These are not selfies! They are self-portraits, with the exception that some are just photographs of photographers with cameras – or wait, actually some are just photographs of people in general with cameras. There are also instances where the camera is just a prop. Can a photographer direct another person how to […]
Author: Kritina Lee Knief
Amaryllis Triptych
The blog has gotten a little off track. Looking back there were less fluffy posts. I think they were good. I will get back to that soon … meantime, I did the simplest of things. The Amaryllis my aunt gave me is now onto its second gigantic bloom. You basically cannot get a bad shot. […]
romantic, vulnerable, radiant, sensual
Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
God bless & protect these innocent lives …
It is with the deepest sadness that I write this post. This post is not about photography, although I am attaching some photographs. Today, 16 December, 2014, the Pakistani Taliban militants attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 141 people. 132 of them were children. I grieve, along with most of the world, for the […]
How far does Jill Greenberg go to get a shot?
Here is an editorial about the controversy re: Jill Greenberg’s series, “End Times”, 2006 that still is talked about long after its creation. It pains me to even have to post one of these images, but I need to give context and a point of reference to this post. I can only bear to […]
Erotica Meets Fashion
Did Helmut Newton do it first? (See my posts on Helmut Newton by clicking on his name in the left column of this page or type his name into the search box. Additionally, I recommend reading this excellent Voguepedia bio.) So, was Newton the first to incorporate fetishism and bondage into his fashion photographs? I’m […]
Cameras that don’t operate
Katharine Morling‘s choice of medium is ceramics, onto which she paints what looks to be a line drawing but 3-dimensional at that. This may not be a post about photography, but it is about cameras and I couldn’t resist! So unique – love her work. Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie […]
Then & Now / Berenice Abbott & Marc Yankus
“If it is to be utterly honest and direct, it should be related to the pulse of the times – the pulse of today.” –Berenice Abbott Two photographers, different eras, same subject: Berenice Abbott: Paris, 1920s, –started off as darkroom assistant in Man Ray’s portrait business. New York, 1929, “began study […]
A Halloween Compilation …
This could go on forever … I didn’t include vintage photographs, at least not Victorian ones or the ones with no photo credits … and I didn’t include vintage pin-up either because everywhere I looked they again had no photo credits. I didn’t post much from old Hollywood, however, in terms of photographer unknown, I’m […]
scale, perspective, depth … This is a repost for Eiffel Tower’s 125th Anniversary
Richard Avedon (1959) I had posted this photograph (above) previously and explained that this was a matter of Genius x 2. Two of my favorite artists — Richard Avedon, the photographer and the subject, Marc Chagall, the painter. Here are two more shots that make use of the Eiffel Tower and create depth by use […]
