May 2010
1 post
March 2010
8 posts
February 2010
11 posts
New Work
In my ever-growing fascination with time, decay, erosion, snapshots, ambrotypes, and scientific illustration, these new (and sometimes revisited & reworked) images represent the visual pu-pu platter that I seem to be not-so-selectively picking from at the moment.
November 2009
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October 2009
10 posts
Irving Penn, Fashion Photographer, Is Dead at 92
By ANDY GRUNDBERG Published: October 8, 2009
Irving Penn, one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 92.
Irving Penn, New York, 1951.
Mr. Penn’s talent for...
Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
On Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, September 22-December 27, 2009
When Robert Frank’s photographs of the Eisenhower-era United States were first published in 1959, they outraged many and provided subversive delight to a few. But the few proved both prescient and influential. Within a few decades Frank’s suite of photographs, The Americans, came to be widely regarded as one of the most...
September 2009
4 posts
Jay Farrar - San Francisco music video →
Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) and Jay Farrar (Son Volt) will continue their Jack Kerouac adventure by literally taking it on the road in October with a touring band comprising Nick Harmer (Death Cab), Mark Spencer (Son Volt) and Jon Wurster (Superchunk).
The collaboration between the two singer-songwriters began almost two years ago when the pair linked up to record the soundtrack for the...
http://www.danasmithphotography.com →
August 2009
8 posts
The longer I earn my living as a photographer, the more I’m reminded that the people I photograph on a daily basis are inherently far more interesting and famous than I’ll ever be. This recurring section will proudly spotlight one of the many subjects that are easily ‘more famous than me’
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In office from November 1962 until his death, Kennedy served nine terms in the Senate. At the time of his death, he was the second most senior member of the Senate, and the third-longest-serving senator in U.S. history. He was best known...
In June of 2004, I was assigned to photograph esteemed U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy prior to the Democratic National Convention which was being held in Boston. I once made a bologna sandwich for his son Patrick (D-Rhode Island), so we discussed bologna, Patrick, and culinary arts. C’mon, I only had 7 minutes…what else was I going to discuss with him—-American liberalism?
- DS
"Well, it's new to me..."
I seem to be jumping on board this ship late, but I just recently came across the work of fine art photographer Amy Stein. Lots of stranded motorists, stranded wildlife, and guns…it’s wonderful work.
http://www.amysteinphoto.com/ →
May 2008
5 posts
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Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31,1923–November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize...
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I was told I’d have 15 minutes with him. I figured I’d be able to finagle a little more time, seeing as we were shooting at his home, it was summertime, and it was P-town. He came out on the deck, sat down, and kept constant watch over the minutes. I made idle conversation that neither amused nor entertained him. He swore at me once, and ended our historic meeting by simply...
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April 2008
13 posts
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I don’t think I’ve made any photograph in the last 6 years where I’m not ripping off Joel Sternfeld in one aspect or another -DS
“Despite the information contained in how we look, we could be almost anybody. And if we tend to hate people who pigeonhole us based on appearances, we’re also grateful when someone sees us accurately without summing up too comfortably. Sternfeld is that kind of observer; he sees, but he leaves the conclusions up to others — to history, maybe, or to God. Neither the best nor the...