Speed of Life

Post by @anseladams View on Threads Gregg Chadwick Ansel Adams at Point Lobos 11"x14" black and sanguine conté with wash on paper  

Gregg Chadwick Studio View of Fire Sermon, With Annick 44"x36" digital photograph on paper On Exhibit at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art   August 9 -September 1, 2012 "Within the scale of the life of the cosmos, a human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a visitor to this planet, a guest, who has only a finite time to stay. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time lonely, unhappy, and in conflict with our fellow visitors?" -His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Beyond Religion , 2011 I am honored to announce that my photograph  Studio View of Fire Sermon, With Annick will be included in the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art's Electron Salon exhibit which opens this Thursday, August 9 at LACDA. The artist's reception runs from 7-9pm as part of the Downtown Art Walk. The gallery is located at 102 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, California 90013 Hope to see you there! los angeles cent...

by Gregg Chadwick Lady Gaga Poses For Tony Bennett in His Atelier photo and concept by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair During Lady Gaga's entertaining Thanksgiving special she joked about her brief gig as a life model for singer and visual artist Tony Bennett. Gaga recounted: "I walked in and said, 'Well, Tony, here we are,' and I dropped my robe and I got into position. I felt shy and thought, 'It's Tony Bennett. Why am I naked?" Lady Gaga had come face to face with what Kathleen Rooney describes as the “spine-tingling combination of power and vulnerability, submission and dominance” of nude modeling in her marvelous book  Live Nude Girl : My Life As An Object. Rooney's book   provides an introspective look at the history and challenges of art modeling from the model's point of view. Rooney's meditative prose leads us to a point of connection between muse and artist. Why after centuries of images in charcoal, paint, stone and ...

Symphonie des Lichts (Symphony of Light) photo by Gregg Chadwick Seeing Through the Eyes of the Mona Lisa ARENA 1 Gallery Curated by Yossi Govrin & Krista Augius Exhibition: Sept. 10 – Oct. 1, 2011 Opening Reception with Baroque Music: Sept. 10, 6-9 p.m. The camera is ubiquitous in contemporary life. Nearly everyone is a photographer, most often recording the personal and mundane but occasionally capturing news-breaking images of world historical importance. With digital cameras, we have become instant gratification consumers of our own portraits. What are we looking at, and what are we seeing? Photographers include Sabine Pearlman, Gregg Chadwick, Doni Silver Simons, Kathy Peck Leeds, Yossi Govrin, David Leeds, Krista Augius, & more... Saturday, Sept 10 6-9pm Exhibition: Sept 10 - Oct 1, 2011 3026 Airport Ave,Santa Monica,CA90405 More info at: 310/397-7456

Bob Dylan shakes President Barack Obama's hand following his performance at the "In Performance At The White House: A Celebration Of Music From The Civil Rights Movement" concert in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 9, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

"Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now, in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation." —Eleanor Antin on Classical Frieze Eleanor Antin The Artist's Studio from "The Last Days of Pompeii," 2001 (detail) chromogenic print 46 5/6 x 58 5/8 inches Eleanor Antin The Tree from "The Last Days of Pompei," 2001 chromogenic print 60 x 48 inches Eleanor Antin's film and photo work, Classical Frieze , re-imagines Pompeii and the classical Roman world as if seen through the eyes of a contemporary filmmaker paying homage to the sword and sandal film epics of t...

Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, born 1948) Boden Sea, Uttwil, 42.3 x 54.2 cm (16 5/8 x 21 5/16 in.) gelatin silver print 1993 Metropolitan Museum of Art Seascapes Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention―and yet they vouchsafe our very existence. The beginnings of life are shrouded in myth: Let there be water and air. Living phenomena spontaneously generated from water and air in the presence of light, though that could just as easily suggest random coincidence as a Deity. Let's just say that there happened to be a planet with water and air in our solar system, and moreover at precisely the right distance from the sun for the temperatures required to coax forth life. While hardly inconceivable that at least one such planet should exist in the vast reaches of universe, we search in vain for another similar example. Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense ...