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I Know What I did this Summer
Carousel, Glen Echo, Md.
Contemporary ideas in Photography: Theory and PracticeRecently at Photoworks in Glen Echo, Maryland I have been teaching a class called “Contemporary ideas in photography: theory and practice”, a somewhat ponderous, if not portentous, name for a class that examines the kind [...]
The Ongoing Moment: an interview with Self
Writer Geoff Dyer is an inquisitive Englishman who is not only known for his fiction but also for his opinions on many other things that catch his fancy. A polymath, in other words.
Geoff Dyer photographer unknown
So aside from some provocative novels, the most recent which I recently read with pleasure “Jeff in Venice, Death in [...]Dispatch from Key West: That Other Photographer
OK, time to ‘fess up. This dispatch is from really from further north, Silver Spring, MD, and there is snow on the ground and the tropical grace ( and squalor) of the Keys is but a collection of languorous memories.
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And happy memories or so I [...]
Dispatch from Ground Zero
After Cudjoe Key I ended up in the real Florida, Lehigh Acres, a vast exurb of Fort Myers ( twice the size of Manhattan), recently described as the “Ground Zero” of foreclosures.
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Unfinished construction, Lehigh Acres, Fl.Both the New Yorker and the New York Times have written [...]
A Christmas Rant
Christmas Day, 2008, detail. Mark L. Power. Camera settings too numerous to list. Right click on image then choose “open image in new window” to see entire picture.
The above was taken with a Christmas present to myself, a new Panasonic LX3 digital camera.
It has a nice wide-angle lens from Leica, the [...]