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https://www.laslagunagallery.com Current Show, Photography, now open to view. Diana's work is a silver gelatin print 15x10 inches.    “Toward the Light, 8th Avenue, 2018", from Diane's series “Ghost Waltz, Volume I: Acquainted With the Night, will be on display in the online exhibition "Photography" at the @laslagunaartgallery, December 3 - 31, 2020 .."                                                                                ***** https://dianarivera.exposure.co/adventures-in-filmgreenwich-village     https://photography.exposure.co/ Return to pre-Covid spring days in New York's Greenwich Village...they will come again but for now there's Diana's photos. Earlier post has excerpts from her Valentino series. For more:  Se...

Photo Essay. I love photography that begins where words  leave off.  This work is visual poetry, evoking feelings and sight  below the surface of consciousnes,  while showing what we think we know  in one moment of time. Begin this walk. This is an excerpt of a longer series to be savored some night. S.W. On a Darkened Night, SoHo 2018 GHOST WALTZ, Volume 1: "Acquainted With the Night" by Diana A. Rivera New York City's architecture is full of layers of history. Rabid development continues to destroy historical buildings at an unprecedented rate. My current urban photography series Ghost Waltz was born from searching for New York City's past eras before they vanish. This series explores different neighborhoods and their singular a t mospheres; Downtown’s gritty patrician buildings; Midtown’s unearthly heights; U p town’s broad swathes of recognizable yet hidden historical elegance. With influences such as Brassai ̈ , silent films and spir...

Diane Riveria, a wonderful photographer, has been documenting NYC in neighborhoods, where the people seem a blur of ephemera in a timeless world of buildings and light filled with spirits. Below is a link to the complete photo essay, her Requiem to Valentino.  Enjoy. S,W. https://dianarivera.exposure.co/ghost-waltz-vi-a-requiem Original 1 - The entrance to the New York Polyclinic Hospital, where Valentino died of a perforated gastric ulcer  Original 2 - the opening header, with Valentino ghostly juxtaposed against my picture of the ornate lamp of the Roosevelt Hotel, built in 1924.n 1926 Waltzing With Valentino Worlds, and Worlds to live in, and so few do. – Rudolph Valentino ( Day Dreams , 1923) I am a silent movie fan; a quirk inherited from my father, who loved Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, and the Mack Sennett films. I'm also a photographer with a particular way of documenting the world around me. The younger generation tod...

News- Foreword Reviews Award https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/winners/2014/photography/ This is the first study of artists in their working spaces with their work, as part of their process.    Katrina anniversary is 8/29, gives this story poignancy. Many of the artists recreated their studios with a new sense of the importance of place,  The work is on view at THE OGDEN  MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. It's interesting to see the artists' work in their studios in the book and then to see it on the white walls of the Museum. It looks very different . The book is published by   University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press  www. ULPRESS .org Tina Freeman has been photographing artists and their interiors from the early years of her career in New York, when she photographed Diana Vreeland and Andy Warhol. Also an accomplished photographer of architecture, landscapes and portraits, her work has graced magazines, such as Hous...

Reporters Without Borders is a non-profit organization headquartered in France and they do 3 or 4 of these photographer portfolios every year to raise money for the organization.  http://en.rsf.org/100-photos-of-sam-shaw-for-press-14-12-2012,43787.html   Sam Shaw (with Marilyn above) was a photographer of films known for his iconic Hollywood shots. Remember the one where the heating grate sends Marilyn's dress upward? He also shot documentary films and John Cassavetes' cinema verite. But what I found stunning in this book were not the star turns but character portraits behind star poses. You actually get a sense of who they were. There's Liz the beauty looking goofy, Marlon in an altered state. Real people. He shot meaning beyond pretty people in pretty photos. His lens was true. And he went after meanings in other forms. Here from an online bio: In the 1960s, Shaw branched out into producing. He made the film  Paris Blues  (1961) starring Paul Newman an...

GROUP F.64: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and the Community of Artists Who Revolutionized American Photography I was given the book Group F.64 (Bloomsbury 2014) as a holiday present and found it richly satisfying. Mary Street Alinder's thoughtful, well researched history of a pivotal group of West Coast photographers is respectful and slyly humorous. Here is the ever-charming Edward Weston, stilted but stalwart Ansel Adams, the acid-tongued and generous Imogen Cunningham, among the founding members of the iconic group that defined  modern photography. Strength of character and  artistic purpose evolved along with their iconic imagery. Edward Weston, elder in years and, at first, skill, lived a frugal ethic of "straight" photography, allowing nature to reveal itself. Even his vegetables were animated and provocative with no artifice. Ansel Adams, who started as a  serious musician and amateur photographer, reversed that emphasis. He learned from Weston...