New Trans - Tableaus

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Two Way Lens and Karen Halverson

Two Way Lens proudly presents Karen Halverson.

I am very happy and excited that I could add another great interview with an outstanding photographer to my Two Way Lens project.

Hudson River Valley, NY based photographer Karen Halverson started photographing in the streets of New York with a Nikon F and a 35mm lens. This was the beginning of a new identity for her and a passion for photography she has never lost. 

A long car trip she had taken as a child through the American West established a strong connection to the West she's felt ever since. 

Since then, she has been exploring various aspects of the cultural and natural landscape of the West.

Karen Halverson's work has been collected and exhibited by many prominent museums including  the J. Paul Getty Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and many more.

Please visit Karen's website to see more of here outstanding work.

The very insightful interview with Two Way Lens can be found here.

Rhyolite, Nevada

 Lake Havasu, California

 Death Valley, California

Shiprock, New Mexico

Hoover Dam, Arizona-Nevada


© copyright all images Karen Halverson

Michael Werner Photography

My new Facebook page is live now. A few days ago I decided to open a public page on Facebook where I share my own photography, post links to other artists and things I find interesting.

Please check it out and if you like what you see, then click the Like button and join me on a journey to a world of photography and art.

The link to my page Michael Werner Photography is here:   

I am looking forward to meeting you there!

©copyright all images Michael Werner

The Lake, Unplugged

The Lake, Unplugged is my newest body of work.

Located near the magical castle Neuschwanstein is the fifth largest lake in Bavaria with a surface area of 15.2 sq. km. (9.45 sq miles)

Forggensee is known primarily as a tourist destination for aquatic sports and recreation. The lake provides ideal conditions for surfing, sailing, fishing, and boating. it is stocked with pike, trout, and eel. Two ships navigate the lake on two different routes.

But there is something very unique about this lake.

Please visit my website to see more photos of the new series and read the statement about The Lake, Unplugged.

© copyright all images Michael Werner

Two Way Lens and David Husom

Two Way Lens proudly presents David Husom.

I am very happy and excited that my interview project Two Way Lens goes in another round with legendary photographer David Husom.

David Husom is a fine-art documentary photographer based in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He has a BFA in Photography and Film from the University of Minnesota where he studied with photographer Jerome Libeling and an MFA in Photography and Film from the University of Minnesota where he studied with filmmaker Allen Downs and art historian and artist Sidney Simon.

His photographs are in numerous collections including the J. Paul Getty Museum, George Eastman House, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and many more.

I am captivated by David's work the first time I saw it in the book to the exhibition "Where we live - Photographs of America, from the Berman Collection" at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. 

Please visit David's website to see more of his outstanding work.

His interview with Two Way Lens can be found here.

 Traverse-County-MN-Fairgrounds

 Yucatan-MN-Outhouse, 2007

 Train-Derailment-Hager-City-WI, 2011

 Hwy-35-Dairyland-Co-Op

05-School-House---Angle-Inlet-MN, 2011

© copyright all images David Husom

Two Way Lens and Frank Yamrus

Two Way Lens proudly presents Frank Yamrus

I am very happy that Two Way Lens continues with another great photographer. 

New York based artist Frank Yamrus' most recent body of work, I Feel Lucky, is a very personal series of self-portraits. 

He created this project between his 47th and 53rd birthdays. Initially titled Less Than or Equal to 50, this series began with a looming deadline of his 50th birthday, as if on this milestone his midlife crisis would magically resolve itself. At the time, typical midlife crisis issues — relationships, faith, career, health and mortality — were producing classic midlife crisis symptoms — moodiness, exhaustion, the desire to make change and some deafening private politics of self-identity. With his camera, his constant companion during this time, he contemplated a lifetime of choices and created present-day images to evaluate his past with the hope of glimpsing his future. 

Franks work has been exhibited internationally and is included in many private and public collections. 

More of his incredible work can be found on his website.

The interview with Two Way Lens can be read here.

 

Untitled (Window), from the series I Feel Lucky

Untitled (Daybreak), from the series I Feel Lucky

Untitled (Sunflower), from the series I Feel Lucky

Untitled (Watermelon), from the series I Feel Lucky

Untitled (Badoit), from the series Rune Lagu

Untitled (Propel), from the series Rune Lagu

Untitled (Icelandic Glacial), from the series Rune Lagu

Untitled (Evian), from the series Rune Lagu

© Copyright all images Frank Yamrus

Photograph for Robert Caplin and The Photo Brigade

Photographer Robert Caplin teamed up with Talenthouse to give photographers the opportunity to submit work for his online project The Photo Brigade, win fantastic prizes and gain exposure.

Robert Caplin, the photographer whose client roster includes Sports Illustrated, National Geographic and Justin Bieber, denotes true versatility in all of his work. His online community, The Photo Brigade, is a resource for photographers with a similar eye, aiming to strengthen the freelance community and share photography with other like-minded people. 

In celebration of The Photo Brigade’s online presence, Robert Caplin and guest judge, documentary photographer Matt Eich of LUCEO, are inviting photographers to submit their best documentary photograph* for the opportunity to win thousands of dollars in photography prizes and have their work featured on The Photo Brigade.

More information about The Photo Brigade, Robert Caplin, Matt Eich and this Creative Invite can be found here.

Submission Deadline is July 23, 2012

Talenthouse is an online community where artists and creatives can express their passions, collaborate on unique projects with leading artists and brands, share their work and grow their influence. 

Natalie Krick

Natalie Krick is a photographer based in Chicago, IL. She earned her MFA in photography from Columbia College in Chicago and holds a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.

The artist's mother is the subject of her most recent series Natural Deceptions. Natalie photographs her mother in different situations and settings and explores clichés used to visualize female beauty, gender and sexuality.

The portraits show so much intimacy, vulnerability, emotion and beauty. You just can't take your eyes off these memorable photographs. They stick in your mind and you have to think about what is behind the situation the subject is in.

More of Natalie's work and more of Natural Deceptions can be found on her website.

Mom with her finger on her lip

Mom as me

Mom in gold

Mom as a blonde

Mom in front of the shower curtain

Mom wearing lipstick in bed

© copyright all images Natalie Krick

Two Way Lens and Greg Friedler

Two Way Lens proudly presents Greg Friedler.

I am very happy that Two Way Lens continues with another great master of photography.

Greg Friedler is an internationally renowned visual artist and one of the most prolific photographers working today.

He received his BA in Political Science and French from the Universityof Colorado at Boulder in 1993 and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in Photography and related media in 1996.

Greg's work has been featured in almost every international magazine and exhibited around the world. He is the creator of five monographs and his work has been included in 7 anthologies to date. 

His projects Naked New York, Naked Los Angeles, Naked Las Vegas and Naked London received lots of attention all around the world.

To see more of Greg's work, please visit his website.

His Projects Naked can be found here.

His interview with Two Way Lens can be found here.

from the series portraits

from the series Still Lifes

from the series Still Lifes

from the series Abstracts

from the series Naked

© copyright all images Greg Friedler

Jeff Seltzer

Jeff Seltzer is a photographer based in the Los Angeles area. He earned a BA in Communication and a MA in Rhetorical Theory.

His work is quiet, structured, very well composed and has a wonderful subtle color palette. He documents our every day urban surroundings, isolates his subjects and excludes people. The result is a terrific collection of photographs who look like contemporary still-lifes. They are captivating, irritating, beautiful and memorable. 

Jeff writes about his work:

My photography reveals the effect of human occupation within the landscape of contemporary environments. My pictures are made to document a time and a place, static treatments of our everyday modern urban landscape. These anonymous, sometimes featureless structures and locations exclude people but at the same time show the effect of human occupation and interaction. I isolate my subjects, creating a head-on, cold and detached Kubrickian symmetry. My images allow viewers to see beauty in the everyday and show harmony in the ordinary and mundane that we take for granted.

Please visit Jeff's website and see more of his work.

His blog Only a Picture can be found here.

  

Drive Thru

Empty Parking Lot With Cone

A Tree

Classroom

Restroom

Shopping Cart Incongruity

A Bush

Tree, Shadow and Arrow

© copyright all images Jeff Seltzer

PMS 485 C

José Carlos Marques is the founder and editor in chief of a new project called PMS 485 C

Josè writes about his project:

PMS 485 C is an online platform dedicated to supporting and promoting Emerging Art Photography.

This project based in Portugal serves the art community by showcasing and publishing the work of new artists who use Photography as their primary medium of communication.

PMS 485 C aims to become an international resource for those interested in Photographic Production.

I am very happy to be a part of this wonderful project together with a great line up of fantastic photographers from all around the world.

Please visit PMS 485 C and take some time to browse the portfolios.