I photographed Maggie over the summer while she was still pregnant. Here is one of the pictures from our shoot in Prospect Park.
I was delighted when Maggie and Ben asked me to come back to photograph Oscar when he turned the ripe old age of 3 months. It was so great to meet him. He is seriously sweet.
Thanks again for having me over Maggie and Ben! I really look forward to our next shoot.
Hello again! I'm so happy that you came back, I was hoping that you would. For our second week of Friday Finds, I would like to take a trip across the Pacific and introduce you to one of my all time favorite photographers, Rinko Kawauchi. I have a confession to make. I didn't find these pictures this week. I did look at them for the 500th time though. Does that count? OK great. I knew you wouldn't be a stickler for details.
So, here she is. I'm not sure where to begin with this one. Rinko Kawauchi is just spectacular. That's all there is to it. There is a softness and a sadness to many of her photographs that makes you feel like you are being let in on something special when you look at them. I love her color pallete. I love the things that she takes pictures of. I love all four corners of her photographs. I think that she uses the square format suberbly. The photographs from her newest book, Illuminance, are on view starting tomorrow at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Here is the link to the museum's homepage. You can purchase the book from Aperture, or just have a sneak peak by clicking here. Illuminance is a collection of 15 years of work, and it is an inspiration to look at.
“It’s not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful,” says Kawauchi. “If it doesn’t move my heart, it won’t move anyone else’s heart.”
Earlier this week, I came across these incredible photographs. (My mother thinks that you should only use the words incredible and awesome if something is actually incredible or awesome as indicated by the definition. Incredible- adj- so extraordinary as to seem impossible. Awesome- adj- showing or categorized by awe.) Mama, I think these pictures are incredible and pretty awesome. Seriously.
Time Magazine has a collection of photos on their Light Box website called Seven Days of Strange Landscapes.
Here are a few.
March 2, 2012. The water of the Grone stream has turned green after a fire in Goettingen, Germany. via lightbox.time.com/
March 4, 2012. The Perito Moreno glacier is seen after the rupture of a massive ice wall near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, Argentina. via lightbox.time.com
March 6, 2012. Thousands of spiders build new webs after floodwaters forced them to move to higher grounds in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. via lightbox.time.com
The clouds here in Brooklyn were just perfect today. The sky was just the color you would think a sky should be. And the clouds, don't even get me started on the clouds. They were to die for darling. In honor of this, I thought that I would do a quick post about our favorite upstairs neighbor. Without further ado, I present to you, the sky in four parts.
Here are a few of the previously mentioned clouds here in Brooklyn.
Aren't they pretty?
Here are some recent pictures of the Sky Ceiling at Grand Central Terminal. This is my favorite ceiling in all of New York City.
Remember that amazing scene in the Science of Sleep? No, no that one, the other one. No, not that one either. That one is great too, but I mean the other one. This is the one. The one with the clouds and the music. Mr. Gondry, you're alright in my book.
And now, since we seem to have covered the photo and video department, let's end with a few words. And who better to say those words, but the great Mark Twain. Below is my favorite part of The Diaries of Adam and Eve.
"By watching, I know that the stars are not going to last. I have seen some of the best ones melt and run down the sky. Since one can melt, they can all melt; since they can all melt, they can all melt the same night. That sorrow will come--I know it. I mean to sit up every night and look at them as long as I can keep awake; and I will impress those sparkling fields on my memory, so that by and by when they are taken away I can by my fancy restore those lovely myriads to the black sky and make them sparkle again, and double them by the blur of my tears."
I bid you all a good day. Look up when you go outside today. I think you'll like it.
I was able to spend some time with Beth, David and Dominic last week and took some pictures while the weather was nice. Beth is 9 months pregnant and I was so happy to be able to do this shoot before the newest addition to their family arrives! Can't wait to go back in a month or so for our next shoot. Stay tuned for the next batch. If Dominic is any indication, this is going to be one gorgeous baby. Thanks again for having me over, Beth and David!
Its Friday and that means that its time for the first weekly installment of Friday Finds. This group of posts will be my end of the week wrap up of some the blogs, websites, articles and shows that I have come across during the week.
First, I would like to share some gems that I came across earlier in the week. These images were taken at the time when the famous dioramas that we all know and love were being made at the American Museum of Natural History here in New York City. You can find the rest of the images at http://images.library.amnh.org/
Wooden framework, first stage for mounting elephant
Next are the lovely images from Magda Biernat's project entitled 'Inhabited'. These images make me want to travel and take pictures. With a background in architectural photography, Magda Biernat perfectly frames these dwellings in different countries and brings to mind the photographs of the infamous Bernd and Hilla Becher. (Click here for a link to their work if you are not familiar. You won't regret it.) I could look at this first picture all day.
Finally, it is with a heavy heart that I post a link to the current show at Yossi Milo gallery of the late Tim Hetherington's photographs from Liberia and Afghanistan. I had the pleasure of working with Tim for many years at the studio that retouched and printed his incredible photographs. Over the years, I spent many hours sitting and talking with Tim about these very images. He cared so deeply about his work as a photojournalist and a film maker and remained humble and gracious through out his career, despite the numerous awards and notoriety that he received. I vividly remember looking at the raw files of the Sleeping Soldiers on his laptop with him, soon after he returned from Afghanistan. This is an absolutely stunning body of work and it is quite rare for such a poetic project to be created in time of war while embedded with a platoon. Tim's photographs are both beautiful and haunting. He was an incredible story teller, a talented photographer and a gentleman. He is greatly missed and this exhibition should be seen by all. RIP Tim.
Click here for the show's homepage at Yossi Milo. The show will be up until May 19th.
Alcantara, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 2008
I visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the Bronx Zoo last week. Over the past few years, I have spent quite a lot of time at these two places. For those that haven't seen my Diorama project, here is the link to my portfolio. It is always so fun to walk through the museum. I spent so many weekend afternoons there when I was researching the project, that I feel like I have memories in each room.
Penguins, American Museum of Natural History
Goat, American Museum of Natural History
Fish in the Tiger's Cage, Bronx Zoo
Fish in the Tiger's Cage, Bronx Zoo
Polar Bear, Bronx Zoo
My sidekick on all adventures, Nico American Museum of Natural History
