Avedon – SF MoMA

“Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946 – 2004” More than 200 photographs are included in this retrospective of Avedon’s work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was born in NYC in 1923 and began work in 1944 at a department store, but quickly became the go-to photographer for magazines like...

District 9–Will They Seek Justice!

Great references, some very obvious, others not so. There is the bible, there is South African apartheid and most powerfully, although not by design, is the paranoia in this country on the ascendancy of Barack Obama, as in “If They Are In Control, Will They Take Their Revenge”. There has to be...

Sketching Two Figures Quickly

Working quickly capturing two models in short poses is a great drill. You have to make a decision about what is important in what you are seeing and want to capture on paper. You have to think fast and draw slow. Recently I’ve gotten to work with two drawing models, this was a five minute...

100 “Best” Films

The usual suspects, not the film, but the movies you would expect, made the list of the 2008 American Film Institute’s “100 films/100 years” – “All About Eve”, “Casablanca”, “Lawrence of Arabia” and the same #1 as 10 years ago when AFI published its 1st poll, Orson Welles’...

DVD Corner: Motown

“I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day…” The opening bass line that precedes the above lyric to the “Temptations” song “My Girl”, is instantly recognizable, instantly evoking a time/ place/age gone but still very much alive when the music plays. (I still know all the words.) I watched the...