Posts Tagged ‘photos’
One of the many wonderful things about living in a city like Austin, is being surrounded by people that are creating so much great work in different mediums. A few years back, I lived and designed with Keith Young when he decided to take another stab at photography. Since then, I have watched him grow into an unbelievable photographer. He keeps his photos simple and he is successful at telling a story without telling you too much, almost letting you decide the outcome. Every time I look at his work, I immediately want to get on the road and start shooting. Whether it’s Keith’s designs or photographs, I am a fan. Check out his photography, then jump over to his design work. You won’t be disappointed.
How am I just now finding out about Elaine Mayes photographs? Anyway, her work is terrific and she has been creating it for some time now. She began documenting the rock and roll revolution in the 1960′s and that eventually transformed into various photographic projects. Her work, new and old, is fantastic, but I am especially drawn to her black and whites. My favorites after the jump.
The Photographic Dictionary has been around for a little while now, but is now in a really simple and easy to navigate blog form. The blog is defines words through the literal, figurative, and personal meanings that can be found in each photograph. Check out each beautiful piece.
It’s not hard to find a piece or two in a photographer’s work that you enjoy looking at, but being floored by the entire body takes some searching. Last week we discovered Margaret Durow’s work, and I have found myself revisiting it at least once a day. A certain few of Durow’s photographs remind me of Malick’s Badlands and a few others of Katherine Squier. Durow tells a quiet story and she experiments with light and framing while doing so. The noise that would normally be considered a flaw in most photographs adds a haunting gloom that is present across the entire body of work.
To sum it up, it’s very solid work. More examples after the jump.
I watched Champion, the documentary about actor Danny Trejo, yesterday with my girlfriend. Both of us spent most of the time cringing about the stories he had about the drugs and criminal acts he was involved in when he was a young gangster in southern California. His story turns out to be incredibly positive in the end, but is similar in many ways to the images I found today shot by photographer Robert Yager. Simply titled Gang Photography, it’s an older body of work but still very relevant. Robert’s website is somewhat of a nightmare to try to navigate through so I pulled some images from it to view here. I’d recommend clicking through to see entire body of work though. It’s an amazing project.
