posts by Chuck Patch

Chuck Patch is a museum professional and teacher, aspiring amateur photographer and sometime writer. He lives in Baltimore MD.

October 6, 2022 by
The color-saturated photos of Pete Turner, beloved by pop culture but not by the Museum of Modern Art

In this essay, Chuck Patch recounts color photography’s commercial origins and history via the career of photographer Pete Turner.

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May 6, 2019 by
Tod Papageorge’s early color photos in Steidl’s ‘Dr. Blankman’s New York,’ good addition to the art canon

Chuck Patch reviews a beautiful new book of early color photographs by Tod Papageorge, active in the mid-1960s circle of photographers that included Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and others.

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November 1, 2018 by
John Waters revealed in Indecent Exposure at Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore-based photographer and writer, Chuck Patch, attends the media preview of the John Waters exhibit and catches the wit, wisdom and lively gestures of the local phenom and beloved Baltimorean, now getting his art world treatment as an artist, yes, didn’t know that? Us either. And, of course, groundbreaking movie maker of Pink Flamingoes, Hairspray and other great, funny and raunchy movies.

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Comics
A 3-panel, black-and-white comic titled 3:00, or, three o’clock in the afternoon, shows two women inside a clothing store in front of a sweater rack talking about International Women’s Day and one woman laments her state of being “fat, old and childless, to which her friend says, “You’re not FAT!”
 
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