LOUIE PALU : GARMSIR MARINES - WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY : Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath : part2

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WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath

November 8, 2013–February 2, 2014

Brooklyn Museum

Louie Palu's camera after one day of patrolling in Arghandab District west of Kandahar City... and 4-years covering this region. — with Louie Palu Photographer in Kandahar, Afghanistan

U.S. Marine Pfc. Chad Wilson age 21who is part of Alpha Company of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)

U.S. Marine Lcpl. Preston "Bukkake" Calkins age 20 who is part of Alpha Company of the 24th Marine Expeditionary  unit (MEU)

U.S. Marine Sgt. Eric Peterson age 22 who is part of Alpha Company of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU

U.S. Marine JD "Monte" Montefusco age 22 who is part of Alpha Company of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) 

U.S. Marine Lcpl. Anthony Nagel age 25 who is attached to Charlie Company of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit  (MEU)

There is still 3 days to see this amazing show at the Brooklyn Museum WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath has been organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, curatorial team of Anne Wilkes Tucker, Will Michels, and Natalie Zelt. The Brooklyn presentation is organized by Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Associate Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum.

I am creating this post to show the photography of one of the artist who was chosen for this exhibition Louie Palu I have known of this work since 2007 and been deeply moved by it as time as past.I like them because there is no romantic point of view. Louie was embedded and the images were created at the end of exhausting tours.War effects us all. These are mostly young men who go out.

There will be a second post.If you live in the New York area or will be visiting please take some time to see this exhibition .The Brooklyn Museum can be reach by public transportation

WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath has been organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, curatorial team of Anne Wilkes Tucker, Will Michels, and Natalie Zelt. The Brooklyn presentation is organized by Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Associate Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum.

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/home.php

http://louiepalu.photoshelter.com

LOUIE PALU : GARMSIR MARINES - WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY : Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath :

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WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath

November 8, 2013–February 2, 2014

Brooklyn Museum

AFOB Wilson after Louie Palu's last Medevac mission (+150 missions). — in Bazare Panjwa'i, Afghanistan.dd caption

U.S. Marine Gysgt. Carlos "OJ" Orjuela age 31who is part of Alpha Company of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit 

U.S. Marine Gysgt. Julian Lumm age 31 who is part of Alpha Company of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) 

U.S. Marine Sgt. Ronald Richards age 23 who is part of Alpha Company of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)

U.S. Marine Joshua Wycka age 21who is part of Alpha Company of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) 

Five-years after taking this portrait in 2008 Helmand, Afghanistan. Carlos and Louie  in New York for the opening of the WAR/Photography exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in NY. Photos copyright Louie Palu © — with Gustavo Morales and Carlos Alberto Orjuela.

There is still a week to see this amazing show at the Brooklyn Museum WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath has been organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, curatorial team of Anne Wilkes Tucker, Will Michels, and Natalie Zelt. The Brooklyn presentation is organized by Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Associate Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum.

I am creating this post to show the photography of one of the artist who was chosen for this exhibition Louie Palu I have known of this work since 2007 and been deeply moved by it as time as past.I like them because there is no romantic point of view. Louie was embedded and the images were created at the end of exhausting tours.War effects us all. These are mostly young men who go out.

There will be a second post.If you live in the New York area or will be visiting please take some time to see this exhibition .The Brooklyn Museum can be reach by public transportation

WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath has been organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, curatorial team of Anne Wilkes Tucker, Will Michels, and Natalie Zelt. The Brooklyn presentation is organized by Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Associate Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum.

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/home.php

ERIC OGLANDER : COLLECTOR CURATOR MIRRORS

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ERIC OGLANDER
Craigslist Mirrors

Recently a number of posts on my Facebook wall were about mirrors found on Craigslist.I contacted the artist Eric Oglander who started this project and found out since 2013 he as collected 344 of these mirrors ads. It is an ongoing project.

I can see why the people who viewed this post became fascinated with this site.The objects being sold were used reflective,magical,funny,broken strange (sometimes strange because of the way they were photograph) mystical and revealing in the oddest ways.

I became enchanted too so I decide to share a few here.There is nothing more to say than this blue mirror table top bring back a lot of memories.

Eric Oglander "I have no intention of stopping. I'm quite obsessed with finding them. I've posted 344 mirrors so far but I have many more saved on my computer. "

http://www.ericoglander.com

LOUIS DRAPER 1935 - 2002 : RETROSPECTIVE part 2

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Louis Draper

January 10 - February 20 2014
Candela Books + Gallery

214 West Broad Street

Richmond VA 23220

In 1958, Draper moved from his hometown, Richmond, Virginia to Harlem to study photography. In those early years he photographed all over the streets of New York with a compassionate and discerning eye for the social conditions of the time, as well as quietly observing the nuances of mid-century city life.

Boy playing ball

Kool, man with hat

Graffiti silhouette

Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, 1971

Garment worker

Boy with paint splatter

Draper was a founding member of the seminal black photographers’ collective originally named the Kamoinge Workshop, formed in 1963, which included Roy DeCarava as its first director. Other notable members of Kamoinge over the years: Ray Francis, Herb Randall, Al Fennar, Jimmie Mannas, Shawn Walker, Tony Barboza and Beuford Smith. Kamoinge and its photographers were featured in an important 1966 Camera Magazine issue, focused on Harlem and the increasing urgency of race relations in the United States at that time.

For further information please visit:

http://thelouisdraperproject.wordpress.com/

https://candelabooks.com/gallery/

This exhibition is taking part in Race, Place and Identity, a collaboration of Richmond organizations highlighting Civil Rights and Social Justice.

LOUIS DRAPER 1935 - 2002 : RETROSPECTIVE

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Louis Draper
January 10 - February 20 2014
Candela Books + Gallery
214 West Broad Street

Richmond, VA 23220

" Somebody, somebody Lord !

   Somebody, somebody Can anybody find me somebody to love? " Queen

This statement might seem strange to people of European decent but until very recently seeing images of non europeans in the American main stream was difficult at best and at the worst shameful.

We have to thank the thousands of minority photographers who had faith in their people,even if they could not move to center stage in the photographic world.

When I was growing up as a kid, I was starving to see people like me in magazines and books, television and movies. My aunt recently reminded me  that my grandmother had the only television for blocks in the rural area I grew up in. I love looking at tv, I love magazines, but people who look like me never look out of that world to be a part of mine. 

This is the reason I am quoting Queen's Somebody to Love,  I wanted to see someone in that light like me but I digress. I am happy that Gordon Settinius of Candela Books + Gallery in Richmond Virginia will host the first retrospective exhibition of the mid-century African-American photographer, Louis Draper (1935-2002). Retrospective will showcase over 40 photographs spanning Draper’s career, from the late 1950s to 1990s. Primarily a street photographer, Draper’s archive has revealed an incredible range of artistic skill, including portraiture and abstraction, which will all be highlighted in the exhibition.

[Young Man in Beret

John Henry, 1960's 

Fannie Lou Hamer [portrait], Mississippi, 1971

Girl and Cuba (Philadelphia), 1968

Girl with Butterfly Shirt

Women, Flower Headscarf 

Women with Earring                   

For further information please visit:

http://thelouisdraperproject.wordpress.com/

https://candelabooks.com/gallery/

This exhibition is taking part in Race, Place and Identity, a collaboration of Richmond organizations highlighting Civil Rights and Social Justice.

ERIK HAGEN 2 : NOIR TO COLOR

NOIR                             

ORANGE CHAIR

STRATOSPHERE

DEAD  DIRTY  DREAMY

TERMINAL

OHIO AT DUSK

WRECK

COLOR

Syllabification: col·or

Pronunciation: /ˈkələr 

  

/

the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light:

ERIK HAGEN : TAXI HAIKU

The photographs of Erik Hagen can be seen as a stills from a moving picture that leave your mind space to create a plot : or words detached from a poem and left scattered as clues.

ABBOT KINNEY

CHEVRON

DRIVER

ROSECRANS

DOWNTOWN

UNTITLED

BLACK,BLOND,DAME,DARK,DRIVE.EDGE

ENNUI,EXCITE,LONE,SINISTER,STREET,TAXI,NOIR mrbennette

http://www.balladofathinman.com

CHARLOTTE WATTS : I Am Alone, We Are One

CHARLOTTE WATTS

SACRED TEXT

House Made of Dawn-Summer Shelter Canyon de Chelly

Lunch On The Terrace-Along Chicken Coop Creek

Recovery, Burn Dungeness Wildlife Refuge

The Gratefulness of Robins

Coming Fall--Little Birds and Birch Tree

Stones and Sand

I find that sometimes it is best to be alone to find that which is spiritual to let a moment enter into your life that you become aware yet mystery dose not change. I am thinking Shintoism here you need quiet to feel sacred spaces to marvel at the mathematics of this small piece of the universe. Each step until the last             

These quiet delicate images by Charlotte Watts lead me into and outside to see and reflect 

http://www.charlottewatts.com