Re: GESO - Cliveden Mansion
That looks like a fascinating place. Nicely photographed. > On 20 Jul 2023, at 02:26, Rick Womer wrote: > > Cliveden is a mansion in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, built in > the 1760s, and home to seven generations of the Chew family. The house and > surrounding fields were the site of the Battle of Germantown during the > Revolutionary War. The National Trust for Historic Preservation now owns and > operates it as a museum and research center. > > These are photos of the interior. Pouring rain and sodden ground discouraged > me from photographing the impressive grounds and gardens. > > All were taken with my K-5 and DA 17-70. The ISO was 3200; the new Denoise is > Lightroom is amazing. > > https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2023/July-2023/Cliveden-7-16-23/ > > Any comments are most welcome. > > Rick > -- > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Eve Arnold, Andre Lhote
Yesterday I went to an excellent retrospective exhibition of photos by Eve Arnold, which concentrated mainly on her representation of women, putting it into perspective of her life and times. The exhibition held at the Newlands House Gallery in Petworth is called “To Know About Women”, which is a quote from Eve Arnold. Although I was already familiar with all of the photos on show it was very instructive to see them as a whole, beautifully printed, laid out thematically and chronologically; the texts that accompany it are very informative. While I was in Petworth, and before going into the exhibition, I had a look round a very good commercial fine art gallery called Ottocento in the town, which has some works by Picasso, Dora Maar, Cocteau and the like. Curiously and coincidentally they have a nice drawing by André Lhote, who was Henri Cartier-Bresson’s drawing and composition teacher before HCB turned to photography. It’s the first time I’ve seen an actual work by Lhote. Of course HCB founded Magnum, and Eve Arnold was the first woman to join Magnum, and she acknowledges her great debt to him, so there’s a nice coincidental connection between the two shows. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Ansel Adams in Our Time
I've just returned from a trip up to San Francisco to visit an exhibition at the de Young Museum entitled "Ansel Adams in Our Time" (courtesy of the Lane Collection at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts). It was great to be able to see original prints made by Adams himself (and even to watch a short video of him explaining his process for setting the exposure, and for creating the actual print). Personally I was not particularly impressed by most of the other photographs by other photographers included in the exhibits - they mostly served to confirm my opinion that very few photographers come anywhere close to Ansel Adams. But it was still well worth the trip, and I came home with a new book to study entitled "Ansel Adams - 400 Photographs". -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Ansel Adams in Our Time
P.S. I wore my PDML "Photography is simple" T-shirt, and got a couple of comments from other attendees. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
