kitchen showroom. feasterville, pa. 2010

Still from The Krazy House. by Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra

Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY
thru August 21st

Summer. by Stephen M. Gray

Another perennial favorite, Austin, Texas photographer Stephen M. Gray has an outstanding eye for simple minimalist design. Virtually every photograph he makes is well thought out and crafted with precise detail.

Sorry to drag these out. Here is the fourth answer to the design test.


4.

The top design illustrates how unity is created by dominance of shape, measure, value, and space interval. These are contrasting shapes, with the triangles dominant. One of the triangles is also dominant in size. There is opposition of value, with the white predominating. The top design is, therefore, unified. The top is more interesting than the bottom design because of the variety produced by the unequal space intervals between the units of the top design.

Yulia

I'm in a bit of a dry spell, photographically speaking. These things come and go. I have found myself in the past couple weeks forcing the images to happen instead of allowing them to happen. I'm just not seeing anything. It's hot out. Record setting heat spells of 100 plus degree days here in the Mid-Atlantic. Not exactly creativity inducing weather. So it's time to hunker down in the shade and read some good books. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has been sitting on my bedside table for months, and I have finally gotten around to it.

And in the meantime I'll post up some links to my consistently favorite photographers from Flickr. People I have followed for several years, and who continually catch my eye with their style. First up is Yulia, a photographer from Israel who shoots primarily self portraits. I love this image she posted this morning.

Jessica Hilltout for the New York Times

Here is a fantastic and inspiring photo study of grassroots soccer from Africa. Clearly one of the reasons soccer is such a universally played competitive sport is the lack of extensive equipment required. Even the one essential element, the soccer ball, can be fashioned from the most rudimentary salvaged materials, as documented so brilliantly by Belgian photographer Jessica Hilltout.

For those with nothing, soccer is everything

Mt. Casino 2010

Eyesore of the Month

Here's the third answer to this design test...

3.

The right side is the better design. Straight lines are opposed to curved line, vertical contrasts with horizontal, thick line to thin line, and black opposes white. Straight, thin lines, vertical direction, and black value dominate and create unity.