Brian K. Edwards Fine Art Documentary Photography

Color Archival Pigment Print 2nd Street Southwest Paris Texas American Street Buildings Empty Vacant Blue Sky Red Brick

Cartoleria, Venice, Italy, 2018 (Kallitype)

Color Archival Pigment Print Old Trails Garage Kingman Arizona Southwest American Route 66 Color Photograph Rustic Americana Automobile Nostalgia Studebaker Packard Overland Willy La Salle Cadillac Oldsmobile Buick

Ranch House Mosquero New Mexico Southwest Rural Abandoned Brick Rustic Western Ranch Architecture Color Archival Pigment Print

White Buffalo New Mexico Expo State Fair palladium platinum print alternative historic process Indian Americana Southwest

Walking Man French Quarter New Orleans Louisiana Color Archival Pigment Print

Photograph Black White Film Child Watching Jet Takeoff Queens New York

Nuestra Senora Luz Church Cemetery Canoncito New Mexico Mission Revivalist Architecture Color Archival Pigment Print

Black and White Archival Pigment Print Photograph Subway Scene New York City Urban Romantic Couple Station 86

Chapel St. Nicholas 1906 Kenai Alaska Color Print Photograph Rural Rustic Architecture Church Frontier Travel

San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church Taos New Mexico palladium platinum print alternative historic process Photograph Southwest Rural Rustic Sepia Americana Icon Iconic

Pam's Flowers Santa Rosa New Mexico Southwest Yellow Sara Lynn Videos Mini Automobile Color Archival Pigment Print

Piazza San Martino, Florence, Italy, 2018 (Kallitype)

Black and White Archival Pigment Print Jerusalem Israel Middle East Judaism Religion Orthodox Orthodoxy

Gesto Bay Isle of Skye Scotland United Kingdom Sheep Rural Rustic Color Archival Pigment Print

2nd Street Southwest, Paris, Texas, March 27, 2019

Cartoleria, Venice, Italy, 2018

Old Trails Garage, Kingman, Arizona, October 14, 2020

Jemez Springs, New Mexico, 2007

Ranch House, Mosquero, New Mexico, March 18, 2017

White Buffalo, New Mexico State Fair, September 15, 2012

Man Walking Down Sidewalk, French Quarter, New Orleans, 1986

Child Watching Jet Takeoff, Queens, New York, 1986

Nuestra Senora de Luz Church and Cemetery, Canoncito, New Mexico, September 26, 2015

Subway Scene, New York City, 1985

Chapel of St. Nicholas 1906, Kenai, Alaska, August 16, 2019

San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church, Taos, New Mexico, June 7, 2009

Pam's Flowers, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, 2016

Piazza San Martino, Florence, Italy, 2018

Tree, Valle Caldera, New Mexico, 2015

Group of People, Western Wall, Jerusalem, 2009

Gesto Bay, Isle of Skye Scotland, May 15, 2007

Man Atop Staircase, Sicily, 2005

Slide 1

Winter 2020

From the Ground Up

The stage is set by Works Progress Administration sites in New Mexico
by Brian K. Edwards

Gum Bichromate Over Cyanotype Man Staircase Sicily Italy Mediterranean

Gum Bichromate Print Over Cyanotype New York City Snow Scene 2010

Manhattan Bridge Palladium Print platinum alternative historic process New York Americana Architecture

Gum Bichromate Print Over Cyanotype M&M Cigar Store American West

Via Degli Alfani, Florence, Italy, 2018 (Kallitype)

Piazza San Martino Florence Italy Tuscany Europe Bicycle Gum Bichromate Cyanotype Print

Piazza San Martino Florence Italy Tuscany Europe Bicycle Gum Bichromate Palladium Cyanotype Print

Piazza San Martino Florence Italy palladium platinum print alternative historic process Tuscany Sepia Church Icon Bicycle

Cartoleria Venice Italy Gum Bichromate Over Cyanotype Stationary Store

Studio 33, Liverpool, England, 2006 (Kallitype)

School Bus, Encino, New Mexico, 2018 (Kallitype)

Gum Bichromate over Cyanotype and Palladium Print Alternative Historic Printing Process American Southwest Abandoned World Environment

Western Motel Vaughn New Mexico 2018 Gum Bichromate Over Cyanotype Palladium Print American Southwest Route 66 Nostalgia

Subway Scene New York City urban transportation transit photograph palladium platinum print alternative historic process

First Presbyterian Church, Taiban, New Mexico, October 3, 2015

Man Atop Staircase, Sicily, 2005 (Gum Bichromate Over Cyanotype)

New York City Snow Scene, 2010 (Gum Bichromate Over Cyanotype)

Manhattan Bridge, 2013 (Palladium Print)

M&M Cigar Store, Butte, Montana, 2019 (Gum Bichromate Over Cyanotype)

Via Degli Alfani, Florence, Italy, 2018 (Kallitype)

Piazza San Martino, Florence, Italy, 2018 (Gum Bichromate over Cyanotype)

Piazza San Martino, Florence, Italy, 2018 (Gum Bichromate Over Palladium and Cyanotype)

Piazza San Martino, Florence Italy, 2018 (Palladium Print)

Piazza San Martino, Florence, Italy, 2018 (Kallitype)

Cartoleria, Venice, Italy, 2018 (Gum Bichromate Over Cyanotype)

Cartoleria, Venice, Italy, 2018 (Kallitype)

Studio 33, Liverpool, England, 2006 (Kallitype)

School Bus, Encino, New Mexico, 2018 (Kallitype)

Yellow School Bus, Encino, New Mexico, 2018 (Gum Bichromate over Cyanotype and Palladium )

Western Motel, Vaughn, New Mexico, 2018 (Gum Bichromate Over Palladium and Cyanotype)

Subway Scene, New York City, 1986 (Palladium Print)

First Presbyterian Church, Taiban, New Mexico, 2015 (Palladium Print)

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Color Archival Pigment Print New Mexico Works Progress Administration WPA FDR Franklin Roosevelt New Deal Great Depression American Southwest Fort Bliss National Cemetery El Paso Texas Stone Rock Wall

History

Works Progress Administration (WPA) in New Mexico and Texas - An Update

A previous blog post discussed a small sample of Works Progress Administration (WPA) sites from the midwest as an addendum to my El Palacio Magazine winter 2020 article on ...

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Garwood Schoolhouse Garwood Missouri midwest PWA WPA rustic Stonework Architecture Works Progress Administration

History

Works Progress Administration (WPA) Sites in the Midwest

WPA provided jobs to people to build schools, bridges, post offices, parks, highways, and other infrastructure....

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Color Archival Pigment Print Rural West Gas Station Regina New Mexico Southwest

Photography

Taking Risks

I probably owe the book Art and Fear another reading. This will be third time around, but I am still drawn to it, especially when I find myself needing to touch base with myself, and what better way to do it than with book in hand.

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Color Archival Pigment Print Water Sheep Mountains Gesto Bay Isle Skye Scotland Landscape

Landscape Photography

What is a Landscape

Every few years I undertake an exercise to revise and revamp my web page. The process usually involves starting from scratch...

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Blow Up David Hemmings Vanessa Redgrave Antonioni Film

Photography and Film

Why Blow-Up Is Still My Favorite Photography Film

I remember seeing the Michelangelo Antonioni film Blow-Up in a movie theatre back in 1967 just after its release. I went with friends - we did this a lot in those days - Friday or Saturday night at the local theater in Chatsworth...

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Irving Penn Truman Capote platinum print alternative historic process

History of Photography

Irving Penn and Platinum Printing

When I first took up photography and began to take it seriously, I was lucky enough to have included in the very first books I purchased (in addition to the usual how-to books on technique)...