visual and auditory whatnot
Now at the Getty Center: Irving Penn- Small Trades. Photographs
of tradespeople in work clothes and carrying the tools of their trade.
Paris, London, and New York, early 1950s, by Irving Penn.
“Hollywood is a Lie.”
I shot the Hollywood sign today with a cloudless sky behind it…so I added some clouds from the south in Photoshop. This scene never existed, but it looks better with clouds. That is soo Hollywood…to lie, by adding clouds, so it “looks better.”
Clouds with moon. November 28, 2009. Hollywood Hills, 3:30 p.m, facing east.
photo by steve craig.
Commissioned piece for my boss, head of Collections Management at LACMA.
“Where Am I Supposed to Put This?” Steve Craig. 2009.
(There isn’t much storage space at the museum).
There’s a guy I work with and he hates it when fine art photographers take a picture of a blank wall, or trash, or a construction site, and call it art. This wall is kind of interesting though. Whether it’s art or not, I dunno…