Our AP 2-D Design Studio Student of the year is Michelle Henneberry! Our Photography Student of the year: Kendall Wallin! Thanks to all who attended, enjoyed, and generously participated.
“Vivian Maier makes me cry.”
More exciting news about another book from Richard Cahan. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/learning-more-about-the-nanny-photographer/
You Were Expecting, Maybe, Usher Fellig?
It’s about time you checked in. You should probably subscribe right now to this here blawwg (I think it’s done on the other page), so that you can know when posts appear about photography, BHS, the “AP Photo” class, jazz, le cinema, modnot, darkroom 411/info/secrets, bon mots au les auteurs, one’s rostromedial prefrontal cortex, the [...]
The Lost Panoramas
“There, on steel shelves—alongside time sheets, purchase orders, contracts, and operations records—sat 130 heavy boxes, stenciled by year, of glass-plate negatives. Over the next three years, the negatives were inventoried and scanned. They were placed in cardboard bankers boxes and transferred to the Illinois State Archives inSpringfield, where they remain today. “What makes the photos [...]
B. ACTion pictures of BACT
What a perfect day on Earth to celebrate the Barrington Area Conservation Trust’s awards for the winter photography contest, as well as some sort of competition involving the relative circumference of oak trees. (I’m not mocking this: I sat and read on the stoop of a cottonwood poplar at 267 North Plum Grove [...]
Ecce ICCI.
Click on the writings to enlarge and read. Once again, the participating artists were Karlee Wech, Stephanie Washko, Stephanie Walterman, Hana Vanderveen, Katie Strack, Brooke Schocker, Hayley Schaut, Sean Ruffatti, Marcus Rowe, Margaret Rajic, Austin Presti, Sammy Padiak, Nikki Nixon, Kelly Neises, Elisabeth Monsen, Mackenzie Lestan, Duyen Le, Sarah Lagenstrass, Nicole Kornely, Cassidy Karwowski, Alex [...]
ICCI Reinvents Itself
The Interstate Creative Camerawork Invitational is back after a year’s hiatus. Participating schools include Schaumburg, Lincoln High in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Lake Zurich, Cary-Grove, Buffalo Grove, and good ol’ BHS. No awards per se this time, but certificates of participation all around. Ms. Covelli of LZ chose to attend over another event at their school (I [...]
The BAL “Teen Art” Show
…held a lovely reception last week on Friday night. The show extends to April 15, so hie thee to the stacks before you figure your tax. Annnnd it was my surprise birthday! Thanks, Leslie! Here are the Library’s PR pix as well: As soon as an award list is published we’ll add it here. UPDATE: Here ’tis. [...]
Next Year’s Roster!
Congratulations to next year’s new members of the Advanced Placement 2-D Design class: Bianca Adams McCall Braun Grace Barbolla Delaney Crouch Mikayla Johnson Marian Jostock Jessica Loomis Imran Mohsin Claudia Nielsen Kayli Putman Michele Riefenberg Stephanie Walterman Maggie Ziolkowski They join returning artists Kristina Bastidas, Lauren Captain, Alexa Hanaford, Fay Jenson, Sam La [...]
Vote Early, Vote Often
The Photo Devoto who wears f13 entered the Reader’s annual photo contest. Rather than rummaging through already-existing digital files that could be perceived, however ironic or propagandistic, as touching on the theme, she set out to make images specifically for the competition which are formally strong and non-doctrinaire. The Reader’s fbook page says: “The theme for photos [...]
