Monthly Archives: November 2007

25 Years of Saturdays

We’re in the process of re-vamping our work schedule here in the Tribune photo department. I was talking with one of my colleagues, Al Hartmann, about things. Al said, “After twenty-five years of working Saturdays, I think I’m ready to be a Monday through Friday guy.”

I can’t get this thought out of my mind: What I wouldn’t pay to have a coffee table book of Al’s work, titled “Twenty-Five Years of Saturdays.” Any publishers out there?

You can see a small sample of Al Hartmann’s work by clicking here:

http://extras.sltrib.com/tribphoto/PhotogBios.asp?GID=Hartmann&sort=photog

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ParentsEmpowered Press Conference

Covered a press conference put on by ParentsEmpowered, a state-run program aimed at eliminating teenage drinking. That’s Utah’s First Lady Mary K. Huntsman (above) delivering a video message to the group.

I must have been completely out of sync with Ruben Garza of ACE Disposal (above). I clicked off frames as he spoke, but the first five caught him in mid-blink. Luckily there was frame six.

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Review: Locas


Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories (Love & Rockets), by Jaime Hernandez
[rating:5/5]

This mammoth book is a collection of Hernandez’s Love & Rockets comics, which tell the story of Maggie and Hopey, two SoCal latin punk rock girls in the 80′s-90′s. It’s got mexican pro-wrestling and a bunch of Nardcore (Oxnard hardcore) symbols all over the backgrounds that my eye kept discovering. The highlight was the panel that had a flier for an AFU show.

The stories are wonderful, the artwork is wonderfully stark black and white, and when I was finished I was so involved with the characters that it was terribly disappointing to be at the end of the book.

Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories (Love & Rockets), by Jaime Hernandez
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This is the best stuff I’ve seen, read, or listened to this week. Everything here is worth checking out and taking note of. Here we go…

Photography

pictures. » Scott Strazzante. You’ve really got to see Strazzante’s diptychs that contrast a small family farm and the modern, suburban community that now occupies the same land.

clayton james cubitt commissioned galleries Lagos Calling Lagos Calling. An anthropological study of African skinhead fashion from the early seventies.

George Jardine on Lightroom and Digital Photography » Blog Archive » Podcast #42 Posted, with Jay Maisel, Seth Resnick and Greg Gorman. This episode of the podcast is a must-listen for all photographers. Go download the episode now.

.:. The gaze of 45 mexican photographers .:.. Ten photographs each from 45 different photographers. A great place to click through the afternoon.

Polygamy

A fascinating article by Daphne Bramham: A Battle for Bountiful’s Children, in the Vancouver Sun, detailing the life of Teressa Wall Blackmore, sister to the victim in the Warren Jeffs case. The last days, prophets, and practice famines.

Books

My review of Worldview, the photos of Leonard Freed, [rating:5/5]

Film

Little Dieter Needs to Fly, [rating:5/5]. This 1998 Werner Herzog documentary tells the story of Dieter Dengler, a pilot shot down over Vietnam. Dengler tells most of the story himself, and he’s a fascinating character. In a telling moment, Herzog asks Dengler how he feels about being a war hero. Dengler says, “Oh no, I’m not a hero. Only dead people are heroes.”

Rescue Dawn, [rating:4/5]. The dramatic film of Denger’s story. Great film, but watch the documentary first.

TV

Look Around You, [rating:5/5], is a series of fake 1970′s era educational films produced by the BBC. It’s not available here in the States just yet, but you can watch it on YouTube. Here’s the brilliant first episode Maths:

More Look Around You episodes:2 – Water, 3 – Germs, 4 – Ghosts, 5 – Sulphur, 6 – Music, 7 – Iron, 8 – Brain, Special Report – Music 2000, 0 – Calcium, Computers, Part One, Computers, Part Two, Computers, Part Three, Casserole, Synthesizer Patel, Psilence, HRH Final with Prince Charles, Special Report – Computer Games.The Look Around You DVD will be a must-have when it finally gets here. You can find more info at the Look Around You website.

Music

This week’s prominent tunes:

New releases: Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light, Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me, Foo Fighters – Echoes Silence Patience & Grace, Dropkick Murphys – The Meanest Of Times

Old releases: Dag Nasty – Can I Say, Heavens – Patent Pending

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Review: Worldview

Leonard Freed: Worldview, by Leonard Freed.
[rating:5/5]

Photographer Leonard Freed is quoted in the introduction (by William A. Ewing), saying, “I think there are informational photographs and emotional photographs. I don’t make informational photographs. I am not a journalist. I am an author. I am not interested in facts.” Ewing goes on to explain, “this seems an astonishing admission- until we realize that Freed was speaking in a figurative sense: that he was searching for unederlying realities which are obscured by the cloud of facts.” Back to Freed: “The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is. Otherwise it would be propaganda.”

Chew on that.

Freed’s work is top-class black and white, organized into several groupings and mostly chronologically. You can easily see the progression of his style. My favorite photo (and it’s not done justice here on the web) is this, Sicily, 1974:

Leonard Freed: Worldview, by Leonard Freed.
[rating:5/5]

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