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This photo Three Ladies and Fidel was featured in the NEW YORK TIMES Travel section– page 11 -Why We Travel on Sunday November 27th, 2011.

See: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/03/travel/20110303-WHYWETRAVEL-7.html

I took the photo while taking a street photography course in Havana, Cuba last year.

Photography is fun. It is a window on the world about us!
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AddressIndianapolis, IN
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John L. Krauss

Photography is my avocation, especially when I travel. These photographs reflect my curiosity about life and nature. I try to look for the unusual in the ordinary faces that pass us each day or landscapes we look upon. I especially enjoy using natural light to capture the moment.

My interest in photography dates back to the 60’s when I was photo editor for a high school newspaper and year book. Six years ago, I made the transition to digital work and have attended five different photography courses around the country and overseas. There I have come to enjoy the camaraderie of learning from other photographers who seek to perfect their skills.

Krauss is an Indianapolis attorney/mediator, on the faculty at IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the IU McKinney School of Law – Indianapolis.

Critique by Steve Mannheimer MFA, studio artist and university professor. Mannheimer has been an art journalist, writing a weekly column on art and architecture for The Indianapolis Star for nearly 20 years, Steve reviewed my work and offered his comments in the Guest Book Section. Push the +- symbol to the right if the critique isn't showing.

Published Photography: Maine Frame, Maine Media Workshops, Blurb Publishing, San Francisco, 2009

Corporate Collections: Hoover Hull LLP, Indianapolis; Indiana Supreme Court; Patachou Cafe, Indianapolis; US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana; Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis; Indiana; Landmarks Foundation, Indianapolis; Lilly Endowment; Ice Miller LLP; Barnes & Thornburg LLP; Krieg DeVault LLP; Stewart & Irwin, P.C;, Betz & Blevins; Employment Law Office of John H. Haskin & Associates, LLC; Lewis Wagner LLP.

Private Collections: Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington, DC, New Hampshire, Texas

Photo Note Cards containing 12 different scenes from my Indiana Supreme Court and 12 from the US District Court - Southern District of Indiana series are for sale by the Indiana Historical Society. See http://shop.indianahistory.org/SelectSKU.aspx?skuid=1009872 and http://shop.indianahistory.org/SelectSKU.aspx?skuid=1010169


Photography Competitions and Shows:


2012 Exhibit featured in IU Herron School of Art and Design – Indy Collects – Marsh Gallery, Indianapolis, June 15 – July 26, 2012. http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c417e7aa12e05023d99e6f7ce&id=61e22de5e2&e=a732a86962

2012 Showing in Juried exhibition- ABSTRACTS - 1650 Gallery, Los Angles.

2011 First Place "Relationships" New Beginngs Photo Contest spronsored by PDN and Rangefinder magazines - Three Ladies and Fidel. http://www.newbeginningsphotocontest.com/gallery/gallery_winners_nb.shtml

2011 Honeywell Center Photography Show, Wabash, IN, Over 250 entries and 65 were selected for the show.
Three Ladies and Fidel won 2nd place in the color competition
Desire was also selected for participation in the show

2010 Honeywell Center Photography Show, Wabash, IN, Over 360 entries and 81 were selected for the show.
The Hull won 2nd place in color competition
Open Arms of Santa Fe (black and white) was also selected for participation in the show.

2010 Images of Nature Competition. Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis.
Colorado Columbine --Third Place
Open Arms to Santa Fe – Third Place
The Falls - Honorable Mention

2010 Fall Digital Competition – Rivera Photography Club, Indianapolis
Ripples at Crystal Lake – Meritorious Award
Brushes – Meritorious Award
The Hull – Special Merit Award

2011 The Anderson Center for the Arts – In Focus Photography Show, Anderson, IN
There were 167 entries and 90 were selected for the show.
Ripples at Crystal Lake – Honorable Mention – Nature
Open Arms of Santa Fe, The Five Robes, Brushes, were also selected for the show

Photography Exhibitions:

Cafe Patachou, 49th and Pennsylvania Streets, Indianapolis, April ~ May, 2012
Cafe Zupa, 320 North Meridian St. - Dec. 17th, 2011 ~ Feb. 18th, 2012
Cafe Patachou, 126th and Gray Road, Caremel, IN, August ~ September, 2011
Chamber of Commerce Bldg Lobby, 320 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, July ~ August, 2011
LuLu's Electric Cafe, 86th and Ditch Road, Indianapolis, February, 2011
Mid Day Cafe, 86th and Moller Road, Indianapolis, January 2011
A King’s Art Studio and Gallery, Zionsville, IN, January ~ June 2011
Holiday Park – Nature Center, Indianapolis, November ~ December 2010
Integrative Health Specialists of Indiana, Indianapolis, October ~ November 2010
Cafe Patachou, 49th and Pennsylvania Streets, Indianapolis, August ~ September, 2010
All Photographs

Bahamas

Visitors 13
21 photos
Created 9-Mar-12
Modified 9-Mar-12
Bahamas

Colorado

Visitors 92
10 photos
Created 22-Jul-10
Modified 22-Jul-10
Colorado

Colors of Maine

Visitors 114
22 photos
Created 25-May-10
Modified 25-May-10
Colors of Maine

Santa Fe and New Mexico

Visitors 92
11 photos
Created 25-Jul-09
Modified 25-Jul-09
Santa Fe and New Mexico

Indiana Landmarks Center

Visitors 112
7 photos
Created 3-Jul-11
Modified 3-Jul-11
Indiana Landmarks Center

Exotic Feline Rescue Center

Visitors 44
15 photos
Created 16-Oct-11
Modified 16-Oct-11
Exotic Feline Rescue Center

Paris 2011

Visitors 113
43 photos
Created 17-Jun-11
Modified 17-Jun-11
Paris 2011

Cuba

Visitors 96
20 photos
Created 6-Dec-11
Modified 6-Dec-11
Cuba

Indiana Supreme Court Chambers

Visitors 186
18 photos
Created 7-Jan-11
Modified 7-Jan-11
Indiana Supreme Court Chambers

Chief Justice's Chambers

Visitors 7
8 photos
Created 1-Apr-12
Modified 1-Apr-12
Chief Justice's Chambers

US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Visitors 97
10 photos
Created 25-Nov-10
Modified 25-Nov-10
US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Indiana State House Cupola

Visitors 62
9 photos
Created 9-Nov-11
Modified 9-Nov-11
Indiana State House Cupola

Colts - Lucas Stadium - Indianapolis

Visitors 14
7 photos
Created 7-Nov-11
Modified 7-Nov-11
Colts - Lucas Stadium - Indianapolis

People (Looking for the my HOME page? Go to www.krauss.zenfolio.com)

Visitors 128
27 photos
Created 25-Nov-09
Modified 25-Nov-09
People (Looking for the my HOME page? Go to www.krauss.zenfolio.com)

Animals, Birds, Butterflies (Looking for my HOME page? go to www.krauss.zenfolio.com)

Visitors 103
15 photos
Created 24-May-10
Modified 24-May-10
Animals, Birds, Butterflies (Looking for my HOME page? go to www.krauss.zenfolio.com)

Don't Miss This Place - Cafe Patachou at 49th

Visitors 31
2 photos
Created 14-Sep-10
Modified 14-Sep-10
Don't Miss This Place - Cafe Patachou at 49th

Flowers

Visitors 20
6 photos
Created 21-Jul-10
Modified 21-Jul-10
Flowers

Neat Stuff

Visitors 91
15 photos
Created 31-May-10
Modified 31-May-10
Neat Stuff

Nonie's Garden at the IMA

Visitors 75
9 photos
Created 7-Sep-09
Modified 7-Sep-09
Nonie's Garden at the IMA

Small Town

Visitors 32
6 photos
Created 25-Nov-09
Modified 25-Nov-09
Small Town

The Birthday

Visitors 48
3 photos
Created 26-Nov-09
Modified 26-Nov-09
The Birthday
Guestbook for John L. Krauss Photography
3.Steve Mannheimer(non-registered)
These are quite good. Krauss has a real sensibility, and these images reveal a dimension of him that many of his academic colleagues -- and former governmental friends -- might never have guessed.

At their best, these images reveal an inner narrative, an implicit visual pilgrimage into the composition and into the heart of a metaphoric moment that Krauss can see. This sense of escape into the image counterpoints a general compositional symmetry that could easily become merely stale, formulaic and confining. Somehow -- and that's his magic -- Krauss avoids this and achieves equipoise rather than frozen stability. Consider this mountainscape from Colorado -- the eye travel up through the center of the image, the heart of the valley, then leaps to the distant peak that serves as a fulcrum upon which the entire sky is balanced. The symmetry is almost but not quite perfect, just enough off to keep the eye moving, creating that sense of "dynamic equilibrium" (as Mondrian said in another context) - of interlocked forces arrested mid stride.


Yes, there are thousands of similar images available from countless sources. What makes Krauss's photographs better? Visually, it's just a subtle centimeter one way or another, the slightest measure of proportion or placement, the same difference that makes one face somehow just more handsome than another that might otherwise be its twin.

It is this ballet of the almost-symmetrical and the nearly centered that creates the inner life of the images -- as if the artists knew the eye reaches for that perfection but the head knows it is always just beyond our grasp, even if only by an inch or a centimeter. In that gap, we hear the heart of Krauss's work.


For me, as a dyed-in-the-canvas painter (and former art critic for The Indianapolis Star), photography is a challenge and a conundrum on a semi-philosophical level: What degree of manipulation/management of viewing angle and compositional dynamic is acceptable to achieve harmonies or alignments that we immediately accept in the “made-from-scratch” graphic arts such as painting, where we accept the fact a priori that our view has been constructed (rather than managed)?

I think for me it comes down to a question of whether the manipulation/management is so artfully choreographed that the maker achieves a suitably complex and compelling viewing experience. When that implicit viewing pilgrimage is so complex, then we “forgive” the camera for managing our view. But, of course, that’s just one man’s opinion of sunlight. In my opinion, Krauss handles that light extremely well.
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