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Mo-Ti's Camera: Vernacular Monuments: the Barns and Farmsteads of Columbia County
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A blog about pinhole camera photography, life, practice and the attainment of wisdom. Vernacular Monuments: the Barns and Farmsteads of Columbia County. Vernacular Monuments: the Barns and Farmsteads of Columbia County. These were the first subjects that I began photographing with pinhole cameras some years ago. They had the advantage of not moving, holding still for the long exposures, not like the livestock that moved around freely and so left but shadows in silver. Here a few of these images. I've bee...
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Mo-Ti's Camera: February 2010
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A blog about pinhole camera photography, life, practice and the attainment of wisdom. Of Monuments and Memorials. The dead have no remedy in law; all they can do is haunt you". Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.". While Theodore Gericault may recline in elegant splendor, palette and brushes in hand, surmounting his memorial, surveying his neighbors in Pere Lachaise's cemetery, here in the Hudson Valley anonymity and stolid muteness marks many a memorial. The few moments of commu...
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Mo-Ti's Camera: The Two Landscapes/Les Deux Paysages
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A blog about pinhole camera photography, life, practice and the attainment of wisdom. The Two Landscapes/Les Deux Paysages. The few moments of communion with the world are worth the pain, for it is a world for others, an inheritance for others, a gift to others in the end. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. What is it that has drawn my eyeto the vineyards of Bordeaux and the espalier of the dwarf apple trees of the Hudson Valley? The Last Tree in Brooklyn.
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Mo-Ti's Camera: Other Views... the familiar landscape of my town
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A blog about pinhole camera photography, life, practice and the attainment of wisdom. Other Views. the familiar landscape of my town. 8220;The real tradition of great things is not to re-do what others have already done, but to recapture the spirit of those great things and to recreate them in another time”. It may be apparent that I consider Atget a mentor. The Mills, Stuyvesant Falls. Scott Ice House Ruins, Nutten Hook. Ice on the Hudson, Nutten Hook. VanAlen House, c.1737. There is no excellent beauty.
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Mo-Ti's Camera: And portraits?...yes, and portraits...
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A blog about pinhole camera photography, life, practice and the attainment of wisdom. Yes, and portraits. 8220;A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s being photographed.”. 8220;There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions.”. Mariette, in ecstasy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Http:/ www.artscolumbia.org/ccca/index.cfm? Http:/ www.pinholeformat.com/peterdgal1.html. Gallery 345 March 2009 exhibition. There is no excellent beauty. Scanner photo...
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Mo-Ti's Camera: No Marker for Atget?
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A blog about pinhole camera photography, life, practice and the attainment of wisdom. No Marker for Atget? So I ask myself 'Paris, with a marker on every other old building. 'Mazarin's mistress farted here' or 'Stendhal's cousin caught the clap there' . so why is there no marker at 17bis rue Campagne Primier? This was the home of Eugene Atget, the photographer of Paris par excellence! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Http:/ www.artscolumbia.org/ccca/index.cfm? Gallery 345 March 2009 exhibition. No Mar...
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Mo-Ti's Camera: Paris-Pere Lachaise Cemetery 2007
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A blog about pinhole camera photography, life, practice and the attainment of wisdom. Paris-Pere Lachaise Cemetery 2007. By means of an image we are often able to hold onto our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory,. Oscar Wilde and his neighbor M. Papeil. Un Ange, au repos. Chopin's grave - Pere LaChaise Cem. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Http:/ www.artscolumbia.org/ccca/index.cfm? Http:/ www.pinholeformat.com/peterdgal1.html. Sing in me O Muse.
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Mo-Ti's Camera: Of Monuments and Memorials
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A blog about pinhole camera photography, life, practice and the attainment of wisdom. Of Monuments and Memorials. The dead have no remedy in law; all they can do is haunt you". Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.". While Theodore Gericault may recline in elegant splendor, palette and brushes in hand, surmounting his memorial, surveying his neighbors in Pere Lachaise's cemetery, here in the Hudson Valley anonymity and stolid muteness marks many a memorial. Http:/ justartandcompany...
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Mo-Ti's Camera: Great thoughts stir within me at the sight of ruins
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A blog about pinhole camera photography, life, practice and the attainment of wisdom. Great thoughts stir within me at the sight of ruins. 8220;Great thoughts stir within me at the sight of ruins. Everything gradually crumbles and vanishes. Only the world remains, only time endures… I am walking between two eternities.”. Ice House Ruins, Nutten Hook. The Mills and Lower Falls, Stuyvesant Falls. Ice on Trees, Lower Falls, Stuyvesant Falls. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There is no excellent beauty.