NEWLY REVISED BLOG

WELCOME to my newly revised Clyde Keller Photo, blog posts!

On my main Facebook page I'd like to highlight the tryptic of me as a young 19 year old showing the famed photojournalist, Eugene Smith several of my then (recent) prints made during the workshop we took with him during the summer of 1966.  The photos were snapped by Don Getsug, as a fellow classmate back in August of 1966.  Eugene Smith is a reknown photojournalist who pioneered the use of the "photo essay" while he worked for LIFE magazine in the late 1940s and 1950s.  Here is my original print image, entitled "Mow Em Down" which I showed to Smith during the workshop. I captured it the day before on a short trip to the Oregon State fairgrounds as well as Don Getsug's fabulous series (three shot) of me showing Eugene Smith this print.

The original print was the subject of critique by renowned photojournalist Smith who smiled and made the comment, that my photo captured the adage, "there is a sucker born every minute." The camera used was a Nikon F with an ultrawide 21mm wide angle lens, perfect for working close and working wide.

 
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Here is my portrait I made of W. Eugene Smith in the classroom setting.  This portrait may be purchased at my website at www.clydekeller.com.


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W. EUGENE SMITH--

An artist, music lover as well as a photojournalist, Eugene Smith spoke poetically to us about using a "keyboard of lenses" to articulate the most important visual aspects about his subjects. He was quite frank about his struggles to get at the truth about his subjects and then to get his final prints (that he made himself) published intact. Before Smith, no one would have been able to run a photograph large across two pages of a national magazine. Smith was insistent... and argued for creative layouts of his works. He was after truth... and made great sacrifices to get at it. When LIFE Magazine "butchered" his photo essay on Albert Schweitzer he left the magazine. His career was filled with opportunities but mired by the battles that always ensued with his editors over the use of his images.
As an idealist he would not compromise... and so, in this portrait... I wanted to bring that idealism into sharp focus... his resolute vision and fragility intact.
 
Please note a series of three wonderful photos made by photographer Don Getsug can be viwed on the companion pint entitled "Mow Em Down." In the triptych I am shown in an exchange with Eugene Smith (we're looking at the Carnival images) captured during the 1966 Photo Seminar Workshop held at the University of Oregon. To view more of Don's super photographic portfolios, please visit his website at http://www.dongetsug.com/


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2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Clyde Keller's original RFK photos will appear in Rory Kennedy's new documentary film about her mother, Ethel Kennedy.

The HBO film, ETHEL, premiers this January and includes Clyde Keller's original Robert F. Kennedy portfolio images from May 24, 1968.

"Oregon Coast Soujourn" and "Coast Greeting" will be featured in a new documentary film about the life of Ethel Kennedy by her daughter, Rory Kennedy. In 2007, Kennedy’s "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the 2007 Prime-time Emmy Award for Best Documentary. I am honored to be included in Rory's new production.

 

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MY WORK FEATURED IN HBO DOCUMENTARY

Featured in a new documentary film by Rory Kennedy to be aired on HBO. In 2007, Kennedy’s "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Documentary. I am honored to be included in this new film.

Frances Fox Piven, A DEMOCRATIC VISION, Clyde Keller Art - Large 16x20 Inch Art Print - Glen Beck Protest Article, Dissent

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Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. As an educator, and author she has worked tirelessly for nearly four decades with issues concerning the poor and the disadvantaged. She is a member of the Democratic Party and has always worked within the mainstream of American politics.

Because of the recent and continuing barrage of death threats against Piven, I am offering my vintage 1976 portrait of her as someone I both admire and have followed since first meeting her in 1976. I met her withinin the framework of an event in part sponsored by the Democratic Party and in support for legislation that would have created full employment, an idea that still has merit in our current atmosphere of home foreclosures and job losses.

The "obsessive attacks" making the news are from TV commentator Glen Beck. For nearly two years (according to Piven) Beck has falsely accused her of being a Revolutionary, Socialist or Communist, essentially scaring his viewers into believing that she must be stopped. Beck uses inflammatory, violent rhetoric and imagery comparing her to Nazis and more. He strikes fear into his viewers warning that she is trying to "crash the system" - that she is undermining American Democracy. He ignores the fact that she has devoted her life to the principle that "Democracy rests on inclusive participation by an entire population" as she has stated many times.

These attacks on Piven were recently highlighted on the Democracy Now television program in which Piven was an invited guest. She made several comments about the numerous death threats she has received since Beck began attacking her. It was pointed out that while Beck was not directly advocating violence he was literally giving his listeners the "road map" to then act against her, possibly leading to her death. These unnerving threats are published in his blog entitled The Blaze. Beck has yet to remove any of the death threats made by these bloggers as of January 20, 2011.

In her final statement on the Democracy Now TV interview, Piven clarifies what she feels is the real threat that Beck's hate speech represents.

Piven states: "Democracy demands that people have some understanding of what's going on, of what there own interests are, of who their enemies are. And, moneyed propagandists have taken advantage of that to create a demonology in which it is the democratic left that is the source of all our troubles. This is the most frightening development rather than the kind of nutty death threats. It's a rather frightening development because it raises the question of whether a democracy can survive and re-emerge with any kind of health in the face of these enormous propaganda capacities (Rupert Murdoch & Company) and in that sense it is Murdoch not Beck who is the more important target."

The idea of indirectly empowering people to acts of violence by our leaders or pundits is extremely dangerous. It has led in the past to wholesale genocide with over 50 million deaths throughout the world since the end of WWII. Genocide begins within the framework of false hate speech and the sanctioning of violence made by leaders who have ordinary people do their killing for them.

At the time of this 1976 portrait, Piven (now 78 years old) was invited to participate in a conference where the issues of full employment (Humphrey Hawkins Bill) were under discussion. She along with Michael Harrington, author of THE OTHER AMERICA, spoke about the plight of the unemployed. In this portrait she is addressing many hundreds of people who came to listen to her and others.


A DEMOCRATIC VISION Copyright © 1976 Clyde Keller
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TWO NEW RFK SUBJECT CATEGORIES

RFK BILL BARRY
RFK ETHEL KENNEDY

My two new categories round up some of the best images from my collection including new portraits of Bill Barry, RFK's personal bodygurard and Ethel Kennedy with her husband at the Oregon Coast. These and other documentary imagescome directly from my Robert Kennedy Archive. Images are in pristine condition and are printed to museum grade archival standards.

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"Double Take" is my new blogspot, an odyssey into my world of photographic explorations. It provides a way of looking at a considerable and varied body of work with fresh viewpoints and exchanges. My images are drawn from my direct experiences, in essence autobiographical. Your reactions and input are welcome... send us something!

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NEW FOR JULY-


New Book from Schaffner Press
"Acid Christ" by Mark Christiensen
Cover & Interior Photos by Clyde Keller


"ACID CHRIST GESTALT"
Fine Art Print from 1967 Timothy Leary Portraits
and 1976 Documentary Photographs of the
Ken Kesey Poetic Hoo-Haw
"ACID CHRIST GESTALT" Copyright © 2010 Clyde Keller

New Interpretive Work in a Fine Art Poster based upon my original Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey Photographs captured in 1967 and June 1976- assembled from my film archive. The flavor is Psychedelic - Please Enjoy!

AVAILABLE THROUGH MY THREE STORES

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"What I like most about Clyde's work is that he seems to truly care about the people and places he photographs. His lens, as an extension, mirrors that caring beautifully. As the American photographer Paul Strand said, "It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness." In that capacity, Clyde Keller is unquestionably gifted."


"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you."

-----Brigitte Bardot