Born in 1939 in Amersfoot, The Netherlands. Flick is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow. He lives in LA, where he developed one of the most interesting photography series of all time (in my opinion), Sequential Views. Here, he uses a video camera to capture stills, tons of them. He set up his camera on his car window and took a large series of stills at different times while he was driving through LA. He then takes all of the images and creates an ordered grid, showing all the images together as one long story. This is a really cool idea---I have always wanted to set my camera up in my car and take long exposures of the highway at night time...this is a little different than what he does, but somewhat similar subject matter. This idea is really cool and very well executed!!!!
Near Live Oak
Along Speedway
Long Beach Harbor
...This one is in Illinois
Jerry Uelsmann
One of my FAVORITE photographers of all time.
Born in Detroit in 1934 and received his BFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology and his MFA at Indiana University in 1960. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Nat'l Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He works mainly with film, and is known for his amazing layering work in the darkroom. He is an incredibly well-known photographer, and has the most awesome style of any photographer that I have ever come across.
The best attribute of his photography takes place in the darkroom; he is incredibly good at taking different objects and morphing them into one another and making them all connect to one another. He is good at making everything "one". I have always wanted to do a project relative to what he does...I still need to do this!!
Jerry's photographs are absolutely beautiful! That's all there is to it!
ReplyDeleteFlick has a lot of similarities to David Hockney. photomontages... i think this combination of photos has a lot of potential. Jeremy is kind of on the same track as Flck with his narratives.
ReplyDeleteI love the image of the woman in the river. It is so graceful. I would love to know his process and how he merges these images together so seamlessly.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of Robert Flick's project. I think that the mountain one is way more intriguing though. and Erica is right, Jerry is amazing
ReplyDeleteAs someone who recently drove through the Rocky Mountains in Colorado with my camera balanced on the dashboard (SO safe, right?), I totally appreciate the mountain series that Robert Flick did. I love that the photos are all happenstance and not meticulously set up to look a certain way. It kind of captures the fleeting instant of seeing a scene for the first time as you come around a bend in the road and are faced with a stunning landscape that you'll never "see for the first time" again.
ReplyDeleteWow, I LOVE Uelsmann work. It is amazingly executed and they seem so magical and surreal. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAlthough Jerry's images are a little on the creeper side they are captivating making it easy to get lost in his made up world.
ReplyDeleteJerry Uelsmann is amazing! I've seen his posters around town, but some of the photographs that are on his website are simply stunning, plus the added degree of technicality from not using digital methods is beyond belief.
ReplyDeleteRobert Flick reminds me of my thesis, and Amy's. Its interesting to see them really small scale where you cant make out what happening.
ReplyDeleteThe third one looks like a painting of big navy ships in the water.