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Thoughts & Happenings
Fran Forman wanted to be an artist. She drew and doodled her way through her childhood in Baltimore, often sketching on school papers and text books.
Once in sixth grade, she had even doodled on a test paper. When her teacher, Mrs. Shapiro, handed it back, it had a perfect score and a comment:
“She wrote: ‘All this and art, too,’” Forman remembered. “I didn’t know what she meant. I thought she was mad at me.”
he SE Center for Photography welcomes Meg Griffiths for an Artist Talk, Thursday July 15, 7 PM EDT. Meg’s photographic art has graced the walls of many a center for fine art photography around the country. Meg will discuss her series Somewhere within and without.
When Brandon Thibodeaux takes a portrait for his personal work, it usually starts with a conversation and maybe even a little alcohol.
That was the case with a prized portrait from his 2017 book, “In That Land of Perfect Day,” which shows the lives of people he met after he moved to Mississippi’s Delta region in 2009 to immerse himself in the rural African American experience.
Richard McCabe, curator of photography at Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, loves color and its power to evoke emotion in images.
”I love red,” he said, characterizing it as hot and sensual. “But it changes everyday. I love green. I also love blue.”
How is it that some fine art photographers can create landscape photographs that evoke something more than the land – a personal vision? How can a landscape have emotion? I think about Sally Mann’s images from Antietam, where her wet plates seem “touched by some other hand than my own,” according to Mann.
Sustaining A Long-Term Project: A Conversation with Jeff Rich
By Polly Gaillard
When I was asked to interview Jeff Rich about his long-term project Watershed for this post, I quickly realized the I had nothing to add to the conversation. Jeff had been interviewed and his work reviewed by some of the top online photography publications to rave reviews. He won the prestigious Photolucida Critical Mass competition in 2011 who published his first book, Watershed: The French Broad River.
It is quite possible that female photographers see women differently than male photographers do. How could they not? After all, women understand how it feels to be observed by men, often as an object. It makes sense that a woman behind the camera may employ photographing women as a way to subvert the male gaze or to explore the complexities of her gender.
Anyone with an interest in fine art photography can become a collector
Photography has come a long way since its inception and has established itself as a recognized and appreciated form of art. And although there still is some discussion in certain circles about where precise photography falls in the spectrum of art, it specifically during the last three decades has become an area of focus for art collectors and investors in art.
Are you an artist looking to exhibit your art and get exposure for your work? Are you trying to gain interest from collectors and make sales? If you want to exhibit and sell your art be it photography, painting, sculpture, multimedia, or textile arts, calls for entry can be a great way to gain exposure.
The SE Center invited college and university students living or attending school in the Upstate of South Carolina to submit to our juried exhibition.
