This is the third and concluding segment in a series, which began with PHOTOGRAPHY THEN, published on LuLa in December 2015. The second essay, PHOTOGRAPHY NOW, was published about six months later. If you haven’t read these essays yet, please use the embedded links to check them out before taking in this final installment, PHOTOGRAPHY TOMORROW. PHOTOGRAPHY TOMORROW In t … [Read more...]
Richard Sexton
Richard Sexton is a fine art and media photographer whose work has been published and exhibited worldwide. He has been published in magazines such as Abitare, Archetype, Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Photographer’s Forum, and View Camera. His most recent book, Creole World, published in 2014 by The Historic New Orleans Collection, is the 12th book he has authored, co-authored, or photographed. Previously published titles include a monograph, Terra Incognita: Photographs of America’s Third Coast, published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, in 2007. Chronicle Books also published the best selling New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence in 1993 and Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana’s River Road in 1999. To date Sexton has over 300,000 books in print. In 1997 Sexton curated the exhibit Sidney Bechet: A World of Jazz 1897-1997, which commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the influential jazz musician’s birth. Sexton has had major solo museum exhibitions at the Frost Art Museum in Miami, FL, (2015); the Pensacola Museum of Art in Pensacola, FL (2015); The Historic New Orleans Collection (2014); the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida (2014); the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, MS (2010); the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (2007 and 2005); among others. Sexton’s photographs are included in the permanent holdings of The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, LSU Museum of Art, Polk Museum of Art, Frost Art Museum, Pensacola Museum of Art, and numerous private collections. In 2014, Richard Sexton received the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Also in 2014, he was an award recipient in American Photography magazine’s Latin America Fotografia 3 annual.
An Era Ends for Ebony View Camera
Ebony Camera is not exactly a household name in the photographic community, or in the mainstream of camera manufacturing for that matter. But for those photographers who have used, or even seen, an Ebony View Camera, with its meticulous handmade construction of macassar ebony wood, titanium, and leather, is a camera and visual experience you never forget. Jeff Taugner at Badger … [Read more...]
Photography Now
PHOTOGRAPHY NOW - Part Of A Continuing Series By Richard Sexton The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of pen and camera alike. —Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, painter, photographer, Bauhaus instructor, 1936 This is segment 2 in a 3 part series—Photography Then, Now, and Tomorrow. The 1st segment, Photography Then, was published by Luminous Landscape in 3 ser … [Read more...]
Photography Then, Now, and Tomorrow – Part 3 of 3
On the fine art side of the equation, photography was coming into its own in the 70s. The elevation of photography to art form, comparable to older media, like painting and sculpture, was built on the impact photography had made on the printed page and that impact was cultural, broad-based, and international in scope. During my interviews, Mike Blumensaadt was the first to … [Read more...]
Photography Then, Now, and Tomorrow – Part 2 of 3
In happier times, when magazines were flourishing, Mike’s narrative of learning about photography through the big picture magazines, was much like mine, and was, I’m sure, replicated 1000s of times in other places. It wasn’t just about the feature stories either. Magazines were filled with illustrated ads, all shot by freelance photographers. They were virtual advertisements for … [Read more...]
