FTV: 2001. Angel of Sunset Park. Born with a heart condition.
Personal Reflections
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Jan 11
FTV: Beginnings, 2002
FTV: Meaning From the Vault. Work unpublished and unpolished. One of my first test shoots. Lower East Side. Winter 2002. Inspiration found in the work of Dante Rossetti.
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Dec 10
A Strange Intimacy
Humanity. I need to feel connected. But sometimes it’s easier to do so with Strangers.
Click on the Photos to see more of this project ‘The Stranger’s I Know’ But if you need a primer starting here is as good place as any.
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Dec 10
IPhone: Religion
© C. Stephen Hurst. 2010
A Winter’s Tale: these three images discovered me and my angst over organized religion more so than I made or constructed or discovered them (Funny how that works, photographs discover you and not the other way around). Taken in places I care not to remember. Inciting emotions I care not to recapture. But alas, this Trinity–if you will–shall continue to grow and foster, because it must. And because, with IPhone in hand, I can not turn away.
© C. Stephen Hurst. 2010
© C. Stephen Hurst. 2010
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Dec 10
Winter, NYC
© C. Stephen Hurst. 2010
Today in Brooklyn, NY: 20 Degrees and the remnants of a light snow. Not enough to be a Winter wonderland but just enough to be mildly irritating.
Thus, I wish for warmer days and bucolic fields…..
Wild fruit within hidden hills
plucked from vines on salt cooled winds; atop a technicolor blue, Adriatic Sea that whispers softly and softer still.
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Dec 10
For the love of Solve
Solve, Solve, Solve! Is there anything you can’t do. Your work has always exuded a ‘cinematic exuberance’ rich in color, angst, and mysterious narratives. But as I troll through the NYTIMES.com website this weekend and discover your latest collaboration with Owen Pallet evoking his inner Bernard Herrman; and revel in a host of ubber talented performers performing Passionately (alliteration anyone?) I can only say thank you for being. Your work is, has, and will continue to be filled with a wealth of awe and inspiration.
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Nov 10
Props that leave you Speechless
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Searching for Props for an upcoming shoot I came across this chair. Ummm, yeah…….I had to repost.
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Nov 10
FTV: A Decade Ago
- © C. Stephen Hurst. 2000
FTV (From the Vault) will be a new feature appearing every blue moon or so on News Random of work unpublished and unpolished. Today’s post brings work created nearly a decade ago. Our Lady of Prospect was my first serious attempt at constructing a visual landscape based upon my emotional daydreams. Technically speaking, the images were created with a Rollei TLR (still my favorite Camera, and, my most valued educator) and a Leica M6. The film used was Ilford XP2 Super throughout. All shot with ambient light with the exception of one image. Location: Prospect Park Brooklyn U.S.A. All effects were done in camera with the aid of Multiple Exposure techniques.
- © C. Stephen Hurst. 2000
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Oct 10
IPhone, early Summer, reflections.
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Just a small and randomly selected set of images from my Iphone.
Olga, before the laughter.
© C. Stephen Hurst. 2010
Pepper, with a Smile.
© C. Stephen Hurst. 2010
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Oct 10
Hurst (It’s about time) ‘News’ Update.
© C. Stephen Hurst. 2010
Ok, point taken. So I tend to be rather cryptic when it comes to the ‘News’ part of my NewsRandom. Why? In a nutshell, I am in a constant battle between the desire to be a private, incognito individual versus the professional need to be in sync with the 21st century and become a ‘Social Market-er‘ Thus, posts, far and few between, bend more towards the Random as opposed to the Hurst news.
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Oct 10
Cats, Tobacco, Lipstick and Burgers: IPhone
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© C. Stephen Hurst. 2010
Cat Sitting: Oscar the ‘Kraken’. A fury of menace and destruction.
© C. Stephen Hurst. 2010
Location Scouting: Down South in Tobacco Country.
© C. Stephen Hurst. 2010
A model from the D&D shoot.
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Jan 10
Ways to Help the HAitian People
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Fashion is Fantasy and today (and in the days, weeks, and months to come) we must concentrate on the unfolding tragedy of Haiti and her people. To date countries with vastly different political ideologies (China, Brazil, Spain, Cuba, France, and the United States) have spearheaded the effort to help those breathlessly in need.
For Ways to Help the Haitian People, not as a representative of any religion, race, or Nation/State, but rather as a representative of the Human race, please see a list below.
But first, I pull an essay from the NYTIMES by photographer Maggie Steber who has covered Haiti and it’s woes for the past 20 years.
