Brittany At The Modern

Brittany At The Modern

by | Feb 3, 2022 | model, museum, photography

This past week I went to Fort Worth to visit my niece Jenna at TCU. While there I determined to finally have a visit with an old friend from my time in Tulsa who moved to Texas back in the early fall.

Brittany At The Modern 1

When we both lived in Tulsa I was doing several large scale photography projects and she was kind enough to model for me on a number of occasions. She’s a friend who is up for anything, often seeing my vision for the image, but when not, trusting my ideas and the images that will come from my often odd posing requests.

Brittany At The Modern 2

She moved away many years ago but we kept in touch as she moved around the country for her career. We said if we were ever in the same city again we would have to get together. That finally happened when I moved to Dallas in 2020 and she moved to Fort Worth in 2021.

Brittany At The Modern 3

When I visit Fort Worth I love to hit their museum area. They have 3 world-class museums, not just for the art inside but for the architectural masterpieces they are housed in. On this day I decided to visit the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for the first time. I invited her to meet me there to catch up and do a mini-photo shoot for old time’s sake.

Brittany At The Modern 4

I brought out my very old DSLR camera, a Panasonic G1 from 2008. I hadn’t used it in probably 3 years so it definitely needed some care to get it back in shape. It’s pretty archaic by today’s standards (even iPhone standards much less current DSLR cameras). It is bad in low light and can be quite grainy. I had to refamiliarize myself with how it worked, it’s been that long. Way more things to pay attention to than my iPhone, that is for sure. But it’s like riding a bike. Give me a few minutes and it seemed like no time had passed.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

As you can see from this photograph the Museum itself is a work of art. The signature architectural element of the Modern is a reflecting pool that surrounds half the building with 3 stories of long vertical glass panels that look out on the pool.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth – photo By Briaande – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 1
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 2

There are 3 pavilions that jut out into the reflecting pool that you can see from the other pavilions. There is art in each space so it’s interesting to see it through the prism of the water and architecture.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3

The sunlight and shadows combine with the ripples in the water and the strong structural elements to make amazing visual impressions. The building itself is a work of art.

Earlier Work

Here are a few images from my earlier shoots with Brittany in 2013 and 2014.

Brittany at Philbrook Museum
Yoga on the Rocks
Emotional WInd

‘VISUAL POEMS’ Photo-collage Series

I was doing a photo-collage series at the time called ‘Visual Poems’. She contributed to that as well.

The Meteorologist’s Poem

If you would like to see more of my photographic work, click on the ‘Art’ drop down menu at the top of the page.

Stop Sign #6

by | May 12, 2008 | art, colorado, denver, libeskind, museum, polyester, ruscha, stop signs

Stop sign #6 – What if people don’t like what I do?
Answer: Guess what? They WON’T like what you do! At least many won’t. Many might,
some will. But that is like saying what if someone doesn’t like my flower garden or
looks or gift, etc. So what? Are you not going to plant your garden or wash your
face and comb your hair or give any gifts because MAYBE someone won’t like your
choices? NO, of course not. You will go do those things. So, time to do a reality
check and realize that the normal state of the creative life is that someone won’t
like what you do. That isn’t bad, it’s to be expected. Embrace it, have it be an
acceptable part of your understanding about life.

The Denver Art Museum, by Daniel Libeskind – I have a funny feeling many Denverites
don’t like this building, though I am sure many do as well. What sort of building
would have been built if the goal was to have everyone like the building?

Denver Museum over the street

Inside the Museum – Molten Polyester, by Ed Ruscha – I am sure this isn’t universally
loved or understood by all that see it. What would this image look like if Mr.
Ruscha worried incessantly about whether people would like it?

What Does Modern Look Like? – Sketchbook With Voices

by | Apr 11, 2008 | back, bathing suit, museum, nude, sunburn, tan, tan lines

This collage is in a book called ‘Sketchbook with Voices’. It is actually a
sketchbook of blank pages with an idea, question, statement or assignment by an artist.
I got it way back in the 80s and decided to use it for photo sketches instead of
regular drawings. This image is probably the only image in the whole book that has
any drawing in it at all.

The black and white image in the background was taken by me during a photo shoot with
a friend. My sister-in-law at the time knew that I liked tan lines and took the
color photo of her friend while on vacation in Mexico and sent it to me.

You can see digital versions of this type of image, people in a museum looking at
some huge photo on the wall, which is actually the photo of the person making the
image. Just remember where they got the idea, ok? LOL