These are portraits by the wonderful Frederick W Glasier, in the early 1900s.
There’s nothing quite as deliberately dreamlike as a circus, I think. It’s beautiful and grotesque and poignant and rabidly joyous all at the same time.
(Here’s an article that says almost exactly what I just said except that I found it after the fact. haha) http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/frederick-w-glasier/
Or so Maki Tamura, the visiting artist from last week, would have us believe.
I’m not so sure.
Tamura is an exceptional artist with an obsessive eye for detail and color. I wish you all could have gone to her visit last Tuesday, but here are some examples of her work with paper and watercolor.
And an installation from last September (the picture should link to the gallery website):
Don’t let the decorative appearance of her work fool you–Tamura has an involved ideology (and profound sense of irony) fundamental to her work. I love the idea of the artist-philosopher; we all should be challenging the notions of art as we progress in ability and creativity.
If anyone’s interested in learning about modern daguerrotypists, here’s a good portal to some amazing artists–
http://www.newdags.com/
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/04/15/exactitudes/
This is neat. Photoanthrophology.
http://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/examples.php
Tilt-shift Photography: Tilt-Shift miniature faking is a creative technique whereby a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated to give an optical illusion of a photograph of a miniature scale model.
I don’t understand why you would do this–but it’s really interesting anyways.
Shannon Leith is a “commercial” photography who hails from the eternally sunny reaches of Southern California (which is why all her photographs will strike envy and despair into your hearts if it’s raining). She is also has the heart of a true artist, as well as an eye for spontaneous beauty and the art of everyday things. Along with wedding photos you’ll find pictures of her muse-like cockatiel Cosmo, photojournals of the “Seeing” classes she teaches, and the occasional sink full of dirty dishes.
Her site description reads:
“Hello hello! I’m Shannon! HOW EXCITING THAT YOU’RE HERE.
I AM AN ARTIST: I believe that life is full and deep and I love to explore and celebrate the daily. I photography weddings, the sidewalk, people, trees…everything, nothing, the unique and the ordinary.”
This lady KNOWS people, and somehow manages to celebrate every wedding and engagement session with as much sincerity and gusto as she celebrates her own singlehood. What a woman, I tell you! Go check out her work!
