The Photo Booth gives us a Prohibition slide-show, complete with protesters, secret flasks, and flappers
I’m so happy with the circulation this post is getting. It feels good when blogs I follow talk about it.
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April 4, 2012
Large Format is hard. It’s a long and arduous process and most of the time the image does not come out the way I expect it to. I am getting frustrated with being in the studio, especially since street life is my forté. I spoke to my professor about this frustration and we discussed using a Crown Speed Graphic. I was excited to try it because I had just seen the Weegee exhibit at ICP. Weegee mastered the Crown Speed Graphic and used it to take many of his famous photos. Since the Photo Department at NYU provides me with an AAM card which gets me into most museums for free, I go to ICP quite often. The size of the negative allowed Weegee to step back and really capture a full scene. Of course there are disadvantages to using the Crown Speed Graphic, since it is large, it requires time to set up the meter and focus and often times I only get one chance to capture a scene. However, coming from the studio it is a refreshingly quick process. Above is the first photo I took with the camera. Since the image takes a while to set up, I needed to talk to the guy (not something I’m used to, since I usually ‘shoot and run’). I ended up getting his email address and I sent it to him. It is part of the project where I attempt to capture the character of people by what shirts they wear (or don’t wear).
March 29, 2012
For the most part, this Tumblr is devoted to my completed, successful work. While it is very easy to explain why a photograph doesn’t work, it is hard to explain what makes one successful. I have found myself ‘sketching’ with my iPhone, taking many photos of things that catch my eye that I wouldn’t otherwise photograph. The convenience of the phone and the quality of the camera make it the best option to capture these types of scenes. While I enjoy many of them, I would feel strange posting them to this Tumblr, since I considered all the work here to be of a different standard. I created a Tumblr called ‘Photo Sketches’, which hopefully will be an interesting way for people to see the way I think. This way, you will be able to see a lot of the photos I wouldn’t otherwise post on krule.tumblr.com. Photos will be added to Photo Sketches as soon as I take them, so it will be updated much more frequently than ‘Krule.’ I am very excited for this experiment and I hope you guys enjoy it.
March 12, 2012
For The Jewish Emerging Artist Fellowship, my proposed project was to photograph the diversity that exists within Rabbinical figures. I was planning on using the grant money from EJAF to help fund the Large Format photographs, which are expensive. As for the project, I was close to photographing one female Rabbi, but I got sick. Planning shoots far in advance proved to be very difficult. One of my friends (pictured above) was visiting me during his spring break and I decided to run a photo shoot with him to practice my skills with the camera, which are not where I think they need to be. However, I think this photo came out great. I love the way the t-shirt works with the face he is making and his personality. The Large Format teacher even suggested that I switch the project to photographing college students and their t-shirts. The only problem with that is, for EJAF I would need to relate the project to Judaism somehow. Jews and their ironic t-shirts anyone?
