This Summer's Installment of Swimming Pools

Harold Jones, Pool, 1982

 Joe Deal, 14-482 Synchronized Swimming, Riverside, CA, 1982

Jules Spinatsch, Empty Sea from Temporary Discomfort, 2001

Julius Shulman, Raymond Loewy House, Palm Springs, CA, 1947

 Claes Oldenberg, Pool Shapes, 1964

Rondal Partridge, Donnel Pool for House Beautiful, 1951

Shawn Records, From Harbor

Garry Winogrand, Lake Tahoe, 1964

Garry Winogrand, El Paso, 1964

Anthony Friedkin, Pool at the Bel Air Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, 1980

Eileen Cowin, Dive, 1976

Elisabeth Tonnard, One Swimming Pool (coolest book of the summer as it unfolds to create this)
 

Leanne Shapton, Cawthra Park Pool, Mississauga, Ontario (check out more of her glorious paintings here)

Globes Part 4

Andrew B. Myers (I love this work - check out his website)

Lori Nix, Map Room, 2010

Matthew Gambler, From Any Color You Like

Meggan Gould from Small Moments

Rachel Hulin, Globe

Rachel Phillips

Rune Guneriussen, There is no earthly explanation, 2008

Sarah Malakoff, Untitled (Interior Blizzard, Roslindale, MA), 2005

 Seba Kurtis

Shawn Records

From an abandoned Russian school via

Fred Wilson, Atlas

Le Globe Celeste, Paris, 1900 via

Shawn Records - Recent Work

Shawn Records, From Recent Work

(I drove by here today)

Shawn is here!

Braved the Super Bowl City to pick up Shawn Records at the airport tonight. He is in town to talk to the photo area seniors and give a public lecture about his artwork tomorrow. The above image is from his series Owner of this World though I may be partial to his inflatable pool below.

Mini Road Trip to Northern Indiana & November New Acquisitions

I drove to Angola yesterday for the first time. Lake Country indeed! It was the land of abandoning piles of burning leaves in the front yard. It felt like a resort - McCall, Idaho in the fall comes to mind. On the way back, I stopped in Marion, Indiana - a truly scary town. I know I've lived next to James Dean territory for a few years now and I finally saw his birthplace. It's now a parking lot with a rock plaque and star to mark the event.





Then I came home to unwrap some books: the new Miranda July, Ralph Eugene Meatyard's Dolls and Masks, and From the Bottom of the Well by Shawn Records.

The Interim: End of Summer

Summer has passed though this 80 degree day is deceiving. I spent an additional 13.5 hours editing Italy photographs before school started in August to add to the summer stipend.



I turned a year older as witnessed by some "real cakes."



A very special birthday present from my friend Maura of my friend Shawn's photograph:



A photograph received that was long coveted (Mark Sawrie from the series Specimens).



A postcard I borrowed from Amelia to scan (my infatuation with horned toads started while living in Tucson):



... and what's this? Two acceptances! I'm a Critical Mass Finalist for these photographs. In addition, Nine Fake Cakes... will potentially appear in a publication coming soon to a photo magazine near you.

MLK Jr. Weekend: Pacific Northwest

I didn't take many photographs this weekend but I thought a lot about Shawn Record's series Harbor. I missed out on the snow for the snowcake practice run in Muncie so I'll be (gasp) hoping for more in the not so far future to see if the Kool-Aid works as a dyeing agent.



"Ultimately, Harbor is a project about hope and failure; the recurring rise and fall inherent in people and place, primarily set in and inspired by Gray's Harbor in Washington state. When locals ask why I'm photographing there, I always tell them that the area has a long history of both optimism and failure that interests me: the rise and fall of logging, the construction and desertion of the nuclear plant, the spotted owl, the meth, Cobain's rise and eventual suicide, etc.... At first, I worried about offending, but that's never the case. They always laugh. They get it. In fact, I think they thrive on it."

See more of Shawn's work here.

Ten of my favorite images from the Pacific Northwest

Frank Gohlke, Visitors on the rim of Mount St. Helens, Washington, 1990


Frank Gohlke, Ten minutes later (after an earthquake and landslide several hundred feet below), 1990


Shawn Records from "La Playa"


Lee Friedlander, 1997


Robert Adams, Southwest from the South Jetty, Clatsop County, Oregon, 1990


Carleton Watkins, Multnomah Falls, 1867


Joel Sternfeld, Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Washington, 1979


Stephen Shore, U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973


Maria Harper, Untitled, 1998


James Luckett, Shore, 2001