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Photo Hiromu Kira via The Story: here
Listen to the interview with Dennis Reed on DIck Gordon's: The Story in the podcast below.
This is a double interview podcast, which means that you'll need to listen past the Mustard Girl piece that begins the episode. It is worth it. Dennis Reed speaks about his quest to track down the Japanese photographers who were forced to relocate to internment camps during WWII. His interview starts a little past the half-way mark of the podcast.
I have a similar easel that I bought for $10 from an art school that was upgrading their studios. I never realized that the yard stick sections bolted to the frame were palette supports until this photo illuminated me.
Photo © the Dorothea Lange collection.
The Oakland Museum of California. City of Oakland.
At 93 years old, Lillian Bassman is at work again. I love this via the L. A. Times:
"Glenda Bailey, editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar, says, 'You have an emotional response to her photographs -- you can almost smell the lily, hear the phone ring, feel the fur. Lillian is a poet of photography.'
"Nowadays, the poet no longer has to stand for hours in a darkroom inhaling noxious chemicals. She pursues her art using another medium -- Photoshop. This is where she reinvents her photographs, using technology that many 20-year-olds haven't mastered. The creative visions come to her, and she realizes them, this time with the swish of a mouse, not a paintbrush. She has embraced the new social media, interacting with fans through Facebook."
Read the full article about Lillian Bassman in the L.A. Times: here
Lillian Bassman's Facebook Fan Page: here
Lilian Bassman's: Women is available at amazon.com. A new book: Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel is available for pre-order.
Description: Painter Charles Shepard Chapman in his studio. Identification on verso (handwritten): C.S. Chapman in his studio. Chapman, Charles Shepard, 1879-1962
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Dimensions: 18 cm x 13 cm
Date: 1920
Collection: Charles Scribner's Sons Art Reference Department Records, c. 1865-1957
Click here to see their full collection of Charles Shephard Chapman photographs.
The Manhattan landmark under construction circa 1902. It's one of my favorite buildings and I love this early glimpse. I haven't bought a print yet, but I could via Shorpy: here
8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.
Artist: Timothy H. O'Sullivan, born Ireland 1840-died New York City 1882
Type: Photography-Photoprint
Date: 1867
Topic: Landscape\rocks
Landscape\Nevada
Landscape\lake\Pyramid Lake
Object number: 1994.91.142
Medium: albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard
Credit Line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Repository: Smithsonian American Art Museum
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