Early Influences

Been looking at some of the photographers that influenced me when I first started out - Robert Frank, Cartier-Bresson, William Klein, Walker Evans, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Ralph Gibson, Clarence John Laughlin.  Frank, Klein, and Evans still resonate for me.  Gibson, not so much anymore.  Meatyard, Laughlin & Cartier-Bresson are great, just not as influential any more. Who were your influences?

Which early influences still resonate for you?

William Klein - Candy Store, Amsterdam Avenue, New York, 1954-55

Robert Frank - Trolley—New Orleans, 1955 from The Americans

Walker Evans -   Fish Market Near Birmingham, Ala., 1936

Henri Cartier-Bresson - Behind the Gare St. Lazare, 1932

Ralph Gibson - The Somnambulist, 1970

Clarence John Laughlin - The Masks Grow to Us 1947

Ralph Eugene Meatyard - Occasion for Diriment, 1962

Plastic Fantastic

I'm honored to have had all 4 of my entries selected for APA/SD's Plastic Fantastic Exhibition and Benefit Auction.  Juror Joseph Bellows of Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla selected 30 images that will be hung in a one night ONLY show at Subtext Gallery on Friday Sept. 3rd, 6-10PM.  All images will be sold to the highest bidder with an auction that night to benefit the AJA Project, a San Diego based non-profit that utilizes photography-based educational programs to transform the lives of displaced youth.  Come on by and check out some killer prints made from plastic cameras and an ancient plastic based material called film.  Who knows, maybe you'll leave with a great print.  And it's all for a good cause...Here's one of the images that was selected for the exhibition.  You'll have to come to the show next Friday to see my other 3 and the 29 other prints.  See you there!