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Riff on Diane Arbus

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The Tess Experiment

Grand-niece Tess, formidable young writer/photographer, sent me some results of her test of expired color film.  I had passed on to her a bunch of old film rolls, ranging from thirty to fifty years of age that I recently found … Continue reading

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Dennis’ Photo of Bill at his Huntington Beach Studio in the 1970s

Dennis Trombley, one of an old group of friends devoted to photography and art and high jinks, sends me this photograph from his archives as we remember Bill today, exactly three years since his passing. more on Bill and his … Continue reading

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Goebbels by Eisenstaedt (1933)

This is one of the photographs that I most remembered, and was terrified by, from early childhood, when I would pore over my grandmother’s volumes of books on the illustrated history of World War II. Both of her sons — … Continue reading

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JF as Jean Cocteau (After the 1949 portrait by Philippe Halsman)

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Kim Shoots Her Family (2019)

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Dirty Three + Nick Screen Captures

Some of my favorite musicians, ever.  The Dirty Three (Warren Ellis – violin, Mick Turner – guitar, Jim White – drums), accompanied by their fellow Aussie, Nick Cave – keyboards, rehearse their masterpiece “Sea Above, Sky Below” in a hotel … Continue reading

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Caught in an Act of Photography (1973)

In a continuation of the saga of Jack Welpott’s camera work as shown here and here: And today, Neil Miller sends me this image of a poster for an exhibition — an upshot of all that activity:

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Bill – One Month Before Death (2021)

Discovered a tiny ~400px square self portrait Bill made almost exactly one month before his death.  I upscaled it, transformed it from color into black & white and added my own reimaginings in terms of tonality, etc. to make it … Continue reading

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Willy Nelson (Anonymous)

Cropped from a TV screen capture.  Anonymous photographer/cinematographer, date unknown.

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