Archive for the ‘photography’ Category
vision v. experience
Over the weekend, conditions on the mountain rendered visibility so poor that I often couldn’t see past the tips of my skis. Fog like I haven’t seen since I left the northwest moved in and around, surrounding peaks, and breaking only for intermittent snow. If you can’t see the pitch and ground below you, you […]
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compassion in portraiture
Someone at The Exposure Project picked up on a dangling comment I made over on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog last week: The author went on: I want to know what you think. Where does the tenuous line between compassion and indifference in photographic portraiture meet? What makes one artist’s portrayal necessarily more sensitive than […]
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Tags: Diane Arbus, Nicholas Nixon
modern magic
(Ed. note: I made a minor change to this post since initially publishing late last night [note to self: don’t do that] because I think it’s important to distinguish that magic realism is a Latin American literary tradition, not one that is specific to Mexico, and probably less notable when considering Mexican literary traditions in […]
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Tags: Alejandra Laviada, Danziger Projects
7 DAYS / 7 NIGHTS
Go. Go see Hiroshi Sugimoto at Gagosian in Chelsea. Ligurian Sea, Saviore, 1993 N. Pacific Ocean, Stinson Beach, 1994 Lake Superior, Eagle River, 2003 For reasons that shall remain unnamed from this point forward, my family stopped going to church when I was 7 or 8. Still we’re all pretty spiritual people and have found […]
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Tags: Hiroshi Sugimoto
the cut path
Both images above are from John Mann‘s series the cut path. I wrote about his folded in place series over on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog but am having a harder time figuring these out…. For some reason, they are sticking with me more than the maps though.
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Tags: John Mann
so much happiness
Unseasonable sunshine streaming through the window + residual election buzz + Anna’s singing in the house = a good day for this poem + photo. The poem arrived recently via a note from a friend in response to a previous post. (I first came across it in the loo! Strange but true: a friend’s brother […]
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transfigurations
I am totally blown away by Michael Lundgren‘s Transfigurations. They are made up of all the things that keep me awake at night. As if I didn’t miss the West enough already, they are like coming home. And they are like falling into a place that I will never know, or once I do know, […]
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if you miss me…
or if you are interested in seeing the work of emerging photographers, I’m also writing here. But I promise I’ll be back here soon, maybe even sooner than usual!
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strategic withdrawal
The nature and tone of recent news and election coverage made me dig up David James Duncan‘s collection of essays and short stories, My Story As Told By Water, for the passage strategic withdrawal. (DJD is required reading for anyone who lives, lived or wants to live in the Pacific Northwest but really is good […]
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Tags: David James Duncan, Philip Perkis, The Sadness of Men
Yesterday I was informed that it was the Autumnal Equinox and that it was the day of perfect balance and harmony between light and shadow and day and night. And, if I believed that the stars would save my life, that would have been the day… (sigh…) And even though I don’t believe that the […]
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Tags: Jason Evans, The Daily Nice, The New Scent, Williamsburg Bridge
photography=first love 