Happy Hog Rot

“Chick-a-souris with Rothko, Houston 2016”

Posted on January 26, 2016 by webdev

That’s the title of this iPhone photo sent along by Herman K.

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Lita Albuquerque’s “20/20: Accelerando”

Posted on January 22, 2016 by webdev

Long-time friend Richard sends me notice of this sound/film/performance piece featuring his dancer/performance artist daughter, Jasmine, collaborating with her mother and my old friend, Lita Albuquerque. (Also see Lita’s site.)

Photographer: Unknown

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Against Neutrality

Posted on January 16, 2016 by webdev

Photojournalism, before my interests gravitated to something more like the realm of fine art pursuit, was my initial objective when I entered photography. And I soon learned that context was everything, when measuring the standards of truth and fairness projected by a photograph. How “real” a photograph is has been a dogged concern since the form’s 19th century inception, and continues to this day, particularly in an era of easy technical manipulation and easy means to juxtapose images with words.

Writing in the New York Times Magazine on January 14, 2016, photographer/author Teju Cole gives us this thoughtful piece: “Against Neutrality”.

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Today, Another Daily Winter Walk

Posted on January 15, 2016 by webdev

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Robin Hammond on Conflict Between Those Who Care and Those Who Don’t

Posted on January 14, 2016 by webdev

Read more of this story and other stories here (from The Atlantic‘s Conflict series).

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Today, Walking Around the Neighborhood

Posted on January 11, 2016 by webdev

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TIME Lightbox Tribute: In Memoriam

Posted on January 11, 2016 by webdev

See this piece from Time Lightbox memorializing noted figures in photography who died in 2015.

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Judy Dater, 1973

Posted on January 8, 2016 by webdev

Today, while reviewing my long-dormant basement archive of old black & white negatives, I came upon portraits of Judy Dater. Judy made her mark in the world of photography with her photos and collaborations with legendary photographer Imogen Cunningham, and her large-format portraits of nudes, women and men. I was trying to come to grips with my view camera photography at the time — and it was when Judy exposed me to the wonderfulness of 4×5 Polaroid — but I took this soft-focus, grainy, compressed tonal portrait with my 35mm camera.

UPDATE 9/15/2019: And here’s a recently re-discovered version I originally made back in 1973 with some out-of-date 4×5 (Type 55?) Polaroid film.

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Milk Angels

Posted on January 1, 2016 by webdev

Perhaps you know of the incredible images of acclaimed artist Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz in which his assistants splash milk on nude models under high speed strobe light. A limited edition of his 2016 calendar of these milk angels, “Fallen Angels Aurum Light 2016”, is now available.