photograph of Mary Ellen Mark by Michael "Nick" Nichols she was always a "star"….in high school she was the head cheerleader for the football team and super student….in college she received a Fulbright Fellowship in photography and went off to Turkey to first make her "mark" as a pre-eminent photographer…i cannot think of any …
many photographers seem to have the "rush to publish" syndrome…get out a book, any book, just as fast as possible…well, not Joseph…in 7 days in 1968, Koudelka photographed his first book material…but, it has taken him 40 years to publish it… at the Magnum office last week Joseph explained to our staff about his famous …
this last weekend i met some of my family in Colorado..we were so gathered to say goodbye to my youngest brother Craig who died peacefully, but suddenly , saturday before last …i now joined my mother Maryanna, my sister Patricia, husband Paul, and daughters Sara and Maria, and my brother Gary and his 35yr marriage …
i am this morning having my coffee in London….just trying to figure out the weather patterns….i have seen three different "seasons" in just the last three hours…from warm sunshine to cold windy black skies and everything in between…i mean, what kind of job could being a UK "weather forecaster" possibly be?? however, this post is …
i hear a sad song…i do not understand the words, but i can "feel" it is sad….deep, melancholy, and goes with the mood of the city…dark, mysterious and sometimes full of dread….i wander São Paulo, with not a clue where i am, but i am told that i am now in the heart of …
many of you have noticed our new (hopefully temporary) "restriction" on the number of comments per "page" (now 50)…getting to the most recent comments is now more difficult when we have over 50, which is almost always the case…we could go back to having the most recent comments at the top…however, when we tried that …
there is a little discussion going on in the previous post about "war vs. peace" photography and photographers…we can keep that one going, but i would also like to broaden the discussion a bit and chat about "subject matter" period… how important is it with what you choose to photograph in the first place? do …
any minute now, William Albert Allard will walk through my door….i have not asked him, but i will put him on the spot with any of you who happen to be "on" right now….he will probably be here …
i have managed to convince many people over the years that i am a photographer….but actually, truth be told, i am more of a "born again" beach bum…i mostly grew up (figuratively speaking) at the beach….my darkroom was set up in a back room of the family garage, but i often succumbed to the vagaries …
i have added a "Movies" section on my home page…i will try to have a little library of short films on photographers and by photographers soonest….i only had one in hand to start this off… it is a short produced by Natgeo…this is a 6 minute version of a one hour production on yours truly …
