FOTOGRAFY FORK

Basics of Forking Fotografer
Our fotografic fork is of many tines.

City & its streets, countryside & its roads, architecture & its details, people & [ their ]
nature, four legged companions & their Zoo brothers +++

The sunny side of being a forking fotografer: we never get bored. The cloudy side: they say, we are hard to identify with a particular photographic genre.

Travel bugs
We love to travel, no matter where to. We enjoy both the city and the nature.

When we’re 64
By then we might trade our fork for a chopstick.

PHOTOARTEL'S Blog
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Only the true great artists do not age

 Alberto Martini:

“Only the true great artists do not age, because they are able to innovate and invent new forms, new colors, genuine inventions.”
"From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800–1925" 
exhibition features some 70 prints, drawings, and illustrated books by 52 artists and introduces art lovers to a period that is neglected by art history.
Exhibition's highlights for those, who is unable to visit NGA in Washington DC.
 All images are clickable. Enjoy!

Francesco Paolo Michetti  "Southern Italian Woman Dressed for Church" c.1885-1888
Pastel, black and white chalks on faded blue-gray paper.
Florian Carr Fund and The Ahmanson Foundation

Mosè Bianchi "A Miracle" ( "Un Miracle" )  1874
Etching with aquatint on chine collé.
Purchased as the Gift of Matthew and Ann Nimetz

Mariano Fortuny Y Carbo "A Moroccan Woman in Traditional Dress" 1866
Watercolor with touches of gum heightened with white gouache.
Purchased as the gift of Alexander and Judith Laughlin.

Anselmo Bucci "Place Blanche à Montmartre" 1915
Drypoint.
Purchased as the gift of Matthew and Ann Nimetz

Telemaco Signorini "House of Dante da Castiglione" ( "Casa di Dante da Castiglione" ) c.1883
Etching.
The Ahmanson Foundation.

Francesco Paolo Michetti "Satan Rides and Drives the World" 1882
Charcoal and white chalk on gray paper.
Purchased as the gift of Dian Woodner

Luigi Conconi "The Contemplative Life" "Vita contemplativa" c.1883
Etching.
Purchased as the gift of Matthew and Ann Nimetz

Luigi Conconi "Intoxication" 1888
Etching with monotype inking.
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund.

Giovanni Boldini "Portrait of a Priest in a Church Interior" 1900s
Watercolor.
 Promised gift of Dian Woodner

Alberto Martini "Kiss" ( "Bacio" ) 1915
Lithograph
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Thursday, January 15, 2015

They Lure Us Inside

Our NYC Christmas Department Store Decoration Contest
short list is not too long.

Whizzing by Macy's, through packed Herald Square, 
a sharp turn around Lord & Taylor,
by Winter Village at Bryant Park, 
through seemingly impenetrable swarm at Rockefeller, 
to our 2nd on 5th : Saks.

Comparing to fashion, Noël windows appeared bleak;
long line around the corner of 50th might have a different 
opinion.

Past freshly looking St. Patrick, past Harry Winston's icicles,
synching our phone clock with Trump's, to our frontrunner:
Bergdorf Goodman
A sigh of relief: another Sterling Cooper ("Mad Men") did not take 
over their windows campaign.

"The Dozen Windows Show" is on on the 5th, standing room only.

The show must go on !

[ Click on an image for better viewing on a big monitor.]

Saks Fifth Avenue, Holiday Season 2014-2015

Saks Fifth Avenue, Holiday Season 2014-2015

Saks Fifth Avenue, Holiday Season 2014-2015

Saks Fifth Avenue, Holiday Season 2014-2015

Saks Fifth Avenue, Holiday Season 2014-2015

Bergdorf Goodman, Holiday Season 2014-2015

Bergdorf Goodman, Holiday Season 2014-2015

Bergdorf Goodman, Holiday Season 2014-2015

Bergdorf Goodman, Holiday Season 2014-2015

Bergdorf Goodman, Holiday Season 2014-2015

Bergdorf Goodman, Holiday Season 2014-2015