Bren, 2012

35mm

Lola Alvarez Bravo

Sirenas Del Aire (Mermaids of the Air) 1958


Mexican Photographer Lola Alvarez Bravo, 1907–1993





self portrait, 1950





Frida





Diego Rivera





Maternita





Triptico de lost Martirios I (Triptych of the Martyrs I) 1949

Sabine Weiss, Photography

Merchant of Brooms, 1961





"I was testifying, I thought that picture would tell us a strong feature of the human condition. I always felt the need to denounce my photos, the injustices that occur. "-" I do not like things very bright but sobriety ... it's not to love well, you have to be moved. The love of people, it's beautiful. This is serious, there is a terrible depth. We must go beyond the story, identify the chalice, recollection. I photograph to preserve the ephemeral, the random set, keep that picture will disappear: gestures, attitudes, objects that are evidence of our passage. The camera picks them up, freeze them just as they disappear."







Les Saintes Maries de la mer, 1960


According to google's translated copy of a french wikipedia page, Sabine Weiss was a Swiss-French female photographer born in 1924 who bought her first camera at the age twelve. Her photography is called 'humanist, "Light, gesture, gaze, movement, silence, rest, rigor, relaxation, I would incorporate everything in that movement that is expressed with a minimum of the average man's essential...My photos...express some of the love I have for life".

b&w

Pretty much all the black & white photographs I've shot in the last 3 years that I still like: 

A Heatwave Melted all the Candlesticks, Portland OR.  august 2009



Spencer, Portland 2009

Portland 2009 John at the Skidmore Bluffs, Portland 2009 Washougal River, WA 2009
Mary Love Alex Sonic Youth, Roseland Theater Portland OR August 2009 (the ac broke and it was so hot with all those people and thurston moore's sweat was splattering everywhere) N.E. Portland Nana & Opa Maude Sylvan, Alberta St. Bren Mo Grace, Pied Cow, Belmont St. Portland Grace Possum Bren in the Fake Woods, North Portland Emerson St.  Lupe Jonathan Looks at Afghanistan on the Map Just Before Being Deployed  Manhattan, New York Portland Nathan's Birthday Sylvan and Bryce in Our Alley Shannon and Kyler Alex On Tour, 2010 Ariel, and Vida My Messy Kitchen on Albina ( Forgot I Was Wearing Acne Cream #258 ) Bren Tall Boy and David in Brooklyn, Summer 2010 Bren is my muse, Olympia WA Mima Mounds, Olympia WA Gina