Art and photography-centric page highlighting not only my own work, but also artists/writers I admir
Surveying the deserts of the American West: PBS SoCal Artbound 'High&Dry' kcet.org/project/high-dry
The ExxonMobil Corporation wants you to know that clean energy is actually a drag.
The first one of these we've seen in recent years. An oil company ad that focuses on how supposedly onerous electrification is, and paints combustion engine…
My latest newsletter. Opening Sat Jul 15 5-8pm at BG Gallery, Bergamot Station.
Osceola Refetoff: Building Bridges artist residency in collaboration with NASA scientists, LA Press Club awards: Best Feature Photo, California Now & Then.
"Recent study’s findings posit art as a promising alternative to raw graphs and data."
A study found that people who viewed climate data in the form of an artwork were less likely to lean on their preconceived notions.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
“By Degrees: Art and Our Changing Ecology” opens today, April 15, 6:30-9pm at the Huntington Beach Art Center. As an artist, I believe it's no longer enough to create work revealing the consequences of climate change. Everyone knows our glaciers are melting. Future conversations need to include specific and actionable information about what we, as individuals, can do to make a difference.
While in Antarctica, a biologist made me aware of the massive-scale commercial overfishing of tiny crustaceans that are the basis of arctic food chains. Recent interest in Omega-3 dietary supplements has fueled an international industry that harvests krill and other arctic crustaceans to create fish oils. Many consumers are unaware of the environmental cost of their purchases, and that plant-derived Omega-3 supplements are widely availability.
Ospix, Wandering Sphinx – Kinematic Pinhole Exposure – Antarctica – 2020. Prints available from Von Lintel Gallery.
Barbara Boissevain's upcoming photography monograph "Salt of the Earth" will to be published by Kehrer Verlag. Barbara and I met last summer in France, where we were both exhibiting work at Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles. Happy to support this fine project and encourage my friends to consider doing the same.
Explores the miraculous transformation taking place in the San Francisco Bay as salt ponds are restored back to natural wetlands.
COLOR INFRARED image from a new series exploring the casual, everyday surrealism of the Coachella Valley. The effect is created in camera by combining light from the visual and infrared spectrums.
FUN FACT: American physicist Robert W. Wood published the first infrared photography in 1910.
Representation: Von Lintel Gallery
Working in Keeler, California near Owens Dry Lake.
FUN FACT: Empty roof rack crossbars can reduce your fuel economy 10%. Removing them when not in use can reduce your carbon footprint and save $$$. WIN-WIN.
📸: Christopher Langley
Studying this fascinating book, a gift from Art Critic Shana Nys Dambrot. Uncanny similarities between Norwegian and American landscape photography c1860-1910. Both countries were experiencing strong nationalist movements, rapid industrialization, and expansion into remote areas newly accessible by railroads. Landscape photography became a powerful marker for national identity, depicting breathtaking wilderness ripe for entrepreneurial domination. The pious reverence for nature and outsized capitalist ambitions seem completely at cross purposes, as always.
An exhibition of the same name co-curated by authors Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad is on view at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, WA through Nov 27. Wish I could see this outstanding work in person!
Photo 2: Knud Knudsen - Albumen print, c1895-1905
Photo 3: Andrew Joseph Russell - Hanging Rock Foot of Echo Canyon 1867-68
Photo 4: Beer Wilse - Harangerjökelen 1908
VALENTINO SUITE – ALEXANDRIA HOTEL
QUESTION: I captured this image on film and want to print it directly from the negative. Turns out that’s more challenging than I thought, with all the labs I used to frequent now closed. The Icon, Los Angeles doesn't print directly from 35mm color negatives, but drum scans them for digital printing. Does anyone have recent experience with a local lab that still does traditional color printing⁉️
The Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825's "Root and Branch" online exhibition explores artistic "breakthrough" pieces by a wide array of emerging artists. Below, Suzanne Edmonson's "Frequent Flyer." Note that while I don't have work in this show, I'm an alumnus and long time supporter of the organization.
www.laaa.org/root-and-branch
Like all the images in my window series, this is a single exposure (not composited). For me, the wire, the horizon, and that tiny cloud are what hold your attention. When you see an actual print, there’s also plenty to explore in the foreground. You can do that at Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles. Images from the portfolio “It’s a Mess Without You” are also currently on view at Galerie Huit Arles in Southern France.
Window with Wire & Tiny Cloud – Cinco, California – 2009
New piece by Peter Frank on the "Dreams in Deixis" exhibition at Tufenkian Fine Arts. I've always been fascinated by the confluence of art and dreaming! "The artwork comprising 'Dreams in Deixis' conflates the raw and the sensuous with the eccentric and fantastical, the elusive and illusory with the coarse and abject."💭
Perchance to Dream: Change in Deixis By Peter Frank Change is a – perhaps the – fundament of life. Nothing stays the same. Unless we unlock our imaginations and point them to the stars, however, we miss not only the changes but the very chance to make change. Through art, metamorphosis can be...
We need this in Los Angeles!
The 14-acre Presidio Tunnel Tops is the latest infrastructure reuse project to transform a city
Thank you Artillery Magazine! 🙏
July 7, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm - If you find yourself heading to Arles for Les Rencontres D’Arles and OpenWalls Arles this summer: Los Angeles-based photographer Osceola Refetoff’s solo exhibition “It’s a Mess Without You” opens at Galerie Huit Arles on July 4, 2022. There will be an ar...
Last of my Kinematic™ pinhole “documentation” of the Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH's 10th Anniversary Gala. First image is from the drive back to LA, last is MOAH curator Robert Benitez
Some of these exposures will be included in an AV presentation at my 2025 solo exhibit at the museum.🔥
From my ongoing project Ozymandias, the 1st and last images have been previously exhibited, the 2nd I'm still considering for the series. The new photo is a rough edit, as yet unprinted and without title.
Archival pigment prints, 17x22” edition of 20 $1200. Prints (also a 24x34” edition) available from Von Lintel Gallery vonlintel.com 👀
You can see more work from the project here: ospix.com/ozymandias 🔥
La mélancolie, c'est le bonheur d'être triste (Melancholy is the happiness of being sad) – from Victor Hugo's "Travailleurs de la Mer” 📚
Osceola Refetoff, Drive-In Theater – Pinhole – Exposure Muskegon, Michigan – 2010. Archival pigment print, 22x17” Edition of 20 $1200 Von Lintel Gallery
ALL IS NOT BLACK AND WHITE
The magnificent exhibition "Ode to Nature: Early American Hand-Painted Landscape Photography from the collection of Fredric Havens" is on view Saturdays and Sundays only 10a-3p thru Mar 27. The conversation between painting and photography is long and ongoing. I love that these photoshop-like interventions were primarily employed to make the images look *more* realistic. 👀
Gateway to Nature, El Pueblo de Los Angeles
130 Paseo de la Plaza, L.A. 90012
Whatever it takes to photograph Miles Regis’ work! His exhibit “Better Days Ahead” opens at Von Lintel Gallery this Sat, Jan 8, 12-7pm. 💥
📸: Miles Regis
Much appreciation to ArtNowLA for featuring Joe Rudko's outstanding ‘Untitled Colors’ exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery thru Dec 18.
Joe Rudko: ‘Untitled Colors’ Fascinating Composites Open to Interpretations by Jody Zellen Joe Rudko Untitled Colors Von Lintel Gallery October 30 -December 18, 2021 Joe Rudko is a Seattle, WA-based artist who cuts apart and recombines family snapshots taken by non-professionals he finds in flea...
James Danziger: "In what perspective do you put the expressive nature of photography as opposed to the scientic nature?"
Arnold Newman: "It's all part of the whole, like a three-legged stool. You kick out one leg and the whole collapses. In other words: Visual ideas combined with technolgy compined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold its own ; if it doesn't, the thing collapses."
From: Interviews with Master Photographers, 1977.
One of my favorite and least appreciated artists, Minor White (1908-1976) was an early practitioner of infrared photography.
Barn and Clouds, In the vicinity of Naples and Danville, New York, 1955.
"JFK Funeral Train" at Peter Fetterman Gallery and in The Village Voice.
If you live near Los Angeles, do see this potent work by photojournalist Paul Fusco, so salient today on the brink of America's Birthday. Art Critic Shana Nys Dambrot reflects on how we are united as a nation and how we remain divided; on what has changed, and the problems that endure more than 50 years later.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2021/07/02/paul-fuscos-rfk-funeral-train-is-a-portrait-of-america/
Fusco shot for the entire eight hours it took for the train to make the usually four-hour journey. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the tracks, in huge crowds, small groups, and alone.
Purple pocket magic.
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"A magical, miraculous, horrible, scary thing."
This rare footage has gone on record as the largest glacier calving event ever captured on film, by the 2016 Guiness Book of World Records. On May 28, 2008, ...
Drive-In Theater – Pinhole Exposure – Muskegon, Michigan – 2010
Hirst launches the Palm platform with a drop of 10,000 works on paper linked to NFTs that “explore the boundaries of art and currency”
APPLY NOW! The British Journal of Photography's OPENWALLS ARLES submissions accepted thru April 1, 11:50pm UK Time. As last year’s series award winner, I can vouch for the benefits of having work featured in this context.💥
📸 © Osceola Refetoff, Window with Creosote Bush – Dunmovin, California – 2010
https://www.1854.photography/awards/openwalls
NEW NEWSLETTER!
A museum acquisition, "Golden Hour" and three (!) Los Angeles Press Club award nominations. Read all about it here:
ospix.com/blog/2021/2/whats-in-your-collection
'Blue Hopper' acquired by Museum of Art & History (MOAH). LA Press Club nominations: Best Feature Photo, Photographic Essay & Photojournalist of the Year.
LAST CHANCE!
"Andy Moses: Recent Works" closes this Saturday, February 27. Andy will be at William Turner Gallery from 2-5pm to discuss the work with visiting guests and sign copies of the exhibition catalog.
williamturnergallery.com
Mark Indig "Why Not Now" in today's YourDailyPhotograph:
https://mailchi.mp/75772ab5922c/your-daily-photograph-apr-275225
2020 year end round up includes links to two new movies by Eric Minh Swenson. Want to receive these very occasional newsletters via email? Sign up at the bottom of the page.
www.ospix.com/blog/2020/12/lights-camera
Year end round up includes 3 new exhibitions and 2 movies: "Osceola Refetoff: Kinematic Exposures" and "Zen Psychosis," both directed by Eric Minh Swenson.
OSCEOLA REFETOFF: KINEMATIC EXPOSURES by Eric Minh Swenson is a six minute film on my exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery.
https://youtu.be/6tVXwo2C390
Thank you Artillery Magazine for listing "Kinematic Exposures" (closing today)!
https://www.artillerymag.com/events/osceola-refetoff-kinematic-exposures-closing-reception/
October 31, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Have some IRL Halloween fun with the closing reception for “Kinematic Exposures,” a new series of pinhole camera works by photographer Osceola Refetoff at Von Lintel Gallery. On closing day 10/31 - Halloween - the artist will be on hand for the gallery’s...
STÉNOPÉS!
Pinhole photographer Christian Poncet etherial meditations on on water and life.
Congratulations to Los Angeles Center of Photography Member of the Month and friend Todd Bradley!
lacphoto.org/todd-bradley-featured-lacp-member-october-2020/
loading... Todd Bradley – Featured LACP Member, October 2020Todd Bradley Website:http://www.ToddBradleyPhotography.com AboutTodd Bradley (1970, Detroit, USA) is a contemporary macro | digital photographer currently residing in San Diego, California. He works with dioramas, alternative portraiture,...
Congratulations to Jamie Johnson Photography on her new book "Growing up Travelling: The Inside World of Irish Traveller Children," featured on today's YourDailyphotograoh.com and this week in The Guardian.
theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/30/grit-and-beauty-the-lives-of-irish-traveller-children-in-pictures
Jamie Johnson spent five years photographing the fun-loving, fashion conscious kids who are forced to spend their childhoods battling prejudice
Check out this wonderful review of Mark Steven Greenfield's work by Los Angeles Times culture critic Carolina A. Miranda. If you are not already familiar with this work, you should be. I'm looking forward to seeing the "Black Madonnas" at William Turner Gallery tomorrow.
Photo: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-09-30/how-artist-mark-steven-greenfields-black-madonnas-vanquish-white-supremacy
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