Archive for December, 2008
A Christmas Rant
Christmas Day, 2008, detail. Mark L. Power. Camera settings too numerous to list. Right click on image then choose “open image in new window” to see entire picture.
The above was taken with a Christmas present to myself, a new Panasonic LX3 digital camera.
It has a nice wide-angle lens from Leica, the [...]Three Peruvians: Chambi, Alejos, Meinel
Is there something special about the rarified Andean air that influences the visions of three special photographers from Peru? They are Martin Chambi, Baldomero Alejos and Javier Silva-Meinel, and the correspondences between them are striking.
Chambi was from Cuzco and Alejos from Ayachuco, both over ten thousand feet in altitude. But then you have Javier Silva-Meinel [...]Halsman revisited
You might remember I did a post ( August 25th) on “odd books”and one of them was a collaboration between Phillipe Halsman and Salvadore Dali called ”Dali’s Mustache”.
It’s a curious phenomenon which probably has been given the dignity of a scientific name, that when your attention is called to something, no matter how obscure that [...]