Winslow Homer was a “Yankee to the bone,” during a time when all of America was falling in love with the European aesthetic. American society during the post-Civil-War industrial boom was war-weary and wanted to forget about home for a while so they found solace in European Old World art and architecture. Whistler became an expatriate and America artists followed him en masse. Sargent became the darling of the wealthy on both sides of the Atlantic, but on their return, many American artists could not sell their European style paintings because the wealthy wanted to buy only from authentic...

large edited image | large unedited image | related: Abelardo Morell In my previous studio in the Carter Building in Downtown Raleigh I blocked out all my windows with black foam so I could also use it as a darkroom. In the middle of one of the south facing windows, I cut a little circle out of the foam core and then stuck in an old metal film canister open on each end. When I developed old-fashioned prints, and I needed it to be dark, I just pluged the hole. On bright days, when I turned out all of the lights and unpluged the hole, the room was transformed into a camera obscura and I could see a dim...

Pinhhole Photography, Second Edition Adventures with Pinhole and Home-Made Cameras Plastic Cameras: Toying with...

I have about 20 to 30 photobooks that I use for teaching purposes. Here are a few that I use to teach practice, theory composition and history. I cart these around to the various venues where I teach and make them available for student use during class. The Pencil of Nature (out of print) Eugene Atget (Aperture) Julia Margaret Cameron (Phaidon 55s) Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography) James Vanderzee (Phaidon 55s) Henri Cartier-Bresson (Photofile) Walker Evans (Photofile) Koudelka Don McCullin (Photofile) Sabastian Salgado (Photofile) Witness in our Time: Working Lives of Documentary...

The Pencil of Nature, William Henry Fox Talbot The Pencil of Nature, in the words of its author, Henry Fox Talbot, was intended as “the first attempt to publish a series of plates or pictures wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing, without the aid whatever from the artist’s pencil.” Talbot went on to stress that the images were “depicted by optical and chemical means alone, without the aid of any one acquainted with the art of drawing.” The series was published in London between 1844 and 1846 in six separate fasicles. (The word is from the Latin facisculus...

June and July 2009 Durham Arts Council Summer Camp Instructor Drawing and Painting for 8-12-year-olds two-week session 9:00-2:00 p.m. M-F...

two-week session 2:00-5:30 p.m....

two week session 11:00-2:00 p.m...

  The Basingstoke Canal is located southwest of London. It was created in 1787 by an act of Parliament to serve as a waterway to connect the area of North East Hampshire with the London markets. The tow-path was originally used by draft horses to pull the barges to and from market. Now it serves as a walking and biking trail. When I stopped to frame up the shot, I saw a bike coming down the path, and was hopeful that I could capture him in the frame. Henri Cartier Bresson’s term “decisive moment” best describes shots that come together like this. Often, success in photography is finding a...

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