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Jeff Rich
Photograph by Stephen Shore, Holden Street, North Adams, Massachusetts, 1974 Photograph by Joel Meyerowitz, Red Interior, 1977 I first saw the Shore and Meyerowitz photographs in a Color Technique photography class taught by Steve Mosch. Ever since then, I always … Continue reading
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Musical Influences: The Songs Behind Pamela Pecchio’s
On Longing, Distance and Heavy Metal
In her project "On Longing, Distance and Heavy Metal," photographer Pamela Pecchio channels attributes of both metal music and her personal struggles and states of mind into landscape photographs. The titles of the photographs in her series are taken from … Continue reading
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Visual Influences Series:
Lauren Henkin
Influences—like taste, like mood, like aesthetics—are ever-shifting. I am inspired all the time, mostly by artists not practicing in the medium of photography. It was an interesting task to focus on the artists or images, within this discipline, that … Continue reading
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Visual Influences Series:
Tommy Kha
I like to look. There’s something intrinsically attractive in photographs. It makes me sort of a repeat offender. Photograph by Tseng Kwong Chi, Pisa, Italy, 1989 There aren’t many Asians in Memphis. I feel there is an open racism I … Continue reading
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Visual Influences Series:
David Simonton
I’m considered to be a Southern photographer. But I didn’t move to the South until 1989 when I was 36 years old. Before that I lived in the Garden State, which (you may be surprised to learn) is New Jersey. … Continue reading
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Visual Influences Series:
Michael Sebastian
Alec Soth, Joshua, Angola State Prison, Louisiana 2002 I like many of Soth’s images, and his connections to his three predecessors are apparent. But he does far more portraiture than at least Shore or Sternfeld. I love his straightforward style, … Continue reading
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Visual Influences Series:
Joshua Dudley Greer
Stephen Shore, U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, 1973 This picture single-handedly made me want to become a color photographer. I can remember the very first time I saw the image in a slide lecture at MICA and I … Continue reading
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