No, don’t get your hopes up - these aren’t high school marching band photos. I know, I know. But hopefully you’ll forgive me for my blog absence with these photos I did of a cool local band called Sea Legs.

Veronica Hansen

Veronica Hansen

Christine Nguyen

Check out these amazing photo/drawings by Christine Nguyen. They are basically like photograms (putting objects on a page and exposing it to light - making a negative or transparent image of the object.) But instead of an object she uses her drawings and then compiles them into large scale works.

If you didn’t understand that - don’t worry - I don’t really either.

Christine Nguyen

Christine Nguyen

…of the Austin Monthly Fashion shoot that David and I shot. It hits news stands very soon! So pick it up!!!

David Strohl & Veronica Hansen

Veronica Hansen & David Strohl

…is fun. But more than that - camping is really really really cold. Especially when you are camping with 20 cleverly disguised cover-stealers. Don’t do it. Ever. Anyone. Seriously. I’m still really cold.

Pace Bend Park, Veronica Hansen

Sebastiao Salgado

ART ALERT! The absolutely coolest photojournalism work to ever exist (which could in no way be considered a hyperbole) - will be exhibited at the Austin Museum of Art beginning tomorrow!

Now, normally I spend most of my free time concocting metaphors to explain how much I hate the AMoA (watching an episode of Rosanne next to someone with bad gas). However, the work of Sebastiao Salgado merits the trip. He is a master of combining photojournalism and art. And he traveled around the globe to document the plight of the less privledged. He’s basically the David Hasselhoff of photography.

Speaking of which, why doesn’t anyone hire to me to do this photography?

Yum-o!

Workers: Sebastiao Salgado. Austin Museum of Art - Downtown: November 15, 2008 - February 8, 2009

Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado

   

Alfred Stieglitz

Almost every great photographer experiences some period of absolute insanity in her or his lifetime. During this time, the photographer chooses to isolate themselves in some way - whilst constantly photographing something obscure and of very little (apparent) importance.

Probably my favorite is the great Alfred Stieglitz’s cloud series, where from 1922 - 1935, you guessed it, he just photographed clouds. One critic phrased it better than I can, “In his cloud photographs, which he termed Equivalents, Stieglitz emphasized pure abstraction, adhering to the modern ideas of equivalence, holding that abstract forms, lines, and colors could represent corresponding inner states, emotions and ideas.”

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

The reason I thought of Stieglitz’s crazy phase is two fold: 1) I’ve always wondered what I’ll go crazy and photograph (probably trees or vaginas); 2) While at Fun Fun Fun Fest this weekend, I just couldn’t make myself photograph bands like all the other 100,000 photogs there because it honestly just makes me really bored. So i just took stupid/weird photos of pretty clouds.

Veronica Hansen

 

Yoked and Muzzled – Marriage (my fav!)

I feel like I’ve been a selfish bitch lately - only posting my own photos! So, here’s one of my favorite photographer’s of all time, Gertrude Käsebier. Being a fabulous Pictoralist at the turn of the 20th century, she paved the way for women photographers. She is mainly famous for her images of motherhood, women, portraits of celebrities like Rodin, and work on Native Americans. Oh, she also hated marriage (see above image).

The Red Man, Gertrude Kasebier

Rodin!

Blessed Art Thou Among Women

The Bride

Heritage of Motherhood

The Manger

 The Manger established her more or less as a successful photographer as it made her lots of mula.

Standing woman, long dress

And some photos from my precinct voting station…

Veronica Hansen

Veronica Hansen

(God, he’ cute!)

Veronica Hansen

My first legit magazine work came out this week in Austin Monthly. By legit I mean available for purchase in stores, not in a UT rag or some dude’s diary.

It was a character portrait of a Freeganist, more or less a pretty-p.c. word for dumpster diver. I got really lucky on this shoot, both the subject and art-director were very cool and easy to work with.

Besides those warm feelings, I have been learning a lot about the real world of photography lately. Mainly that you have to follow certain image guidelines to get paid. Which is weird when you usually turn in photos of blurry vaginas just to break your school’s set guidelines.

Veronica Hansen

So  this dreamboat and I are doing the December Austin Monthly fashion shoot tomorrow and it’s going to look something like this…

But add a weird dog…

And an awkward run…

And you’ve got success!!!