You Were Expecting, Maybe, Usher Fellig?

It’s about time you checked in. You should probably subscribe right now to this here blawwg (I think it’s done on the other page), so that you can know when posts appear about photography, BHS, the “AP Photo” class, jazz, le cinema, modnot, darkroom 411/info/secrets, bon mots au les auteurs, one’s rostromedial prefrontal cortex, the lives of the saints, and maybe baseball. And related duties.

(Some things bear repeating: do not acquire this camera.)

P.S. This is Usher, aka Arthur Fellig, aka Weegee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP4Y_fAvOgY

2012/04/30
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The Lost Panoramas

“There, on steel shelves—alongside time sheets, purchase orders, contracts, and operations records—sat 130 heavy boxes, stenciled by year, of glass-plate negatives. Over the next three years, the negatives were inventoried and scanned. They were placed in cardboard bankers boxes and transferred to the Illinois State Archives inSpringfield, where they remain today.

“What makes the photos historically valuable is that they come with detailed descriptions. Each photograph has a date and a negative number, which refers to a set of leather-bound field books that meticulously pinpoint where every photo was taken. About twenty thousand of the nearly twenty-two thousand negatives are tied to an exact location. The field books, written by hand, usually in pencil, also give insight into the photographers’ lives and their work, since they doubled as expense accounts. Here you will find what kinds of cigars they smoked, the price of gas, the names of small-town hotels.”

Get this book. I read it in an hour, but that was after looking at all the pictures for a day.

2012/04/24
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B. ACTion pictures of BACT

 
 
What a perfect day on Earth to celebrate the Barrington Area Conservation Trust’s awards for the winter photography contest, as well as some sort of competition involving the relative circumference of oak trees. (I’m not mocking this: I sat and read on the stoop of a cottonwood poplar at 267 North Plum Grove Road when I was very short.)
 
 
The not inconsiderable awards go to:
 
“A Snowy Silence” – Madeleine Lebovic
“Untitled 5” – Sam LaBar
“Virgin Snow” – Brad Pector
 
Honorable Mentions (listed alphabetically according to title):
“Fetch” – John Bach
“Sunset Duck” – Jenna Podgorski
“Untitled 3” – Joyce Gaffney
“Weirdest Winter Ever” – Molly Voska
 

2012/04/22
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Ecce ICCI.

Click on the writings to enlarge and read.

Once again, the participating artists were Karlee Wech, Stephanie Washko, Stephanie Walterman, Hana Vanderveen, Katie Strack, Brooke Schocker, Hayley Schaut, Sean Ruffatti, Marcus Rowe, Margaret Rajic, Austin Presti, Sammy Padiak, Nikki Nixon, Kelly Neises, Elisabeth Monsen, Mackenzie Lestan, Duyen Le, Sarah Lagenstrass, Nicole Kornely, Cassidy Karwowski, Alex Hallerberg, Kailey Gilbert, Kaeley Ferguson, Maddie Carrigan, Olivia Bueno, Kyler Bruner, Sarah Betar, Morgan Behrens, and Grace Barbolla. (Go Google yourselves.) And thanks to all the insightful in-house reviewers, some of whom are represented here.

2012/03/30
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ICCI Reinvents Itself

The Interstate Creative Camerawork Invitational is back after a year’s hiatus. Participating schools include Schaumburg, Lincoln High in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Lake Zurich, Cary-Grove, Buffalo Grove, and good ol’ BHS.

No awards per se this time, but certificates of participation all around.

Ms. Covelli of LZ chose to attend over another event at their school (I always thought she was brilliant and perceptive).

The show is so wide-ranging that it’s diffcult to know where to look.

Get in to see everything tomorrow or Friday; don’t try on Monday or Tuesday (some sort of SWAT training will make a visit to the school potentially life-threatening); after spring break, the AP Seniors exhibit will displace this stuff fairly rapidly.

Artists in the exhibit are Grace Barbolla, Morgan Behrens, Sarah Betar, Kyler Bruner, Olivia Bueno, Maddie Carrigan, Kaeley Ferguson, Kailey Gilbert, Alex Hallerberg, Cassidy Karwowski, Nicole Kornely, Sarah Lagenstrass, Duyen Le, Mackenzie Lestan, Elisabeth Monsen, Kelly Neises, Nikki Nixon, Sammy Padiak, Austin Presti, Margaret Rajic, Marcus Rowe, Sean Ruffatti, Hayley Schaut, Brooke Schocker, Katie Strack, Hana Vanderveen, Stephanie Walterman, Stephanie Washko, and Karlee Wech.

2012/03/21
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The BAL “Teen Art” Show

…held a lovely reception last week on Friday night. The show extends to April 15, so hie thee to the stacks before you figure your tax.

Annnnd it was my surprise birthday! Thanks, Leslie!

Here are the Library’s PR pix as well:

As soon as an award list is published we’ll add it here.

UPDATE: Here ’tis.

Best in Show: Alicia Parrish

Gold: Kristen Holland, Zachary Rowe, Rachel Parker, Samantha Labar, Stephanie Walterman, Michelle Henneberry, Nicole Galanti, Yin Ming Wang.

Honorable Mention: Joyce Gaffney, Jamie Gray, Kristina Bastidas, Michael Colby, Alexa Hanaford, Lauren Captain, Justine Kaszynski, Fay Jenson.

(Hmmm… twelve of the seventeen share a certain 7th hour class.)

2012/02/18
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Next Year’s Roster!

Congratulations

to next year’s new members

of the

Advanced Placement

2-D Design class:

 

Bianca Adams

McCall Braun

Grace Barbolla

Delaney Crouch

Mikayla Johnson

Marian Jostock

Jessica Loomis

Imran Mohsin

Claudia Nielsen

Kayli Putman

Michele Riefenberg

Stephanie Walterman

Maggie Ziolkowski

 

They join returning artists

Kristina Bastidas, Lauren Captain,

Alexa Hanaford, Fay Jenson, Sam La Bar,

Nikki Nixon, and Zach Rowe. Welcome in!

2012/02/15
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Vote Early, Vote Often

The Photo Devoto who wears f13 entered the Reader’s annual photo contest. Rather than rummaging through already-existing digital files that could be perceived, however ironic or propagandistic, as touching on the theme, she set out to make images specifically for the competition which are formally strong and non-doctrinaire. The Reader’s fbook page says: “The theme for photos is money. We’re giving away bicycles, gift cards and Ray Ban sunglasses for the submissions that receive the highest number of likes and comments in this album. This has nothing to do with which photos are published in the paper. There are some details below regarding the content here. Please contact gcook@chicagoreader.com with questions or requests.

1) Only one of your photos can win – even if two of your photos receive a million votes, you still only get ONE prize.
2) Photos with the most votes qualify you for prize winning. Votes do not determine whether or not your photo will make it into the paper. Our editorial staff will choose the pictures that will be published.
3) Your photo might be missing its title. If this makes you angry, feel free to comment below the photo and add your title.
4) If you do not see your photo, you’re not the only one. We did not post pictures that had nothing to do with the theme ‘money’. There was discretionary editing.”

https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10151061536655473&set=a.10151061474845473.792149.75994265472&type=3&theater

They’re pictures #100 & 101; try to ignore the less than constructive criticism in the comments (apparently, not everyone has adopted a benign avocation with which to while away idle hours). Don’t wait until you’re a ghost voter: do it now!

2011/12/18
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A blawwg post about a blog blogging about blogs

How dry. How geeky. How rife with potential: http://lpvmagazine.com/2011/12/top-photography-websites-of-2011/

2011/12/09
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WRH

There simply isn’t room for all the good work. Aside from drawings, paintings, prints, and mixed-media collages, when the Art Department faculty looked at work to enter into the Harper Art Show they considered over 130 photographs. The final batch of 43 pictures includes 16 photos by Haley Bulandr, Jack Foersterling, Fay Jenson, Melissa B. Jones, Caroline Horswill…

…Michelle Henneberry, Stephanie Walterman, Zach Rowe, Michael Colby, Mikayla Johnson, Justine Kaszynski, Lauren Captain, Rachel Parker, and Nikki Nixon.

Each school is awarded a first, second, and third place in both 2-D and in 3-D, plus six honorable mentions. For Barrington Huge School:

2-D: 1st, Stephanie Walterman; 2nd, Heather Ciskowski; 3rd, Caroline Horswill. Honorable Mention: Becca Mooney, Allison Monie, Maggie Mulica.

3-D: 1st, Alex Guzman; 2nd, Kaitlyn Fitzpatrick; 3rd, Tiffany Chen. Honorable Mention: Annie Graft, Tiffany Chen, Andrea Vizuet.

The reception and awards presentation is Wednesday, November 30 at 7:00 PM, and it includes music, food, and HGFOS,* some of whom may or may not be among these other winners:

Elk Grove: Taylor Bischoff, Cheryll Victuelles, Patrick Glennon, Elisabeth Puca, Emma Pierce, Margaret Jaryszek, Christi Erbacci, Carolynne Teters

Wheeling: Dasha Krayova,Salvador Maya, Yendi Delfin, Brandon Zaremba, Fonzy Noveron, Daisy Maldonado, Keara Myatt, Karli Falkner, Courtney Kalash, Daisy Martinez

Rolling Meadows: Iga Jedrocha, Jimmy Yeaman, Vinny Carbone, Rachel Weininski, Alex Connor, Lisa Kulvinen, Ivan GarciaMedina,  Amy Vitale, Meaghan O’ Brien, Cassie Papciak, Amy Vitale, Nicole Gavin

Buffalo Grove: Mike Kotosev, Oliva Bueno, Starsky Correa, Polina Volodina, Felicia Kranz, Katelyn Berbert, Adam Hintzman, Michael Fisher, Ashley Jones, Angelina Ly, Patrick Boyd, Brittany Rakosnik

Palatine: Chava Krivchenia, Maddi Eppley, Ryan Turley, Itzel Lopez, Jennifer Stanton, Richard Agama, Alex Bogenberger, Emily McParlane, Nieve Heskins, Cornell Jones, Paulina Hernandez, Cody Rejman

Fremd: Sophia Kim, Gina Hublburt, Megan Moroney, Mana Juretic, Jeremy Davis, Sesh Mayo, Min Chon, Julie Comrath, Megan Majewski, Cassondra Pavlatos, Irina Andrianova, Corey Goetz

Hersey: Maddie Weber, Kayla Joo, Aimee Nguyen, Constance Heuer, Alex Lukawski, Tessa Joncas, Sky Baxter, Alexis Ureta, Ariel Wegrzyniak, Jungbin La, Esther Choi, Evan Huff

Conant: Youna Jang, Carly Acks, Nicole Matej, Frankie Garcia, Youna Jang, Abigail Gibson, Ramey Morris, Allie Shive, Lilirose Farnell, Alex Tanchyn, George Ismail

Prospect: Brittany Cavanaugh, Isabelle McGuire, Isabelle McGuire, Nina Churchill, Olivia Burgess, Nancy Chae, Jenna Gudritz, Clair Felde, Angelo Locigno, Brandon Craggs, Alec Backes, Emi Yoshimura

*Hot Guys From Other Schools

2011/11/20
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