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books by Joyce Tenneson
Light Warriors 
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Flower Portraits :
The Life Cycle of Beauty
Gloria Steinem -
from Wise Women.
Photographer Joyce Tenneson
In photographing these women, I wanted to understand what it feels like to be an elder now. And as I worked, I realized I was indeed getting a glimpse into the secret corners of their being. .
Quite simply, they have come to terms with their natural gifts -- they are no longer interested in hiding behind a mask.
It's pure freedom. You can almost touch the incandescent power that comes from letting go of other's expectations -- not to mention society's conventional definitions of female attractiveness. ...
These women defy the notion that later life is a time of falling apart and closing down -- rather, they prove it's a golden age, ripe with energy, wisdom and deep beauty.
Joyce Tenneson**[AARP Modern Maturity Sept-Oct 2002] --
about her book: Wise Women: A Celebration of Their Strength, Spirit, and Grace
photo of Tenneson from her site JoyceTenneson.com
~ ~Joyce Tenneson: "I think that for artists who specialize in mining their inner territory, like I do, early life experiences are always very pivotal. And I think the fact that I grew up in such a rich environment, in terms of ritual and the unconscious - a world of symbols - I feel very comfortable in those areas of the unconscious. And I think that I still have a lifelong repertoire of images to mine." [You photograph all body shapes and sizes. . .but what is it you see in potential subjects beyond the physical?]
"I'm really curious about people. I like people. People are the center of my life. And I'm curious about their inner life, you know, what they don't show on the surface, and that's really what I'm interested in. And so when I photograph people, I try to get down below that surface, and to really key in to the deep levels." ........[from pdnonline.com]
*related pages:.....depth psychology.........dreamwork.........mythology~ ~ ~ ~
Structure of Thought No. 5
Black Pulse No. 17
Doug and Mike Starn.. have reemerged.. as one of the most inspirational and influential forces in art.
Their focus on light and use of the sun as a symbol of knowledge, illumination, enlightenment and fulfillment
has generated a challenging and exciting body of work.Eager to break away from traditional methods within the medium of photography, they have opened our
understanding of what art can be and impacted the way other artists create. Their footprints can be seen
everywhere, even in commercial culture, from advertising to music videos. [from profile: biography.com/icons]~ ~
"To encapsulate light within the work, Structure of Thought starts as prints of silhouetted trees that are coated
with several layers of wax, a second print on tissue is layered on top of the first, and is then coated with
encaustic. A second photograph of a tree is printed on a rare gampi paper that is saturated with varnish,
and is then stretched over the first print, creating an almost luminous work."Black Pulse series: "These works are created from digital files made from transmissive and reflective scans
of actual leaves. Through very detailed manipulations, the files are then digitally processed in a 3D program,
making them into virtual counterparts to real leaves. They are printed on rice paper, which is then coated
with Albumen, resulting in dried, curled and tattered prints that mimic their subject."images and descriptions from Stephen Wirtz Gallery: wirtzgallery.com
....related book: Mike and Doug Starn by Andy Grundberg
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photo:
Pascale et le dindon, 2000
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Sarah Moon |
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I look back at all these photos I have accumulated -- moments of awakening, split seconds, a slow motion rough cut from a film, which I have been living by proxy, more from outside than inside... Is it dreams that
my photographs are about?
Sarah Moon |
 ...Coincidences |
*related page:.....dreamwork~ ~ ~ ~
I'm inclining toward the idea that the working process of art is a lot more thoughtless than I once imagined - thoughtless but not stupid. Somehow the pictures that work out just the way I wanted them to are the ones I lose interest in soonest.
The expectation has become the limit. And I think that the way to take something beyond your own expectations is to leave what you see unnamed and beyond concept for as long as you can. I want to work as far beyond what I know as I can get, and the gate to that beyond lies exactly between seeing and naming.
Sean Kernan from interview on his site
photo from book: Sean Kernan (Photographer), Jorge Luis Borges. The Secret Books*related page:.....intuition / instinct~ ~ ~ ~
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Gina Garan [a video producer] refers to her childhood self as "really, really shy," but the way her dolls are photographed suggests a self-confidence only fully known to drag queens. "I lived a very full and crazy life through my dolls. I had full-on worlds for them, and I think it was just a way for me to do things that I wouldn't normally have the balls to do. There was something about being able to do things with my dolls that I couldn't do in real life.
"And it's the same way for me now, in a weird way. I'm a lot more bold when I'm shooting Blythe than when I'm talking to people... She just makes my life a lot happier."
... from article Welcome to the dollhouse - by Molly Simms, BUST Summer 2004
more photos, merchandise, links etc on Gina Garan's site
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"I told each dancer that when it was easy, it had probably been done
before, probably many times. I explained that only when it was so hard
that it was nearly impossible were we perhaps close to getting something
unique and extraordinary."Howard Schatz [quotationreference.com]
Shooting underwater is an artform, and so is dance photography. Howard Schatz is a master of both. In Water Dance, he presents classical dancers [San Francisco Ballet] flying unencumbered by the effects of gravity.
In a remarkable combination of light, color and design, these images celebrate the power of movement, the grace of design, and the expressiveness of dance. [from Ingram review]
site with multiple galleries : howardschatz.com
books by Howard Schatz and editor Beverly J. Ornstein include :
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A couple of centuries ago, gardening was treated as if the philosophical propositions it made were no different from those put forth by painting, architecture or music. Lynn Geesaman is a contemporary artist who brings that long-lost world into the present. At the Stephen Cohen Gallery, her extraordinary photographs of parks and gardens turn the ordinary world into an exquisitely designed field, filled with enough visual stimulation to make a voracious hedonist dizzy.
The magic of vision is Geesaman's great subject. Her 32 color prints, made between 1993 and 2003, bring viewers eye to eye with the quiet fireworks that take place in our heads whenever we open our eyes and leave darkness -- and dreams -- behind. As an artist, Geesaman is a Realist unlike any other.
For this 65-year-old photographer, who lives in Minneapolis, subtlety and refinement are far more potent than in-your-face ugliness. Rather than clobber viewers with the lowest common denominator of what ordinarily passes for reality, her works electrify with scintillating displays of the visible world's beauty.
To make her prints, Geesaman traveled to just about every country in Western Europe, to Mexico and all around the southern United States. No people appear in any of her images, but evidence of human activity fills every square inch. Neat rows of trees are planted alongside arrow-straight canals. The supple symmetry of her masterful compositions echoes such organic orderliness. Hardly anything happens by accident. Yet nothing feels forced.
Geesaman makes her laborious search for serendipity look easy. She seems to have an eagle eye for the delicately cockeyed. Her compositions flirt with symmetry, embracing its structural integrity by keeping it at arm's length.
Her photographs of individual trees, set against blurry forests, have the depth and resonance of great portraiture.
from art review by David Pagel, LA Times, Feb 13 2004
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Jeff Bridges also took up photography in high school. "I borrowed my Dad's Nikon and I loved spending hours in the darkroom. I haven't stopped since. Photography has always been something dear to me and I love it."
The publication of Jeff Bridges: Pictures marks his first collection, but he had always taken photos on the sets of his movies.
During the making of Starman, Karen Allen saw some of his work and suggested that they combine them with Sid Baldwin's (the unit photographer) to make a book for the cast and crew. That idea of Karen Allen's was the beginning of a series of privately published albums given in appreciation to the casts and crews of 16 of Bridges' films.
All proceeds from the sale of Jeff Bridges: Pictures will go to the Motion Picture & Television Fund [site].
Bridges also founded the End Hunger Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to feeding children.
< from article: Jeff Bridges - Man of Many Talents, by Gary Amo, Beverly Hills [213], Nov 19 2003
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photo at right from book: [cropped from wider format]:
"inflatable extras" from the movie Seabiscuit [dvd]photo of Jeff Bridges by Mary Ellen Mark
from Smoke magazine article - link on jeffbridges.com
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accept pin-up art today because they can visualize themselves in the
poses.
Many women hire me to take photos of them like the old cheesecake
pictures
of the '50s.
They want to wear lingerie like they had back then and imitate the models of the past to make a gift photo for their boyfriends or husbands. ... I don't model anymore but I still act in local TV commercials and play small parts in movies that are made in Miami. ... Being sexy has nothing to do with age. It comes from within. I've had to teach my young models how to have sexy facial expressions when they pose. Just a smile doesn't always work. I hope I never lose my sexy feelings. Bunny Yeager ... [right, age 73] [Bust, Spring 2003] |  |
....related page:**nudity : art/identity/activism...~ ~ ~ ~
 | Graciela
Iturbide married at the age of 19. "I was young and in love with love,
but I knew even then I wanted a life that was bigger than the world I
was
born into. By 1969, I'd had my three children and I knew it was time to
go. For me to break away from my family to discover my own world
created
tremendous upheaval, but my great need to find my world gave me the
strength
to do it. ...
"I became an assistant [to Mexican photographer Alvarez Bravo] and accompanied him throughout the city on his shoots. The most important thing I learned from him was his sense of time -- he has the eye of a poet and knows how to really look at life." ... [Los Angeles Magazine, May, 1999] Mujer ángel (Angel woman), 1979, by Graciela Iturbide - "a Seri Indian woman walks into the Sonoran Desert, boom box in hand."
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"To be a woman photographer for National Geographic is to complicate the complicated.
Not only does a woman face the same dangers and adversities on assignment as her male
colleagues, she often has to juggle additional commitments to home, spouse and children.Yet sometimes doors open more readily to a woman, giving her access to closed cultures
and customs, such as purdah in India or the geisha in Japan, that a man would never see."book: Cathy Newman Women Photographers at National Geographic
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Elle
Macpherson -
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 books by Veronique Vial |
 Seth Green
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"It's not really beauty that intrigues me. It's how much beauty has to do with reality. In this way,
art is very much like love. Healthy love means really knowing the person.Art means really knowing the world, getting closer to the world, shooting what's real, the laundry, the mess.
"We all perform, we all pretend. It's a gift we give the world. But what's beautiful is what's real."
Veronique Vial [LA Times, July 11, 2001]
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I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds really creepy... But it's honestly not! You get some of the most interesting pictures because people are walking past not realising you're there. And I think where people know you're there, they're not being themselves, and.. that's what's interesting... what people are like... as they really are."
Anna Paquin [Empire, October 2000]
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Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965)"Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California" 1936
quotes attributed to Lange: "The benefit of seeing ...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...... the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate."
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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
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"Our Lady" digital art by Alma Lopez -- artist statement:This work features two of my friends. Performance artist Raquel Salinas as a contemporary Virgen dressed in roses and cultural activist Raquel Gutierrez as a nude butterfly angel. The two Raqueles and I grew up in Los Angeles with the image of the Virgen in our homes and community.
The Virgen is everywhere. She's on tattoos, stickers, posters, air freshener cans, shirts and corner store murals, and as well as church walls.
Many, including myself, feel that because she is everywhere there is nothing anyone can do to change how the original image of the Virgen de Guadalupe is generally perceived.
"Our Lady" was inspired by our own experiences; by Raquel Salinas' one person performance titled "Heat Your Own"; Raquel Gutierrez's experiences in Catholic school; and by an essay by Sandra Cisneros.
In "Guadalupe the Sex Goddess" Sandra Cisneros writes: "She is a face for a god without a face, an indigena for a god without ethnicity, a female deity for a god who is genderless, but I also understand that for her to approach me, for me to finally open the door and accept her, she had to be a woman like me." Alma Lopez
from her article "Tradition Clashes with Technology" - quotes and image from artist site almalopez.net
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....An
Eye for Beauty:
The Photographs of
Evelyn Lauder Abstractly sensuous, Lauder's serene "nature-scapes" reveal the camouflage patterns of plane tree barks, rhythmic undulations of snowdrifts, geometric patterns formed by sunlight, and other ecological wonders. Her search for such exquisite organic symmetries has taken her everywhere from the mountains of Colorado to the wilds of Patagonia and the remote regions of Myanmar (Burma). The implicit themes of Lauder's photographs -- optimism and nature's capacity for healing and renewal -- are also those of her intense dedication to breast cancer research, and all royalties from An Eye for Beauty will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. [Amazon.com summary] |
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Sin Titulo / untitled by Daniela Rossell -
from her documentary series Rich and Famous:
"I have imagined her as ubiquitous, watchful, and often in motion," Leonard Nimoy says in the introduction to his book
on the theme of Shekhina, which Jewish mystics consider to be the feminine aspect of God."This work is my quest for insight, the exploration of my own spirituality, and, as such, has been a deeply moving
and expanding process." [Variety, Sep. 22, 2002]~ ~
"It's very hard for me to predict or determine or guide an audience how they should perceive the work. There is
a very strong feminine issue here. The cover photograph, for example, shows a lady wearing phylacteries, which is
something traditionally associated with the Jewish male. Some people are going to see this work as transgressive...
Some people are going to see it as being a very bold feminism stroke. That's fine with me, too."Leonard Nimoy **[from a Salon.com interview - quoted on TrekWeb.com]
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Inever concern myself with how long my work will last. What I want,
above all, is to change the way people look at science by using an
unintimidating visual vocabulary that will compel them to ask the same
question I asked when I was a child... Why?The images I take are about ideas and if they are beautiful or interesting
enough to hold the attention of someone who would not ordinarily bother
to look, it is the first step in making science accessible to begin the process of discovery.The images alone will not produce enduring value. It is the thinking and wondering
about the questions that will last."Science photographer Felice Frankel - Artist in Residence in Science and Technology
at the Edgerton Center, MIT.[quotes and portrait from article] [image: biochemical reaction in a Petri dish]
coauthor of On the Surface of Things : Images of the Extraordinary in Science
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Catherine Wagner
____"Cell Wall" - 6 Iris prints, 32 x 44" ea >
will have on our culture -- socially, spiritually and physically. ... [These photographs] are meant to
serve as a catalyst for thinking about the intersection of images and ideas.It has never been my intention to document science, but to stimulate discussion, ideas and
questions about human existence. By posing questions that are inviting and inclusive of
non-science audiences, I hope to provide a forum to reconsider science and its relation to us.Catherine Wagner, professor of art at Mills College - named a "Fine Art Innovator"
by Time magazine, October 15, 2001 [quotes from icp.org interview]
book: Art & Science: Investigating Matter by Catherine Wagner
related page:**women in science~ ~ ~ ~
Sacred Legacy : Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian
Femme Fatale : Famous Beauties Then and Now 
Julia Roberts as Louise Brooks
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Frances Borzello. Seeing Ourselves : Women's Self-Portraits "...self-portraits across eight centuries, deftly weaving together
art and social history, the biographies of many women artists,
and a wide selection of paintings, prints, and photographs by women."
Untitled Film Still #13 (1978) by Cindy Sherman >
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