2015-03-14 14:40
Una buena fotografía nace de un estado de gracia. La gracia se manifiesta libre de convencionalismos, libre como un niño en su primer descubrimiento de la realidad.&n&hell…Read More
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2013-03-21 19:19
vestida de noche . . . … Read More
2013-03-21 18:10
C’est tout le temps de la chance, il n’y a que ça. Il n’y a que le chance qui compte, il faut être disponible, c’est tout. . . . Quand on veut, on n&rs&hell…Read More
2013-01-15 18:33
© Lorenzo Armendáriz"The places we have known do not belong only to the world of space on which we map them for our convenience. None of them was ever more than a thin slice, hel… Read More
2012-07-20 21:02
There has been a spate of articles about Hipstamatic and Instagram technology and the democratization and its putative ruin of photography, as in this piece by Mathew Ingram on Gigaom… Read More
2012-07-13 17:53
On the morning of September 11, 2001 I was back in the States, waking up in my apartment on Claremont Avenue. In those days I was traveling frequently between the Dominican Republic an… Read More
2012-05-04 17:12
A recent installment of New York Times' Lensblog features Benjamin Lowy's use of Hipstamatic as a journalistic tool. On his Tumblr page he states that "To 'point and shoot' has been a… Read More
2011-09-12 22:58
My book about my experience on 9/11 and its subsequent effects is soon to be ready courtesy of Blurb. I will publish the link when I am satisfied with the results after reviewing the dummy Read More
2011-07-22 14:56
This is not about a photographer or photography, exactly. The renowned journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski has crossed the last frontier and I felt compelled to take note of his passing here. F… Read More
2011-07-22 14:56
"One thing that Wall knew for certain when he took up the profession in the late 1970s is that he would not become a photojournalistic hunter." Arthur LubowThe NY Times Sunday Magazine has p… Read More
2011-07-22 14:55
A girl runs through a cemetery. A photographer is standing nearby, looking at picnickers and families, pondering the use to which so many people are putting this space, this necropolis, w… Read More
2011-07-22 14:54
I just came across a blog, Invisible Inkling, written by a very fiesty and perceptive grad student in Mass Communications at San Jose State University. Ryan Sholin's site is full of thought… Read More
2011-07-22 14:54
One of my favorite photographers Josef Koudelka once remarked in an interview with Frank Horvat that for him "there are few portraits that I admire." I was struck by this comment because my… Read More
2011-07-22 14:53
(nota bene: this essay was originally written for a Fotofestival in S. Carolina, where it was to accompany a slideshow of imagery culled from contributions offered up by the members of Light… Read More
2011-07-22 14:53
It is clear we are living through a period of a possibly radical transformation of mass communication; it is not clear just yet what it all means. . . . It may be a mere expansion of the Gut… Read More
2011-07-22 14:52
Why does one write if not to bring together the pieces? From the moment we enter school or the church, our education draws and quarters us: it teaches us to divorce body and soul, reason an… Read More
2011-07-22 14:52
Our journalistic endeavors tend to be dominated by the need to get the material published – that is, we want to get our story out there so that people know that something is wrong (or… Read More
2011-07-22 14:52
The changes to journalism in the digital age involve not just questions of economic compensation, technological innovation regarding new methods of delivery as well as new forms of presentat… Read More
2011-07-22 14:51
“I can`t get the best unless I got room to move” John MayallI. The ProblemWe tend to think of crises in terms of cramped spaces, pinched wallets, the walls closing in. Crises a… Read More
2007-06-13 16:42
Just an announcement about upcoming articles so y' all dont lose interest. Next up will probably be a longish piece on portraiture, sparked by a comment made by Koudelka, as well as an essa… Read More
2007-04-15 13:33
The indefatigable Jim Johnston, whose blog, Politics, Theory and Photography is a model of openminded and wide ranging intellectual exploration, has suffered the loss of a son -- my heart go… Read More
2007-03-14 13:07
The list of winners is finally viewable here.There is a preponderance of fashion and other types of photography which does not interest me much, though it is all very accomplished work. Howe… Read More
2007-03-14 13:07
The list of winners is finally viewable here.There is a preponderance of fashion and other types of photography which does not interest me much, though it is all very accomplished work. Howe… Read More
2007-03-11 03:40
"le film, c'est le traveling." Jean-luc Godard.Being that it is Saturday, but I have been somewhat remiss in posting on this log over the past weeks, I feel that I ought to post something… Read More
2007-03-09 14:17
197319851992©Milton Rogovin, from Triptychs, 1972-1994One of the best portraitists of our times, Milton Rogovin, has received the Cornell Capa Award and I thought I would just make ment… Read More
2007-02-09 16:59
well not exactly. My blogging has been unceremoniously interrupted by the advent of a particularly nasty tropical bug, so I have been taking a break from my usual endeavors. That will cha… Read More
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