Milwaukee Art Museum Revisited

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A week ago today, I spent a couple of hours leading a private photowalk for four. We spent all of our time exploring the various aspects of the Milwaukee Art Museum. One of my favorite buildings anywhere. We’ll start with the interior atrium since this has the biggest wow factor upon entering. I’ve shot this […]

Milwaukee Art Museum | December 2022

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It’s been quite a long time since my last visit to the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) and even longer since the last time I photographed this incredible space (June of 2017, I’m actually shocked by this!). Last Monday, I took a bit of an impromptu trip up to the museum for both the architecture and […]

Field Trip to the Milwaukee Art Museum

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A short trek outside of Chicago is one of our favorite photo locations, the Milwaukee Art Museum designed by Santiago Calatrava. This place is a little special to me as it’s one of the first architecture locations to really draw me into photographing this subject matter. For a long time, the image below was a […]

Milwaukee Art Museum Abstracts

A few weeks ago I spent an afternoon at one of my favorite buildings – the Milwaukee Art Museum designed by Santiago Calatrava. When I teach, people often ask if I revisit locations I’ve previously shot and the answer is a definite yes! There are many reasons why: The way you see photographically evolves over […]

Day to Night | Milwaukee

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The final Milwaukee post from last weekend’s bus tour with Out of Chicago Photography. It was a very blustery, cold day but we had some pretty great clouds and a surprisingly vivid sunset. As you know by now we spent a fair amount of time at the Santiago Calatrava designed Milwaukee Art Museum, both inside […]

MAM Abstracts

One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty… absolute certainty. – Paul Outerbridge This weekend my daughter and I took a little road trip to Milwaukee to visit some friends and see […]