Weegee-38'-43'

 Crowd at Coney Island, 1940

 Heatspell, 1938

The Critic, 1943

Joel Meyerowitz - Street Photography 1981

O. Winston Link

    "The plane has the air of being twice as quiet that mobile things have when they are not moving. In a few moments the train and the plane will be gone - and with them the fleeting sense of densely concentrated time" Geoff Dyer in his book The Ongoing Moment

Mailbox & Trailer Park, Willow Street, Pennsylvania 2011

Christopher Moss

Agriculture & Industry, Centerville, Pennsylvania 2011

Christopher Moss

Untitled, Willow Street, Pennsylvania 2011

Christopher Moss

Julian Roder-World of Warfare

                                                       

I absolutely love these photographs. Check out the rest of Julien Roders work @ http://www.julianroeder.com

Lancaster News Paper Interview - Emerging Forms, Unfolding Time

    "As the son of an artist, Christopher Moss naturally gravitated toward a career in the arts. So when his father, David Moss, was arranging a one-man exhibition of his mixed-media work at the Isadore Gallery, it just seemed natural for it to become a two-man, father-son exhibit.
"I was very excited to have the opportunity to exhibit with my father," says Chris Moss, 25, a Pennsylvania College of Art & Design graduate. "It's something we talked about when we were in New Mexico."
    David Moss is a painter, while his son is a photographer. In their exhibition, Chris Moss explores the landscapes of New Mexico in "Land of Enchantment," while David Moss's abstract mixed-media works evoke messages of the ever-changing balance of life in "Transient Equilibrium."
"Our work is very different, but there is a certain unity to it," Chris Moss says. "Maybe because.... "

Read more: http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/482359_Emerging-forms--unfolding-time.html#ixzz1c7cL4Cwb

Enrique Metinides- In Place of Coincidence

 "EA Ford Mustang fell into the San Cristóbal Canal in Ecatepec, Mexico State on the Mexico-Pachuca highway. The three persons in the car died when they left the car. They were carried away by the current. 1989."


                                     
 "The Regis Hotel, with its three cabarets, a pharmacy and a café were destroyed by the 19 September 1985 earthquake. Hundreds of dead and wounded, 20 September 1985."


                                     
 "Attack on security vehicle by armed commando in Av. Universidad. The attackers shot three policemen. While they were escaping with the money, several police cars turned up, forcing them to take refuge in Comercial Mexicana, where another violent shoot-out ensued. The assailants eventually got away with the money. September 1988."


                                      
"A streetcar was derailed in Calzada de Guadalupe, three blocks from the Basilica. The streetcar crashed into a lamp-post, injuring 15. The 1980s."


I came across these photographs on the Zone Zero website   and I was immediately overwhelmed by so many emotions. They are shocking, sad , amazing, unbelievable, I just cant believe Enrique , or anyone for that matter could be in these situations to photograph them at such pivotal moments! They remind me of Weegee's photographs but taken in Mexico City during the 80's . http://www.zonezero.com

Occupy Wall Street- Ongoing Protest

I am so glad that this is happening throughout the US, and even the world. Its been long coming. The general outrage over corporate tyranny was bound to explode. With the rising numbers of joblessness, economic collapse, perpetual war, destruction of constitutional rights, bank bailouts, destruction of the environment, etc, etc, etc. And the list could go on and on!! Chances are there is or will be protests in your part of the world. Join in.

Long Month, Great Show, Time to Relax

I can finally stop to catch my breath. The past month or so has been so full of work I haven't had time to do anything else but eat, sleep and work. Between working 60 plus hours between two jobs, recording a demo with my band 7 Day Bender, and most importantly preparing for Octobers 1st Friday and Art Walk show at the Isadore Gallery i've had little time to unwind. I felt like I was back in college again.  Everything came together perfectly! I had a great time at the 1st Friday event, saw old friends and talked with former professors, ended up eating Japanese and going out with some friends for drinks. Finally I can get back to a normal work routine and have something that resembles a weekend! As of right now its Monday afternoon and I am working on doing absolutely nothing for the rest of the day..... I love making plans like these. 

October Show at the Isadore Gallery

Good news.... I have been working toward getting a gallery show together by the end of the summer and all my hard work is paying off! First Friday in October at the Isadore Gallery I will be showing 12 - 18x24 prints from my ongoing project Land of Enchantment. I am so extremely excited! It will be a really interesting show with my large scale prints of New Mexico next to my dad's abstract paintings and drawings. Nothing like keeping it eclectic right. Ill keep updating about news of the show the closer it gets to October, until then Ill be hard at work making prints and framing!

Memories of the West

 Untitled, New Mexico,  from the series "Land of Enchantment" 2011
Christopher Moss

 Grave, New Mexico, from the series " Land of Enchantment" 2011
Christopher Moss

 Potential Calm, Madrid, New Mexico, from the series "Land of Enchantment" 2011
Christopher Moss

Indian Ruins, New Mexico, from the series "Land of Enchantment" 2011
Christopher Moss

Group Show This Friday

Come check out the Painted Deserts 2 Year Anniversary show this friday! Im really excited to be apart of this event. If you cant make it out on friday the work will be on display throughout the month of August. See you there!

Finding Time For New Edits

Lilian Garcia, Tijeras, New Mexico, 2011, 
Christopher Moss
  
    Just returned from New Mexico a couple of weeks ago and I have well over a thousand photographs that I am looking forward to editing! The trip went by so fast ( as most vacations do)! It was a fairly normal visit with my parent, relaxing, eating sumptuous meals, and just soaking it all in. We spent a few days in Albuquerque & Santa Fe, we also took a day trip to see ancient indian ruins which were amazing. It was sad to say goodbye to my parents and leave beautiful New Mexico behind till next year. Hopefully I can start finding more time to work on the photographs so that they can bring me back to the land of enchantment again.

New Mexico Inspiration

 Eliot Porter, Clouds at Sunset, Tesque, New Mexico

 Edward Weston, E-Town, 1933, New Mexico

 Georgia O'Keefe, Ram's Head, Hollyhock and Little Hills, 1935

Edward Weston, White Horse, Ranch de Taos, New Mexico

Holly Andres- Sparrow Lane

I really love the theatrical aspect of this series of photo's. I stumbled upon them while looking at the robert mann gallery website. www.robertmann.com/artists/main.html 

 Anna's Birthday Party #4, 2009

 Amber, 2006

 Liz's Palace of Beauty, 2009

Outside the forbidden doorway, 2008
All photo's by Holly Andres 
http://hollyandres.com/home.html

Westward Bound

    So, in the next few weeks I will be visiting my parents in New Mexico for our yearly trip. I cant wait to be there! New Mexico has become this amazing escape in which I can take a long reprieve from my routine and social endeavors. Its beautiful landscape, amazing foods and its general New Mexico time frame (extremely laid back and loose), has been a second home for me for the past 7 years. I foresee this trip being somewhat different geographically than the rest. My folks have already encountered the side effects of the fire's that have been raging in Arizona and the highest recorded drought in the New Mexico's history.

 Given my investment as a photographer, documenting the landscape of my families land and the surroundings of the West, I have a feeling that this years groupings of images shall be of a different quality.

Im sure that the natural beauty of the land will be as apparent as previous years, but perhaps there will be this element of foreboding natural calamity that could be added to the mix. My hope's are that these disaster will subside and that nature will repair the damage that has been done, but thats me keeping my fingers crossed. Either way, westward bound here I come! I cant wait.

A Summers Night

Untitled, York, Pennsylvania, 2011, From the series "Night Work"
Christopher Moss

Tuxedo, York, Pennsylvania, 2011, From the series "Night Work"
Christopher Moss 

Modern Tomb, York Pennsylvania, 2011, From the series "Night Work"
Christopher Moss

Mining, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 2011
Christopher Moss

Gap Children, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 2011
Christopher Moss

Charles Moore- Inspiration

   "when I came back to my hometown, a little hometown in Alabama, I asked myself, what in the world I am going to do. I mean, I got this training and all this talent and, well, supposedly I had some talent. But there was really nothing I could be doing with that – unless I moved to some big city." "I found out that the newspapers in Montgomery needed a photographer. So I got a job and it turned my life around. I mean it literally turned my life around. Because I had found something that’s more important than fashion or commercial or whatever, or even more important than money. And that is what you can do with a newspaper and what you can do in telling stories."
Excerpts from- Oral History: Charles Moore, Interviewed by Mary Morin
Read the whole interview @ www.americansuburbx.com/2011/05/interview-interview-with-charles-moore.html

Aimless Wanderings II

Convergence, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 2011
Christopher Moss

Store Front, Annville, Pennsylvania, 2011
Christopher Moss

Julian Roder- Young & Angry

From the series Lagos Transformation, Private bus taxi at the Badagry Road expansion project at the Odun Ade bus stop, Lagos, Nigeria, 2009

From the series Love & Destruction, Jana and Christian, Baden, 2004

From the series The Summits, Protest against EU-summit in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003

From the series Egypt 2006, Public Beach at Stanely Bay, Alexandria 

    Recently I stumbled upon the German photographer Julian Roder, whom is quickly becoming one of my favorite photographers out there! I feel that his work definitely has roots in in the Gurskey-Becher schools while at the same time exhibits a strong influence in street photography. Which of course results in awesomeness in my book. Julian Roder is currently one of four runners up for the Aperture Foundations Portfolio Prize and he is a finalist for this years Magnum Expression awards. His work is currently on exhibit at the Rotterdam Netherlands Fotomuseum, check him out at: http://www.julianroeder.com/contact