Sam Wang in View Camera

Would like to call your attention to an article about Sam Wang in the current edition (November/December 2011) of View Camera magazine. Sam is a long time colleague and friend and one of the most creative photographers I have ever known.

Should you be interested in Sam's book, Sam Wang: Four Decades of Photographic Explorations it can be purchased through the alternative photography site http://www.alternativephotography.co.../sam-wang-book, or you can contact Sam directly through his web site www.samwang.us.

Sandy King

Thanks for those links. I was not familiar with his work and it looks fascinating.

Interesting... I'd never heard of a "round image" camera before. So, viewing the website was a good learning experience!

Sandy, thanks for sharing the links!

Cheers

The book is well worth having. Full of interesting ideas.

I've been fortunate to be able to look at hundreds of Sam's images, his book and web page barely scratches the surface.

The last issue of View Camera magazine was great. Anyone who didn't buy it really missed out.

The Sam Wang article was very interesting. What a creative, talented photographer!

Maybe I should have said the article written about Sam Wang was very interesting.

You did a great job Sandy!

Sandy's contribution is great, and it's a great issue overall. I have a personal stake in also pointing out a wonderful and in depth article by Jon Cone about the state of the art in B&W ink. You won't find this kind of knowledge and insight anywhere.
Tyler

Its a shame its not on your agnostic print website for free, more people would read it and benefit from his insight. I read it in the online edition but had to pay. I doubt Mr Cone benefited much financially from publishing it in View Camera. It will only be available online until January next year when the 2010 issues are taken offline.

David, I appreciate that concern, I know you realize he, and many of the rest of us, have motivations beyond financial as well. Little of this information get's around, and should be much more common.
He did all the work for the article, for View Camera, we'll see how secondary publishing on or off line works out. Not sure how much more exposure it'd get on our little site, on line at VC may be better, eventually.
Bottom line for this thread, to me anyway, is continued support for the magazine, where else would you see Sandy writing about Sam Wang? On actual paper?
Tyler

It may be quite a big little site soon because it is full of useful information that cant be found elsewhere. Sandys article adds very little that cant be found in the book, its a promotional piece to sell a very worthy book.

Sandy,

Thanks for introducing me to this artist, I was not familiar with his work and would not be today if you had not decided to publish this in VC. I often find new sources of inspiration in the old, familiar places!

Eric

My thanks as well; an excellent contribution to an excellent publication.

Thanks for the positive comments with regard to the article in View Camera about the photography of Sam Wang. Sam is a wonderfully creative photographer and I am pleased that the article has introduced his work to some who had not previously seen it.

And thanks to Steve Simmons for publishing the article about Sam.

Sandy King

Sam is a wonderful phototgrapher.

But I have a major beef with him, when I hosted him up North at our Bunkie, we went out to photograph some rock formations, It was not raining that day and after about 10 minutes Sam asked me to get water to flow from above on the rocks, sure enough the great Canadian host that I am , I went out and found a flower bucket and filled and poured the water to his placement.... So if there are any images of Canadian Rock formations in that article I want credit.

I have seen a lot of Sam's work in person and he truly is a photographer of note.

Bob,

All your work in pouring water on the rock was for naught. Sam was shooting IR with one of his home made cameras and unfortunately it had some sort of light leak that ruined most of exposures that day. The camera had worked well for him with regular B&W film but the use of IR film revealed a fatal flaw.

Sandy

Unfortunately, the stores I usually pick up View Camera from do not have the copy. So, if anyone has one they'd like to sell... please PM me.

Thanks

Cheers

Regarding the Cone article, it is now on the Agnostic Print site as well-

http://theagnosticprint.org/the-stat...n-black-white/

I hope this puts to rest the occasional references to Jon as an ink salesman, he is a consummate innovator and printer. Anyone wondering about the amazing Ashes and Snow exhibits will find a short description in this article. The ultimate ink prints. There is no one doing anything like this stuff.
Sorry to be focusing on this part of the issue, of course this stuff is my passion and additionally I am part of the article so biased. The rest more dedicated to photography directly is also great, still a wonderful magazine, and now pretty much standing alone.
Tyler

I still remember the day two friends and I ran into Sam photographing in some big gorge in Georgia, can't remember the name. One of my friends knew him and we all spent the day together photographing, then we had dinner with Sam that night. A delightful man to be around and as Sandy says, a wonderfully creative photographer.

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I still remember the day two friends and I ran into Sam photographing in some big gorge in Georgia, can't remember the name. One of my friends knew him and we all spent the day together photographing, then we had dinner with Sam that night. A delightful man to be around and as Sandy says, a wonderfully creative photographer.

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I bet that was Tallulah Gorge which is a little more than an hour drive from Clemson University. Sam used to take his MFA students there to photograoh, and I accompanied them several times.

Karl Wallenda walked on a wire across the Gorge back in 1970, a year before I came to Clemson. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...3863/index.htm The anchors that were used to string the wire are still there.

Sandy

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I bet that was Tallulah Gorge which is a little more than an hour drive from Clemson University. Sam used to take his MFA students there to photograoh, and I accompanied them several times.

Karl Wallenda walked on a wire across the Gorge back in 1970, a year before I came to Clemson. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...3863/index.htm The anchors that were used to string the wire are still there.

Sandy

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Thanks Sandy, it was Tallulah Gorge and I remember those anchors. Seeing them and realizing someone actually tight-roped their way across that gorge on a wire was mind-boggling.