Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, Blogfinger Presents on May 10, 2023|
Paul J Woolf. From Photograph Magazine. October 2017.
Paul J. Woolf was known for architectural images. This photograph was taken at dusk in 1935. An exhibit of his work opened on Oct. 26, 2017, at the Keith de Lellis Gallery in NYC.
PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA:” “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin. From the movie Manhattan:
Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Roseate Spoonbills on November 14, 2022|
Skidaway Island. Savannah, Georgia by Island photographer Fitzclarke. ©
We have friends who live on Skidaway Island off Savannah, Georgia. The island is a habitat for migrating birds including the Roseate Spoonbill. This beautiful bird breeds in South America, but we have seen them at the Ding Darling Wildlife Preserve on Sanibel Island off the southwest Gulf Coast in Florida. This gorgeous image of the Roseate was obtained by a Skidaway photographer and shared with us on Blogfinger.
JON BRION wrote the soundtrack for the movie Lady Bird which won many major awards including an Academy nomination for best picture. This is a wonderful film, especially if you like movies about relationships, in this case between a high school girl about to go to college and her mother.
The main theme (below) is also called “Lady Bird.”
Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove history, tagged tennis in Ocean Grove on November 25, 2020|
Ocean Grove tennis court. (note the net which she is holding. ? body language.). Broadway, August, 1910. On the back it says, “1 1/2 blocks from ocean, about #23 Bway.” Note, no cars. ? Sunday. In 1910, there were 500,000 cars in America.By Paul Goldfinger, Editor at Blogfinger.net
Tennis was introduced in the US in 1876, seven years after OG was founded. By 1881, tennis clubs were being built all over.
In the photo, it looks like the OG courts were hard sand, located parallel to Broadway. The early OG history books make no mention of tennis. Presumably playing tennis was forbidden on Sundays. Will tennis keep this couple together–after all, that sport has something called “love?”
BARBARA COOK. “Don’t Blame Me.” From her album Close As Pages in a Book—the music of Dorothy Fields. Dorothy Fields was a well known lyricist at a time when there were few women found at the Brill Building in New York. Barbara Cook was a huge star on the Broadway stage.
“Can’t you see
When you do the things you do?
If I can’t conceal
The thrill that I’m feeling
Don’t blame me..”
Do you suppose she liked it when he rushed the net? Did she prefer his backhand or his fore?
Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Cuban photography on October 14, 2020| 1 Comment »
Jesse A. Fernandez, Alicia Alonso, Varadero Beach, Cuba, 1958. Courtesy Throckmorton Fine Art © From Photograph Magazine. Re-post from 2016.
This exhibit, called “Under the Cuban Sun,” traces the tumultuous changes in Cuba over the last 70 years as seen through the lenses of an array of famous photographers from Cuba, but also as seen by visiting artists. Jesse A. Fernandez (1925-1986) is a Cuban artist who photographed many of the most important figures in Cuba in the 1950’s such as Fidel Castro .
The exhibit at the Throckmorton Gallery (145 East 57th Street in NYC) spans the years 1933-2007. It will consist of 42 vintage images and will open on June 16, 2016 and close on September 17, 2016.
OMARA PORTUONDO “La Sitiera.”
Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, tagged PaJaMa photography on October 12, 2020| 1 Comment »
By Paul Cadmus, Jared French and Margaret French. © Fire Island, 1950. Scanned from Photograph Magazine. Re-post from 2015 at Blogfinger.net
By Paul Goldfinger, Photography editor @Blogfinger
These three photographers collaborated together from the 1930’s to the 1950’s producing intimate sized black and white prints characterized by “magical realism.” These were set pieces that evoked psychology, eroticism, and symbolism. Their work on Nantucket, Fire Island, Provincetown, New York, and New Jersey was controversial at first, but is now considered to be important examples of American photographic art.
The Gitterman Gallery is mounting a show of their work from September 9 to November 7, 2015, at 41 East 57th Street; Suite 1103. The show is called PaJaMa after their first names. You can see more images by them at http://www.gittermangallery.com.
I enjoy their photographs because of the very special black and white moody effects. It’s hard to understand how 3 people can work together to produce a photograph, but I imagine there are design, story, photographic and production challenges, so there must be an element of division of labor.
RACHEL CANTU:
Posted in Blogfinger guest artist, Blogfinger guest photographer, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Bob Bowné egret on July 28, 2020|
Bob Bowné, photographer. 2020. © Special to Blogfinger.
LONDON PHILHARMONIC: “Peer Gynt Suite #1” Op 46. by Edvard Grieg.
Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Guest photographer Adriana Groisman on December 27, 2019|
“La Estrella, 2000” (Tr—The Star.) By Adriana Groisman. © Scanned from Aperture Magazine for Blogfinger.net. Re-post from 2015 Blogfinger.net
By Paul Goldfinger, Photography Editor @Blogfinger
In the summer of 2003, the famous photography magazine Aperture contained a presentation of tango photographs by Adriana Groisman, a Buenos Aires-born artist who has become known for her tango work since she began this project in 1998.
The article contained an essay about tango which is a dance form known for its passion, eroticism, and intensity, but also for the music that goes along with it. I loved the tango score for the film the Last Tango in Paris with Marlon Brando, with the music composed by Argentinian saxophonist and jazz musician Gato Barbieri.
Some of you may also recall the tango scene with Al Pacino in The Scent of a Woman.
The Aperture piece contained a number of Groisman’s powerful black and white images that captured the emotional energies of tango. The image above struck me as the epitome of eroticism possible with dance. Tango seems to be the one dance form that is primarily about sex.
In the article, strangely enough for a photographic magazine, there was very little information about the artist or the images including the one above. There was no technical information whatsoever. But Aperture is usually mostly about the art of photography. Even when they show work by photojournalists like the Brazilian Sebastiao Salgadao, they only show those whose works easily fall into the fine art category as well.
Adriana Groisman now lives in New York, but we have no recent information about her. From 1998 until 2004, her list of exhibits on this theme of tango is quite extensive. In 2011 her book Tango—-Never Before Midnight was published.
Below is a video of the tango scene in “The Scent of a Woman.” It is wonderful, and I have watched it countless times. The music is by the father of tango song Carlos Gardel.
Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Peter Bush photographer on October 22, 2019|
“The All Blacks” rugby team by Peter Bush of New Zealand. From Photograph Magazine.
By Paul Goldfinger, multi-media editor @Blogfinger.
Peter Bush, of New Zealand, is a most unusual professional photographer having spent his entire career photographing one sport and one team, the All Blacks, a legendary rugby team. His photographs, taken on and off the field document a sport that makes our professional football teams appear puny.
He is now 88 years old. Most of his work was done in black and white, a style that is so dramatic and full of emotion, that his own color work is ordinary by comparison. I know nothing about rugby, a sport that barely has made a showing in the US, but Bush’s images speak for themselves in all their powerful grandeur.
A gallery showing of Bush’s All Black work is now in progress at Anastasia Photo. 143 Ludlow Street, NYC. 9/19-11/23/19
ROYAL ARTILLERY AND PARACHUTE REGIMENT, BANDS, AND CHOIRS:
Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, Warrington Hotel fire on July 3, 2017| 1 Comment »
Rainbow. Warrington Hotel fire site as seen across Wesley Lake. Photo by “Suffering Surfer.” © Special to Blogfinger. 7/1/17. Click to enlarge.
Rain + Sun = Rainbow.
Suffering Surfer
Editor’s note: Another good omen would be if the town demands single family houses at that Warrington site. After all, that is what is happening next door at the Park View site and it is what the Master Plan asks for.
And look at the yellow/red roof beauty down the block on Seaview Avenue—the anchor for a lovely residential neighborhood?
Music for a good omen by Emilio de Benito (guitarist).
It is “Granada” from Woody’s film Vicky Cristina Barcelona:
Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, tagged amb, Chantal Chamberland sings "La Mer", erland on October 19, 2016|
Ocean Grove. Oct 18, 2016. By Maggie Thornton. Special to Blogfinger. © Click to enlarge this grandpa and his girl.
CHANTAL CHAMBERLAND “La Mer”
“The sea,
We see dancing along the shores of clear bays,
Shimmers with silver…”
Chantal Chamberland
Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Elliott Erwitt on May 17, 2016|
New York City, 1955. Elliott Erwitt photographer.
Elliott Erwitt is still active as a photographer at the age of 87. He has been famous for over 70 years and is best known as a street photographer who has worked for all the big-time magazines including Life and Look. His style is quirky, with a sense of humor. There is an exhibit of his work currently running in New Orleans. Erwitt has had many books of his images, and one of his unique characteristics has been his interest in dogs as models.
Elliott Erwitt currently works in both film and digital modes.
SARAH VAUGHN
Posted in Blogfinger guest photographer, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Alfred Eisenstaedt on Blogfinger on April 26, 2016|
Alfred Eisenstaedt. Waiters Watching Sonia Henie Skate, Grand Hotel, St. Moritz, 1932. ©Time Inc.
By Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net. 2016
Eisenstaedt on View From the latest edition of Photograph Magazine: “Known for his many photographs for LIFE magazine, which helped to define American photojournalism, Alfred Eisenstaedt was one of the four original photographers hired by LIFE. Alfred Eisenstaedt: Classics and Seldom-Seen Photographs, a selection of photographs by the prolific German-American photographer, goes on view at Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe beginning April 29, with a reception from 5 to 7 pm.”
Eisenstaedt was German born and escaped the Nazis by emigrating to NYC. Over his career, he photographed 90 covers and 2,500 photo essays for LIFE In the 1930’s he popularized the use of the small 35 mm Leica camera. Perhaps his most famous image was on VJ Day when he photographed a sailor in Times Square kissing a nurse.
Alfred Eisenstaedt. Times Square. 8/27/45
THE GRAND ORCHESTRA OF VIENNA “The Skaters’ Waltz”
Posted in Blogfinger Art Department, Blogfinger guest photographer, tagged Appalachia USA, Builder Levy photographer on March 16, 2016|
Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia by Builder Levy. 1971 ©
Appalachia USA. By Builder Levy ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Photography Editor @Blogfinger.net
Builder Levy is a photographer who was born in Tampa, Florida, 1942. He received his BA in Art from Brooklyn College, and over the years his work has appeared in many exhibits and books. He is best known for his work in Appalachia. This image is from his book Appalachia, USA.
Vanity Fair wrote this about him: “Photographer Builder Levy’s Appalachia USA (David R. Godine) does for today’s coal miners what Walker Evans did for sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the Dust Bowl.”
I hadn’t heard of him until I received an announcement of his latest exhibit at Shepherd University’s Scarborough Library in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. I got to view some of his work, all in wonderful black and white. His images are strong and include dramatic scenics as well as portraits.
He is also known for international images (eg Mongolia) and some wonderful photographs in New York City (see link below.) He recently had an exhibit at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida.
Recently Hillary Clinton said that she wanted to “put the coal companies and the coal miners out of business.” But if you saw some of Builder Levy’s Appalachia work, you realize that coal mining is a culture and a way of life which will be resistant to change.
BILL MONROE and his BLUEGRASS BOYS “Blue Moon of Kentucky”