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Science and Art
The teaching of the sciences and the arts needs to be conjoined and sustained from the earliest stages of education. In the Foreward to Platinotype my friend and co-author Mike Ware writes that the book “avoids much scientific jargon, but devotes all due attention to explaining technical and practical details, keeping in mind a readership…
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On the Olive Tree, Harmony, and Subjugation
Olive Tree ii. Paros, Greece, 2010. 280x350mm, from enlarged 8×10 inch original negative. Platinum-palladium (1:1) print on Revere. Looking where I may walk, the horizon erupts. Symbol of peace, sprouting from wisdom and prestidigitation (how a goddess wins the people’s hearts), the olive tree also becomes humankind’s leeward desert. Xerxes burned the sacred olive tree…
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Head. Ganesh. Hand.
Head. Ganesh. Hand. Bhujodi, Gujerat, India. 1995. pt-pd print on vellum.Contact print from original negative, 8×10 inches. I am rebuilding my blog, and in the process, deleting old material and reposting what I now think of as more interesting material. This, from July 20, 2015, is the first of a series of musings about prints…
Pradip Malde
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