Welcome back to the second week of our photo identification contest! Please leave a comment here or on Facebook to identify the photographer. The first correct guess will win a copy of Thump Queen.
Don’t worry if your comment does not appear appear immediately, it will appear once it has been approved.
Congratulations to Larissa who correctly guessed Edward Steichen! She will win a copy of Thump Queen!
Come back Friday for another photo ID!
To celebrate the start of summer, we’re launching a weekly Photo ID contest here on the Meryl Truett Photography blog. Each week, we’ll post an image from the history of photography. Leave a comment on the blog or on Facebook with your guess of who the photographer is, and a randomly selected entrant will win a copy of Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies!
This week’s photo:
Leave a comment with your guess! The contest ends Wednesday, June 2, at noon, so get your guesses in!
For the past three Saturdays this April, I’ve been teaching a workshop on historic photographic processes for the Telfair-Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah. With a great group of enthusiastic students, we learned about historic processes such as daguerreotype, wet plate collodion, tintype, and ambrotype, and looked at contemporary artists who work in historic processes, such as Sally Mann and Robb Kendrick. We also visited the concurrent Philip Perkis show at the Jepson, an exciting and comprehensive retrospective of the photographer’s work and got a chance to view both historic and contemporary daguerreotypes at Iocovozzi Fine Art.
The students shot with a pinhole camera and we used these images, as well as some digital capture images, to create “faux-types,” using a modified version of the process I use in my mixed media on vintage tile work. It was a fun workshop to teach, thanks to the positive attitude of the participants and the generous support of the Telfair Museum staff. Please enjoy these images from the class (click to enlarge)!
Photos by Bevin Valentine
The Lens Based Image, at Destorow Gallery in Savannah, featured work by Rhonda Arnsten, Collin Asmus, Wendy Deschene & Jeff Schmuki, Erin Elliot, Pamela Flynn, Amy Hunter, Eric Landes, Imke Lass, Lynette Miller, Renee Malloy, Stephen Marc, J.B. Raetzke, Alan Trevithick, and Vanessa Woods.
Take a virtual tour of the exhibit with the Youtube video here.
View images from the show:
Photos & video by Bevin Valentine
I will be teaching a workshop for the Telfair-Jepson Center in Savannah, beginning Saturday, April 10. Open to both teens and adults (ages 16 and older), this series includes three workshop sessions working with historic processes, including pinhole photography. Registration required; call 912.790.8823. Project funding provided by the City of Savannah.
For more information, visit the Telfair Museum’s website.
Don’t miss the opening reception of the Lens-based Image, a juried exhibition guest curated by Meryl Truett. This exhibit explores artwork that incorporates a lens at any point in the artistic process.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 9, 6-9pm, Desotorow Gallery (2427 De Soto Ave. in Savannah)
The show runs April 9-21. For more information, visit Desotorow’s website.
Hope to see you there!
These new tiles are from the new series Fin de Siecle. Images appropriated from the history of photography are layered onto the antique tiles in combination with vintage wallpaper patterns.
The tiles are currently on display at ShopSCAD. From the artist statement:
Meryl Truett’s new mixed media series is a postmodern homage to turn of the century Pictorialist photographers and the decorative arts. Appropriating the images of Clarence White, Robert Demachy, E.J. Constant Puyo, Heinrich Beck, and Wilhelm von Gloeden, Truett’s photo transfers incorporate ceiling tiles from the era and vintage wallpaper designs.
They will be available in the Etsy store shortly!
This slideshow was included in the presentation You Can’t Get There From Here, presented by Meryl Truett and Rebecca Nolan at the Society for Photographic Education’s national conference in Dallas, TX in March 2009. The theme of the conference was “Sprawl,” a concept explored in Truett’s project Vernacular Highway.
View the video on YouTube.
Also check out this video of the Picturing the Beltline exhibition, taken during Atlanta Celebrates Photopgraphy 2008.
And finally, view this video of Truett’s work at the Telfair Museum-Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah.
