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RK AVENUE BALLRO

RK AVENUE BALLRO
The front entrance to an urban dance studio, San Jose.

RK AVENUE BALLRO. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

The front entrance to an urban dance studio, San Jose.

If you have been following along here you probably can guess that this is another photograph from my (almost) daily long walks in the greater neighborhood, an activity that has become a ritual during the time since March 2020… for reasons that you can also probably guess. These walks range from the short (“Gotta at least put in a half hour!”) to nearly ten miles, virtually always through the urban wilderness of neighborhoods, industrial areas, shopping centers, and similar.

I always carry a camera, though on most walks it stays in the bag. But every so often something catches my attention and out comes the camera. Quite often the subject is something that I’ve passed by many times but only really notice for the first time on one of the walks — a common experience, by the way. The elements that make this building what it is comprise quite a collection — the heavy framing of the entry way, the rather striking and perhaps unusual color choices, and more… some of which lies outside the frame in this photograph.


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Pigeons on the Roof

Pigeons on the Roof
Pigeons on the roof of the Brancusi Gallery at Le Centre Pompidou, Paris

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Pigeons on the roof of the Brancusi Gallery at Le Centre Pompidou, Paris

We were here somewhat early in the morning to visit the nearby Centre Pompidou. We may have arrived before it opened — or perhaps we weren’t aware that it had opened, or possibly we just wanted to look a bit before entering. In any case, we were walking around the large open space in front of the entrance, and I took the time to make a few photographs of the surroundings.

Off to the side, along a parallel street, is the Brancusi Gallery — the building whose roof is seen in the photograph. I think that the flock of pigeons first caught my attention. I thought it was odd that they were all clusters on the roof of this structure. Then I began to find the composition of lines and shapes and color interesting, with the slight foreground diagonal creating some dissonance with the squared shape of the gallery and with the older buildings in the background.


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Holding an Artifact

Holding an Artifact
Holding an Artifact

Holding an Artifact. Wildcat Hill, California. September 28, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Holding a Brett Weston negative — “Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1946”

During our visit to the Weston Home at Wildcat Hill in late September, Kim Weston shared a wide range of photographs and photographic objects , and accompanying stories, with us in his studio. (That’s him at the lower right of the frame.) He shared and talked about work by many of the Westons, from Edward Weston to himself. He even passed around various photographs and objects for closer inspection, including this negative of a very important Brett Weston photograph, “Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1946.”

And — no surprise! — he has a lot of stories to tell. If I have this one correct, it goes sort of this way. Brett Weston’s photographs are very much about the print and the initial image in the negative served as source material for the final interpretation. That interpretation was the thing — not the negative. As I understand it, he wanted the prints, not the negatives, to remain as his legacy, and he had announced that we was going to destroy the negatives for many great photographs. He discussed this with Edward (?) Weston, who did not feel the same way about limiting editions and who apparently convinced Brett to let him pick a few negatives to save. Brett agreed, Edward chose, Brett went and brought back the selected negatives… which he had defaced with a hole punch. (You can see the holes near the four corners of this negative.)


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2014 Studio Nocturne Artspan Open Studio

Studio Nocturnes 2014 — Exhibiting at San Francisco Artspan 2014
Studio Nocturnes 2014 — Exhibiting at San Francisco Artspan 2014

Once again this year I will exhibit along with my fellow Studio Nocturne photographers at the 2014 Artspan San Francisco Open Studios.

The photographers of Studio Nocturne specialize in night photography… and a few other subjects. Studio Nocturne is exhibiting at the 2014 ArtSpan San Francisco Open Studios this fall — we’ll be at the historic Fort Mason once again this year, our twelfth year exhibiting at this annual San Francisco event. We look forward to seeing you there! Join us at the Friday November 7 evening reception and/or during our Saturday November 8 or Sunday November 9 hours.

Studio Nocturne Exhibit and Sale
Saturday, November 8 &  Sunday, November 9
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Preview and Artist Reception
Friday, November 7
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
(Reception and Preview information subject to change)

2014 San Francisco Open Studios
Fort Mason Center
Building D, Ground Floor

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