A Look Back. The Photography of Fred Herzog.

A Look Back. The Photography of Robert Adams.

Epic Proportions. The Photography Of Michael Wolf.

10 Fine Examples. Henry Wessel.

"You know, your mind is always back there saying: Move a little to the left. Move a little to... You wanna beat that. You cannot be thinking. You're just, yes, feeling. Yes, boom, here, there, whatever. Once you recognize something, then you're actually less aware. You name it, right? Once you name something -you name a telephone pole, you're less aware. But if you are not naming anything, then you're aware. More animal-like. So the mind's always in there saying "Ah, look at that.", you know. Telephone pole. Right? Macadam. This, move right, move left. So you wind up, in most cases, making maybe five pictures, six pictures of- the same stuff. The first ones, you could see how different they are than the ones when your mind got in there. When your mind gets in there, they start to look like photographs that you already know. They look like problems that you've already solved. They're never taking you to a place that's unfamiliar. They're taking you to what you're supposed to do. Then they look like everybody else's photographs. It's like when people say: "Well, you know, I always wanna go up and - I see something, and then I wanna go up and ask someone if I can photograph." You can't photograph it. It's gone! What you saw was gone. Now you're gonna photograph something else. And that's ok. People make good work that way. But it wasn't what interested them." (Henry Wessel)

Robert Rauschenberg Photographs.

In reorganizing my bookshelves I revisited 2 of Robert Rauschenberg's photography books. "In and Out of city limits" and "Photographs of Robert Rauschenberg" both of which took me a very long time to find as they have been out of print for many years. They have many of the photographs which he used in his transfer artwork as well as his paintings but many others that stand alone as amazing images. Here are a few.

Ann Stautberg Photo Show, Dallas, Texas

My internet art buddy, Ann Stautberg, is having a show of her beautiful photographs at Barry Whistler gallery in Dallas, Texas. The show will run through January 17, 2009 so if you are in the area please go check out her work. You will not be disappointed.

I found her work through Early Day Miners album "Offshore" which featured her photograph on the album cover.

Barry Whistler Gallery

2909-B Canton Street

Dallas, TX 75226

Ann Stautberg website

Barry Whistler Gallery website