Category Archives: photographers & exhibitions

Huffington Post – March 6, 2014 publishes “32 Heart-Stopping Moments You Can Only Experience Thanks To A Camera”.   Catch these must-sees right here.

Happy birthday, Ansel. More on the birthday and its commercial offshoots.

Butterflies & Buffalo: Tales of American Culture from Butterflies & Buffalo on Vimeo. Learn more about the project and Dennis Manarchy.

Composites from Shawn Clover, a San Francisco photographer, merge scenes of that city’s 1906 earthquake with the present: http://pixtale.net/2012/09/composite-then-and-now-photos-of-the-1906-san-francisco-earthquake/

Pets and children.  A realm of photography that I seldom pursue, and almost never can do well when I might try. Sometimes I stumble upon someone who has it nailed.  While browsing through Flickr, I come upon one Elena Shumilova. … Continue reading →

Friend William, ex-photographic sidekick/mentor, brings to my attention the Fold3 Civil War Collection, featuring over 30 million Civil War documents, including some 6,000 photographs, culled from the National Archives and displayed online for the first time.  Fold3 touts themselves as … Continue reading →

Found the 1995 Annie Leibovitz photo of Lou Reed and his widow, Laurie Anderson (one of my very favorite artists in her own right) at Coney Island:

We learn more — straight from the subject — about Ruth Orkin’s famous 1951 photo. UPDATE 7/18/17: Seems the link placed above in 2011 is now dead. Here’s an alternative, albeit not in the actual words of the late photographer.

Moby gives us another free MP3 download, this an orchestral version of his The Day, included in a different arrangement on his new Destroyed album. Nice, peaceful, meditative. Along with the album is a selection of Moby’s own fine, mood-fitting photography, also shown on … Continue reading →

Back in December 2010, we talked about Vivian Maier. A traveling exhibition of her remarkable photographs is underway. The Vivian Maier website also is now showing quite a number of images, including one of my favorites, a self-portrait made in New York City in 1953, … Continue reading →