Happy Hog Rot

Some of the most engaging paintings that have stuck with me from childhood have been those by Edward Hopper.  His “Nighthawks” was the first that I saw at about ten years of age, and is surely his most widely known.

Photographer Richard Tuschman uses Photoshop to create his “Hopper Meditations” as described here in an Adobe Inspire interview, combining live human models with tabletop dollhouse-size settings to achieve a a high degree of light control, among other results.  

Woodkid (aka Yoann Lemoine) just released this video homage to the work of William Gedney, with a remix of a Max Richter track (as Max Richter is one of my very favorite composers, I will be talking more about this on my music blog):

In case you’re not familiar with the wonderful work of William Gedney, he was a reclusive photographer working mostly in the 60s and 70s, championed by the likes of Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. He was rarely, if ever, exhibited on a solo basis during his lifetime (died of AIDs in the late 80s).  The only published book of his work was in 2000, to the best of my knowledge.

Duke University has a large collection of Gedney’s works and associated materials, and displays a nice  slideshow here of some of his images.  I highly recommend spending some time on the Duke University Library pages there to further explore the wealth of collected Gedney images and manuscripts.

My old photog sidekick Bill turns me on to this collection of photographs presented by The Atlantic.

More on this story and some pics  — also see recent (March 14) posting on Yeager