Hi John, Your post did make it to my server where it was greeted with interest. I havent finished the novel part yet, but I am finding it interesting. That is in part due to my unpublished poetry and photo book. I aontinue to accumulate rejections as one might expect from being a new author. Yours, fred.vansand2@verizon.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Palcewski" <palcewski@hotmail.com> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 7:30 AM Subject: Telling Stories With Photographs > Don't think my post made it to the list, so here it is again: > > Regarding telling stories with photographic images, I've produced an > "imagenovel" trilogy entitled Vittoria's Island. I thought I was the first > to conceive of the genre, but I learned when I completed Book I that an > American chap by the name of Wright Morris beat me to it in the 1940s. He > called them "photo-texts," which were a combination of words and pictures in > several unique works of fiction. In “The Inhabitants” (1946), “The Home > Place” (1948), and “God's Country and My People”, (1968) "picture and word > cohabitate in a manner of mutual and complex exchange." > > I learned of this from a photo historian right here on Photoforum! > > J > > Vittoria's Island, Book I > http://www.palcewski.com/VI > > Vittoria's Island, Book II > http://www.palcewski.com/VII > > Who Do You Think You Are? > Photographically Illustrated Short Fiction > http://www.palcewski.com/stories > > > Media Coverage of the Palcewski - Maria - Sophia Loren Connection > http://www.palcewski.com/SL > > More Media Coverage > http://www.livejournal.com/users/forioscribe > > About John Palcewski & Imagenovel Concept > http://www.palcewski.com/JP > > Photographs of Maria > http://www.palcewski.com/M > > In her authorized biography, Sophia acknowledges pregnancy > during 1963 Filming of “Ieri, oggi, e domani” > http://www.palcewski.com/SLB > > > > > > > >From: Les Baldwin <fotofx@ix.netcom.com> > >Reply-To: photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu > >To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > ><photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> > >Subject: Re: do newpaper phojos carry lights > >Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 03:50:14 -0700 > > > >Hi All, > > > >I really think the type of publication and the subject matter dictate the > >gear as well as the photographers style. > > > >Many photographers can mix both daylight/ambient light and flash and you > >will not be the wiser. Ususally you can tell, but it can be done. If your > >particular rag is B&W only with medium screen counts then you can get away > >with whatever as long as you come back w/ a good image. > > > >However if you run color or even worse coated papers within the newspaper, > >than skill with a wide variety of equipment including hot lights, strobes, > >reflectors and diffusers is called for. Oddly enough many of my clients in > >the last few years have asked for a more "journilistic" approach to image > >creation. HUH? Then why did i buy all this %&&*$$$ gear? No matter what > >they > >always want what they see somewhere else... > > > >I use strobes alot outdoors, for fill. But I also use flags for negitive > >fill as well. Diffusers were all the rage sometime ago and now I see stuff > >that looks like it was shot w/ a P&S with shadows on the wall behind and > >everything!! > > > >thanks I feel better now <vbg> > > > >Les Baldwin > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > >