I Love Texas Photo

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery Opening Reception

Mariah Tyler — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:01:12 +0000

Randal Ford Courtesy PDNB, Dallas, Tx

Photographs Do Not Bend presents: Group Show

Opening Reception: Tonight, May 18, 2013 – 5 to 8pm

Artists include: Peter Brown, Bob Chilton, William Eggleston, Birney Imes,
Jimmy & Dena Katz, Misty Keasler, Andre Kertesz, Philip Lamb, Neil Leifer,
Chema Madoz, Gregori Maiofis, Rhondal McKinney, Ivan Mikhailov, Bill Owens,
Esteban Pastorino, Vitaly Smirnov, Robyn Stacy, Todd Stewart, Chris Verene & more

Bill Owens Courtesy PDNB Gallery, Dallas Tx

In Print: Allison V. Smith for The Texas Observer

Mariah Tyler — Sat, 11 May 2013 19:09:04 +0000

The Texas Observer published work by Dallas photographer, Allison V. Smith in their current issue. The photographs come from her series entitled, Schools.

Take The Lens Cap Off: Trends in Photography Panel

Mariah Tyler — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:30:25 +0000

Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas presents a photography panel discussion on May 15, 2013 at 6:30pm in the Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing and Visual Arts Auditorium. A great opportunity for students and professionals alike.

General Admission $5 | Students FREE with photo I.D.

Distinguished Guests:
Moderator: Jeffrey Grove, Dallas Museum of Art
Panelists: Kael Alford, Deborah Bell, Dornith Doherty, & Wendy Watriss

RSVP – holly@hollyjohnsongallery.com
Sponsored by CHRISTIE’S

In Print: Cody Hamilton for American Photo On Campus

Wynn Myers — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:13:56 +0000

Cody Hamilton was recently featured in American Photo On Campus. Below, Cody discusses the article:

In the interview, DJ talked about my portfolio, and how it caught his eye at the recent Texas Photo Roundup Portfolio Reviews.

The story is about how to create a portfolio that sells. American Photo interviewed DJ Stout (of Pentagram) for the article. In the interview, DJ talked about my portfolio, and how it caught his eye at the recent Texas Photo Roundup Portfolio Reviews. American Photo contacted me thanks to DJ’s referral and requested an image to use as the story opener. A few days later American Photo inquired about using one of my Veggie Beard shots for the cover.” – Cody

In War’s Wake: The Aftermath of Iraq and Afghanistan

Wynn Myers — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:07:22 +0000

The Homecoming Project presents In War’s Wake: The Aftermath of Iraq and Afghanistan, a photography exhibition examining war and the effects of combat trauma on US Service Members and Veterans as they return home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Over 30 award-winning photojournalists’ works are featured in the show with the creative written works and photography of Austin’s Veterans.

The exhibition will open May 18 and will be available for viewing through May 30. Click here for more details.

Texas Instagrammers & the ILTP Baton

msbrauer — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:49:10 +0000

We’re looking for Instagrammers to join us in documenting every day life around Texas.

One photographer will take control of our Instagram account for 3 days, posting anything and everything they like from their town. Then they’ll pass the baton to someone in another part of our great state!

Rules? We don’t have many, but here they are:

- Images must be made on your phone, shot in Texas and uploaded the same day
- No overtly commercial posts
- Tag @ilovetexasphoto and your own instagram account name in your caption
- Share on your social media accounts
- Hashtag your photos with details. Who, what, when, where.

Would you like to shoot for a few days? Contact us and tell us what you’re likely to shoot.

This is Dan. He is my former roommate, #poker companion & #karaoke host at the #arcadebar in #dallas on Thursday & Saturday nights. Go see him & tell him I sent you! You will have a blast. I'm going to sing #kiss by #prince, then go home to bed. See you tomorrow @ilovetexasphoto. // @trevorpaulhus

justin_ba_osborne Kiss? Really never would have guessed that.
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ilovetexasphoto You have no idea @justin_ba_osborne. I kill it! // @trevorpaulhus
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ilovetexasphoto I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Dan for being my personal #jukebox & consistently playing #fugazi & #quicksand for me between singers :) // @trevorpaulhus
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#nofilter // @trevorpaulhus

ilovetexasphoto Beautiful photo of #lakewood theatre in #dallas. Is that your hood @trevorpaulhus?
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ilovetexasphoto I live in #fairpark / #deepellum, right down the street. // @trevorpaulhus
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Tonight's #bikeride. #dallas // @trevorpaulhus

#lazy. // @trevorpaulhus

ilovetexasphoto Lunch w/ this rad #Dallas #fashion #photographer & one of my best buds, @nickyp33. Give him a follow, you won't be disappointed. // @trevorpaulhus
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penelopelea 👍
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jeysonpaez Beautiful portrait! @trevorpaulhus
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ilovetexasphoto Thank you @jeysonpaez // @trevorpaulhus
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#dart #dallas // @trevorpaulhus

llaff love this edit @trevorpaulhus!
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ilovetexasphoto @llaff Thanks! // @trevorpaulhus
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My favorite postcard. #texas & #rhodeisland. // @trevorpaulhus

ilovetexasphoto @spinny123 Yes, I live in #Dallas now. 8 years and counting. // @trevorpaulhus
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rsternadel @spinny123 Texas is the greatest place on earth. Your just jealous. :)
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spinny123 @ilovetexasphoto oh. Have a good afternoon!
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la_florecita @littlemichelle4evr
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littlemichelle4evr @la_florecita I need this!
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Goodmorning. I'm @trevorpaulhus. I'm a photographer living in #Dallas #Texas, originally from #Providence #RhodeIsland⚓. This is Samantha. She is my best friend and a born & raised #Texan. You'll probably see more of her. I'm looking forward to posting some photos here at @ilovetexasphoto for the #iltpbaton over the next few days. Feel free to say hello and follow me on #twitter & @Instagram // @trevorpaulhus.

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amandasteed Ahhhh she's so pretty.
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ilovetexasphoto @amandasteed Thanks!! // @trevorpaulhus
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hawthornephoto Woohoo Trevor!!!!! @trevorpaulhus
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guillermo_hm21 One of the best dog portraits I've seen on instagram yet!
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ilovetexasphoto @hawthornephoto Yeah buddy! It's fun doing #IG for someone else for a few days. You should definitely give it a whirl. Lets get lunch again soon! // @trevorpaulhus
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Cooking for wimps 101. Remove the seeds #texasfood #Texas #homesicktexan recipe #borrachobeans #iltpbaton photo by @heathercuriel

ilovetexasphoto Btw there are 181 borrachobeans hashtags right now #thatswhatilikeabouttexas
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elfia5 Borrachos need the seeds! 🔥
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hipgirlsguide Love Homesick Texan!
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ilovetexasphoto Hehe... @elfia5 my gringo boyfriend can't handle it
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irin4ka 😋
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#whatshouldwecallweddingphotography when your guests come over to your home and get excited about your fancy beverage mini fridge only to find film, polaroids, and smelly chemistry #iltpbaton #tintype #austinphotography photo by @Heathercuriel

ilovetexasphoto 99 problems but photography ain't one
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In the wild #schnauzer #dogsofinstagram #iltppets

ilovetexasphoto get out @heathercuriel! too cute!
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Trevor is a photographer from Dallas and we are excited to see what he posts! Stay tuned for tomorrow. #texaslife #instagood #dallas #photography #texas

8_8_8_8_8_8_8_8 Nice
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trevorpaulhus Looking forward to it..
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jodydominguestudios This idea is awesome! Just moved from LA to Texas
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Psychedelic badge of honor for @austinmarsh hand painted by by @dezmonomegafair #austintexas #austinwedding #bhldn #austinweddingsrule

ilovetexasphoto Photo by @heathercuriel
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Want to ask #austin #texas #weddingphotographer @heathercuriel questions about her life and work? Join us over on twitter today at 11 am central for a q&a.

heathercuriel See you guys there!!
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ilovetexasphoto @heathercuriel is also a #tintype whizz. Looking forward to learning more about you and your work :)
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ilovetexasphoto The q&a was so fun. Thanks for doing it!
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Jeff is really into it. #snowcones #austintexas #caseysneworleanssnowballs #summer #iltpbaton

_joshferguson @amandalucier I forgot to mention Texas snow cones
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irin4ka 🍦🍨🍧
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jenedespain Cute! 💓
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ilovetexasphoto super cute! -jasmine
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#Snowballin hard dawg! Photo by @heathercuriel #snowcones #iltpbaton #summertime #austintexas #truelove #caseysneworleanssnowballs

Summer yo! Photo by @Heathercuriel #summerishere #iltpbaton

erikas_o I must have this! Where are there pickle sno cones???
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ilovetexasphoto @erikas_o Casey's New Orleans Snowcones on 51st and Airport! #austintexas
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Wedding portfolio editing this morning. A never ending process. How often do you update your portfolios? Few things pain me more than an outdated port. #portfolio #weddingphotography #thegiftthatkeepsongiving #edittight #iltpbaton

bluatx Aperture or other software?
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ilovetexasphoto @bluatx Bridge. I keep it simple. Photo Mechanic is also top notch
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Too many lomos? No such thing. What else should i add? Photo by @heathercuriel #iltpbaton #lomography #holga #dianacamera #lomolca

atasteofkoko Where do you get your film developed?
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ilovetexasphoto @atasteofkoko Holland Photo Lab for the good stuff and Precision in a pinch but Im looking into testing Indie Film Lab
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atasteofkoko @ilovetexasphoto thanks!
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chasem How about the lomo panoramic camera?
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ilovetexasphoto @chasem Im a portrait girl. Do you like the pano? Im testing the lcw for the first time Friday
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Like and comment and see more at http://instagram.com/ilovetexasphoto/

ILTP Baton is inspired by the fantastic NYC Baton, which spawned the RDU Baton, and will surely lead to others around the world. Thanks to John De Guzman for sharing your brainchild with us!

Lindsay Hutchens’ review of the Cindy Sherman show at DMA

Wynn Myers — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:30:20 +0000

I’ve been looking forward to seeing the Cindy Sherman exhibit since hearing the Switcheroo episode (#468) on This American Life. In the intro section at the beginning of the episode Ira describes a recent visit to the exhibit at MoMA wherein a woman approaches them saying she is Cindy Sherman. It happens at a moment when Ira’s companion is just realizing that all the photos are of Cindy, playing the different roles, when this woman approaches the two of them and says she visits the exhibition every day to see how viewers react to the work.

The woman is in her late 50’s, appearing to be well-educated and upper middle class, blends in perfectly with the crowd at MoMA… and as Ira and his friend keep talking to her they look at her face, look at the pieces, look back again trying to discern whether or not it is her, she says, “Oh I’m not really Cindy Sherman”. Ira is now convinced it is her. But is Cindy Sherman really showing up at her exhibition to see how people react, or is there a woman pretending to be Cindy Sherman to see how people react? Which is more interesting? Which is the better story? It speaks so perfectly to the exhibition, and as only Ira can do, he calls up Cindy to find out the truth. I’ll let you listen to the episode to see what happens, but seriously, what better introduction could there be for an exhibition?

Usually, I like to look around an exhibit and see what speaks to me, what I glean on my own, but this one was a bit different in that I knew the gist already and really wanted to dig a bit deeper. Female photographers who speak to what it is like to be a woman are always interesting to me, for no profound reason other than I myself am a woman, that I like to just spend more time there. I used the museum’s smART guide, those little iPhone looking icons next to the images with stop numbers, to hear a bit more about each piece. Really cool once I got the hang of it… pro tip that I didn’t learn until about 20 minutes in is that the museum has a guest wifi network you can use so that the audio and video pieces download faster. Waiting for that to come across 3G was infuriating in a Sunday-afternoon-at-the-contemporary-art-museum sort of way.

Untitled 463 had a little smART icon next to it and it was interesting to hear that that year (2008) was the first where Cindy started using digital processes for making her images. There was a little interview with her where she speaks to her lack of a personal life with switch to digital, commenting on the days where the two hours it took for film to be processed would give the opportunity to at least go food shopping. You get the sense that she’s speaking more to her own interest and desire to work and shoot, as opposed to a reference to inescapable deadlines and turnaround times you would hear from, say, a journalist. This shift seems not to have only affected her workflow from a logistical standpoint, but an artistic one as well. Cindy’s more recent work has her making small adjustments to her appearance in Photoshop as opposed to hair, makeup, and styling alone. I begin to look at the images from a distance to see if I can tell whether or not they are film or digital, only later coming close enough to check the year. Anyone who knows me is aware that I still shoot on film, and prefer it in most cases. I shoot digital as well, but film just feels different and you can see and feel it in Cindy’s images.

film just feels different and you can see and feel it in Cindy’s images.

Cindy’s commentary on women is only half the story, half of the conversation. Every piece is untitled. Every piece is “Untitled #” such and such, which at first feels impersonal, but you come to realize (or be told by the smART audio and video pieces) that this is intentional and its purpose is to have the viewer complicit in the interpretations of these characters. You notice details that she has put into the piece, or you don’t, and you have your own back-story to bring to the table. You begin to think of women you know or you have met who could be these characters. You think of who that woman is and what she means to you. You start to look around the room and see these women looking at the same images you are, and you wonder if they see what you see. Cindy has left the door wide open… you don’t know if she reveres or pities a particular character. The logical voice in your head says her opinion is somewhere in between, but you know she has some opinion, and you know that she knows you will have an opinion as well.

You begin to think of women you know or you have met who could be these characters

Not only does one come to think about things in relation to other women known or met, but I also came to think about myself while looking at the pieces. Cindy’s fashion work has its own interpretation on image and what role clothing can have… whether it supports or refutes the intention of that clothing is in many ways, once again, left up to the viewer. I catch a glimpse of myself in the reflection of the glass for one of the prints, and start to question how much of my “look” comes from who I am deep inside, and how much is just what I want to project to other people. I didn’t wash my hair or put on any mascara that day, but I’d be lying if I said my black jeans and South American vintage sweater weren’t put together with at least the smallest of intentions. Effortless is kind of my jam, but I still want to look like a woman.

I catch a glimpse of myself in the reflection of the glass for one of the prints, and start to question how much of my “look” comes from who I am deep inside

I just started kind of sort of seeing someone. It’s new though, brand new, so there’s a lot of awkwardness in just getting to know each other. That said, I do quite like him, so there’s also this dance of not letting myself like him too much, not letting on too much, and still having a great time when we’re together. Who knows what will happen. I live in Austin so seeing this show in Dallas was actually part of a larger trip home to DFW for my father’s 60^th birthday, and a good friend’s baby shower. Meaning that, I’ve been gone for a few days, so me and the guy haven’t talked since our last hang out. I’m fine with that, I’m cool… but I come to the part of the exhibition that is my favorite, unexpectedly so.

It’s the centerfold series, which is all in a stereo format and brings to mind correlations between the images and cinema. The dude is into film, we’ve had many a long chat, and I’m just overcome with the need to share something with him that has hit me like a ton of bricks with the show. We text a bit back and forth, nothing special, when I realize I’m standing in front of the centerfold image of Cindy staring with a forlorn expression on her face as she waits by the telephone. What the fuck. I mean… you know Cindy is photographing all of these images, posing in all of these images, in a way that speaks to things that women encounter all the time. As a woman, you relate to her images. I’m aware of this. It’s no secret. But how could I be standing in front of an image made around the time of my birth and be confronted with my own modern-day identical scenario.

Details on the show and corresponding events

Lindsay Hutchens is an award winning photographer and burgeoning art educator living in Austin, Texas, whose perspective and style span a multitude of subject matter and medium. Brooks Institute of Photography graduate, former assistant to Lauren Greenfield, and until recently the Lomographic Ambassador to ATX, she cut her teeth photographing musicians on stage, on the road, in the studio, and at home.

In Print: Matt Hawthorne for JCPenney’s

Wynn Myers — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:47:50 +0000

Dallas-based photographer Matt Hawthorne recently shot several covers for JCPenney’s. Matt answered a few questions about the shoot for I Love Texas Photo.

ILTP: How did you get hired to do these JCPenney shoots?
I had worked with JCP in the past, shooting lots of their catalogs, mailers, and online imagery, even hired a couple of times to create the lighting diagrams for Spring and Winter that all studios shooting JCP would reference. This time they were asking me to do much larger productions and bring my own style into the images. My agent, Jen Butters, was definitely in the conversation for scheduling and billing, but JCP was a client that I had before shooting these covers.

WE WOULD USUALLY KNOW ONLY A FEW DAYS BEFORE SHOOTING WHAT THE CONCEPTS WERE FOR THE NEXT SHOOT GIVING US ONLY A FEW DAYS TO HIRE SET DESIGNERS TO CONSTRUCT SETS AND GETS MODELS FIGURED OUT

ILTP: What was the process like of putting these shoots together? Did the JCPenney team tell you exactly what they wanted or was the process more collaborative?
JCP at that moment was working very rapidly throughout the entire process of conceptualizing the covers, to booking crew and talent, to shooting, post production, and straight to print, a matter of several weeks. It was a very collaborative process, but deciding what the concept was going to be was handled by the creatives at JCP and when they were finally approved we would start the production process. We would usually know only a few days before shooting what the concepts were for the next shoot giving us only a few days to hire set designers to construct sets and gets models figured out. Luckily JCPenney has very good talent bookers that handle picking all talent and getting them scheduled, and incredible producers that book all crew while getting everything in order for studios, deliveries, and so on. My role was to help bring the sketches from the art directors to life by deciding the scale and dimensions of everything, creating lighting scenarios for each cover, then making sure we stayed on track and brought the concepts to life just the way the Art Directors were envisioning. We would also have 3 day shoots doing one cover per day, so while shooting one cover, set builders would be building the next days set behind the current set, it was Tetris in there constantly, trying to figure out how to design and manage such large sets.

Most sets had between 8-12 lights, one going up to 16 lights

ILTP: Could you talk a little about the equipment you used? What kind of cameras, lighting, etc?
We used mainly Profoto gear with a few pieces of Broncolor, and the Canon 5d Mark ll for cameras. Most sets had between 8-12 lights, one going up to 16 lights. We were constantly hanging 20-40 foot sky backgrounds from the ceiling and also using cars. Large studio spaces were a must to complete productions like these!

Norah Levine’s project, Lifelines, on display at City Hall

Wynn Myers — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:27:44 +0000

Norah Levine‘s project, Lifelines, is on display at City Hall in Austin.

Lifelines is a project dedicated to honoring the bond between people and their pets. This multi-media exploration documents the unique lifestyle shared by people without shelter and the animals they rely on for companionship, protection, and in some cases, their emotional and psychological well-being.

For more information, click here.

DonnaDeCasare artist talk and book signing

Wynn Myers — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:08:35 +0000

Photographer Donna DeCesare has released her new book, Unsettled Desasosiego, and will be having an artist talk & book signing on April 25, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.2nd Floor Gallery, Benson Latin American Collection, SRH Unit 1, University of Texas, Austin, TX

For more information click here.