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Jeff Bridges Exhibit in San Diego, CA
The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego’s Balboa Park is presenting
“Jeff Bridges—Pictures” featuring 71 panoramic photographs
taken by the actor on movie sets. Bridges has been taking photographs on movie
sets for 28 years, from his roles in “King Kong” through “Seabiscuit.”
“One of the things I love about the wide-format camera is that when you
take the picture, many people aren’t aware that they’re in the photos,”
Bridges says. “Viewers can really look around in each photograph and see
many little worlds and scenes going on.” Some of the actors that Bridges
has photographed include Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger, Julianne
Moore and his brother Beau and father Lloyd. The Museum of Photographic Arts
is located at 1649 El Prado in San Diego, California. For more information,
call 619/238-7559 or visit www.mopa.org.
digitalimagecafe.com
Offers Contests
Photo enthusiasts Bob Hall and Mike Hobizal have created digitalimagecafe.com,
an online photo experience for photographers of all skill levels that visitors
have called “The friendliest photography website on the Internet.”
The site offers its members the opportunity to display their work in a gallery
and receive comments from other members, as well as to participate in a forum
with sections for general photography questions, equipment specific questions,
techniques, want ads, etc. The site also offers its members daily, weekly, monthly
and quarterly photo contests for prizes that total over $45,000 a year. The
annual fee for digitalimagecafe.com is $20.
Photography Books
A Notebook at Random
by Irving Penn
 Included
here are some of Penn’s signature portraits, still lifes and fashion photographs
from his 60-year career, along with the rough sketches and line drawings that
provide a window into ideas and images in the making. The book is populated
with artists, writers and models whose lives intersected with Penn’s:
Picasso, Jean Cocteau and Lisa Fonssagrives look out with that timeless intensity
that characterizes an Irving Penn portrait. 128 pages with 137 illustrations.
$65, cloth. Bulfinch Press, www.bulfinchpress.com.
13 Years of Bondage
by Rick Castro
 This
volume is not for the faint of heart. Well-known homeoerotic imagemaker Rick
Castro celebrates his 13th anniversary documenting the ties that bind. Castro
explores the sexual psyche of street hustlers, professional models such as Tony
Ward (Madonna’s former amour) and performance artist Ron Athey, bound
in leather and rope in stark, powerful images that, as Catherine Johnson of
the Kinsey Institute notes, “go far beyond mere representation.”
128 pages, 120 duotone photographs. $46, cloth. Fluxion Editions, P.O. Box 792,
Los Angeles, CA 90078; www.fluxion.net.
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