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Photography Professor: Larry Gawel

I had this short conversation with Larry Gawel at SPE 2008.   Larry Gawel is professor of photography at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska.  I don't believe you can see Gawel's work anywhere online.  We talked about this lack of online presence.  Larry was great. He kept pointing me towards people I should meet and interview.  Thanks Larry.  I also interviewed a few of Gawel's students: Brett Jurgens & Ashley Roberts. You can hear those coversations on this site too. 

Salem Haunted Happenings Parade

Here is a short piece from the Haunted Happenings Parade (2007).  I believe this is Salem High marching band.  HERE are over 1,000 (from Flickr photographers) photographs from the parade (the past and this year). 

Salem / Halloween

I'll be posting some audio and photos from Salem (my home) I've collected over the last few years.   Here are two recordings from Halloween 2006. The first one is of one of the street preachers that come out and preach through a megaphone.   The second audio clip are responses to the street preacher.  When I recorded these, I was planning a podcast about Salem. . .This site evolved instead.  I'll be posting some recordings I made during the unveiling of the Bewitched statue in Salem as well. 

Street Preacher

Responses

Strangers & Not So Strange

Craig Nelson has turned his portrait work into a book. You can buy it out HERE.  Nelson writes: "To help sustain this project, I have assembled a softcover book containing selected images from the series. This is not intended as a final retrospective as work will continue for months going forward, perhaps years."

Interior Poetry

Cederwaydotorg -- Heather Wilmore Hornbeak (a Flickr user) has a nice collection of photographs of interiors (and exteriors) of homes.  These are some of the first images I stumbled across (I think they are from this gallery):

I believe these photos are taken for the purpose of documenting the interior of houses for potential buyers.  There are a number of photographers who have taken up photographing homes. . . I like these because they are being used. I should write more, but rather ask you if you've read Michael Blumenthal's Who Will Live  in Our Houses When We Die?  It is a beautiful poem (that I'm pretty sure I ripped the title off for a grad school project -- Where will your photos go when you die?) The last lines of the poem:

Oh, friend, who will live in our houses
when we can no longer sleep in them?  . . . 

And how can the unborn sing for us
when we return to the earth?

If you have that big Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (p. 1653-54). And read Blumenthal's other work. Especially: Abandoning Your Car in a Snowstorm: Rosslyn, Virgina. 

The beach

I've posted a few autobiographical audio pieces since I started this blog/podcast (what is this?).   Here is another one.  At the beginning of the summer I posted a recording of me telling my kids (and their response) how I dropped a camera in the ocean.  This is a very short recording of one of our last beach explorations.  And I have to say that this recording, years and years from now, might be / will be more precious than any photograph I've taken of my children.   Audio is so underestimated as a medium for documenting family.  Go online and check out Jay Allison's Lost and Found Sound.   

Also David Frohlich's Audiophotography should be read by all interested in photography and / or audio. HERE is a direct link to Amazon and the introduction of his book.  I love it.  "Your own house probably has its own distinctive sounds that will change according to the context in which they are heard."  Frohlich also talks about the sounds of the ocean and children playing.  I think David Frohlich would like this recording.

   

David's Subway Story

My friend David told me this story about a ride on a New York subway and an overhead conversation about meat.  When David told me this story we were in a car on the way to my house.  When we got back home I asked him to tell the story again so I could record it. He did.  I've played this story many times for my students.  Each time I think of different ways it could be used in a classroom.  There is much more going on here than meat. 

Also, if you listen to David's story, you should also check out the magazine Meat Paper.  Sasha Wizansky (the creator and editor of Meat Paper) and I met at my cousin's wedding in SF (we were both helping to photograph it). Sasha lives in SF.  At the wedding, we started talking and found out that she is good friends with Kim Indresano, a photographer who lives right up the street from us in Salem, MA.  Kim and I trade family photography sessions every year. Our kids play together.  I've also assisted Kim on photo shoots. She rocks.  See her photograpraphy HERE.

En Foco

When I talked to Lola Flash at SPE last March she gave a great plug for En Foco.  I cut the En Foco part out of conversation to play on its own.  For some reason I never posted it.  I'm posting it now.  You can hear my conversation with Lola Flash HERE.  You can hear my conversation with Miriam Romais HERE.   I'm going to PhotoExpo in New York (October) Hope to see En Foco (all of En Foco) there.  I goal is to make 20 recordings over the 3 days I'm there. 

Photo by Miriam Romais with cell phone! 

Jason Wells: Photographing the Bellagio

Jason was in charge of a team of photographers documenting the building of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.  He talks about his experience in this short conversation.  It's a great story.  I recorded this conversation in Montana.  Hear the other recording from that trip HERE.   

portrait of jason, bozeman, mt by me.

Photos on a cake

I recently interviewed Amy Terry about her use of photographs on cakes.   I asked Amy to make a cake for my parents anniversary and my father's birthday (the same day) with one of the handful of photographs from their wedding day.  The image to the left is the .jpg I emailed her.  The rest of the images .  . . the cake.   

A Listening Party for Nature in Wired Magazine

Read Article HERE.
"Scientists use many techniques to study natural habitats, but they rarely listen to nature."

My recording of bugs in Georgia.

Photobooth.net

If you haven't visited photobooth.net you should. Anything and everything about the photobooth.  They recently linked to my interview with (photoboooth) artist Daniel Minnick. Thanks photobooth.net.   

McKay's Bookstore: Chattanooga

Last summer I made several recordings in photography galleries.  Click on museums and you can hear them.  You will put them on your iPod.   I also recording the photography section at the Strand Bookstore. I recorded in the photography section of McKay's Used Books in Chattanooga.  I purchased Readymades published by Chronicle.  .  . and Meatyard's Aperture book.   Actually, I traded in some old stuff and used the credit to get these books and other books about sharks and spiders for kids.  I haven't posted the Strand recording.  I think I will go look for it...until I do, here is McKays.

Amy Terry: Cakes & Photographs

I wanted to photograph Amy printing a photograph on a cake. Like maybe the banner for this site. . . See Amy's cakes HERE.