Looking Glass Magazine

[Laura_Campbell]

Looking Glass Magazine publishes cutting edge photography by contemporary film photographers, and exceptional writing about the craft we love.

June/July, 2014: Domenico Foschi, Austin Granger, Robert Langham III, Andrew Sanderson, Scott Stillman, Amanda Tomlin

Behold the launching of Looking Glass Magazine, a publication featuring the many faces of film photography. We’ll bring you work both traditional and controversial, innovative and touching, bold and inventive, and yet always inspiring and provocative. You’ll find work by artists who are well known alongside those whose names are unfamiliar (with links to see more of their work) in addition to regular features such as letters to the editor, and the ever-popular Tales from the Lens. Best of all, a one year subscription will set you back just $19.95. Or, if you prefer, purchase individual issues for $3.50 each. When you subscribe, your money helps pay the artists who make up each issue of Looking Glass. We’re looking forward to a long future of bringing you new work in this very old medium, made fresh again and again by generations of photographic artists.

Editor in Chief: Amanda Tomlin
Publisher: Laura Campbell

Learn more about Looking Glass at our website and preview our inaugural issue.

Looking Glass Magazine web site: http://lookingglasszine.com

Magazine Kiosk: http://www.joomag.com/en/newsstand/looking-glass-magazine-no-1/0870645001403976383?ref=ib

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Sounds great!

Jeff

 

[Laura_Campbell]

Sounds great!

Jeff

Thanks Jeff!

 

[Laura_Campbell]

The first 16 pages of the inaugural issue of Looking Glass Magazine can be previewed here: http://www.joomag.com/en/newsstand/looking-glass-magazine-no-1/0870645001403976383?ref=ib

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

"Sky—hot as SHIT"

Lone Pine? Nobody lives in Lone Pine. I thought you were joking. Until I read the above.

I once spent six weeks in the 80s in the White Mountains east of Big Pine, just north of you, doing geological field mapping. Living out of a canvas tent. In mid-July and August.

You're not joking...

I'll check out the magazine. Been a long time since I subscribed to a photography magazine. Maybe it's time again...

Best of luck,

Ken

 

[Laura_Campbell]

Haha! Yep, I'm lucky enough to call Lone Pine home.

Oh! Summer field? Those trips (and tales) are famous in the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley. Were you with Lauren Wright, and Bennie Troxel?

Thank you for checking out the zine. Hope you enjoy the work!

 

[eng1er]

This might be my favorite picture posted to APUG. Two great tastes that taste great together: Photography and Land Cruisers. I've long suspected I'm not the only analog photog driving an FJ60.

 

[Trail Images]

How interesting. I've shot in the Alabama Hills for over 25 years now.......Lone Pine is a neat place to stay.

 

[Laura_Campbell]

This might be my favorite picture posted to APUG. Two great tastes that taste great together: Photography and Land Cruisers. I've long suspected I'm not the only analog photog driving an FJ60.

Yup, they're a great rig, and they run forever. I put one of these on mine:

 

[Laura_Campbell]

How interesting. I've shot in the Alabama Hills for over 25 years now.......Lone Pine is a neat place to stay.

The scenery is gorgeous. I love living here. Next time you're in town, check out De La Cour Ranch. Great people, organic farm, horses, and lavender fields: http://www.delacour-ranch.com/

 

[Kerik]

Congrats on the new venture! Looks like you're off to a great start.

 

[Laura_Campbell]

Thank you Kerik! I had a blast putting the zine together. We have a few surprises in the works for future issues.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

Haha! Yep, I'm lucky enough to call Lone Pine home.

Oh! Summer field? Those trips (and tales) are famous in the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley. Were you with Lauren Wright, and Bennie Troxel?

Ahh yes... Geology 465. Summer Field in the Poleta Formation west of Deep Springs Lake. Which was mostly just alkali flats, as I recall. Six weeks to figure out the last 450-600 million years of geologic history. And a promise to never divulge what you learned, so that future generations of students would be guaranteed to suffer at least as much as you did.

Nah... Those guys were UC back in 1981, if I remember correctly. I was with D.D. Trent and Thomas Henyey at Southern Cal (USC). I recall us being told by them that the UC baby geologists had a permanent bunkhouse to return to each evening. Ugh. Real men and women used tents. Without any toilets. And without any showers.

It really was hilarious. Every three days we would drive down to Big Pine to bathe in the Owens River. The first week everyone avoided the rattlesnakes while mapping, were unflinchingly polite to each other in camp, and observed proper bathing etiquette in the river (boys here, girls around the bend). There was plenty of soap for all.

By the sixth week we had all been so viciously beaten down and thrashed by the heat and the elements that we were bribing the rattlesnakes with our food just to share some shade for lunch (they knew the best spots), snarling thinly veiled death threats at each other in response to sideways glances in camp, and jumping into the river naked together without any regard to gender, while fighting tooth-and-nail over the last dissolving bits of soap. Which by that point was far, far more important than the gender of the person standing next to you holding that bit of soap.

It was the pinnacle of higher education. Survivor, before it became a hit TV show. So how do you know about Summer Field?

OK. Hold on for a minute here...

[Ken is gone about five minutes, actually.]

OK. I'm back. I just signed up for a one-year subscription to your new e-magazine. Anyone who lives in Lone Pine, knows about Summer Field in the Owens Valley for the baby geologists, and sets up 8x10 cameras on a platform atop their vehicle, deserves to be supported in this new publication project.

Where was I? Oh yes. How did you find out about Summer Field? Do you know someone who suffered through it? Did you suffer through it?

:eek:

Ken

 

[Wayne]

Is this a print magazine or only an electronic zine? I seem to recall there was going to be a print version...

 

[Alan Klein]

I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. I'm old like my film cameras. Is there another way to subscribe?

 

[munz6869]

I've just signed up for a year too! Good luck with it all Laura & Amanda!

Marc!

 

[Nige]

I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. I'm old like my film cameras. Is there another way to subscribe?

my browser won't even let me look

 

[Laura_Campbell]

Is this a print magazine or only an electronic zine? I seem to recall there was going to be a print version...

Thank you for the question! The first year is an electronic zine. We're offering 6 e-zines for $19.95. The 7th issue will be available in print, purchased separately.

My goal (the second year) is to offer a digital and print option. Hope that answers your question. Let me know if you have any others that I can answer.

 

[Laura_Campbell]

Try Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. The previewing is functioning quite well on those browsers.

 

[Laura_Campbell]

Thank you for your support, Marc! You're the best!

 

[Laura_Campbell]

I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. I'm old like my film cameras. Is there another way to subscribe?

The zine can be purchased online. Here's the link: http://www.joomag.com/en/newsstand/looking-glass-magazine-no-1/0870645001403976383?ref=ib

It's really straightforward purchasing the zine through our kiosk, and if you subscribe for a year, new issues are automatically added to your account. Let me know if I can help in some other way.

 

[Wayne]

Thank you for the question! The first year is an electronic zine. We're offering 6 e-zines for $19.95. The 7th issue will be available in print, purchased separately.

My goal (the second year) is to offer a digital and print option. Hope that answers your question. Let me know if you have any others that I can answer.

It would be great if you can somehow make the first year available in back issues once you have a print version going. I'm very interested in the print mag; not so interested in the ezine form.

 

[Laura_Campbell]

Ahh yes... Geology 465. Summer Field in the Poleta Formation west of Deep Springs Lake. Which was mostly just alkali flats, as I recall. Six weeks to figure out the last 450-600 million years of geologic history. And a promise to never divulge what you learned, so that future generations of students would be guaranteed to suffer at least as much as you did.

Nah... Those guys were UC back in 1981, if I remember correctly. I was with D.D. Trent and Thomas Henyey at Southern Cal (USC). I recall us being told by them that the UC baby geologists had a permanent bunkhouse to return to each evening. Ugh. Real men and women used tents. Without any toilets. And without any showers.

It really was hilarious. Every three days we would drive down to Big Pine to bathe in the Owens River. The first week everyone avoided the rattlesnakes while mapping, were unflinchingly polite to each other in camp, and observed proper bathing etiquette in the river (boys here, girls around the bend). There was plenty of soap for all.

By the sixth week we had all been so viciously beaten down and thrashed by the heat and the elements that we were bribing the rattlesnakes with our food just to share some shade for lunch (they knew the best spots), snarling thinly veiled death threats at each other in response to sideways glances in camp, and jumping into the river naked together without any regard to gender, while fighting tooth-and-nail over the last dissolving bits of soap. Which by that point was far, far more important than the gender of the person standing next to you holding that bit of soap.

It was the pinnacle of higher education. Survivor, before it became a hit TV show. So how do you know about Summer Field?

OK. Hold on for a minute here...

[Ken is gone about five minutes, actually.]

OK. I'm back. I just signed up for a one-year subscription to your new e-magazine. Anyone who lives in Lone Pine, knows about Summer Field in the Owens Valley for the baby geologists, and sets up 8x10 cameras on a platform atop their vehicle, deserves to be supported in this new publication project.

Where was I? Oh yes. How did you find out about Summer Field? Do you know someone who suffered through it? Did you suffer through it?

:eek:

Ken

That's a great story about Summer Field. I'm laughing my head off in Lone Pine! Yes! those are the kind of stories I've heard about Summer Field. The pranks are famous too. Like the time somebody launched a dummy out of an aircraft into camp. (To the horror of students who thought that some poor soul had fallen to their death.)

I had the pleasure of meeting Lauren Wright four years ago, when I lived in Shoshone. (The tiny town on the southeast border of Death Valley.) That was home base for Wright and Bennie Troxel, when working in that area and Death Valley. Shoshone is where I first learned about Summer Field. Scandalous!

Troxel liked to collect things. Anything. His home (screened cabin-shack) was filled with survey maps, rocks (lots of rocks), and a dollop of military memorabilia that he found (undetonated) way out in the desert. I didn't have the pleasure of meeting Troxel, however, I came to know him through the tales that still circulate about him, Lauren, and Summer Field. Now when I get a tan (or sunburn depending on how you look at it) I call it 'desert varnish' in honor of Troxel.

Thanks so much for purchasing a subscription. I hope you enjoy the magazine.

Best,
Laura


Photo credit, Vic Madrid (Flickr). "Northern Avawatz Mountains, Geologic Field Camp, UC Davis, 1979. The great Death Valley geologist, Bennie Troxel, on the right."

 

[Laura_Campbell]

It would be great if you can somehow make the first year available in back issues once you have a print version going. I'm very interested in the print mag; not so interested in the ezine form.

I'm very much interested in offering a print mag, however, I don't have the kind of cash flow that a print edition requires. Generating those funds is dependent on subscriptions (the first year) and advertising. If that is something you envision for Looking Glass, (as I do), I hope that you'll reconsider subscribing to our digital edition during our first year. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Best,
Laura

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

I love reading 'zines on the 'net. G'luck with this venture.