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The Lost Continent
Jeffrey Gettleman has written a very disturbing article for the New York Times ( June 8, 2008) about the plight of albinos in Tanzania, Africa.
Two paragraphs from Gettleman’s story sum up the incredible situation:
“…at least 19 albinos, including children, have been killed and mutilated in the past year, victims of what Tanzanian officials [...]The Artist and the Artisan, part II
In my post on Pascal Dangin, image-enhancer ( The Artist and the Artisan) I said:
But with the advent of so-called ‘photo-based art’ it has become increasingly evident that the photographer steps aside after taking the picture; the making of the fine-art object involves the handiwork of a shadowy coterie of retouchers, printers, exhibition designers [...]Virginia’s Art Work
The Reclusive Gardener
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These are some samples of my wife Virginia’s art:
a backyard shade garden in a suburb of Washington DC.How different Virginia’s art is from my own which is photography; they’re almost opposites in fact. Her art work is ephemeral and changes from hour to hour with light and shadow, with [...]
The Artist and the Artisan
The New Yorker recently ( May 12) had a fascinating article about Pascal Dangin, pixel-manipulater extraordinaire.
“Pixel perfect” by Lauren Collins relates how Dangin has become the “premier retoucher of fashion photographs.” Ensconced in his windowless lair , known as “Las Vegas” because it’s always three a.m in the dark night of image manipulation, Pascal [...]Year of the Horse
Not only is it the year of Big Brown, the racehorse poised to win the triple crown, but the horse is also celebrated in the current exhibit at New York’s Museum of Natural History, appropriately enough called “The Horse”. The exhibition is an exploration of the evolution of the horse and the many [...]