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My New Photogravures of Guanajuato Open this Weekend!

July 11, 2013 by Chris | 1 Comment

“Reliquaries” Opens this weekend

I’ve been so busy on the road that I have been pretty quiet about a series of artwork I have opening this weekend. Continue reading »

Peace of the week, July 8

July 8, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.” ―- Willa Cather, My Ántonia

 

Mile Marker 358, 16x22

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Peace of the week, July 1

July 1, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett

 

Mile Marker 340, 16x22

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Peace of the week, June 24

June 24, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — Anais Nin

 

Mile Marker 349, 35x51

 

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Peace of the week, June 17

June 17, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” —Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

Mile Marker 341, 35x51

 

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Photography lesson circa 1903

June 13, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

This week while I was in Milwaukee I was gifted this book by our good friend, sculptor Mark Winter. He probably thought I could use a few pointers.

Picture Making for Pleasure and Profit

A Complete Illustrated Hand-Book on the Modern Practices of Photography In All Its Various Branches

by T Stith Baldwin
Published in Chicago, Illinois 1903 Continue reading »

Peace of the Week, June 10

June 10, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. –  Ansel Adams

Mile Marker 359, 16x22

 

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Like a Player Piano – Guest Post by Steph Kilen

June 6, 2013 by Chris | 1 Comment

By Steph Kilen

When I get that feeling a friend calls “free floating angst” – that uneasiness you can’t pin on anything in particular, as if you’ve forgotten something important but don’t know what it is, that anxiety so common in our dreams, a burly thread weaving some sort of self-ridicule through your limbs – it used to be that I’d want to crawl into someone’s arms. But more and more, I just want to be here: Continue reading »

Peace of the week, May 27

May 27, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a god made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.” – Paul Cezanne

MIle Marker 345, 22x34

 

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Personal Meaning

May 24, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

I try to leave enough room in my photographs for the viewer to create their own narrative, and I love getting to hear what those narratives are.  It is one of the true privileges of selling my work directly to collectors – I get to hear why the piece speaks to a viewer. I get to hear their stories and the personal meaning each piece has imparted to them.

I recently had a very poignant juxtaposition of stories related to one image.

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