Venice

Moving Day, Near Venice 1991 8x10 inch contact palladium print on Vellum

Baseball Field, Venice 1992 8x10 inch palladium contact print of Tissue paper

Not that one.

The one in Southern California.

I'm somewhat drawn to ordinary places with far away names and one day I'll compile a body of work from towns like Athens,Troy,Geneva,Mexico, and Venice, all towns and villages in New York and California.

I love the ordinary. To me, these place speak volumes.

July

Madeline's Place, Peach Hill, NY 1995 Palladium on Swiss Opaline Parchment

Montgomery Place, New York 1994 8x10 in Palladium print on Tissue

Pasadena 1988 8x10 in Platinum on Tissue Vintage print

Landscape off Route 9H, New York 1999 11x14in Cyanotype print on Cranes

I love the month of July.











The light is stunning by mid afternoon. Everything looks grand and pleasing. Here's a selection of work that I was looking at this morning. These are all images I made more than 10 years ago .











I still see the world this way.

Eastham, MA. 1999

Athens, NY 1997

Athens, New York 1997

1-22-09

Nuclear Plant, Washington state, 1995
12x20 inch silver gelatin contact print

Sacramento River, California 1995
12x20 in. silver gelatin contact print

New Work : New York

New York Dam 2009

This is my first photograph of 2009, and the first piece I've liked in over a year.

Standing in front of this scene instilled a sense in me that all will be well.

10 yrs apart...thoughts on new books....

Venice Backyard, Ca. 1989

Hudson , NY 1999

So I picked up the new Annie Leibovitz at Work and the Patti Smith Land 250 book.

Both surprised me .


Ms. Smith has always intrigued me as a musician.

I had heard rumors that she took pictures w/ a Polaroid., has so for years.

Her book is well laid out. The images are clear and transparent., I'll enjoy this copy for years to come.

I wonder how the health of the overall book market is, especially the photography book audience.


There's an awful lot of new books coming out these days. Some artists are releasing monographs at a rate of 1-2 per year. How can publishers afford to make any money these days ?


Whatever happened to less is more ?


I think William Klein is one of the last holdouts to publishing his work on a regular basis. Good for him.


As much as I love Friedlander.....I just got a notice on yet again, another new book from him. The New Mexico book. Wow !

I still haven't gone thru all the pages of my Friedlander MOMA retrospective book.

The above images are two that I've been looking at lately.

I made them 10 years apart, but seeing them together makes me realize that I'm somewhat drawn to structures that have survived. Tired, but still eminating pride and beauty.

The scene from a Venice backyard is probably long gone. Property values have shifted dramatically since I made that image. I only hope that my photograph stands as a reminder of a once noble place. Feel free to conjur up your own thoughts of what this backyard used to be like...

2 0 0 9

Chapel Route 9 NY 1998

What an exciting time to be alive in America.





As a culture we've taken an epic step forward . A lot of walls have been torn down, and I feel very strongly that we're going to come out of this stronger.





Its good to be humbled, we have a lot to learn. Lets embrace this situation and dig deep.





I made this photograph in 1998 . Its a chapel off of Route 9 along the Hudson River corridor. A very American roadside landscape if there ever was one.





I hope its still there.