continuing interest photography salem krieger
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Continuing Interest
Continuing Interest
is a title that reflects my lifelong love of creating images. Capturing fleeting moments through photography is both my profession and my way of exploring, experiencing, and interacting with the world. Some of the images are from simply being in the right place at the right time and having the experience to know what to look for. Other images start as an idea and take time to develop. My eye is alert not only to formal concerns with color, shape, and design but to the content and context of a given situation as well. The unusual, the unexpected are pieces of the moment I try to find. Real life offers some of the best theater.
The work represented covers a range from transparency film to the most current digital technologies. The process of selecting the images for this book has enabled me to reflect on the changes and continuities in my work over the years. But I’m looking forward to findingnew images to pursue my continuing interest. Salem Krieger February 2009
ARCTIC CIRCLE, GREENLAND us national guard
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.� Frank Borman
QUEENS, NY
“Swing hard in case you hit it.” Dan Marino
NEWARK, NJ
MAN BATTLING THE DUST “Who is that stooped over with broken broom and dustpan, every morning and every night, working? Working in the morning when the saffron sunrays fulminating out of the east sparkle on the placid river? Working in the night when the stars of heaven areas bright as the eyes of angels? Stop looking at the clock. The neurotic whip master has gone to the bank. Pause, breathe, there now, tell me, for waiting for me in our floral palace high above the polluted clouds. What creature is this and what is the nature of his labor? If you must know - It is Man, and he is battling the dust!” Organic Poems, Michael Sobsey
QUEENS, NY artist - raven schlossberg
“He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.� Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
MANHATTAN. NYC
“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.” Lord Northcliffe
MANHATTAN, NYC CENTRAL PARK
ernest phillips jr.
“The production of too many useful things results in too many people reduced to useless work” Karl Marx
SOUTH DAKOTA
“He who wants to change the world should already begin by cleaning the dishes.” Paul Carvel
SOUTH DAKOTA
“Water flows humbly to the lowest level. Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.” -Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
SOUTH DAKOTA
“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.� Charles Kuralt
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“Monuments! what are they? The very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.� John Lothrop Motley
BEIJING, CHINA
“I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.� Albert Einstein
SHANGHAI, CHINA
“Reform is China’s second revolution.” Deng Xiaoping
HONG KONG, CHINA
BEIJING, CHINA twins - zhou jinge, zhou yi
“When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, “Look, twins!” Rodney Dangerfield
DONALD VACCINO painter - nyc
“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.� Richard Avedon
PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE, MANHATTAN, NYC
unique garcia
miriam gonzalez and daughter
TEXAS story on biodiesel fuel eric miles
“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; and the mechanic that would perfect his work, must first sharpen his tools.� Confucius
MASSACHUSETTS story on organic farming seeds of solidarity farm
“Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. Man may be civilized in some degree without great progress in manufactures and with little commerce with his distant neighbors. But without the cultivation of the earth, he is, in all countries, a savage. Until he gives up the chase and fixes himself in some place, and seeks a living from the earth, he is a roaming barbarian. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.� Daniel Webster
FRANK WESS JAZZ LEGEND portrait for Whole Foods Market, NYC
“Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.” Charlie Parker
CONEY ISLAND BROOKLYN, NY mermaid parade
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde
MANHATTAN, NYC series on the smallest New Yorker’s
sydney bacheller
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MANHATTAN, NYC self portrait
“Go to your bosom; Knock there and ask your heart what it doth know.” William Shakespeare
MANHATTAN, NYC actor- kostas paragios
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business� Henry Ford
A very special thank you to the following: Xerox Corporation for being so generous in sponsoring this publication. Geno Rodgriguez (co-founder The Alternative Museum, NY) for his insight on creating a publication. My wife, Dr.Auyeung, for her highly skilled awareness in understanding the importance of images and helping me expand my photographic eye. Michael Riebesehl (Xerox Corp.) for his color, design and technical skills in collaborating with me to ensure a high level of post production. Please note: This publication was produced strictly as a self promotional publication to illustrate the work of Salem Krieger and the printing capabilities of the Xerox iGen4.
Printed on a Xerox® iGen4® Digital Press using a Xerox® FreeFlow® Print Server on Xerox® Digital Color Elite Gloss 100lb Cover (270 g/m2) and Digital Color Elite Silk 100lb Text (140 g/m2).
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cover photo: South Dakota
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