and more still?

New Scans

Brand New Scanography!

Scanography by Leanne Eisen (me)

From the Archives

Last weekend I went out to the boonies to help my Mom put up her Xmas tree, and I stumbled onto these photos.  They are probably only entertaining to me, but nonetheless:

This man was killed . . .

. . . in an American Civil War reenactment in Milton, Ontario. Passers-by snickered and made cracks that he was passed out drunk.  They said “wake up, you lazy injun!”,  but I knew he had been killed.

Photorama is on (and I’m in it)!

Image Credit: Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge, “Cultural Relations – Art.”

Opening Reception: Friday, November 27, 6 – 9 pm
Sale: November 28, December 1 to 5, Noon – 5 pm
Collectors Preview: Thursday, November 26, 6 – 9 pm*

Put down your hammer, stop threatening your piggy bank, and come to Gallery TPW’s annual fundraising exhibition and sale. Photorama 2009 features over 100 pieces of affordable contemporary Canadian art by both famous and soon-to-be famous artists, which makes it a great place to buy gifts for the art lovers on your list. The event’s easy-going atmosphere invites first time buyers to browse the gallery while seasoned collectors can seek out hot new artists. Most works in the show are priced below $600, which means you can bring your treasures home without breaking the bank.

For 23 years, Photorama has featured high quality work and the contributions of many of Canada’s most accomplished and respected artists. The Photorama 2009 line-up includes: Lise Beaudry, Nadia Belerique, Jesse Boles, Robert Burley, Jack Burman, Edward Burtynsky, Jamie Campbell, Ulysses Castellanos, Jennifer Cherniack, Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge, Robyn Cumming, Chris Curreri, Erika DeFreitas, Vuk Dragojevic, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Leanne Eisen, Johnnie Eisen, Eshrat Erfanian, Talia Eylon, Tori Foster & Jesse Colin Jackson, Kathryn Gaitens, Malka Greene, Toni Hafkenscheid, Gary Hall, Eriver Hijano, Risa Horowitz, Oliver Husain, Vid Ingelevics, Patrick Jenkins, Lisa Kannakko, Jean-Paul Kelly, Dave Kemp, Peter Kingstone , Katherine Knight, Suzanne Lake, Amy Lam, Elaine Ling, Gareth Long, Jennifer Long, Morris Lum, Annie MacDonell, Rob MacInnis, Hugh Martin, Mitch Robertson, Davida Nemeroff, Lindsay Page, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Geoffrey Pugen, Steve Reinke, Susana Reisman, Clare Samuel, Susan Schelle, Marcus Schubert, SHAKE -n- MAKE, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, Chris Shepherd, Sharon Switzer, Tanja-Tiziana, Jeff Thomas, Carolyn Tripp, Kyle Tryhorn, Lizzie Vickery, Lisa Visser, Rachel Waugh, Meichen Waxer, Pamela Williams, Nikki Woolsey and many more.

*Avoid the crowd and gain exclusive pre-purchasing privileges at the Collector Members Preview on November 26th. Collector memberships can be purchased for $75 by contacting the gallery at photorama@gallerytpw.ca.

Admission to PHOTORAMA is free.

Gallery TPW
56 Ossington Ave.
M6J 2Y7

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‘Hamilton Pool #1′                                        ‘Ahmed’ from the series ‘Looking In’

2009, 20×20 inches, C-Print 1/10                   2008, 20×20 inches, C-Print, 2/10

Both images above are available at Photorama for $450 framed!   They are both limited editions, so you should get to Photorama before they’re all gone!

More work in progress

Call it research and development.

Rough edits from a work in progress

Studies for a new series from an American Civil War reenactment in Milton, Ontario:

Let sleeping dogs of the south rise again . . . or something?

Here’s a study I made for an upcoming series.  More to follow!

 

Bird’s Eye View

In 1903, German apothecary Julius Neubronner combined his two hobbies, pigeon fancying and amateur photography, into an innovative new undertaking. He fit a 75-gram camera to a pigeon’s breast and released it 60 miles from its cote. The bird flew home along a predictable route, and a pneumatic mechanism snapped an aerial picture.

A stunned German patent office rejected Neubronner’s first application as impossible, but by 1909 his photos were adorning postcards and winning prizes at the Paris airshow. The image below, of the Schlosshotel Kronberg, made a sensation because the photographer’s wingtips are visible at its edges.

via Futility Closet

Hamilton Pool

par moi

Cars Cause Most Bike-Car Crashes

Photo via BikePortland.org

Dr. Chris Cavacuiti, a Toronto physician who cycles competitively, started doing some research into how most bike-versus-car collisions happen while recovering from a nasty bike-versus-car collision. His findings:

While there is a public perception that cyclists are usually the cause of accidents between cars and bikes, an analysis of Toronto police collision reports shows otherwise: The most common type of crash in this study involved a motorist entering an intersection and either failing to stop properly or proceeding before it was safe to do so. The second most common crash type involved a motorist overtaking unsafely. The third involved a motorist opening a door onto an oncoming cyclist. The study concluded that cyclists are the cause of less than 10 percent of bike-car accidents in this study.

I can find that pretty easy to believe, actually. In most cities—and certainly in Los Angeles—cars rule the road. So drivers are attuned to check against potential car-car accidents but don’t think as much about potential car-bike accidents. When you park your car on the street you might check your side-view mirror for cars before you open your door, but you’d be less likely to check your rear-view mirror for cyclists coming up behind you. Also, you just generally feel more exposed and focused on a bike than in a car, so you’re more careful.

What’s way more perplexing to me is this animosity between “cyclists” and “drivers” as if we don’t all do a little of both.

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Mammals of the Sea – Clare Samuel

Clare Samuel, The Seal, 2008, C-Print

Clare Samuel, The Dolphin, 2008, C-Print

Claire Morgan

Photo credit: Kris Heath

Claire Morgan, Fluid, 150 x 150 cm (height variable)

Strawberries, taxidermied crow, fishing hooks, nylon

From the group show, Building With Colour

Gallery North, Newcastle, 16 January – 28 February 2009

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