'On Photography …' Category
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 [...]
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. click on “open image in another window” to see larger picture. And happy [...]
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. double click on “open in new window” to see larger images. Unfinished construction, Lehigh Acres, Fl. Both the New Yorker and [...]
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 menu [...]
Three Peruvians: Chambi, Alejos, Meinel
Is there something special about the rarified Andean air that influences the visions of three special photographers from Peru? They are Martin Chambi, Baldomero Alejos and Javier Silva-Meinel, and the correspondences between them are striking. Chambi was from Cuzco and Alejos from Ayachuco, both over ten thousand feet in altitude. But then you have Javier [...]