'On Photography ...' Category
Evolution or Devolution?
It is through the camera that we first discover the optical unconscious, Just as we discover the instinctual
unconscious through psychoanalysis. Moreover, these two types of unconscious are intimately linked.
For in most cases, the diverse aspects of reality captured by the .. camera lie outside only the normal spectrum
of sense impressions. Walter Benjamin[...]
Plagiarism
There has been a controversy about the startling resemblance of Canadian photographer David Burdeny’s images to some of the work of Chinese photographer Sze Tsung Leong. For brevity’s sake, I’ll restrict my comments to that comparison, but several blogs have mentioned other photographers seemingly channeled by David Burdeny. The resemblance was first noticed by the [...]
Camera Rant, Part Two
It seems that every Christmas Santa dips into his electronic goodie bag and hands me a digital Panasonic camera. Christmas 2008 it was the estimable LX3; last Christmas he he brought me a Panasonic GF1 with a 20mm lens. Just one these excellent machines might end up being the main instrument but for now, like [...]
Mathias T. Oppersdorff
A friend of mine , photographer Mathias Thomas Oppersdorff, of Mantunuck, Rhode Island, died January 26, 2010 after a 12 year struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 74 years old.
Mathias, always known as Mo, and never Mathias, was a friend in high school. Later both he and I became professional photographers although oddly neither of [...]Can it be? 2010!
Dropping into the Salt Mine, I was rather surprised to see the last entry was written last Summer …and now suddenly it’s the first week of the new decade and somehow Fall slipped away, and we’re surrounded by canyons of snow…
Truth to tell after an extended bout of work in which I completed two [...]