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Remembering Magnum Photographer Inge Morath

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Remembering Magnum Photographer Inge Morath

“Photography is a strange phenomenon… You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.”(Inge Morath)

Inge Morath Self Portrait, Jerusalem, 1958

Born 91 years ago today, on 27 May 1923, Ingeborg Morath was a photographer associated with Magnum Photos for nearly fifty years.

After studying languages in Berlin, she became a translator, then a journalist and the Austrian editor for Heute, an Information Service Branch publication based in Munich.
In 1949, Morath was invited by Robert Capa to join the newly founded Magnum Photos in Paris, where she started as an editor. She began photographing in London in 1951, and assisted Henri Cartier-Bresson as a researcher in 1953-54. In 1955, after working for two years as a photographer, she became a Magnum member.
Her work included striking portraits of both posed celebrities and fleeting images of anonymous passers-by. Her feeling for places as reflected in images of Boris Pasternak’s home, Chekhov’s house and Mao Zedong’s bedroom was so sensitive that some viewers insisted they could see invisible people.
‘Inge Morath possesses the priceless quality of making the world look as though it had been discovered only this morning and she was present with her lens to record its bright freshness,” Harrison E. Salisbury wrote in The New York Times Book Review about the couple’s book in Russia
 (Viking, 1969).
Morath married the playwright Arthur Miller on February 17, 1962 and relocated permanently to the United States, where she had previously had assignments.
 
Ingeborg Morath Miller died of cancer on January 30, 2002, at the age of 78.
Because Morath devoted much of her enthusiasm to encouraging women photographers, her colleagues at Magnum Photos established the Inge Morath Award in her honor. The Award is now given by the Magnum Foundation as part of its mission of supporting new generations of socially-conscious documentary photographers, and is administered by the Magnum Foundation in collaboration with the Inge Morath Foundation.
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Photographer Spotlight: Ted Anderson

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TBM Photography Network regularly presents the popular series: “Photographer Spotlight.” In this part of their newsletter and FaceBook page various fellow photographers are interviewed to learn more about what motivates them, what their goals are and what direction they wish to take with their art. In this segment they welcome the talents of photographer Ted Anderson.
Ted Anderson
TBMPN: What best describes your particular style of photography?
TA: I am drawn to austerity, simplicity and to capturing beauty in places that might seem lonely to some. I think a lot about the relationship between people and their environments, and sometimes I look for a figure or a remnant of the past in my exterior or interior photographs. I do not put elements together artificially, but try to present images as I find them. Sometimes I allow stories to arise from the moments captured with the camera.
Ted Anderson – Here, Perhaps
 
TBMPN: What equipment do you regularly use?
TA: My main camera of choice is a Nikon D90 with an 18-100mm lens and a 50-200mm lens. When shooting landscapes, I often go with the wide angle settings. I use a small variety of filters that include neutral density and polarizing filters. Any processing is done on a Mac computer, and I work primarily in Photoshop’s Camera Raw and inSilver Efex.
Ted Anderson – Rachel
TBMPN: Who or what do you consider your major influences?
TA: There are many photographers and painters whose work I admire, but right now I’d have to say that the photographs ofBrett and Edward Westen, Julia Margaret Cameron andWalker Evans come to mind. I also love the paintings ofAndrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper. Visually I am also inspired through music and words that include songs by Bill Callahan, novels by Marilynne Robinson, and the poems byW.S. Merwin.
TBMPN: Why did you choose photography as your method of expression?
TA: As a kid I loved to draw, and I’ve also composed songs on the guitar for years. Photography, however, is what brings to me the greatest level of creative satisfaction and that sense of connection to others. Just about anyone can take a photograph, but to create an image that might move another person emotionally or intellectually is a challenge that I enjoy.
TBMPN: What do you wish to accomplish with your photography?
TA: I wish to continue expressing myself both artistically and emotionally and to keep creating images with which people can connect. I recently heard from an old friend, someone I haven’t seen in years, who had requested a print that she’d seen online. That sort of thing does not happen every day, and when it does, it’s quite wonderful.
TBMPN: What are your current projects?
TA: This past year I have been photographing more portraits, and I’m in the process of setting up a few more portrait sessions. I will be having a solo exhibition in 2016 at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York. This exhibition will include landscape and interior images from New York State as well as portraits. In the meantime I am always thinking about new locations to explore.
Ted Anderson – Crossing over
 
TBMPN: What are your plans for future projects?
TA: I’d like to see my photography business expand a bit over the next couple of years. I would like also to take on more portrait and interior photography projects. This next July (2014) I will be in England for two weeks and will have an opportunity for some informal wedding shots in the countryside. I’ll also have the chance to do some street photography in London. I can’t wait!
E-mail: tedandersondandp@gmail.com
Phone: 315-750-0600
Wish to be considered for TBMPN’s next Spotlight interview?
Please contact their staff at info@tbmpn.com
To view more images: http://terabellamedia.com/
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Making an entrance…

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Making an entrance can be quite difficult if there is no door to enter through, so lets give the doors some credit and take some pictures to show just how marvellous they are…

I have started this as another project as it is quite interesting how creative we can be and how many incredible opportunities there are out there to make art from a simple door…

Toy looking....but real by Glyn Ridgers
Toy looking….but real by Glyn Ridgers

This was a door on a cathedral, the door and surround is beautiful however in the original image the background was to powerful so with a simple Gaussian blur layer added then the subject erased through created an almost toyish looking image very similar to what you would get using a tilt shift lens…

Door Light by Glyn Ridgers
Door Light by Glyn Ridgers

I really liked this door as it is interesting enough on its own but with the surrounding textures created by the wall climbing plants and the berries as well as the light made this a great picture.. I shot this using the bracketing technique and then merged three images together to bring out maximum tone and detail…

Overgrown Undergrowth by Glyn Ridgers
Overgrown Undergrowth by Glyn Ridgers

A forgotten old building where the environment has made it its home presented me with this wonderful door, again bracketed and merged then slightly desaturated to give a nice weathered effect…

Hope you like these images enough for you to start noticing doors of interest near you as they really do make great images.

All the best

Glyn

by Glyn Ridgers

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Platinum Dice by Glyn Ridgers

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Platinum Dice by Glyn Ridgers
Platinum Dice by Glyn Ridgers

Sitting in office lookng out of the window at the rainy weather and wanting to take some photos….What did I do?…did I go outside and get soaked?….HECK NO! …I rummaged around the drawers of my desk and came across these dice….I have no idea where they came from but glad they were there as I feel they have made a good image. Not being bothered to leave my chair I just grabbed 3 sheets of paper to make a temporary light tent, my desk light and a tissue to diffuse the light from the lamp still giving me enough light to produce the shadows I wanted.. .Camera on beanbag (rolled up jumper) settings were f/7.1 with a 0.3 sec shutter speed using my 24-70mmn and a 7D bracketed at 1 stop intervals and merged with CS5 and with the applied platinum texture I produced this image….time…..30 mins…….COOL BEANS as my son would say!

Hope you like

by Glyn Ridgers

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Charles Roscoe Savage

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August 16, 2012 Born 180 years ago on 16 August 1832, Charles Roscoe Savage was a British-born landscape and portrait photographer who produced images of the American West. He became one of the foremost 19th century landscape photographers of the western United States, as well as a renowned studio portrait photographer, with his studio in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Shortly after his 1848 baptism and membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Savage emigrated to the United States where he initially found work as a photographer in New York City. On assignment from the LDS Church he traveled to Nebraska, where he established a  studio. In the spring of 1860, he traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory with his family, where he established another photography studio with a partner, Marsena Cannon, an early Utah daguerreotypist and photographer. A year later, after Cannon moved to southern Utah, Savage established a partnership with artist George Ottinger. Many of Savage’s photographs were reproduced in Harper’s Weeklynewspaper, which created a national reputation for the firm. This partnership continued until 1870, when Savage formed the Pioneer Art Gallery, and in 1875, needing more space, he replaced it with the Art Bazaar which -in 1883- burned to the ground with all of his negatives.
As a photographer under contract with the Union Pacific Railroad, Savage traveled to California in 1866 and then followed the rails back to Utah. He photographed the linking of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific on Promontory Summit, at Promontory, Utah in 1869. This series is considered his most famous work. Other well known Savage images include pictures of the Great Basin tribes, especially the Paiute and Shoshone. Savage photographed scenic areas of the west including Yellowstone National Park, Zion National Park, and created many images documenting the growth of Utah towns and cities. He also traveled extensively over western North America, taking pictures in areas of Canada and Mexico, and in areas from the Pacific Ocean to Nebraska in the mid-west.
After his death on 4 February 1909, another fire -in 1911- destroyed all of the negatives from the last 25 years of his career.
Residence of Pres[iden]t B. Young, front. [Temple]. Alternate Title: Utah. Charles Roscoe Savage
Shore of Salt Lake. Charles Roscoe Savage. Medium: albumen print.
Cactus growth, Arizona. Charles Roscoe Savage. Created ca. 1875. Medium: albumen print.
The old mill. Charles Roscoe Savage. Alternate Title: Utah. Medium: albumen print.
Interior of Tabernacle. Alternate Title: Utah. Charles Roscoe Savage. Medium: albumen print.
Foundation of Temple. Alternate Title: Utah. Charles Roscoe Savage. Medium: albumen print.
Cathedral Rocks. Alternate Title: Views of the Great West, from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, Colorado series. Charles Roscoe Savage

by Glyn Ridgers

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