Photography and the Creative Process http://wmgphotoblog.com Presented by William M. Gatesman in conjunction with www.wmgphoto.com Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:03:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Hot Time at the Cotton Club http://wmgphotoblog.com/2010/02/06/hot-time-at-the-cotton-club/ http://wmgphotoblog.com/2010/02/06/hot-time-at-the-cotton-club/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:31:03 +0000 Bill Gatesman http://wmgphotoblog.com/?p=97 Bill has collaborated with the Seraphim Quartet, a women’s vocal group, to create the Focus on Seraphim website at www.seraphim.wmgphoto.com.

Bill’s latest post to that website features the photograph, Hot Time at the Cotton Club, reproduced below.

Hot Time at the Cotton Club

Hot Time at the Cotton Club

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In a recent visit to Baltimore’s Fells Point, I captured this image, which I call Prisoner of Life. Prisoner of life resides in the Street Photography portfolio at my online photo gallery, www.wmgphoto.com

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Message in a Bottle is an artwork derived from my photograph, Alpha and Omega, which photograph is reproduced below.

Like with Alpha and Omega, I have created physical works of art derived from other photographic images in the Focus on Religion gallery at www.wmgphoto.com. Schism II is based upon the photograph, Schism, which I have written about on this website in the article entitled Expanding the Frame.


Also discussed in that article is Welcome to Nirvana, a physical work of art comprised of the photograph of the same name enclosed in a wall sized Japanese Torii gate handcrafted out of weathered oak.

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My photograph, Praise God, will be on exhibit November 6, through December 3, 2009, at the Seventh Annual International Juried Art Exhibition, in a show called What’s the Big Idea, at the Northbrook Public Library and Art Center in Northbrook, Illinois, near Chicago.

]]> http://wmgphotoblog.com/2009/08/14/praise-god/feed/ 0 Rarities http://wmgphotoblog.com/2009/07/17/rarities/ http://wmgphotoblog.com/2009/07/17/rarities/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:25:55 +0000 Bill Gatesman http://wmgphotoblog.com/?p=81 Rarities is an exhibition of photographs at the Corkin Gallery in Toronto running until June 30, 2009.  I found this understated, small show to be one of the most satisfying museum exhibitions of photography I have ever experienced.

Included among the 7 or so photographs are Alfred Steiglitz’s famous 1907 photogravure, The Steerage, and a wonderful large brown pigment gum bichromate print by one of the acknowledged masters of the gum printing process, Heinrich Kuhn, his 1905 Landscape — Peasant with Cart.

Also featured in the show are Eugene Atget and Ansel Adams.

Click here to visit the Corkin Gallery.

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