Leica Monochrom, 50mm APO-Summicron-Asph, ISO 320, f/8, 1/500th, SilverEfex Pro “Wet Rocks” preset.
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Bulb and Vine
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 50mm APO-Summicron-ASPH, Leica Monochrom on February 10, 2013 by johnbuckley100Within The Confines Of A Grid
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 50mm APO-Summicron-ASPH, Leica Monochrom on February 9, 2013 by johnbuckley100Leica Monochrom, 50mm APO-Summicron-Asph.
No Fountain Needed Today
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 50mm APO-Summicron-ASPH, Leica Monochrom on February 8, 2013 by johnbuckley100Leica Monochrom, 50mm APO-Summicron-Asph.
A Happy Birthday To Sebastiao Salgado
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Sebastiao Salgado, The Phoblographer on February 8, 2013 by johnbuckley100The Phoblographer has a fitting, and quite wonderful, summation of why we should cherish Salgado, who is today 69 years old.
Looking Down His Nose At Georgetown
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 50mm APO-Summicron-ASPH, Leica Monochrom on February 3, 2013 by johnbuckley100Leica Monochrom, 50mm APO-Summicron-ASPH, f/2, ISO 320, yellow filter.
Most Excellent News About A New Kelley Stoltz Album In The Offing
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Kelley Stoltz on February 3, 2013 by johnbuckley100We know that this Internet thing has been down ever since 2.5 billion people last night tried to download the My Bloody Valentine album, but today we have evidence it is back up and running, and it bringeth good tidings. For those who remember a quieter, but no less happy time when the description of a San Francisco solo artist who crafted incredible rock’n’roll albums by his lonesome referred not to young Ty Segall, but to Kelley Stoltz, we have good news. Well, in his own words:
i am lucky enough to say my new album will be released by a “fantastic record company” in spring of 2013. It rocks and it rolls, it repeats, repeats – its got a 12 minute song, its got stuff about anarchists growing old, a song about love, a song about summertime and one about tickling tongues…ESG backs the EVERLY BROTHERS was the mantra.
There now. Doesn’t that make your day? The man whose Circular Sounds was the great musical discovery that everyone at Tulip Frenzy World HQ talked about, from its release that winter until it made #2 on the 2008 Tulip Frenzy Top 10 List ™ promises to be back this year with new music. Yes, we liked 2010’s To Dreamers, but we are hoping this new ‘un fulfills the promise of Circular Sounds, and we await the day when the album arrives. Don’t worry: tune in here and you will be the first to know. And why should you care? Because if Ty Segall is that relentless font of rock’n’roll energy, able to produce three good albums in a given year, think of Kelley as a high-end artisan crafting Ray Davies-inspired perfect musical gizmos in his atelier. ESG backs the Everly Brothers? We can’t wait.
Fun Is Where You Find It
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 50mm APO-Summicron-ASPH, Leica M9 on February 2, 2013 by johnbuckley100Leica M9, 50mm APO-Summicron-Asph, ISO 640, f/8, light rinse in LR4, some fun cooked up in Color Efex Pro. Fun is where you find it…
Ty Segall Brings His Joyous Punkedelica To D.C.’s Black Cat
Posted in Uncategorized with tags The Black Cat, Ty Segall, Ty Segall Band on February 1, 2013 by johnbuckley100
Leica Monochrom, 75mm Summicron, ISO 5000
To say that Ty Segall was the person last night having the most fun at his show in D.C. in no way diminishes what a gas it was for the audience. It’s just that the Cali tyro lives for this, was born to do this, to hit us over the head with his Riceroni mix of SF punk’n’psychedelica, to bounce around the stage with his fine four-piece band, banging out songs from each of his three great 2012 albums. The Ty Segall Band only released one album last year, and we thought it was weaker than what he produced in tandem with White Fence, and with his amazing studio band (Ty, by himself), but last night they did him justice.
We hadn’t realized how much he physically resembles Kurt Cobain — but a centered, joyous Cobain, who is thrilled to play his music for you. And while Ty’s songs can, at times, combine the same ingredients as Nirvana — punk rock dynamics, metal chord progressions, and enough hooks to land all the fishies off the Pacific Coast –the comparison ends there. Except in one regard: he’s the biggest talent to hit American music since Cobain, or maybe since Black Francis — two songwriters to whom he owes a debt, while we get the benefit of the credit they extended him.
The show began with “Thank God For Sinners” and “You’re The Doctor,” which open up Twins, one half of the two-album duo (including Ty and White Fence’s Hair) that tied for second place in the 2012 Tulip Frenzy Top 10 list ™. And then we heard our faves from Slaughterhouse, Goodbye Bread, Melted, even B-sides. For a kid born in the waning days of the Reagan Administration, he’s produced an amazing body of work, which if his 2012 output is an indicator, is getting better and better. There are lots of monuments in Washington. Ty Segall’s on the right path to claim his own.
Sebastian Liste And “Tough” Pictures
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Joel Meyerwitz, Randall Scott Projects, Sebastian Liste, STRATA on January 28, 2013 by johnbuckley100A few weeks back, on the Leica Blog, members of the D.C. street photography collective Strata had a wonderful joint interview with its various members, including the redoubtable Matt Dunn. Something that stood out from the interview was a quote from Steve Goldenberg, who said, “One of the biggest principles that drives our work is best encapsulated by Joel Meyerwitz: we aim to make images that are “tough”. As he said, “‘Tough’ meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn’t be described in any other way. So it was tough. Tough to like, tough to see, tough to make, tough to understand. The tougher they were the more beautiful they became.”
We thought of that quote this morning when reading, in last week’s New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson’s takedown of Hugo Chavez’s dystopian Caracas, which was illustrated by one of the most amazing sets of photographs in modern photojournalism. Sebastian Liste is a 26-year old Spaniard whose work in Brazil is in a league of its own. If you ever wanted to know what Meyerwitz meant when talking about “tough” pictures, look at his work. In its content, composition, and in kohl-dark contrast, every image of his we’ve seen is nigh on breathtaking.
We admit we hadn’t seen his work before, but at an amazingly young age, he’s making his mark. From his website:
Sebastian´s work has been internationally recognized by POYi, The Overseas Press Club, Sony WPO, NPPA, Lucie Awards, PDN Photo Annual, Paris PX3, Anthropographia Human Rights Award, Daylight/CDS Awards, CENTER Awards, Freelens Awards, The PGB Awards, Reinassance Prize, Terry O´Neill Award, among others. In 2011 Sebastian was also selected to participate in the 18th World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass.
In 2012 Sebastian was announced as the winner of the City of Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award, the Community Awareness Award at POYi, as one of the 30 photographers to watch at PDN 30 and received a Citation at the Olivier Rebbot Award. In addition he received a Magnum Emegency Found Grant to develop his new project in the Brazilian Amazon.
Fortunately, to bring this post full circle, Liste is represented by a lone gallery, and it happens to be in D.C. Tough pictures. Amazing photographer. Go check out the pictures from the New Yorker piece. Then check out everything else.
Don’t Tell Fox News
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Leica 35mm Summilux FLE, Leica M9 on January 23, 2013 by johnbuckley100We found a woman with Federal Obama Notes. The scandal could be huge. Leica M9, 35mm Summilux FLE, Inauguration Day.
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