ode to photo

Last night I managed to crutch out of the house and go to the goodbye party of two photographers who are my parents friends and I have known for years. They are moving to oakland !! Ken Graves and Eva Lipman, both really skilled photographers. I have no idea how they manage to find the odd things they do. Each image they take seems to be from another world, capturing the perfect moment to create an image both visually striking and often amazingly humorous. They do all their work together, and refuse to tie their individual names to any of their work. They apply for grants together, publish books together and get shows this way too. as one sort of entity.  Pretty interesting I think. 

Here are some of their Prom photographs. 

And then more from a Bath series: 

Now Ryan McGinley. 

 McGinley! (a very young,  well known photographer, possibly the youngest to represent a country in the Venice Biennially, I'm not sure don't quote me on that).  Anyway, His photographs seem to portray him as some sort of party boy. Hippy, free spirit maybe dabbling in copious amounts of cocaine and / or other drugs.... well apparently he is none of these things. He sets up each image to depict something he wishes he could be/ do. For me, the knowledge that he is creating this other kind of world for himself makes them so much more interesting. 

Looking at these images makes me wish I could photograph people...

look at those eyes.

ahhh

looks like fun.