December: Photography
At our Wednesday meeting we had a guest speaker, MacDuff Everton. Everton is a commercial and fine art photographer who spoke about his life and work. An amazing storyteller, Everton has traveled the world capturing epic and beautiful moments in nature and of people through his photographs. He has published numerous books including one that traces the stories of the modern Maya. His most inspiring story… (besides accounts of being a knife thrower in a traveling circus), was how he started taking pictures. While hitchhiking at 17 he picked up a camera that a traveler had discarded, and the rest was history.
Macduff Everton telling a story to the Insiders
From Macduff Everton's book "That's Not Entirely True"
(Macduffeverton.com)
We also watched a film by the artist Agnes Varda called Ulysse. Ulysse looks at the subjects in a photograph of hers from 1954.
We love Fandors blurb describing the film, "She tracks down two of her three former models (the third is a dead goat) to find out if the picture still means as much to them as it does to her, only to discover they have no memory of it at all. This leads to Proustian ruminations on the succession of selves and the mystery of images. Viewing another photo of himself from the same period, her model says, "I remember the jacket, but I don't remember the person." Frustrated in her attempts to understand its hold on her, she digs through the records of that period in history and her life, until ultimately the picture seems to be about everything except what's in it."
Another post is in the works,
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