Archive for April, 2008
In My Back Yard
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So what’s happening here? Not much; we’re sitting in my back yard in Silver Spring, Maryland because it’s the first warm day we’ve had in months and my friend John Christy is looking in his bird book for a bird he’d just seen. On the ground a couple of fat mourning doves graze on [...]American Ruins in Outer Space
Meandering though the rich territory of the vernacular photograph …
It is my distinct impression that amateur photographs and the digital age aren’t a great mix. In terms of quantity, there’s no doubt it’s a mix; there are probably more so-called vernacular photos on the Web than there are drops of water in a suspended second [...]Blog ’til you drop
Headline in the New York Times a few days ago: WRITERS BLOG UNTIL THEY DROP. The story goes on to say that elderly bloggers are at special risk for burn-out. Some apparently are collapsing onto their keyboards. Am I concerned? Not really. I think the writer of this report is forgetting that the new 70 [...]Magic Realism in Santa Fe
A provocative group show at the Photo-Eye Gallery in Santa Fe, caught my own photo eye recently. Featuring ten photographers the collective spirit of the work is magic realism, to borrow a term from literature. Genres redefined include landscapes and still lives and talismanic animals predominate as we are drawn into mysterious lands that can only [...]