David Alvarez submits MoCP Link

The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) is the only museum in the Midwest with an exclusive commitment to the medium of photography. By presenting projects and exhibitions that embrace a wide range of contemporary aesthetics and technologies, the Museum strives to communicate the value and significance of photographic images as expressions of human thought, imagination, and creativity.

David Alvarez reviews Tokihiro Sato

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Drawing with Light: Tokihiro Sato's Photographs

Tokihiro Sato was born in Japan in 1957, and attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with a specialization in Sculpture. As a student Sato learned how to use large format cameras to document his work, but it was in 1987 that he began to incorporate photography into his sculpture. His first experiments with this merger of the two media consisted of long exposures, in which Sato used flashlights to draw lines of light around his sculptures.

His experimentations excited him and he began to work increasingly in photography and shortly thereafter he pushed his 'light drawings' past sculpture into other media, nature in particular. Sato's technique is simple enough to explain, much harder to accomplish; he uses a large format camera and makes exposures that last anywhere from one to three hours. After he sets up the shot, he navigates the landscape and uses either flashlights or mirrors (to reflect sunlight) directed at the camera to trace lines in the space. Patience and discipline is definitely involved.

His images are beautiful, entrancing, and certainly surreal in my opinion; however, they are also much more than simple lines of light hovering in a landscape. They seem to be timeless, and yet at the same time they seem to record a passage of time. The 'light drawings' are much more than random sparks, swirls, and lines of light thrown into various landscapes; in each the lights left hovering in the images seem to reflect the mood of their respective landscapes. Whether it be tranquil and calm like in #323 Yotsukura or chaotic and reflective of moving across staircases as in #22.

Heesun Park reviews Barbara Probst

http://www.barbaraprobst.net/

Barbara Probst is a photographer and contemporary artist,She was born in Munich, Germany and lives and works in New York and Munich.

she images use multiple points of view by employing as many as twelve cameras and tripods, arranged around the subject, to photograph multiple points of view captured in separate images but taken simultaneously with a single radio-controlled shutter release.

When I go to Houston I had chance to see her work, I really wanted to use her techniques for my final work, but it was really hard. But I am sure I will try some day.

Hee sun Park reviews Kim sooja

She did many Installations check out her web!

have a nice day!

http://www.kimsooja.com/

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David Alvarez reviews Uta Barth

Uta Barth: Nowhere Near

Uta Barth was born in Berlin, Germany in 1958 and now lives and woks in Los Angeles. Unlike most photographers whom tend to focus on one subject or another to inform the content, Barth tends to blur her images so there is no clear subject. To accomplish her preferred aesthetic Barth not only experiments with focus, as previously mentioned, but with depth of field and framing to create photographs that are suggestive rather than descriptive. Moreover, Barth sees photography in two distinct ways; firstly in the technical aspect (the camera as an actual representation device). The second is much more conceptual; a metaphor for the human consciousness; an extension of the human psyche if you will.

In 1999 Barth presented a series of work entitled Nowhere Near: the photographs in this series were all shot at her house in LA through her living room window. They documented what she could see from this particular window over and expanse of 12 months. These photographs for me, were slightly boring at at first glance (This might have been different had I seen them the way they should have been exhibited and not pages in a book). However, I was intrigued and how empty they seemed...which made me study them more.

After reading up on both her processes and philosophies, I've come to enjoy the conceptual ideas that she portrays in her images. In my opinion, this series of work pushes an idea that we (as humans) have no control over nature, we just watch. The camera in this case is just an extension of our eye, and the lack of focus creates this feeling of longing (as if something is eluding or grasp) But what is it we are looking for? Is there something past this suburban neighborhood that is Nowhere Near us (Forever at an unreachable distance).

David Alvarez submits Freestyle Photo Link

Since 1946, Freestyle Photographic Supplies has provided photographic enthusiasts and professionals across America with quality photographic products, expert advice, and superior customer support. I'm a little suprised the link hasn't already been posted, either way, if you haven't been to this site, you should check it out.

Blair Bodden submits Redux Pictures Link

Redux Pictures is an independent commercial and editorial photo agency based in New York City with photographers located around the world. Check them out