia Margaret Cameron today. But old chemicals, changing light, rain - everything was conspiring against my goal. This is the only plate I got. 5x6 with 1860 Willard petzval.

Kinda need pink background Or something like that.. Its really odd how you got me to revisit her work again and once again i kept thinking "hmm.. i guess i could try it".

[Peter Lewin]

Goamules: If I got your reference correctly, that woman photographer's initial fame came from her film photographs of her family, well before she decided that she liked wet plates. There are many (myself included, and I even took a workshop with her many years back) who think her earlier work is much better than her wet plates, so it isn't accurate to attribute her success to the flaws in her wet plates. Not really picking on your comment, more having fun with the "she who shall not be named!"

[Ari]

A rare photo for me, a recent outing with the wife and a Turner-Reich convertible at 12".


BB166 by Ari4000, on Flickr

TK45-S, TR at 12", Kodak Ektar, f/16 I think.

[jcoldslabs]

Is the name Sally Mann somehow verboten around here? Did I miss the memo?

Jonathan

[Ari]

Is the name Sally Mann somehow verboten around here? Did I miss the memo?

Jonathan

Sally Mann!

[goamules]

OK, ok, I'll post one of the other plates. Because maybe I can be famous like the One Who Cannot be Named. The mystery of this plate is called "One Foot." It's ethereal lack of focus is foreshadowing the transience of light and life, it's artifacts speak to the wounds of our collective consciousnesses. The photographer embraces verbose and vivid vernacular to elicit empathetic verdicts:

[Peter Lewin]

Ari: Aside from the fact that Goamules may have fooled all of us, I really liked the portrait of your wife. I only hope that she isn't seated in the middle of what looks too much like an active roadway... (That isn't a critique of the picture, which as I said is well-done as well as showing your wife very attractively, just kidding about the location.)

[Allen in Montreal]

Hi Ari,
I rarely have time to pop in, good to see you are shooting, love the pic.
After Lac Megantic settles down, coffee on the V anytime soon?