Happy Hog Rot

Self, Mexico (1977)

Posted on October 17, 2026 by lawrence hathaway

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Distortion: An AI Experiment

Posted on October 17, 2026 by lawrence hathaway

The original self-portrait from 1972, taken with a self-timer and fisheye lens. Can its perspective be returned to something approaching normal?

Anthropic’s Claude cranks away at it for over six minutes, delivering this result below:

Open AI’s ChatGPT invents this in less than 20 seconds:

Finally, Google’s Gemini produces this, re-inventing the human subject (and more), in just over two minutes:

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Another Sketch for Lessons in Art History (Avedon)

Posted on October 14, 2026 by lawrence hathaway

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Boston (1972)

Posted on October 10, 2026 by lawrence hathaway

For the Blast-From-The-Past department. Just running across this 1972 (Quincy Market?) photo brought to mind my 2019 street photography book, BOSTON 1972, produced in three (injudicious?) hours. That project took place just about the time I was to re-intersect with one James Friedman again, after our initial 1973 meeting. I like to think that the Boston photographs had something to do with the serendipity around my friend Jim — he was a student and protege of the legendary Minor White at nearby MIT, after all. Many images of Jim, contemporary and otherwise, now are on this site’s pages (just input “friedman” into the search box at the top right of this and most other pages on this site). He became a key figure in my “Dead and Near-Dead ...” and other book projects. To learn more of Friedman’s illustrious career, see this.