Category Archives: photographers & exhibitions

After Doisneau: Ivi & Marina (2011)

Bumped into this low-res version (where is my original?) I made of daughter Ivi and friend Marina dancing at Max Square in 2011. Seeing it again immediately reminded me of legendary Robert Doisneau’s 1950 photograph, below: And for more of … Continue reading

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Dark Night: Bill’s Take

Bill reworks and retitles my earlier evening image of Kim walking, clearly demonstrating a significant difference in our personalities(!):

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Dark Night: Bill’s Take

Bill reworks and retitles my earlier evening image of Kim walking (also here): For more on this Bill guy, see this page on HHR.

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Judy Dater, 1973 (Polaroid)

This image is based on a Polaroid print that I re-discovered this week. This Polaroid was originally made with my old 4×5 view camera at the same time, forty-six years ago, as this 35mm negative I found and scanned in … Continue reading

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Robert Frank, R.I.P.

Not many photographers’ work inspired and moved me the way Robert Frank’s did … And here we have some comments from a number of other photographers about Robert Frank’s influence. Also read this piece by The New Yorker‘s Amanda Petrusich.

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Jim Friedman Survivors

Today, while rummaging through boxes in my workspace that sit on about sixteen linear feet of shelves, stacked seven feet high, I discovered two forty-year-long-lost prints that Jim Friedman sent me back in the early 70s.  Here is a quick … Continue reading

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Tara Graves at Art Escape

Photographer Tara J. Graves, known for her evocative interior images of the vacant and decaying Paine Building, shows us long natural landscape views (portrait orientation), flanked by close details of each main view (landscape orientation). Here I look at one … Continue reading

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Tour de France, Another View

Old photo-partner friend and earthquake survivor Bill sends this image he created this morning by altering a photograph he just grabbed from his TV screen.

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Bigger Than Life: Bill & Jim

Bill sends along this photograph, made by Mr. Utter, of himself and Jim, his silversmith friend in a neighboring studio, together with a vintage movie camera under restoration.  For more on Bill, see this page. And here’s another version, this … Continue reading

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Enough

Here is Time photographer Peter Hapak’s portrait for the forthcoming April 2 issue: The accompanying article can be read here.

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