Photography Auctions
Photography auctions like the ones run by Sotheby’s, Christie’s, etc., present otherwise hard to see …
Portrait Narratives – An Exhibit
I met the Rhode Island photographer Jonathan Sharlin at another photographer couple’s house at a pizza party. As …
Restoration Next Door
Restoration next door? No, not here on Spring Green Rd, but in Ayvalik, Turkey. Ergun sent me a few photographs last …
Irving Penn at Lesley University
Thanks to Lesley University and Smithsonian Museum, we were able to see the works of Irving Penn. Many were his platinum …
Pictures At An Exhibition
Sitting in a place for the first time for three hours with very little to do lets you observe and see many things in a …
Art League RI Exhibit Opening
Today was the opening reception of the Beyond Choreography: Visual Interpretation of Movement juried exhibit. Art League …
Gallery Hopping In Providence
The third Thursday of every month is the Gallery Night in Providence. All the galleries stay open and open to the public …
Abelardo Morell Lecture
At the end of 2015, I wrote a post titled “A Gift Of Learning” to talk about several photographers and …
Answers or Questions
Do you want photographs to answer your questions, or question your answers? Answering the questions will address who, …
Hear This Archive January 2016
A little while ago I started putting what I considered to be an interesting piece of information about photographers, …
A Gift of Learning
This will likely be the last post of 2015. I wrote a little less than a year ago my wishes for 2015, some of which came …
John Sexton Talks About Photography
Photography has always been a blend of art and craft and Ansel Adams has long embodied a good mixture of the two. One of …
Sebastião Salgado:
The Silent Drama of Photography
The Salt of The Earth I have been familiar with Salgado’s photography through magazines, newspapers, and the Web, …
Gallery Shows
(Photograph by Marion Faria, click to see the full poster) The Photographic Society of Rhode Island (PSRI) had the …
The Americans
Over 60 years ago Robert Frank photographed with an outsider’s eye the Americans as he traveled from coast to …
Melancholic Tulip – Kertész André
André Kertész is one of the great photographers of the 20th century although he did not get the fame and recognition he …
Learning To See with Art Wolfe
Speaking of training your eye to see more and to see better, listen to Art Wolfe, and find out how he finds the frames …
Formulas For Success
I have been a subscriber to LensWork for quite some time and was honored to have my work published in it a few years …
Six Dollars and 50 cents, not $6.5 million
As you can tell from my previous post, the article by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian really ticked me off. Then I …
Adams’ Foreword
I picked up one of my oldest photography books, Camera And Lens by Ansel Adams, to go through it with a new perspective. …
Chickens on the Runway
Hard To Call These Chickens Chickens are the but of many jokes, but I dare you to stare down one of these chickens! …
Dorothea Lange
We watched an excellent documentary on an excellent documentary photographer, Dorothea Lange. I have found out that one …
NECCC 2014, MNEC, Sam Abell
(Click the image for full letter) I have just returned from the 69th NECCC 2014 Annual Photography Conference held at U …
LIFE
For many years, nay decades LIFE was photography and photography was about life. The documentary below, America In …