Art/Photography
Documerica: Dennis Cowals
I’ve previously written about Documerica and David Hiser’s contribution to the 1970s EPA project. The photos above (there are more after the jump) are from Dennis Cowals, who, from 1973 to 1974, documented sites of the future Alaskan Pipeline from the ground and from the air. His photographs are of the pre-pipeline Alaska wilderness from Prudhoe Bay south to Valdez.
Posted: January 27th, 2010 under Art/Photography.
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Salt Stained Eyes
Salt Stained Eyes is the brainchild of Jack Brull, a surfer from Long Island who chronicles his life at the great beaches of New England through the lenses of multiple analog cameras. He’s usually surfing at Long Beach, and his photographs perfectly capture the ghostly feel of the empty New York ocean during the early morning hours.
Posted: January 8th, 2010 under Art/Photography.
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Larson Harley
If you’re in the Philadelphia area from January 5th to January 23rd, make sure you stop by the Snyderman-Works Gallery and see Larson Harley’s new show, “From -119 to -102 degrees West.” Harley takes a damn fine picture, most of them similar to the one above of Yellowstone.
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under Art/Photography.
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The Hunters Of Greenland
NYT:
He’s trekked through glacial storms, fallen through rifts and awakened on ice that’s drifted out to sea. But Ragnar Axelsson just keeps coming back. For 25 years, he has been traveling to small Inuit villages in Greenland’s most remote regions, documenting hunting traditions that are 4,000 years old.
Posted: December 8th, 2009 under Art/Photography.
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100 Days In Glacier
In 2001, a friend of mine and his father set out on a camping trip in Glacier National Park. It was a 14 mile hike from the trailhead to the campsite, and along the way, they met some doctors that were on the same journey. My friend sped up towards the end of the hike to see where they’d be sleeping, and while he was ahead, his father had a heart attack. The doctors found his father, did some life saving doctor things and had him airlifted out of the park to a hospital. There also happened to be a long distance runner already at the campsite who, the following morning after the helicopter came, ran down the 14 mile trail and the extra several miles to my friend’s car, and drove it back to the trailhead to save time for the rest of the group. It’s a hell of a story that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about all weekend. My friend’s father was at the party where the story was told and still keeps in touch and visits the doctors that saved his life. Great ending.
The above picture is from Glacier Park Magazine’s 100 Days In Glacier feature that celebrates the park’s 100th birthday in 2010. More after the jump.
Posted: December 7th, 2009 under Art/Photography.
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Mikael Kennedy
I’ve been emailing with Mikael Kennedy back and forth for the past several months, and although the two of us live less than a mile from one another, we have yet to meet. Busy lives I suppose, although Mikael’s involves a bit more traveling, something that I’ve been trying hard to keep up with.
Peter Hay Halpert has posted a large online gallery of Mikael’s polaroids for your viewing pleasure, so go on over and be sure to take a look. No word on the show dates, but let’s hope it’s up sometime at the beginning of the new year, so the two of us can finally say hello.
Posted: December 4th, 2009 under Art/Photography.
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Bird
Andrew Zuckerman, the photographer behind Creature, recently came out with Bird, a photo collection of over 75 species of winged creatures, including the Snowy Owl above. Many more photos and behind the scenes videos can be found here.
Posted: November 23rd, 2009 under Art/Photography.
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George Shiras 3D
In 1935, George Shiras 3D published Hunting Wild Life with Camera and Flashlight: A Record of Sixty Five years’ Visits to the Woods and Waters of North America, a two volume set of over 960 of his wildlife photographs that included some of the earliest ‘flash’ photography.
Posted: November 19th, 2009 under Art/Photography.
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