Tag: photography
This is Mars, This is Photography
Looking at Mars, Sewanee. March, 2014. (‘This is Mars’, Photographs by NASA/MRO Edited and designed by Xavier Barral With texts by Alfred S. McEwen, Francis Rocard, and Nicolas Mangold See more at the Aperture web site) There are two ways of considering photographs: – as relationships (things, people, forms, shapes, tones) – as actualities (events, […]
Teaching Photography in Haiti
Kenia Pierre Dominique – Timoun yo desfavorises (The unwanted children) I have created a web page with notes and resources for a talk I give tomorrow about teaching photography in Haiti. The above image is from a series about children who are, effectively, given away into indentured service because their families cannot afford to feed […]
I Photograph To Remember
Pedro Meyer’s touching and elegiac remembrance of his parents has been reissued in various digital versions, twenty years after its initial publication as a CD-ROM. “I Photograph To Remember” reminds me of John Berger’s precious collection of essays in ‘Hold Everything Dear’, where, in talking about his friend Juan Muñoz and poet Nazim Hikmet, he […]
Flickr Commons
Southworth and Hawes: Young Girl, post mortem. Daguerrotype from the Eastman House Collection Something amazing is happening at http://flickr.com/commons
robin and edwin muir
Robin Gillanders, Sewanee, TN 1994 8×10 in contact print Robin, author of one of the finest ‘how-to’ books on photographic portraiture, opens an exhibition of his latest work, “Highland Journey: In the Spirit of Edwin Muir” at the Inverness Museum and Art Gallery tomorrow, July 19. Hope you can make it over there if in the […]
frozen car project
Mary Carothers and Sue Wrbican continue their collaborative work with this current project. Commenting as they do with much of their work on Americana, and the rub between the ephemeral and the mythic, Mary and Sue provoke, amuse and confound with The Frozen Car project.