ICP DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

This is the blog of M. Wesley Ham's Digital Photography classes held at the International Center of Photography in New York City. This blog is dedicated to the continuation of a photographic conversation outside of class.

Digital I

hey guys,

it’s a bit late but i’m on an italian schedule :-). was an amazing time and great to have met you all in Digital One. Unfortunately i couldn’t’ make it the last night of class and see your guys work but anyway, here are some pic’s i made after and during class. Big THANK YOU to Wesley who was such a great teacher and big inspiration! Looking forward to attend Digital II now. 

Enjoy the summer! Ciao, Markus

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Picture This—Reinventing The Camera As A Social And Anti-Technological Object

writtenbylight:

by Jonah Brucker-Cohen May 15, 2012

“Electronic Instant Camera,” 2011.

In the age of cell phones and other mobile devices with network and photographic capabilities, the art of taking photographs has become as daily a process as brushing one’s teeth or walking to work or school. In a sense, the art of photography has been lost in the phrase “everything that can be made, can be made social.” The ubiquity of the camera, assuming the form and shape of objects that we carry with us daily, has turned the act of taking a photo into an everyday duty rather than an artistic rendering. In addition, the advent of 80% of a global population carrying around a video and still image recording device with them daily has led to an overabundance of information and media gathering.

Responding to the challenge of transforming the traditional act of photography into something new that utilizes the strengths of the internet, artists are creating projects that not only question what it means to take a picture, but also to share and collaborate on the meaning of photography as it’s evolving in the world of Web 2.0. Within the context of crowdsourcing, two projects take advantage of the multitudes of human thought and expression circulating through the internet.

For more follow the title link.

timelightbox: © Maggie Steber Accompanied by the wagging tail of one of the resident dogs and her current fave stuffed kitty, Madje goes to lunch at Bay Oaks, a jewel of an assisted living facility in the heart of Miami, FL.  With only 30 residents, a garden where wild green parrots screeched in mornings and afternoons, where there were tea parties and barbecues and quiet moments reading in a beautiful library,  this place is where Madje blossomed after spending many years as an eccentric recluse, something that fed into her developing dementia.  She was happy, always happy to see me, always happy to be doing something.  It was a beautiful place where even I could have lived. She continued to blossom and even be sociable, something that had not occurred since I was a teen, until she began to hallucinate and wander.  One night she woke everyone up screaming that there was a fire.  There was none but that night marked a decline and coupled with wandering away, I had to find a new place for my mother that would be more secure….that sounds so nice, the word secure, but it comes down to locking your parent away and I cannot say how much this grieved me. — Maggie Steber You can support Maggie’s project on Kickstarter here.

timelightbox:

© Maggie Steber

Accompanied by the wagging tail of one of the resident dogs and her current fave stuffed kitty, Madje goes to lunch at Bay Oaks, a jewel of an assisted living facility in the heart of Miami, FL.  With only 30 residents, a garden where wild green parrots screeched in mornings and afternoons, where there were tea parties and barbecues and quiet moments reading in a beautiful library,  this place is where Madje blossomed after spending many years as an eccentric recluse, something that fed into her developing dementia.  She was happy, always happy to see me, always happy to be doing something.  It was a beautiful place where even I could have lived. She continued to blossom and even be sociable, something that had not occurred since I was a teen, until she began to hallucinate and wander.  One night she woke everyone up screaming that there was a fire.  There was none but that night marked a decline and coupled with wandering away, I had to find a new place for my mother that would be more secure….that sounds so nice, the word secure, but it comes down to locking your parent away and I cannot say how much this grieved me.

— Maggie Steber

You can support Maggie’s project on Kickstarter here.

McNally Jackson Books

McNally Jackson Books is a bookstore in Soho that does print on demand and self publishing of books… not sure if this is for art books or not. Photo III students, we need to look into this more.

Wesley

Digitial 3 Class

Hi All,

Liked the class that M.Wesley had last night….this is my first attempt at contributing to a blog….

Melanie Miller

What’s new in Lightroom 4?

alieneyeball: (By the way) I still have plenty of copies of my BOOKLET available for 14$. Contact: spearsphoto at hotmail.com. I have paypal. We can do this! Also available at DASHWOOD books. 33 BOND STREET (bt Lafayette and Bowery)

alieneyeball:

(By the way) I still have plenty of copies of my BOOKLET available for 14$.

Contact: spearsphoto at hotmail.com. I have paypal. We can do this!

Also available at DASHWOOD books. 33 BOND STREET (bt Lafayette and Bowery)

Ahorn Magazine interview with Todd Hido

writtenbylight:

Text copyright: Ahorn Magazine

Photos copyright: Todd Hido

 

 

© Todd Hido, 1951, 1997 from “Houses at Night”

 

 

1. Shooting a specific image often means to complete a complex process after a deep investigation. The photographer is supposed to find the subject following too many signs. Those signs are often inside us, many of them come from our past. How is it possible to recognize those signs? Is it possible to explain how every feeling, every memory, can be put together in one single image?

A firstly let me start out by saying that I completely agree that the signs you are looking for, many of them do come from your past.

But no, I don’t think that’s possible to put it all together in one single image. If it were then this would not be a lifelong pursuit?

A body of work does not even do it sometimes.

I have noticed that within my own practice that often adding a genre, or another way of taking pictures, often adds an extra layer that complicates things more deeply.

I believe that all those signs from your past and all those feelings and memories certainly come together, often subconsciously, and form some kind of a fragmented narrative. Often you’re telling your own story but you may not even know it.

One of my most valuable bits of feedback for me came from an art therapist that I did an independent study with when I was in graduate school.

He taught me that I was on the right track with my subject matter and gave me the confidence to pursue it. What a gift that was in retrospect.

He looked at the beginning of my houses at night, the beginning of my foreclosed home pictures, and the beginning of my portraits—all back in 1995 when I had just two or three of each, and he told me that I was right in the midst of telling the story of my life and that my photographs clearly represented that.

 

 

© Todd Hido, 1536, 1996 from “Houses at Night” / 1637, 1996 from “Interiors”

 

 



  Continues here:

Interview by Daniel Augschoell and Anya Jasbar

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mwesleyhamphoto: Port Hudson Civil War Battlefield The sight of the largest siege in American history… Port Hudson, Louisiana 2012 - mwh

mwesleyhamphoto:

Port Hudson Civil War Battlefield

The sight of the largest siege in American history…

Port Hudson, Louisiana

2012

- mwh