What’s to say of the visual one-liner? Not a lot…it says it all all by itself. That’s the pure beauty of the beast. Nuff said. Here are three of the best by three photographic legends, Elli...
https://pencilofthesun.wordpress.com/2016/05/13/ode-to-the-one-liner/
It’s time to introduce the ‘Art of the Floating Planet’ – an ongoing series of graphic prints that I’ve been working on. Their consciousness uploaded to the mainframe, they float in ...
https://pencilofthesun.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/art-of-the-floating-planet-and-other-graphic-work/
It’s been a year now that my blog has been dormant, hibernating for a while. I’ve decided to take a different route with it. I hope to continue writing posts about photography, but I’d also...
https://pencilofthesun.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/a-new-direction/
The Chinese photographer Yang Yankang spent over ten years on this project on Tibetan Buddhism, entitled ‘Reflections of Soul’. He completed the work over ten separate four-month visits to Ti...
https://pencilofthesun.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/reflections-of-soul/
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” George Orwell, Animal Farm. Smugly ...
https://pencilofthesun.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/back-to-nature/
Each of these photographs is a jazz riff. Each character is a note on an invisible bar line running from left to right. Rotate the bar line 90 degrees and you might get this. Helen Levitt deserve...
https://pencilofthesun.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/just-a-riff/
“Every photograph is a battle of form versus content” said the legendary Garry Winogrand. Admittedly this seems more of a tussle than a battle. Pay special attention to the perfect symmetry o...
https://pencilofthesun.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/a-battle-of-form-versus-content/
“Devotion to a hopeless enterprise” is how John Divola describes the attitude of the dogs desperately chasing his car in the Californian desert. The same observation might be made of Jean Moh...
https://pencilofthesun.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/devotion-to-a-hopeless-enterprise/
It’s the face of a hunted animal. Ingrid Bergman, about the time this photo was taken by Gordon Parks in Italy on the set of the movie Stromboli, was to become exactly that, viciously persecute...
https://pencilofthesun.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/a-hunted-animal/
Notice how your eye slithers and slides up that zigzag and comes to a halt on the woman in red? An example of beautifully minimalistic composition from a true photographic great, Saul leiter. Who...
https://pencilofthesun.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/the-power-of-a-zigzag/