even me on my wee little dial-up system
you wanna see a mummified priest? i thought barrettes were weird. <sigh>
Definitely will need to take this computer in and have it tuned, because I can't and I know I should have enough memory.
Well, I've already seen the mummified remains once, but at the time, I didn't know the significance of Father Kino. And anyway, the town is sleepy but amazing. Very small, built on a bluff over some river, with a square and a large church. I want to see it all again. I want to stay there and poke around a little. Why not?
Barrettes weird, huh? Oh, ye of little faith!
It's all too catholic and idolatrous for me, piffka.
The architecture is lovely. I do appreciate the wonderfully clean lines with the occasional embellishment.
Mummified remains are not idolatrous. These were treated as respectfully as possible when found during an archeological dig. When they found who they'd got, they sort of stopped and put a glass dome over the entire thing. Least that's what I remember... the mummy was probably 10 feet below the level of the plaza. Quite a surprise to us when we stopped to find something cold to drink (nothing was open, it was siesta time).
Here's a website to the story:
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/jtuck/jtkino.html
and here's a website with a picture of the... dome:
http://discoverseaz.com/History/Kino.html
Beautiful images, littlek .. Quite haunting.
whooooaaaa, did a search on Fritz Langs photography (he was a filmographer) - talk about haunting...
WOW.
Imogen Cunningham, a fabulous pioneer in photography - Good stuff, thanks for dropping her name into conversation piffka!
gallery
Bio
k, Fritz Lang was a giant among Movie Directors, and one of the prime movers of "Film Noir". He also directed Metropolis in 1926, accepted by most to be the first "Serious" Science Fiction movie, and one that stands up well over 75 years after its making.
Georgia Okeefe, Ansel Adams, Cunningham, Bourke-White, Stieglitz, Weston ... whole bunch of other really interesting Art/Art Photography folks all pretty much "Hung Out Together", and there is a fascinating, subtle commonality to their work, without detracting in the least from their individual, unique approaches to and masteries of their crafts.
timber
timber -the photographers had a club named f/64: " 'f/64' was chosen because the members of the group were dedicated to the honest, sharply defined image, and the lens opening, f/64, provides the ultimate in resolution and depth of field. Adams felt that the membership should be limited to 'those workers who are striving to define photography as an art form by a simple and direct presentation through purely photographic methods.' " There was a common thread among them.
I'm quite familiar with The f/64 group, k, that's what I was refering to. In fact, I am a practioner of The Zone System of Photography.
timber
soooo... where's your A2K album?
Does anyone else find it odd that bothe Imogen Cunningham and Georgia O'Keefe are best known for their flower/plant images? When you do google searches those come up most often as the prints offered for sale and in the mini-galleries. I found this series at the Imogen Cunningham Trust site - all portraits, all of men:
Imogen Portraits
littlek wrote:soooo... where's your A2K album?
Stuck with a bunch of other important stuff in the "Gotta get to that sometime soon" pile.
timber
littlek
Georgia deserves to be famous for her beautiful flower paintings. They are just RAVISHING!!
But I really like her New Mexico paintings, too.
I can't say much about Imogen Cunningham's work, because I don't know much about her work. iS SHE A PARTICULAR FAVOURITE OF YOURS?
MsOlga - Imogen is a new artist to me. I have a couple links above if you're interested in checking out her photography. I think I'm more interested in the whole pioneer class of photographers than any one of them.
MsOlga - the links are called "gallery" and "Bio" about half way down on page #3 of this thread.
Did you see? She has some cala lily photos that look like they could be the basis of an O'Keefe painting.
littlek
Yes, I saw .. & immediately thought of Georgia!
