'On Photography …' Category
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 [...]
Boogiemen, Then and Now
But now that my taxes are enroute to the IRS fires of hell burning in Delaware, Philadelphia or Hartford ( we get our choice of the the circles of hell) and I have a tiny interim between the mailing and my inevitable audit I thought I’d share some of my recent reading with you. [...]
August Sander & Company
Wandering into the Kathleen Ewing Gallery in Washington the other day, I came across Kathleen’s “Sander Wall”, located in her gallery office and consisting of a grid formed by portraits done by the German master, August Sander. Seeing this striking presentation reminded me once again what a remarkable photographer Sander is. The “Sander Wall’, Kathleen [...]
Part One: Viggo Mortensen
From Recent Forgeries One hesitates to use stuffy words like polymath, but what other term describes Viggo Mortensen, noted film actor, painter, poet, writer, and photographer? In short, he is an artist who moves effortlessly from one medium to another and to my mind, the parts add up to an artist whose [...]
Part Two: Perceval Press
In the previous post I discussed the work of the artist, Viggo Mortensen, and mentioned in passing his founding of a small book publishing company, the Perceval Press. Aha, you say, a vanity press. Well, yes and no. Perceval does carry Viggo Mortensen’s published works of his art but it also puts out a [...]