Chicken Feet, 2
photo: ©Graeme Mitchell 2010
Portrait of the band, Girls,
photo: Girls, NYC, 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell
NYC Journal 90, for New York Mag
NY Mag asked me to go out the other morning and shoot some stuff in the spirit of the NYC Journal. Only had a couple of hours in the hot rain, but shot these:
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photo: ©Graeme Mitchell 2010
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NYC Journal 89
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NYC Journal 88
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NYC Journal 87
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NYC Journal 86
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NYC Journal 85
“Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot.”
- from Ulysses by James Joyce.
photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2010
photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2010
photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2010
photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2010
photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2010
photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2010
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New Work: Polina Barbasova w/ Ford
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Stylist: Molly Williams
MU: Viktorija (w/ Katy Ryan)
Hair: Dominick (w. Bryan Bantry)
Photo Assistants: Leo Duncan and John Burke
Model: Polina Barbasova (w/ Ford)
Shot in Brooklyn.
New Work: Adidas
For Adidas’ David Beckham FW10 line:
photo: for David Beckham’s Adidas FW10 from www.adidas.com, ©Graeme Mitchell / Adidas
photo: for David Beckham’s Adidas FW10 from www.adidas.com, ©Graeme Mitchell / Adidas
photo: for David Beckham’s Adidas FW10 from www.adidas.com, ©Graeme Mitchell / Adidas
photo: for David Beckham’s Adidas FW10 from www.adidas.com, ©Graeme Mitchell / Adidas
Stylist: Kemal and Karla w/ The Wall Group
Groomer: Cheri Keating w/ The Wall Group
Photo Assistants: Blake Williams, Charles Lee, Erika Shisler
Grip+Lighting Rental: Samys Camera Hollywood
Shot on location in LA
Portrait: Sloane Crosley for NY Mag
Portrait of the author, Sloane Crosley for NY Mag:
photo: Sloane Crosley, NYC, 2010. ©Graeme Mitchell.
Walker Evan’s Still Lifes
Walker Evans is one of the cornerstones in the history of American photography, and while a few of his seminal images are in the popular canon, the heft of his oeuvre is, I believe, oft passed over for more accessible photographers like his contemporary H.C. Bresson. Yet, Evan’s work to me is nearly on a different plane – not above or below, more far to another side – unsentimental, demanding, lasting, and intensely intelligent. Indeed, Bresson wrote himself in a letter to a colleague in 2001, “[i]f it had not been for the challenge of the work of Walker Evans, I don’t think I would have remained a photographer.” Needless to say, if you haven’t, you should find a book on Evans. He did a lot. A lot. Or the Met has an immense Walker Evan’s archive online, and the MOMA also has a succinct collection of his work.
I’m mentioning Evans b/c recently I’ve begun to look at his still lives and interiors. They leave me enthralled and immersed and nearly stunned. No hyperbole. In these I see everything from Pop art to Roger Ballen. This isn’t exactly internet work, so to speak, not wow work I guess: it’s quieter than that, but still, do not underestimate it.
photo: Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Georgia.. 1936. By Walker Evans.
photo: Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama. 1936. By Walker Evans.
photo: Kitchen Wall, Alabama Farmstead. 1936. By Walker Evans.
photo: Negro Barber Shop Interior, Atlanta. 1936. By Walker Evans.
photo: The Cactus Plant, Interior Detail of a Portuguese House, Truro, Massachusetts, circa 1930. By Walker Evans.
photo: Dressing Stand with Oval Mirror in Bedroom, Hobe Sound, Florida. 1934. By Walker Evans.