Reuben Wu

[jtk]

https://reubenwu.com/news

 

[jtk]

https://www.designboom.com/art/reuben-wu-lux-noctis-phase-one-10-08-2019/

 

[jtk]

Saw a dozen of Wu's prints in Santa Fe yesterday. 30X40-ish or larger. Several could have been accomplished by a painter (no grain, no artifacts etc) but fact that we're seeing photography somehow, when viewing the prints, changes appreciation. The camera-work was entirely digital and managed on remote locations, but the prints are inkjet. The question I asked myself, and the gallery director, was "why was this work printed instead of being displayed on mega-sized flat screen monitors?

Good video interview etc:

https://www.wired.com/video/watch/lux-noctis-how-photographer-reuben-wu-lit-landscape-with-a-drone

 

[awty]

They look like 1970's prog rock album covers.

 

[fiddle]

They look like 1970's prog rock album covers.

Haha! They really do...

 

[jtk]

They look like 1970's prog rock album covers.

Hope you looked at the linked videos. Wu has indeed done significant work for musicians.

Me, I never heard of "prog rock" in San Francisco...maybe that's a regional thing.

Why not contribute a thread about a photographer who (like Wu) also photographed musicians?

In the 70s my taste ran to Miles Davis and Ringo .

 

[logan2z]

Hope you looked at the linked videos. Wu has indeed done significant work for musicians.

Me, I never heard of "prog rock" in San Francisco...maybe that's a regional thing.

Why not contribute a thread about a photographer who (like Wu) also photographed musicians?

In the 70s my taste ran to Miles Davis and Ringo .

On the topic of photographers who photographed musicians, I think it's a little known fact that Lee Friedlander - not known for his color photography - shot some very famous jazz album covers in his early years. Some examples...

 

[awty]

Hope you looked at the linked videos. Wu has indeed done significant work for musicians.

Me, I never heard of "prog rock" in San Francisco...maybe that's a regional thing.

Why not contribute a thread about a photographer who (like Wu) also photographed musicians?

In the 70s my taste ran to Miles Davis and Ringo .

Started watching a video that ran like a infomercial, so I switched it off. I was at a large regional art gallery on the weekend and a photographer was showing her version of something similar, Probably a lot more lofi as she didnt have access to such wonderful products and a high polished production, but said the same thing. Really the only time I have ever seen light stick photography of any interest was from a house wife who joined our film photo group for a meet up at one time and brought along a bunch of tiny pictures she took with a Fuji instax mini, she used sparklers and steel wool for her light show and hand stitched her tiny photos together and the stitching became part of the picture. I think art is at its best without ego or bravado.
I turned into a pimply teenager in the late seventies and was very much into Punk, passionately hated prog and pop and would not of heard of Miles. Do like Jazz now and have several of the albums above, really like listening to music, usually play a record before I go to sleep. Dont really pay a lot of attention to album photographers, my favorite would be the picture on Scout Nibletts "I Am" album and maybe her "Calcification" album, dont know who took them.

 

[CMoore]

I turned into a pimply teenager in the late seventies and was very much into Punk, passionately hated prog and pop and would not of heard of Miles. .

Good God.!

 

[awty]

Good God.!

Not only that, I didn't know who John Lennon was when he died.

 

[macfred]

Not only that, I didn't know who John Lennon was when he died.

You ought to know that Ringo was the head of the gang ...

 

[CMoore]

Not only that, I didn't know who John Lennon was when he died.

Palms getting sweaty.
Heart rate increasing.
Vision blurring.
OK..... i am going to take a deep breath, count to 10 and think happy thoughts..... just happy thoughts.

You ought to know that Ringo was the head of the gang ...

He may have discovered common decency (i mean Ringo) after John died.

 

[warden]

.....The camera-work was entirely digital and managed on remote locations, but the prints are inkjet. The question I asked myself, and the gallery director, was "why was this work printed instead of being displayed on mega-sized flat screen monitors?

It's a good question. How did the gallery director respond?

 

[jtk]

It's a good question. How did the gallery director respond?

She had no response. photoeye.com/gallery/index.cfm ...might have been before her time or outside her primarily "art" oriented exhibitions.

I also mentioned an exhibition in 516 Gallery (Albuquerque) ...the photographer, Acacia Johnson photographed for a year in Antarctica via a grant from Nikon.. http://www.516arts.org/

That exhibition shared huge (e.g. 40x60") inkjet prints ....I was so stunned by that exhibition (entirely ice and sky) that I didn't initially notice that ONE of the "prints" was actually a video on a huge flat screen monitor...didn't seem briighter than the prints. Only on close inspection did I notice that whisps of ice occasionally blew across the otherwise static image.

I became convinced that flat screen monitors would almost totally replace prints...wish I could afford a big one. Much better than slide or video projection especially when showing in walking-around lighting.