Photography et alTumblr (3.0; @markelpower)http://markelpower.tumblr.com/What am I looking for in photography? Images that  penetrate the eye, engage the mind, and pierce...http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/52302465097http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/52302465097Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:55:46 -0400We all have a blind spot called the scotea located behind the retina of the eye. There are a number...http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/52302402912http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/52302402912Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:54:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3db3ca73d2e45a0dad54504c65ec5077/tumblr_mnz7v4VMwO1r4l97eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Gordon Parks , <em>dance group, Frederick Douglass housing project Anacostia Washington DC,1942</em></p>http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/52302201101http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/52302201101Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:49:52 -0400Photophilia,  which invites anyone to post a photograph and comment upon it. also featured this...http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/52302025912http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/52302025912Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:45:50 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/56f43f3877b4697df41abf20862ae1c5/tumblr_mnz7flWUmK1r4l97eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Walker Evans: <em>Berenice Abbott, ca. 1930</em></p>http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/52301795147http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/52301795147Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:40:33 -0400Recently I uploaded a printing-on-demand book Imperium, to the Blurb website. The book is not a...http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/47461615461http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/47461615461Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:54:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4940368f0927a0c33be676eb55ffb508/tumblr_mky1e2rgKF1r4l97eo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/02f759334b0e7da1197b149c96de520b/tumblr_mky1e2rgKF1r4l97eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/030c4929d008036726aa69d6c07184a6/tumblr_mky1e2rgKF1r4l97eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8e37fa9ee949db3660eb66110f0f747b/tumblr_mky1e2rgKF1r4l97eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b63c6616aced18e6f48a9e907a551d2d/tumblr_mky1e2rgKF1r4l97eo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9d94d043d91cb5345f2f395340ffbb4d/tumblr_mky1e2rgKF1r4l97eo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e3f1eff146f68b2bba64a880abb5bf08/tumblr_mky1e2rgKF1r4l97eo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/47461485661http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/47461485661Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:51:38 -0400http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/46600150083http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/46600150083Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:14:56 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8ea216f382c55e5c675af7a383afc258/tumblr_mkfjn8WbN71r4l97eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Strawberries, 1984</strong></p> <p>An elderly Harry Callahan came across photographs he had made when a teen-ager. He was struck by the fact that his images had changed little since that early beginning. Literally, of course, the pictures were not the same. But in terms of appearance, style and motivation his mature work didn’t seem all that different. </p> <p>Garry Winogrand once said that when he changed a roll of film he wouldn’t miss a picture because the world would come to a stop until he had finished reloading. Then once again the pictures would stream by.  Bill Eggleston apparently only takes one picture of something; why do more, he is said to have said, there’s always another one around the corner.</p> <p>None of these recollections are exact, they’re just things I once read, and perhaps imperfectly remember, but they seem true: we constantly seek to capture the three or four or a dozen images that make us who we are. The images of that narrative are out there waiting for us, so if we miss one, another will come along soon. And it’s not just with photography: Bach composed the same <em>motet</em> time after time, Franz Kline painted one Kline after the other, and Ernest Hemingway told the same story in book after book: only places and names changed.</p> <p>All of which occurred to me when I discovered an image in the archive made in 1984 and then forgotten. A tray of strawberries. Looking at this image hidden in the darkness of my negative files for almost thirty years caused me to recall another picture made in 2012: my friend Alice Ng holding a tray of faux-cherries. Women offering sustenance and beauty: how often has that drawn me? Many more times than I remember as these two images prove.</p>http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/46599910617http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/46599910617Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:11:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/eaa1b6999ebaee4693bebce541b359d4/tumblr_mkfjky49SQ1r4l97eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Alice Ng with cherries, 2012</strong></p>http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/46599813183http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/46599813183Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:10:00 -0400There&#8217;s a new photographer on the horizon and it&#8217;s no coincidence that his last name is...http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/45285751001http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/45285751001Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:05:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/cfe14a33c3dc9760a7179c5d4a2004ec/tumblr_mjm7elCLj11r4l97eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/231e6d41c6c5f36cf66a680286d86b57/tumblr_mjm7elCLj11r4l97eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a7f7cb2770a5bb0e635a1e111f18b7da/tumblr_mjm7elCLj11r4l97eo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c48836b876cc2c290e6a87a01a74a09b/tumblr_mjm7elCLj11r4l97eo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5cad5febe796c8fd4e7c5f8ee83d764b/tumblr_mjm7elCLj11r4l97eo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6816e175e988f79c846137c45a75996a/tumblr_mjm7elCLj11r4l97eo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6735f47dad6ecda064cc0e3e38884b33/tumblr_mjm7elCLj11r4l97eo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2baa516fbd7d34c5d6cef102a85e1255/tumblr_mjm7elCLj11r4l97eo9_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>all photos Untitled, 2012. Copyright, JG Power</p>http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/45285107789http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/45285107789Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:56:00 -0400 While sitting on my front porch in early February, I made a few photos of the setting moon at about...http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/42755933482http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/42755933482Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:37:00 -0500http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532828712http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532828712Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:34:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ad7e09d8280a8774a909707f0cd36f93/tumblr_mh8u3nRwEE1r4l97eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532758688http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532758688Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:33:00 -0500In years past, Glen Echo, located  in a nearby  suburb on the Potomac, was Washington&#8217;s...http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532655853http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532655853Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:31:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8f111801ef30eda7591cf01f3b0e8a0b/tumblr_mh8ty0StJ71r4l97eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532511327http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532511327Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:30:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f5c077960ea75015279f7e95b184a55f/tumblr_mh8tuwrM0g1r4l97eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532376402http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532376402Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:28:00 -0500But nowadays Glen Echo is less amusing and more educational - in 1968 it became an arts and cultural...http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532044898http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41532044898Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:23:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cf578a1f748c687f77d236c183fc6524/tumblr_mh8tjr7yOr1r4l97eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nowadays, the bumper car pavilion is more likely to host a wedding…</p>http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41531891398http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/41531891398Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:21:00 -0500