Inceptive Notions

New project is up on my main site: click here.

Michael George :: Nov.12.2008 :: My Photography :: No Comments »

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Click for a short series from last Tuesday. I won’t spill my passions from the past year, but I will say that I’ll never forget that night.

Michael George :: Nov.12.2008 :: My Photography :: 1 Comment »

© Spears

Photographers David & Madeleine Spears just published a book entitled Unseen Companions: Big Views of Tiny Creatures. The pages are filled with extraordinary microscopic images of insects, which reaffirm the limits of our natural optical perception. One of the images I found particularly terrifying is described as “a group of dust mites foraging for human skin on a bedsheet” (see above). I don’t want to believe these creatures exist.

© Spears

On another note, there’s one thing I’ve never understood about this type of photography. Where is the variance in the colors? The images look as if they were painted in a color-by-numbers…like the world is nothing but a pixellated image and, just as when you zoom in on a photo, it becomes a jumble of monochromatic objects.  I have tried to research what cameras are used in the process but wind up empty handed. I can’t imagine rendering them in true color is terribly difficult. After all, Margo Herre, a friend of mine in the photography department, photographed cells and microorganisms under a microscope this past semester. Although they were mostly dyed specimens, they were rendered in full color. If someone can provide any answers it would be greatly appreciated. Or else I’ll just assume that we live in one very large pixellated image.

Reality?

Michael George :: Nov.06.2008 :: Miscellaneous, Photographers :: 2 Comments »

© Callie Shell / Paul Fusco

TIME.com just posted a new photographic essay entitled “The Campaign from Obama’s Point of View.” The photographs are eerily reminiscent of the recently republished “RFK Funeral Train” series by Paul Fusco. Although, considering Fusco’s series is one of my all-time favorites, I must say the images are less impressive.

© Callie Shell / Paul Fusco

The similarities, nonetheless, are strange because the circumstances are so opposed. Waving hello vs. waving goodbye, the bus vs. the train, hopeful vs. empty… film vs. digital. I was also surprised to find the difference in time period is less obvious than I would have expected. I’m not really sure what to make of the juxtaposition, but I can’t imagine the editors were unaware of the likeness.

© Callie Shell / Paul Fusco

Michael George :: Nov.02.2008 :: Miscellaneous, Photographers :: No Comments »