FYI. New Meeting Location
The Ongoing Moment is now hosted at
Praxis Photo Arts Center
2637 27th ave s.
Minneapolis, MN 55406
free secure off-street parking
Third Wednesday of the month from 6:30-9:00pm
hosted by Mpls-based photographers Richard Ott and Walter Horishnyk
FaceBook Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theongoingmoment
All are welcome
Meetings are free, donations are welcome that goes toward special guest speakers,
snacks and beverages.
Sign up in advance to exhibit your images for a short discussion with the hosts and group attendees
by emailing: walter@horishnyk.com or dickophoto@yahoo.com
“We can all learn and grow from sharing our visual language.
This is a safe place for all levels and interests, landscape to abstract, reportage to street photography “
The Ongoing Moment is a monthly meeting for photographers who wish to increase their understanding and improve their practice of the medium. The title refers to the idea that “we share experiences that are formally similar”; a flag bearer for instance. As photographers we may render that in many ways, yet we refer to our prior emotions and our experiences of seeing previous flag bearer photographs, when making our new images.
We explore past Master photographers and Contemporary photographers, looking at their images and artistic process to help us go forward on our own photographic journey.
Frank Paulin: Out of the Limelight Hardcover – September 15, 2007
by Frank Paulin (Author, Illustrator), Max Kozloff (Author)
Book Giveaway:
At every meeting we have a book giveaway, attendees have a chance to receive our monthly book choice.
Born in 1926, Paulin came of age as a photographer in the 1940s studying with the likes of Harry Callahan and art director Alexey Brodovitch. By the 1950s, the streets of New York City had established themselves as Paulin’s primary muse, and black-and-white film his medium. The book features images from his prodigous body of work created over four decades, in New York City, as well as Paris, Seville, New Orleans and Atlantic City. “Street photographers are of course well known for their agility, quick reflexes, and elusive conduct. In order to catch a social reality on the wing, they behave as surreptitious observers, hopefully unnoticed by passersby… What comes out of this practice is serendipitous and clandestine work that demands patience. In Frank Paulin’s case, they include encounters that he let happen or couldn’t help… He works between split second decision and latent artifice, at the same time exploiting the charge that atmosphere gives to physiognomy.”–Max Kosloff, from the introduction, 2007
Suzanne Shaff / “Taking the long way around”
In Germany (1991), a street vendor objected to my shooting her wares and chased me off with a big squishy tomato, As it sailed by my ear, I turned long enough to see the angry Frau winding up for another lob. In that instant, I knew that was the shot! Yes I missed the shot (and the vegetables). But I got the point.
The point was and still is that I want my photographs to be brimming with the richness of life unfolding. I’m not here to direct life, but to witness it with a camera up to my eye.
Suzanne has been putting the camera to her eye for the past 57 years. She will share with us her adventures and insights on artistic and business photography with words and images.
Don’t miss this presentation.