This year’s theme is “Close Ups.” “When I’m on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.” Patti Smith I just bought this new set and I absolutely LOVE it! It’s not often that I come across a piece of…
This year’s theme is “Close Ups.” “The photograph is an “incomplete” utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.” Allan Sekula (photographer) Another from the eye of Mr. D — (Click on the image to enlarge in mobile.)
This year’s theme is “Close-Ups.” “The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.” – George Bernard Shaw Mr. D got in on the action today. It’s been awhile since I got to share his photographic perspective, but…
This year’s theme is “Close-Ups.” “If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may be a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society.…
This year’s theme is “Close Ups.” “A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.” MARTIN SCHOELLER (photographer) (Click image to enlarge on mobile devices.)
This year’s theme is “Close Ups.” “The close-up says everything.” Marlon Brando I’m using a photo that is obviously from December…but it was such a good close-up and fits the theme so well. Plus, when cropped and zoomed even closer in, you can’t tell it’s from Christmas time. That’s the thing about zooming in. Sometimes,…