Forever Ago Photo

2/21/12 Photography teaches me how to bake

2012-02-22T07:23:00.000-08:00

Mixing up Albumen with my graduate students!

2/12/12 new cyanotype

2012-02-12T18:32:00.000-08:00

This one needs a good title...

2/6/12 New prints

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New versions, one new image. Tea/Wine toned Cyanotypes.

1/20/12 Lith Prints

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"I might join your century, but only on a rare occasion" -Dresden Dolls

My first Lith print

2012-01-18T15:19:00.001-08:00

New toy and images I just shot with it!

1/6/11 New Work

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These are all Tea-toned Cyanotypes. I am currently calling the series "The Shadow Catcher's Daughter" -tell me what you think :)

Holiday greetings for 2011 from the College of Design

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Several of my images were used for the ISU College of Design (where I teach photography) holiday greeting.

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12/12/11 Bear-again

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Here is it with cute brush-stroke circle-ness.

11/20/11 New Images

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Two new images these are both Tea-Toned Cyanotypes.

On Being an Angel

11/16/11 Shadow

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Tea-toned Cyanotype

11/12/11 Cameron

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Umm this was not on purpose... I'm a little creeped out, in a good way though. I think the wallpaper is the craziest part. Left-side me, right side by Julia Margaret Cameron, Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen, 1864

11/9/11 New Image

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New image - comments appreciated...

10/22/11 In-Site Photography Auction

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13th Annual In-Site Photography Exhibition and Silent Auction

All funds raised from this auction will directly benefit the programs of The In-Sight Photography Project. In-Sight’s mission is to provide a creative outlet through the visual art of photography for the youth of Windham County, Vermont regardless of their ability to pay suggested class fees and statewide Vermont flood relief efforts!

10/13/11 Shows and Publications that I am currently included in.

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I happen to have a lot of work out and about right now. Here are some, if they are in your area please check them out and support these great institutions, musicians, and publications.

LightBox Gallery, Spooky Show III - Astoria OR
October 8 - November 8, 2011

Soho Photo, Alternative Process Competition - Soho NYC
November 2 - December 3, 2011

PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT
October 11 - November 5, 2011

Shots Magazine, No. 113 Autumn 2011

Chamberlin's Album Cover, Cabin Covers, 2011

A. Smith Gallery, Alternations, Johnson City, TX
(4 Images) November 11 - December 18, 2011
2 Honorable Mentions!

10/1/11

2011-10-01T20:23:00.000-07:00

R.I.P. Kodak...

2011-09-27T10:01:00.000-07:00

Some digital prints and 2 plates from my more recent wet plate work Offerings is on display in the Pickard Chilton Gallery space at Iowa State University.

9/20/11 Cabin Covers Cover

2011-09-20T12:00:00.000-07:00

Just before I left for Iowa I shot a few ambrotypes in Vermont for my friends in the band Chamberlin. We had a fun shoot and I am glad they were able to use the images we made.

9/12/11 More from Ada Hayden Park

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It was hot out and I was getting some tricky fog.

Barbara (with iced developer)

9/6/11 Ada Hayden Park

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This is an ambrotype of a sculpture by Patrick Dougherty, at the Ada Hayden Park near Ames IA.

8/24/11 More Jamboree

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These two were hiding...

Birds nest with light bulbs

First image with my new/old Rochester Optical Empire State and new/old Cooke lens, that I bought at the Jamboree.

8/21/11

2011-08-21T09:54:00.000-07:00

Some old images from my collection

Small Daguerreotype

Tintype

Albumen

8/18/11 Jamboree

2011-08-18T11:28:00.000-07:00

It has taken me a few weeks to get to a scanner. I took these images at John Coffer's Wet Plate Jamboree 2011. If you don't know what I'm talking about, the Jamboree is a gathering of wet plate collodion photographers. We meet and camp on John's farm "Camp Tintype" for a long weekend. This was my second year and it just keeps getting better.

Skull and Volunteer Corn

My Tent

Jamboree Eggs

Camera/Dark Box tent

7/27/11

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I spent the afternoon shooting ambrotypes at the cabin currently inhabited by the band Chamberlin.

7/22/11 Owl

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Morning shoot before it got unbearably hot. I expect to shoot a few more images before I fly away to Iowa next week... actually I'm driving.

7/11/11 Ambrotype-continued

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Ambrotypes

7/7/11 Juggling Butterflies

2011-07-07T08:55:00.000-07:00

More back-porch Ambrotypes

Juggling Butterflies

6/24/11 Octopus

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Octopus Ambrotypes

More for "Things That Could Be Wings"

6/22/11 - Back Yard Brownie

2011-06-22T15:28:00.002-07:00

Last weekend I spent an afternoon playing with an old Ansco Brownie camera. I made a hand full of Ambrotypes.

Where I lived until I was 6

6/16/11 Things That Could Be Wings

2011-06-16T15:30:00.000-07:00

After setting up a dark box on my back porch I have made some new Ambrotypes.

My great-grand father's glasses

The rest of these are part of a collaboration with Kirsten Hoving.
Currently we are calling this series "things that could be wings"

A Bird in the Hand

6/14/2011 Vermont Landscapes Lost and Found Exhibition

2011-06-14T17:29:00.001-07:00

Here are a few installation shots from the exhibition I put together with the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History. I hope to have some better shots soon.

6/5/2011 Sheldon Museum

2011-06-05T16:30:00.000-07:00

The Project I've been working on for the last few months is finally up on the walls and open to and public, and it looks great! I have been building an exhibition with the theme of Landscape Change in Addison County Vermont. Along with the help of some local photographers and museum staff I've chosen a collection of historic images as well as modern versions. The show has 100 digital prints of images both old and new as well as original images in display cases around the gallery. If you are in VT please check it out, it is fun show.

NEW EXHIBIT
VERMONT LANDSCAPES LOST AND FOUND

Vermont’s iconic landscape is the result of the dynamic intermingling of nature, chance and choice. The exhibit will explore our ever-evolving landscape through a variety of visual images, contrasting historic photographs with their present-day counterparts. The story of Vermont landscape change will also be told through paintings, posters and postcards. In teaching visitors where the landscape comes from, it hopes to inspire them to think about what Vermonters should work to retain and how we can best accommodate the inevitability of change.

The story of our changing landscape will be told through images of nature, chance, change and choice. The natural world establishes the parameters of the possible in our environment. The chance occurrences of fire, flood, insect devastation and other dynamic forces alter the landscape against our wills. The greatest force for change in the landscape is choice, as people make decisions and take actions that alter the landscape to suit their needs, desires and goals. Vermont Landscapes Lost and Found has received generous sponsorship from Orton Family Foundation, Vermont Community Foundation and Lyman Orton. The exhibit will be on view through October 22.

Left: Joseph Battell and his team in front of the Valette Block, ca. 1900
Right: Middlebury Rotary and Two Brothers Tavern, 2010. Photo by Milo Schaefer

Here are a couple examples:

The Piece House was on Court Street, Middlebury, mmm squirrel

Train at the station in Middlebury

Downtown Middlebury on Fire

Now called Steve's Park Diner

www.henrysheldonmuseum.org

5/9/11 VSC Ambrotypes!

2011-05-09T16:06:00.000-07:00

So I broke out the old chemicals and made some wet plate photographs!
Here are some new Ambrotypes I made while I was at the Vermont Studio Center for Vermont Week.

When everything goes wrong sometimes you end up with a scene from "Where the Wild Things Are"

The rest of these I made while collaborating with Kirsten Hoving.

4/8/11 - Brady vs. Szabo

2011-04-08T20:53:00.000-07:00

I found a fun quiz on Parade.com (via facebook). Can You guess which image is from the civil war and which was taken more recently? Give it a try here.

"Photographer Robert Szabo uses a 19th Century method — the wet plate collodion process — to shoot reenactment scenes. Can you tell which photos are his, and which are real Civil War images shot by renowned photographer Mathew Brady?

Browse these 20 sets of images and see if you can spot the real from the replica."

3/30/11 - Edward Bateman's Robots

2011-03-30T12:22:00.000-07:00

Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny ©Edward Bateman

3/3/11 Instant Messenger Pigeon

2011-03-03T18:19:00.000-08:00

Instant Messenger Pigeon

3/3/11 Octopus

2011-03-03T18:18:00.000-08:00

2/15/11 Book

2011-02-15T09:47:00.000-08:00

New mini book of my series A Life Reviewed: George Eastman through the Viewfinder available through blurb here.

2/7/11 Stieglitz

2011-02-07T12:31:00.000-08:00

Alfred Stieglitz, 1864-1946

A Derigible | Camera Work | 17.7 x 18 cm | 1910

1/19/11 Sergey Larenkov

2011-01-19T16:30:00.000-08:00

While researching some second view projects I ran across this work by Sergey Larenkov. I really enjoy the way he mixes historic and contemporary images.

1/7/11 Middlebury in the Future

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This postcard of my home town was included in the Landscape Change Program image database and is my new favorite!

Middlebury in the Future

1/7/11

2011-01-07T09:48:00.000-08:00

L E N S C R A T C H: Stephen Berkman: "Photographer, Stephen Berkman's, unique and singular vision sets him apart from his contemporaries."

LENSCRATCH blog has put together a nice piece on one of my favorite photographers. This blog showcases both his Ambrotypes as well as his camera obscuras. Do take a look.

12/31/10

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Glenora

School House
(Barbara White Studio Building)

12/19/10 The road home from Johnson

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12/19/10 Deer

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12/19/10 Correspondence

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Albumen Print
The Letter was written in 1858.

12/11/10 Airship encounter

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12/10/10 Polar Exploration

2010-12-09T23:31:00.001-08:00

12/7/10

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Albumen

Gold Leafed Cyanotype

Developing hand

In Progress - 12/6/10

2010-12-06T14:12:00.000-08:00

Here are a few new images I've made here in Johnson. More to come.

Unmarried

Balloon Dreams (nicknamed Air Head)

Jumbo's Lullaby

Road trip to Stowe 12/4/10

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Road trip to Stowe in search of a haunted bridge.

Johnson VT, 11/23/10

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11/23/10

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I am at the Vermont Studio Center, so new work coming soon!

10/13/10

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Near the Egress from antonio martinez on Vimeo.

Skylight Studio Tour - Original Post: 10//3/10

2010-11-09T23:57:00.001-08:00

I tagged along on Nicholas Graver's tour of local photographic history...

This slanted roof was once glass and a photographer's skylight studio.

This doesn't look like much now, but at one time Samuel D Humphrey's studio stood here. He made what we consider the oldest surviving photograph of the moon from here.

This house was the home of John Towler the author of the Silver Sunbeam.

A rare cobblestone house from the 1800s. *A week later I saw what looked like a cobblestone house in a Peter Henry Emerson platinum print.

Gelnora

Watkins Glen

Wandering around Rochester - Original Post: 9/26/10

2010-11-09T23:56:00.001-08:00

Once upon a time Rochester used to have a subway...

Albumen Workshop - Original Post: 9/15/10

2010-11-09T23:54:00.001-08:00

This week I assisted for Mark Osterman's Albumen workshop at the Eastman House. Three days of learning about a historic process from the people who know it best. The participants even got to print from antique negatives. For other Eastman House workshops go here. For the Ostermans' site go here. And here are some pictures:

Photographer's Dream Day - Original Post: 9/12/10

2010-11-09T23:50:00.001-08:00

Some new images from the Canyon Camera Club's Photographer's Dream Day.

Constellations - Original Post: 9/1/2010

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Kirsten Hoving, Cygnus the Swan, 2010

Kirsten Hoving is an art history professor who recently published a book detailing Joseph Cornell's use of Astronomy titled: Joseph Cornell a Case for the Stars. Now she is experimenting with these themes in her own photography. She is also my Mother.

Anais Mitchell - Original Post: 8/5/2010

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A folk opera based on a Greek myth but referencing the sound of the early 1900s! And back in the day Anais was my baby-sitter. Small world.

"Based upon the ancient Greek myth of the poet Orpheus and his doomed quest to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld, Anaïs Mitchell's new album Hadestown evokes our Depression-era past, the current financial disaster (though it was written before the stock market collapse), and a post-apocalyptic future."

Steampunk Animé - Original Post: 8/4/2010

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I find Japanese Animé to be an especially interesting take on the 19th century. Several of Hayao Miyazaki's films appear to be set in 19th century Europe. Though they are animated, they are often much darker in subject matter than movies created by Disney. Their portrayal of technology is often very fluid merging what was once real and fictional creations. Here is a trailer for Laputa: Castle in the Sky which has a particular emphasis on the industrial revolution.

Thomas Barbey -Original Post: 8/4/2010

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I recently discovered Thomas Barbèy a calendar of these images in for sale at the George Eastman House.

Leave Your Sleep - Original Post: 8/4/2010

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Natalie Merchant's new album in which she sings 19th century poetry. Here is her TED talk in which she explains the project and sings a few of the songs.

Jamboree - Original Post: 8/3/2010

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John Coffer's Jamboree

I recently joined the group for John Coffer's Wet Plate Jamboree. It was a long weekend dedicated to all things collodion. I got to talk shop with lots of people who are really passionate about this process.

Group picture posted by Bryan Hiott

Greg Martin with his mammoth camera click here to watch Richard Mellor's video of Greg processing a plate taken with this camera.

John Coffer and Myself posing with his "new" Model T