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Blog #10More on Alfred Steiglitz's Publication Camera WorkJuly 19, 2022I wrote about  Alfred Steiglitz’s self-publicatio...
07/19/2022

Blog #10
More on Alfred Steiglitz's Publication Camera Work
July 19, 2022

I wrote about Alfred Steiglitz’s self-publication Camera Work (1903 - 1917) in my last blog (May 2022 - https://nonagon-tangerine-csmg.squarespace.com/config/pages). I wanted to let everyone know that there is a group called the Modernist Journals Project (https://modjourn.org/) that has made digital copies of the original issues available on their website for FREE. They are brilliantly done scans of all the Camera Work issues. You can read them online or download them. This is an amazing resource. The photographs in these issues are just stunning. Take a look! (https://modjourn.org/journal/camera-work/)

They also have a lot of other publications from their beginnings, such as National Geographic, and The Atlantic, and some lesser known but fascinating fiction and poetry and essay magazines like The Strand Magazine (London 1910), Windsor Magazine (London 1911), and Egoist (1914 - 1919) to name only a few.

I highly recommend this site.

Pete Hendley

www.petehendley.com

It is hard to imagine that in the early 1900s debate raged over whether photography was an art or just a mechanical, obj...
05/10/2022

It is hard to imagine that in the early 1900s debate raged over whether photography was an art or just a mechanical, objective way of recording reality. Alfred Stieglitz led the movement for photography as art by starting a gallery named 291 in New York and by self-publishing his own work and that of his friends and acquaintances in the subscription quarterly magazine Camera Work. The focus was primarily Pictorialism, which involved special lenses and developing processes that lent a dreamy slightly unfocused look to the photos, in stark contrast to today’s interest in sharp digital images. (There is a place for both). It ran from 1903 to 1917 and was hand produced by Steiglitz on heavy fine art paper. Some of the many great artists of the time were featured: Steichen, Clarence White, Paul Strand, Rodin, Matisse, and Picasso among many others. In his gallery 291 he also showed paintings on canvas such as those by his wife Georgia O’Keefe.

There is a nice publication by the publisher Taschen that reproduces Camera Work. It is much smaller than the original magazine but very nice. It includes the articles and images from the originals. I highly recommend it.

Pete Hendley

www.petehendley.com

If you know of anyone who would like to receive this blog, please have them go to www.petehendley.com and sign up!.

I hope everyone is well out there!




'Keefe

Blog Episode #8April 14, 2022Carl Bernstein's New Book: Chasing History: A Kid in the NewsroomIn Carl Bernstein's new bo...
04/14/2022

Blog Episode #8
April 14, 2022

Carl Bernstein's New Book: Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
In Carl Bernstein's new book Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, he mentions my father Coit Hendley a number of times. They were friends and colleagues and "newspapermen" back in the day together working on the Washington Star in Washington D.C. It is a great book, very evocative of those days when opinion was confined to the Editorial Pages, and journalists prided themselves on reporting the most factually accurate story they could. Of course they weren't perfect, but no one threw around accusations of fake news in those days of the 1950s to the 1980s, through the civil rights movement, Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, Watergate. Quite an era. It is full of details about how a newspaper gets the job done, using phone booths, carbon paper, and your feet to track down leads. Bernstein's love of his job comes across wonderfully. It is amazing to see my father and his world portrayed. I sent Bernstein a complimentary copy of my book about my father's World War II experience at D-Day, LCI-85: The Military Career of Lt(jg) Coit Hendley During the Invasions of North Africa, Italy, and Omaha Beach on D-Day: His Papers and Photos, and I never heard back, which is fine. Well, I guess he got it. He also mentioned me and my book. I even made it into the index, next to my father. Quite exciting!

My thanks go out to Peter Alexander who alerted me to my presence in this book before I’d had a chance to read it!

Buy your copy now!

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I hope everyone is well out there!

I am happy to report that my book The World is Beautiful: Two Years on the Road (Photos) is a 2021 semi-finalist for the...
03/09/2022

I am happy to report that my book The World is Beautiful: Two Years on the Road (Photos) is a 2021 semi-finalist for the North Street Book Prize! It is nice to be recognized and hopefully it will help more readers find the book. (Available on Amazon).

"Honoring the best self-published books of poetry, children's picture books, art books, graphic novel & memoir, genre fiction, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction & memoir." My book was entered in the Art Book category. "...We admired The World is Beautiful...and your final rank in our 2021 contest is Semi-Finalist." - Adam Cohen, President.

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I hope everyone is well out there!

www.petehendley.com

Film vs Digital?Blog episode #6It was a huge debate when digital cameras first came out - does one switch to digital or ...
02/02/2022

Film vs Digital?
Blog episode #6

It was a huge debate when digital cameras first came out - does one switch to digital or keep using film? As time went by it became easier and then a necessity to go digital. If you do still use film, you have to scan the negative into the computer to make it digital, so you can then post it online, sell prints online, use editing software like Affinity Photo (which I prefer to Adobe) Lately, a lot of people have returned to using film, though rarely ever exclusively. I shoot both, depending on the situation. Film has a unique feel to it which creates a “grainy” look, depending on the type of film you use and the conditions. With digital, photographers are usually looking for a much cleaner, slicker look, though software editing does offer a way to try to imitate the film look, with varying degrees of success. If I am in a situation where I need to shoot a lot of frames, like tracking an eagle across the sky or attending a sporting event, I will use digital. It doesn’t cost anything to shoot a lot of images. If I can be more selective, I will usually use film. I also like the developing process, which has gotten easier than in days of old. The Manhattan photo here is an example of digital and the Lone Boat on the Beach in Goa is a film shot from my book The World is Beautiful: Two Years on the Road (Photos). They both have their purposes.
You can view these more closely on
www.petehendley.com

Is It Ever Okay For a Photo to be Blurry?January 05, 2022Today, the tack-sharp image is the expected. It is more possibl...
01/05/2022

Is It Ever Okay For a Photo to be Blurry?
January 05, 2022
Today, the tack-sharp image is the expected. It is more possible than ever with autofocus and digital cameras. But is it ever warranted to have any blur in a photo? In the image below, titled “The Amish and Me”, I was in the car with a camera in my hand (a manual focus 35mm Pentax Me Super), when the horse and buggy sped by. I quickly snapped a shot. The young girl’s expression makes it worth it, in my opinion. In the second photo on the right, titled “Sometimes It’s a Lot”, I think the blur creates a feeling of unsettledness (taken with an autofocus 35mm Canon 1V). It is from my book 55 Photos: Baltimore 2021. It helps to see it in context. We were helping Lydia move to Baltimore, find an apartment, start a new job, settle in, and it was sometimes “just a lot” to deal with.

Of course, in the end, it’s up to personal taste.

Both of these photos can be found in the People section on www.petehendley.com.

Pete Hendley

Fine art prints now available on www.petehendley.com

Pete HendleyBlog edition  #4 This is one of my favorite photos of my mother, brother and sister in the 1950s. I assume i...
12/09/2021

Pete Hendley
Blog edition #4

This is one of my favorite photos of my mother, brother and sister in the 1950s. I assume it was taken by my father and probably in South Carolina where he was from. I love the retro details, fish for $1.25, the front of the car, the simplicity of the snack place. Susan Sontag said, “Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.” We are interested if for no other reason than the historical details. Does that mean every photo becomes art? Maybe so, if we wait long enough.

Pete Hendley

Fine art prints now available at www.petehendley.com.

Also, check out my new book "55 Photos: Baltimore 2021" or my first book "The World is Beautiful: Two Years on the Road (Photos)"
Pete Hendley

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Costa RicaNovember 03, 2021When I first took this photo, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, I was disappoint...
11/03/2021

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Costa Rica
November 03, 2021
When I first took this photo, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, I was disappointed in it. I had set in my mind that I wanted to show the jungle around us in this Costa Rica city of La Fortuna. I took another look at it recently and changed my mind. I like the patterns and negative space of the roof tops and then, of course, there is the cat on a hot tin roof. Makes me laugh. There’s just enough of a hint of jungle to help make it more interesting, in my opinion. I often run into this, that I can’t see a photo for what it is until some time has passed and my sight isn’t blocked by my expectations. I guess that can apply to many things in life. Lesson as a photographer? I often now stop and try to make myself see differently, make myself drop any ideas I have about what is in front of me. Oh and wait awhile before deleting anything.

This and other fine art prints now available at www.petehendley.com. Look in the Animal section for this one.

Also, check out my new book "55 Photos: Baltimore 2021" or my first book "The World is Beautiful: Two Years on the Road (Photos)"

Oh and please sign up for my email list to receive this blog if you aren’t already on it. Thanks.

Pete Hendley

Ralph Gibson the PhotographerOctober 11, 2021The photographer Ralph Gibson said about his first book, The Somnambulist, ...
10/11/2021

Ralph Gibson the Photographer
October 11, 2021
The photographer Ralph Gibson said about his first book, The Somnambulist, which launched his career in 1970, “…it became apparent that if I wanted total autonomy over the project I would have to publish it myself. So I formed my own imprint…” He is still alive today and in his 80s. He went on to self-publish many books as well as his friends’ books. He’s a fascinating character. He knew everyone back in the day, Annie Leibovitz, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Cartier-Bresson, you name it. His more recent book Self-Exposure is full of anecdotes from those days and wisdom from his years of experiences. It’s also full of great photos. Definitely worth a read. I think he would whole-heartedly approve of photographers’ new ability today to self-publish their work much more easily than in the 1970s. Take a look at The Somnambulist, if you can find a copy. Some very interesting photographs, like these on the covers of the two aforementioned books.

This post can also be viewed on www.petehendley.com under the Featured Photo tab.

Fine art prints are now available on my site. Buy one now!

https://www.petehendley.com/featured-photo-1/2021/9/16/mt-rainer-and-hikers https://www.petehendley.com/blog-post. Raini...
09/24/2021
Mt. Rainier and Hikers — Pete Hendley Photography

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. Rainier National Park (Washington State)

This image of Mt. Rainier is interesting, I think, because of its scale. At first, the viewer sees the odd abstract patterns and thinks, what is this exactly? And then we see the hikers, small, diminutive figures, and we realize the massive size of what they are facing. Laurie and I hiked up i

Great new book out, published by Yewell Street Press.It is about the experiences of the landing craft LCI 85 on D-Day on...
06/12/2019
LCI 85: The Military Career of Lt(jg) Coit Hendley Jr. During the Invasions of North Africa, Italy, and Omaha Beach on D-Day: His Papers and Photos

Great new book out, published by Yewell Street Press.

It is about the experiences of the landing craft LCI 85 on D-Day on Omaha Beach. It has 50 photos and 85 original source documents. Great read.

Also, there is a National Georgraphic show this week that includes about 15 minutes on the LCI 85 story. It really is fantastic. They dramatize what happened and show the ship as it is now on the sea bottom. It's called "Drain the Oceans: The Secrets of D-Day".

There is also a 2 minute video of the ship on D-Day just before it sinks which is amazing. Check it out. It can be found on the publisher's site:

yewellstreetpress.com

Thought y'all might be interested.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996499369

On June 6, 1944, D-Day, Lt(jg) Coit Hendley Jr. participated in the landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy as commander of the LCI 85 (landing craft infantry) with more than 200 men on board. They ran into enemy fire that eventually led to the sinking of their ship. He wrote of his experiences in pub...

https://www.amazon.com/Hiking-Grand-Canyon-Kaibab-Bright-ebook/dp/B07231NWQS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495897740&sr=8-1&ke...
05/27/2017
Hiking The Grand Canyon: The South Kaibab and Bright Angel Trails; Photos and Tips

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Heading to the Grand Canyon? Thinking of hiking the South Kaibab Trail or the Bright Angel Trail? Or do you just want to experience their striking beauty? In this book are 42 images and some tips by world-traveler and photographer Pete Hendley that show you what it is like to hike these specific ...

05/11/2017
Hiking The Grand Canyon

Circular Books, in association with Yewell Street Press, is proud to announce the publication of a new title: Hiking The Grand Canyon: The South Kaibab and Bright Angel Trails: Photos and Tips.

From the back cover:
Heading to the Grand Canyon? Thinking of hiking the South Kaibab Trail or the Bright Angel Trail? Or do you just want to experience their striking beauty? In this book are 42 images and some tips by world-traveler and photographer Pete Hendley that show you what it is like to hike these specific trails and witness the allure and grandeur that is the Grand Canyon.

Order now!
http://www.blurb.com/b/7937355-the-grand-canyon

Heading to the Grand Canyon? Thinking of hiking the South Kaibab Trail or the Bright Angel Trail? Or do you just want to experience their striking beauty? In this book are 42 images and some tips by world-traveler and photographer Pete Hendley that show you what it is like to hike these specific tra...

Check out a great new photography magazine now out:  http://amzn.to/1SHoqq1
04/15/2016
35mm: From Film To Digital; Issue No. 2

Check out a great new photography magazine now out:

http://amzn.to/1SHoqq1

35mm is a non-subscription based magazine dedicated to the love and passion for photography. Included in this issue are the photos of Pete Hendley, as well as the work of two others: photographer Alan Lance and an article by writer Melinda Tomsic, comprising some 21 photos of landscapes, wildlife...

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It is hard to imagine that in the early 1900s debate raged over whether photography was an art or just a mechanical, objective way of recording reality. Alfred Stieglitz led the movement for photography as art by starting a gallery named 291 in New York and by self-publishing his own work and that of his friends and acquaintances in the subscription quarterly magazine Camera Work. The focus was primarily Pictorialism, which involved special lenses and developing processes that lent a dreamy slightly unfocused look to the photos, in stark contrast to today’s interest in sharp digital images. (There is a place for both). It ran from 1903 to 1917 and was hand produced by Steiglitz on heavy fine art paper. Some of the many great artists of the time were featured: Steichen, Clarence White, Paul Strand, Rodin, Matisse, and Picasso among many others. In his gallery 291 he also showed paintings on canvas such as those by his wife Georgia O’Keefe.

There is a nice publication by the publisher Taschen that reproduces Camera Work. It is much smaller than the original magazine but very nice. It includes the articles and images from the originals. I highly recommend it.

Pete Hendley

www.petehendley.com

If you know of anyone who would like to receive this blog, please have them go to www.petehendley.com and sign up!.

I hope everyone is well out there!




'Keefe
Blog Episode #8
April 14, 2022

Carl Bernstein's New Book: Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
In Carl Bernstein's new book Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, he mentions my father Coit Hendley a number of times. They were friends and colleagues and "newspapermen" back in the day together working on the Washington Star in Washington D.C. It is a great book, very evocative of those days when opinion was confined to the Editorial Pages, and journalists prided themselves on reporting the most factually accurate story they could. Of course they weren't perfect, but no one threw around accusations of fake news in those days of the 1950s to the 1980s, through the civil rights movement, Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, Watergate. Quite an era. It is full of details about how a newspaper gets the job done, using phone booths, carbon paper, and your feet to track down leads. Bernstein's love of his job comes across wonderfully. It is amazing to see my father and his world portrayed. I sent Bernstein a complimentary copy of my book about my father's World War II experience at D-Day, LCI-85: The Military Career of Lt(jg) Coit Hendley During the Invasions of North Africa, Italy, and Omaha Beach on D-Day: His Papers and Photos, and I never heard back, which is fine. Well, I guess he got it. He also mentioned me and my book. I even made it into the index, next to my father. Quite exciting!

My thanks go out to Peter Alexander who alerted me to my presence in this book before I’d had a chance to read it!

Buy your copy now!

If you know of anyone who would like to receive this blog, please have them go to www.petehendley.com and sign up!.

I hope everyone is well out there!
I am happy to report that my book The World is Beautiful: Two Years on the Road (Photos) is a 2021 semi-finalist for the North Street Book Prize! It is nice to be recognized and hopefully it will help more readers find the book. (Available on Amazon).

"Honoring the best self-published books of poetry, children's picture books, art books, graphic novel & memoir, genre fiction, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction & memoir." My book was entered in the Art Book category. "...We admired The World is Beautiful...and your final rank in our 2021 contest is Semi-Finalist." - Adam Cohen, President.

If you know of anyone who would like to receive these blogs through email, please have them go to www.petehendley.com and sign up!

I hope everyone is well out there!

www.petehendley.com
Film vs Digital?
Blog episode #6

It was a huge debate when digital cameras first came out - does one switch to digital or keep using film? As time went by it became easier and then a necessity to go digital. If you do still use film, you have to scan the negative into the computer to make it digital, so you can then post it online, sell prints online, use editing software like Affinity Photo (which I prefer to Adobe) Lately, a lot of people have returned to using film, though rarely ever exclusively. I shoot both, depending on the situation. Film has a unique feel to it which creates a “grainy” look, depending on the type of film you use and the conditions. With digital, photographers are usually looking for a much cleaner, slicker look, though software editing does offer a way to try to imitate the film look, with varying degrees of success. If I am in a situation where I need to shoot a lot of frames, like tracking an eagle across the sky or attending a sporting event, I will use digital. It doesn’t cost anything to shoot a lot of images. If I can be more selective, I will usually use film. I also like the developing process, which has gotten easier than in days of old. The Manhattan photo here is an example of digital and the Lone Boat on the Beach in Goa is a film shot from my book The World is Beautiful: Two Years on the Road (Photos). They both have their purposes.
You can view these more closely on
www.petehendley.com
Is It Ever Okay For a Photo to be Blurry?
January 05, 2022
Today, the tack-sharp image is the expected. It is more possible than ever with autofocus and digital cameras. But is it ever warranted to have any blur in a photo? In the image below, titled “The Amish and Me”, I was in the car with a camera in my hand (a manual focus 35mm Pentax Me Super), when the horse and buggy sped by. I quickly snapped a shot. The young girl’s expression makes it worth it, in my opinion. In the second photo on the right, titled “Sometimes It’s a Lot”, I think the blur creates a feeling of unsettledness (taken with an autofocus 35mm Canon 1V). It is from my book 55 Photos: Baltimore 2021. It helps to see it in context. We were helping Lydia move to Baltimore, find an apartment, start a new job, settle in, and it was sometimes “just a lot” to deal with.

Of course, in the end, it’s up to personal taste.

Both of these photos can be found in the People section on www.petehendley.com.

Pete Hendley

Fine art prints now available on www.petehendley.com
Take a closer look at the book "55 Photos: Baltimore 2021" by Pete Hendley. On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996499385
for more information: www.petehendley.com
Pete Hendley
Blog edition #4

This is one of my favorite photos of my mother, brother and sister in the 1950s. I assume it was taken by my father and probably in South Carolina where he was from. I love the retro details, fish for $1.25, the front of the car, the simplicity of the snack place. Susan Sontag said, “Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.” We are interested if for no other reason than the historical details. Does that mean every photo becomes art? Maybe so, if we wait long enough.

Pete Hendley

Fine art prints now available at www.petehendley.com.

Also, check out my new book "55 Photos: Baltimore 2021" or my first book "The World is Beautiful: Two Years on the Road (Photos)"
Pete Hendley
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Costa Rica
November 03, 2021
When I first took this photo, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, I was disappointed in it. I had set in my mind that I wanted to show the jungle around us in this Costa Rica city of La Fortuna. I took another look at it recently and changed my mind. I like the patterns and negative space of the roof tops and then, of course, there is the cat on a hot tin roof. Makes me laugh. There’s just enough of a hint of jungle to help make it more interesting, in my opinion. I often run into this, that I can’t see a photo for what it is until some time has passed and my sight isn’t blocked by my expectations. I guess that can apply to many things in life. Lesson as a photographer? I often now stop and try to make myself see differently, make myself drop any ideas I have about what is in front of me. Oh and wait awhile before deleting anything.

This and other fine art prints now available at www.petehendley.com. Look in the Animal section for this one.

Also, check out my new book "55 Photos: Baltimore 2021" or my first book "The World is Beautiful: Two Years on the Road (Photos)"

Oh and please sign up for my email list to receive this blog if you aren’t already on it. Thanks.

Pete Hendley
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