Monday Memories – Brent Pulsipher, 1979/80, Graceland College, Lamoni IA. 4×5 Kodak VPS in a Burke and James 5×7 view camera. A LDS instructor at a RLDS school, I don’t think he got anyone to drop the R in RLDS, or what the administration thought of him, but I remember him as one of the most interesting instructors at the school. A few years later when I was a traveler in a aging 63 Chevy with money for gas, but not for hotels, he opened his house to me, and was the kindest host I have ever met.
Photograph by Kirk Decker of a high school librarian in the 1970s.
Archive – Photographs by members of the Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography – Potter Gallery, Missouri Western State University, October 1-26.
This photograph goes waaay back in my archive. Seventh Grade, 1974 Valley Center Jr. High, Valley Center, Kansas. I would have been 12 or 13, and becoming obsessed by photography. I remember taking this photograph, but when I look at it now, I feel as if I’m somewhat omnisciently looking at another person’s work. I know this photographer, I know where he is going, I understand him.
He shot up a lot of film during this time and the photos are not half bad for a Jr. High kid. But occasionally, he will (I think) just nail one. These images are where my omniscience fails me. Where did this come from? Did he get this one because he was always hammering away and got lucky? Was he actually paying attention as he idly flipped through the art books in the library? This is where I lose the connection and make the connection. Today, I have a much better idea of what’s going on with my work, but the occasional “where did this come from???” still happens.
Lee Decker came home for the traditional Thanksgiving MST3K Marathon. Before he could get away, I managed to get a couple photographs of him with the old 8×10 camera using a paper negative instead of film.
Side by side windowlight portraits done with a Nikon D800 Digital camera and a Nikon F2 Film camera. I’ll be posting a number of these and I’m not going to say which is which. The film is Kodak Portra 160. The lens is a Nikon 105mm f/1.4 shot wide open. This isn’t meant to be rigorous comparison or even a film vs digital. It’s just something I did for fun.
Film and Digital Windowlight portraits by Kirk Decker
Film and Digital Windowlight portraits by Kirk Decker
Black and White portrait on film by Kansas City photographer Kirk Decker
All Aboard! We’re headed to Chicago. “Dear Artist: Congratulations! We are happy to inform you that based on the scores you received from our jury, you are invited to participate in the 2017 Old Town Art Fair.”
