Passion Flower, Berkeley, CA. 1986 platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in. My friend Ron Partridge turned 91 a few days ago. He celebrated by attending a reception / exhibition of his work at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. I wish I could have been there to hear him talk. This image was made [...]
Category Archives: muse
brassai eye
Luca, Brassai-eye. August, 2008 Polaroid Type 779 It is the mid-anniversary of photographer Brassai’s death and birth (real name Gyula Halász, Sept. 9, 1899 – July 8, 1984). This Polaroid, in honor and memory of him. John Loengard: Brassai’s Eye, Paris, 1981 Gelatin Silver print
moonrise, lake baikal
moonrise, Lake Baikal, Siberia. from series, ‘Prayer and Despair‘ 1995. platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in. My friend Chris Bucklow, in a discussion (What’s in the Dwat) of Phillip Guston’s work, considers the use of rising suns as a symbolization of polarization and dichotomy. Multiple suns, moons, selves; multiplicity. Even Salman Rushdie, in his new book, The Enchantress of [...]
eloi eloi lama sabakthani
fork 1987 platinum-palladium print. 8×10 in. What does that legendary quote really mean? The broken trident. Where is Mind, or Self, or God? Which is the subject? What is the shadow of? Is it a fork?
ron and elizabeth's garden
ron and elizabeth’s garden, Berkeley CA 1987 silver gelatin print, 8×10 in Just thinking about my friends, Ron and Elizabeth Partridge. I was staying with them, while working for the Imogen Cunningham Trust, around this time of the year, in 1987. A cloud of inspired activity, good food, and dear friends. Thank you R & [...]
god needs the intelligent mind
A Place for God 1989 platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in. The greater the intelligence, the smarter the God. Intelligence is the spawn of Mind, and Mind itself a construct. There is another nothing. Simple. It is the 4th of July today. Time to celebrate, right? Perhaps we would be better off by having a day of [...]
all we have left
Filtration tank, Shastraling Talau (near Rani ki vav), Patan. Gujarat, India. Novemeber 1995, platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in Tonight, a friend, Claire Reishman read out an inspiring anecdote (I think from Wayne Dosick’s When Life Hurts: A Personal Journey from Adversity to Renewal) about Itzhak Perlman to a group of participants at Shakerag Workshops. In short, [...]
five persimmon (Diospyros kaki)
five persimmon October, 2004. Sewanee, TN. 11×14 in. contact print on silver gelatin I made this photograph around four weeks before the birth of our first child. Now, three and a half years later, we wait for the birth of our second child, with a little less than four weeks to go. Humbly, this photograph [...]
