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Friday, August 1st, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I can’t believe it’s already August.
The fact that July is over hit me, last night, when I was downloading photos off my camera. I found some photos I took on June 22nd in the “unfiled” folder of my [...]
Nelson-Kennedy Ledges - Mushrooms
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008While hiking at the Nelson-Kennedy Ledges, I took a ton of photos. I knew there would be some great views of the rock formations, fern covered outcroppings, and the water. I didn’t expect to get so many great photographs of mushrooms however.
Thus, this is the “bonus” set of photographs: Mushrooms!
I have to say [...]
Lies and Art
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Maybe the easiest way to summarize the problem with photos that are “made” rather than “taken” is the fact that, as communications, the made photographs are lies.
I remember a passage in the book Black Boy by Richard Wright. In it, Richard’s grandmother condemns all fiction as lies and Devil Stuff. It’s an extreme [...]
Photographic Context
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008In a comment yesterday, Pete pointed out that there is a long history of photographic manipulation.
It makes me think that the problem is the situation in which a photograph is presented. The Aziz + Cucher photographs are clearly meant to be “art” and not a record of people who have no eyes, nostrils or [...]
Cleveland Daily Photo
Monday, March 3rd, 2008While doing a search on Google, I stumbled across Cleveland Daily Photo. It’s a photo blog, hosted on Blogspot.
Wow.
I post photos I’ve taken on a rare occasion here, but not with the frequency or the consistently good eye shown on Cleveland Daily Photo.
The archives are worth browsing…