http://www.darkdaytime.net

There's not much on his website, but I stumbled upon someone else's inspiration blog and he was listed as one of the "Top 10 Photographers that Inspired Me to Learn Photography." (Full Entry.) Chambers has a few projects, and eventhough they are different, they could be tied together as one. His style is unique, and it is one that emphasizes something that is important and evident in much of my own work-- the feeling of personal detatchment in each image. When I photograph, I feel as if I need to separate myself from the scene in order to photograph it--even when I am using myself as a subject. There is less of a reflection of myself in my work, which is a quality that I recognize in Chambers' work. Also I find it interesting that the writer lists Cosmin Bumbut and Todd Hido, two photographers whose work I've mentioned before.

Todd Hido:

http://www.timmacpherson.com/


I enjoy the variety of work offered on his website, it's nice to be able to see his personal work, commissioned work, and some of his earlier work (as well as some film work.) His style is a little bit different than many commercial photographers, and it is evident in some of his ads that it is actually his work, rather than the work of the people who commissioned it. I am more interested in his personal projects.

Marco Vergano, an Italian photographer has apparently been working on a similar project to mine for a few years. I think it's great, it's inspiring, and I feel as if maybe my work could develop in a similar way should I continue on with it. Many of the images he has are like mine--seeminlgy more about the feeling of emptiness than the actuality of emptiness (there are some images that have one person or a distant car, etc.) Anyway it's encouraging to see someone successfully executing a project similar to your own.

jhnmyr:

One night in San Fransisco I met up with Jim Marshall for dinner. He brought the same Leica camera with him that he’d used to shoot everyone from Muddy Waters to Janis Joplin. Jim could talk about the biggest names without dropping them. He really was there. They let him in. He told me how disappointed he was in recent times that publicists took all the magic of “all access” away. When Jim came to my show the next night I made sure he could shoot the entire performance, even the sweaty half of the show. You never see the sweaty parts of the show anymore because photographers are only allowed to shoot the first three songs. I get why. Who knows what these guys will do with a pic of you sweating your ass off, shirt half tucked? But Jim knew what was cool and what wasn’t, and that’s why he got the brilliant photos he did. He was a photographer who tried to capture you without capturing you the way they try to now.
I would spend evenings at Jim’s house drinking wine and rifling through drawer after drawer of his photographs. I’d make piles of images I wanted, and by the end of it I realized I had 40 of these things and would have to thin out the stack. That was a tough job. John Coltrane at dawn. Miles Davis in a boxing ring. Bob Dylan rolling a tire. Jimi Hendrix at Monterey pointing directly into Jim’s camera lens while bending a note. And, perhaps his most famous photo, Johnny Cash giving the middle finger.
That night before my show in San Francisco we brought our cameras to the bar and he taught me how to shoot a bit while hitting on women. Okay, while we both hit on women. After having said goodbye and walking our separate ways, I turned around and asked him to give me the “Johnny Cash” and he obliged.
I know Jim is getting some amazing photographs up there right now… Rest in peace my friend…
JM

This was taken from a reblog post on my tumblr from John Mayer. Jim Marshall is notorious for being an abrasive photographer, mainly making iconic shots of rock musicians. He died today in NYC at the age of 74, not sure of the details. I thought I'd share this post with you guys even though it's not really for class, if you read the above story it's really moving. Props to John Mayer. Check out Jim's website. http://www.marshallphoto.com/ 

 A few photos from his book Trust:

Led Zeppelin, 1970

Bob Dylan, 1963

Grace Slick and Janis Joplin, 1967

Ray Charles recording at ABC Paramount Studios, 1962

He's been a photographer for 13 years and is just now starting to get noticed outside of Romania. I found his portfolio blog, and I really dig some of his documentary work, especially the work done in Rosia, Montana and the stuff he is currently developing in Bulgaria. His daily photo blog is pretty neat. Check is out:  http://www.bumbutz.ro/photo/journal/journal.html

He's got an eye for color and mixed light, which are two things that seem to be really important to my own photography.

Rosia:

Bulgaria:

So I just wrote a big long blog post about how much I dig this guy's work, and it was so detailed and great but it didn't post and now I have to start from the beginning and I don't feel like explaining again. So the jist of it is: I stumbled upon his work through blogs, and it caught my eye because it is similar to what I'm doing for my final topic. His ideas are more developed than mine, but they are inspiring because now I feel like I could take my own project into a completely new direction that I hadn't thought of. So there are a lot of images I'm about to post and I'm not going to talk about all of them, but the ones that stopped me in my tracks will have a little bit of a caption.

The above image really catches my eye. I used to work at an outlet mall and there for understand the complete chaotic mess that is left at the end of the day for cleanup. It would happen every day, and I never thought of it as a photograph, but now I'm going to pay more attention to things like this (things that not many do pay attention to, obviously) when I'm out shopping.

This is just so simple, it is almost abstract the way that the frame has been broken up into basic shapes and colors. But at the same time, there's something beautiful and mysterious about it, which are qualities that I want people to notice in my own work.

  I really like the semi-abandoned feel of this image. Although I did state that I don't want to photograph abandonment, this image is inspiring because I see places like this everywhere. It's not completely abandoned, it is empty, but for some reason still kept well and provided with electricity. This is a subject I would not mind trying--Stores that have gone out of business.

Haven't blogged in a while. But here's a status update: I have been shooting this week for my final topic, which is about Empty Spaces. I have been messing around with a few different ways of interpreting the meaning, exploring both spaces that are utilized and not utilized, although trying to avoid complete abandonment.  Some of the photographs I have taken this week seem to be about the space, while others seem to be about the subject matter that exists within the space. It's pretty 50/50, I have not yet decided which direction I want to steer the project from here--because I want the images to be about the space, but I don't want to make them boring by taking away the subject matter. Maybe it's just a different style for me, and it's going to take some getting used to.