Posts By pcalvin
Images in Texas Architect
Texas Architect has published images I made of the Watermark Community Church for Omniplan in a portfolio of religious facilities. (page 66 of the March/April 2010 issue)
Executive Fitness in Dallas
Hart’s Military Training, US75, North Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas
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Texas Stadium Awaits Demolition
We dropped my wife off at the airport so she could visit family in Mexico and I stopped to shoot this on the way home: Texas Stadium in Irving, former home of the Dallas Cowboys awaiting demolition. Arlington down the road offered Cowboys owner Jerry Jones a better deal, including huge tax breaks so Irving in the end will soon have a vacant lot. You can just see downtown Dallas in the distance. Is this about politics? I don’t know, but it is about winners and losers when communities bid (and bet) on sports franchises. link to image
Butler Institute of American Art 73rd. Mid-Year Exhibition
I have had this image, Night Game, accepted into the Annual Juried Show: 73rd Mid-Year Exhibition at Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. I am particularly pleased because my first photography class was at the Butler, a class that sent me on this journey with a camera. The show runs from June 28th to August 23rd.
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What do we examine with our work?
Recently, I have read a number of artist’s statements and academic search announcements that talk about using art to examine art, or “lens-based media’s … relationship to representation” and “the nature of the image”. Rather than use the medium to examine itself, I prefer to use photography to examine the world around us.
James Nachtwey’s TED Prize project
James Nachtwey’s TED Prize project, a photo-documentary on extremely drug resistant TB, has been posted online here: www.xdrtb.org
The View from the Bleachers
Kimball High School’s baseball field during the North Dallas Tournament, March 1, 2008.
Bag News Notes
Bag News Notes is a progressive blog that is “dedicated to the political, psychological, and media analysis of news images”. Regardless of your political views, the author’s choice of images and comments are worth a few minutes everyday. Here are links to work by Chicago based photographer Jon Lowenstein and political coverage by Alan Chin.
The Urban Canopy
I have been including in my photographs the canopy that stands over our heads as part of our built environment. The utility poles and wires of older neighborhoods are being joined by microwave antennas and cell phone towers. The images above are of the athletic field at Dallas Lutheran High School and of the former Whole Foods Market at the intersection of Preston Rd and Forest Ln. in Dallas, TX.
Repurposed Gasoline Stations
I think that part of my interest in repurposed gasoline stations is that they represent both a change and a constant in society. Not too long ago they were service stations, places that not only sold gasoline, but also repaired your car, sold tires and batteries and even supplied maps for your trip at no charge. The station owner’s name was above the office door, though the big sign on the corner said Gulf or Esso, it was his business.