http://graememitchell.com/blog a photographer's footnotes, disjecta membra, et al. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:11:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a follow up to the recent post on the inventors of fashion photography (here), I thought it would be best to give proper props to the two guys I view as the inventors of modern fashion photography as we know it, Guy Bourdin (pronounced Gee) and Helmut Newton. (You may ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/guy-and-helmut I'm not prone to superstition, but for some reason the shutter on my F3hp was hanging up all day so half my shots were ruined, grossly overexposed on the right of the frame.  It worked fine the day before and it worked fine the day following.  Ghosts, jinxes, or the ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/nyc-journal-50-coney-island-on-a-fri-13th It is mostly a desire, an attraction, something that has-to-be-had, and not logical at all - not initially at least -  no, rather, gut level, very fundamental...not any different than say sexual attraction or moral conviction.  Though, it's more muddled than that, less intact if you will.  B/c the process ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/nyc-journal-49-w-a-partial-consideration-on-the-why-of-any-one-picture These are the guys that invented fashion photography; pre-WWII consciously or not they created a whole new genre and became the shoulders Avedon and Penn and the rest would later stand on.  Absolutely remarkable.  If you don't know them, study up, b/c they've a great deal to teach. Horst P. Horst: photo: ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/the-inventors This is a recording of William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, as prevalent today as it was when he originally read it I believe. [audio:williamfaulknernobelprize.mp3] audio: William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Delivered, Dec 10, 1950 in Stockholm Sweden photo: William Faulkner, Hollywood, CA, 1942. ©Alfred Eriss/Pix Inc./Time Life Pictures/Getty Images http://graememitchell.com/blog/william-faulkners-nobel-prize-speech If you drive fast straight east from Portland for approximately 3 hours you'll pass within about 9 miles of this place. It's the kind of place that conjures absolutely nothing in the imagination. It's a desert of sorts. "Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucination ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/umatilla-or B/c it is seems to fit the pattern of how everything is here right now: palpable disconnect. It's terrible in many ways...maddening actually. When I watch people on the street, on the subway, sitting on the park benches, driving their cars, living life, following the traced ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/nyc-journal-48-and-1-plus-1 Finally time to get back on those grit-dusted-streets, back to itchin' that itch, back to not backing off. Shoot the lights out, as my good friend Garett suggests. photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2008 photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2008 photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2008 photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2008 photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2008 photo: © Graeme Mitchell ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/nyc-journal-47 I'm sure many of you have heard, but I thought it worth mentioning here that Yves Saint Laurent died. He was considered one of the greatest designers of the 20th century, not only b/c of his clothes, but also for his use of Fashion (with a capital F) as ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/yves-saint-laurent Alex just busted his leg in two and needed some metal put into it b/c he drove his 1980-storm-trooper-scooter into a car or some such David vs Goliath tale. What I imagine is that all the while his mind was in outer space dreaming another one of his new ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/alex-stecklys-outer-space At work: "I have no ethics." Or are your ethics just bigger than the commonplace, Bruce? http://graememitchell.com/blog/bruce-gilden I had a lot of momentum this spring, more momentum than I knew what to do with; then I had to vanish for two weeks to the W. Coast and was, unintentionally, able to reset. I worked on a great commercial job, left my phone alone, saw a lot ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/hit-reset Crops from a contact sheet. Editing editing. Full story will be out soon. photo: from fashion story contact sheet, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008. photo: from fashion story contact sheet, ©Graeme Mitchell 2008. http://graememitchell.com/blog/contact-crops Some finals from the beauty story shot two weekends ago (Polaroids here). These three girls are with Ford NYC. If I recall their names correctly, Catlin, Matta, and Leane. Respectively. Imported from the future. photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2008 photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2008 photo: © Graeme Mitchell 2008 http://graememitchell.com/blog/beauty-update I am buried in work. In a good way b/c it's work that really puts me on the moon, but it turns out there's not enough minutes in the day to also include time for this site and time for the NYC Journal, and anyone who knows me knows ... http://graememitchell.com/blog/buried