Art's profile
Art Cohen has been taking photographs around Baltimore since 1967. Most of these photos involve candid portraits of Baltimoreans and documentary photography about life in this city. To Cohen's mind, this new Waverly Village Mural represented a good subject for documentation because of what it produced and also because of the active process which invited and encouraged a sizable number of community volunteers to work under the direction of the three muralists.
Back in the 60's, like many others, Cohen used black and white film, which he developed and printed in a darkroom. Today, like many others, Cohen uses digital photography, usually in color, and where needed, some minor modifications with Photoshop. A technical note: His equipment for shooting these 2,000 photographs was a Nikon D200 mostly using a 36-180 mm zoom, with occasional use of a super wide-angle 18-36 mm zoom (these zoom values represent the actual lens values x a factor of 1.5, which is necessary when calibrating values for lenses used with digital-backed cameras).
Art Cohen also writes topical songs and performs them on his accordion. This was included in the second project here which is a time-lapse video of progress on the Waverly Village Mural.
Mural Photo #2 which can been seen in Project 1) at the 2011 Baker Artists site was reproduced in a two-page spread entitled "The Big Picture - It Paints a Village" in the Johns Hopkins Magazine, Vol. 62, No. 4, Winter [December 8] 2010, pages 6-7.
The December 3, 2010 issue of "Neighborhood Matters" from the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University, included one of the mural photos in its feature "Faces of JHU: Tom Chalkley, cartoonist and illustrator, Homewood Arts Workshops."
The Johns Hopkins University Arts & Sciences Magazine also published one of the mural photos in a two-page spread entitled "The Great Wall of Waverly" (pages 24-25) in its Fall 2011 issue, Volume 9, Number 1. On its website at krieger.jhu.edu/magazine, under a feature also entitled "The Great Wall of Waverly," Arts & Sciences included thirteen of the mural photos along with the Vimeo posted as Project 2) at the Baker Artists site, the "Daily Progress (time-lapse) on the Waverly Village Mural - both as seen and as sung."
Back in the 60's, like many others, Cohen used black and white film, which he developed and printed in a darkroom. Today, like many others, Cohen uses digital photography, usually in color, and where needed, some minor modifications with Photoshop. A technical note: His equipment for shooting these 2,000 photographs was a Nikon D200 mostly using a 36-180 mm zoom, with occasional use of a super wide-angle 18-36 mm zoom (these zoom values represent the actual lens values x a factor of 1.5, which is necessary when calibrating values for lenses used with digital-backed cameras).
Art Cohen also writes topical songs and performs them on his accordion. This was included in the second project here which is a time-lapse video of progress on the Waverly Village Mural.
Mural Photo #2 which can been seen in Project 1) at the 2011 Baker Artists site was reproduced in a two-page spread entitled "The Big Picture - It Paints a Village" in the Johns Hopkins Magazine, Vol. 62, No. 4, Winter [December 8] 2010, pages 6-7.
The December 3, 2010 issue of "Neighborhood Matters" from the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University, included one of the mural photos in its feature "Faces of JHU: Tom Chalkley, cartoonist and illustrator, Homewood Arts Workshops."
The Johns Hopkins University Arts & Sciences Magazine also published one of the mural photos in a two-page spread entitled "The Great Wall of Waverly" (pages 24-25) in its Fall 2011 issue, Volume 9, Number 1. On its website at krieger.jhu.edu/magazine, under a feature also entitled "The Great Wall of Waverly," Arts & Sciences included thirteen of the mural photos along with the Vimeo posted as Project 2) at the Baker Artists site, the "Daily Progress (time-lapse) on the Waverly Village Mural - both as seen and as sung."
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