Re: Was Re: My morning brush with fame now Diana's Website

[Diana Bloomfield <dhbloomfield@bellsouth.net>]

Hi Chris,

You're probably halfway to Missoula by now, but I wanted to thank you  
so much for your comments.  I agree I need to put those artist  
statements up there; I just haven't gotten around to it, but -- yes--  
I always find it intriguing to know why people choose to make the  
sorts of images they do-- or, as I sometimes say to my students,  
"What on god's green earth possessed you to take THAT picture?"  Of  
course, I usually say it in a nicer way than that . . .

(And I do love "darkly romantic."   I'm definitely gonna have to work  
on that decadence thing, though . . . )  ;)

Thanks, Chris!   Have fun in Missoula.  I know those 4 weeks can't  
get here soon enough.

Diana


On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:

> Oh, and I also finally have a website up, which includes alt  
> process prints. (That's three times now-- or four -- that I've  
> mentioned alt processes). The website is missing tons of stuff--  
> but at least it's out there now.  I used VisualServer, which is a  
> great service-- very easy to navigate and edit-- which had always  
> been my problem-- trying to put together something that I could  
> easily go in and manage/edit, at will, myself.
>
> Diana,
> Great website.  Isn't Visual Server a charm to use?  Except for the  
> text editor. Slow and glitchy. I am SO glad you have a website I  
> can point people to now.
>
> I love the chair image and the swinging people/handcolored image in  
> the Midway series, and the blurry, darker ones on the gum (the  
> woman with a lot of red tones).  That chair image is stellar!
>
> I like the fact that your style seems consistent throughout your  
> bodies of work, though the subject matter changes.  You have an  
> "identity" it seems.
>
> I hope you add an artist statement at the beginning of each gallery  
> to inform us more of your ideas, process used, all kinds of stuff  
> because I would love to know how you organized your bodies of work  
> and your thoughts and intentions.  Mary Virginia Swanson was the  
> one who told me to precede each portfolio with an artist  
> statement.  Like, what attracts you to take an image in the first  
> place, what are you drawn to?  What type pinhole camera do you use?  
> Good to have the viewer wanting more, not less, tho.
>
> Your work seems darkly romantic...I get a similar feeling from Sara  
> Moon and Sheila Metzner, tho there is a decadence in their work I  
> don't see in yours.
> Chris