The New York Times web site ran a story today in their LENS section titled:
Must See: Compelling Web Sites, my was one of four mentioned and they featured two images from my Behind Photographs Project.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/must-17/?scp=1&sq=mantoani&st=cse
Special thanks to Miki Johnson and James Estrin for the kind words and helping to get the word out on my project.
Check out SI.com to see a portfolio of over 30 of my sports images.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0908/
At the beginning of the year, I enrolled in a wetplate collodion workshop with Will Dunniway (www.collodion-artist.com) in Corona, California. The class, which lasted two days, was a crash course on the basics of making tintypes and glass negatives. This process was invented by Fredrick Scott Archer and dates back to 1851. For the life of me, I can’t believe he figured out how to make this process work. It is a time consuming process that requires you to sensitize, shoot, develop and fix the plate while it is still wet. A bit toxic, but the uncertainty of it all is magic.
I went back to work with Will again to see how I could create some tintypes of my athlete portraits and to shoot some tintypes of some model cars for a book project. Here are a few images we created.
O.J. Mayo
Darren McFadden
Deadly Comet
Dwayne Jarrett
Here are a few pics from the opening at Brooks Institute. I was able to hang over 80 images from my project. Since the show will be up for two months, I plan on swapping out some of the images at the first of September. This will give me the opportunity to share all of the images to date. Special thanks to everyone that came to the opening and to Brooks for hosting a great evening.
I’ve been in Santa Barbara the past few days hanging prints for a show at Brooks Institute’s Gallery 27. This is a partial show of my Behind Photographs Project. There are 40+ 20×24 Polaroids in the show and 40+ 11×14 prints. It is great to be back in Santa Barbara and very fulfilling to have this show at Brooks. Hard to believe it has been 18 years since I graduated! The opening is tomorrow night 8/6/09 from 5-8, please drop in if you are in town.
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