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Half Dome On Fire–Or Maybe Just Clouds? And Is The Photographer Who Caught The Image Skillful, Or Just Lucky?

Half Dome in Yosemite isn’t really on fire here, it’s just a cloud being hit by sunlight, but I like this photo because it: (1) illustrates aspect seeing (as in psychology textbooks, where the eye can’t decide if it’s looking … Continue reading

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Vivian Maier: The Emily Dickinson of Photography

I’m super interested in seeing this documentary.

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Mars High Resolution Image from Curiosity

An eerily Earth-like image of the Martian ground and Gale’s crater wall:

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Rick Santorum as Robert Capa’s Federico Borrell García

Matt Drudge is good at finding unsettling images, but I found this one especially disturbing (though I couldn’t identify why):   Then it registered: it echoes the famous Robert Capa image of Federico Borrell García dropping from a gunshot during the … Continue reading

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Welcome Home

_____ You are home. _____ Image source: NASA (Suomi Satellite, January 4, 2012)

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Dear Photograph: A Fascinating New Website

Contributers to the new site called “Dear Photograph” align old photographs with their points of origin, then retake the images. The achieved result is the display of people ghost-haunting, as it were, places in which they are no longer present (either because they have … Continue reading

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What’s Wrong with This Picture?

Charles Hood’s photo essay on how places, when we travel, are “supposed” to look (as opposed to how they actually do look) put me in mind of the following Christina Rossetti poem meditating upon the inharmonies of existence. It appears to be addressed to … Continue reading

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Charles Hood on Africa and the Search for Authenticity

The following photo essay is by Charles Hood, who, like my wife and I, teaches English at Antelope Valley College in Southern California. Unlike us, however, when Charles is between semesters he is not curled up on the sofa sipping hot spiced … Continue reading

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A Gorgeous View of the Thames from the Tate Modern

An English professor colleague (and friend) sent me a gorgeous image that he took this afternoon from the Members’ Lounge of the Tate Modern. He’s teaching a semester in London:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               . The English professor’s name is Charles Hood and he … Continue reading

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The view from my window

Inspired by Andrew Sullivan’s “The View from Your Window” feature at his blog (in which he posts what his readers see from their windows), I thought I might periodically start putting, on my blog, posts titled: The view from my  … Continue reading

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Camille Paglia has a Book on the Visual Arts in the Works

And according to what Camille Paglia says at Salon today, she should be done with it by the Fall of 2010: I have gone on hiatus from Salon to focus on my current project for Pantheon Books — a study of the … Continue reading

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The Number One Photographic Case in UFO History?

The segment below comes from a History Channel documentary titled Where are All the UFOs? (2005). The documentary itself is excellent—really a “must see” for anyone interested in critically examining UFOs as a phenomenon. The thesis of the documentary is that UFOs are … Continue reading

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The View from Adam’s Window

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The View from My Dream Window

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How Much is that Daguerrotype in the Window?

One of the first photographic images ever taken of a dog, this daguerrotype is from the 1850s and is scheduled to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s soon:

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Ghosts

Andrew Sullivan directs us to this stunning juxaposition of a corner in Leningrad, during WWII, and that same corner, in what is now St. Petersburg, today.

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See Here the First Humans to Appear in a Photograph (1838)

It was on a street in Paris, and it was 1838 (over 170 years ago). A man is having his shoe shined by a “shoe shine boy.” At this period in the history of photography, the exposure time required to … Continue reading

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Google Now Hosts the LIFE Magazine Photo Archive

Literally millions of photographs from the 1860s forward. Explore the archive here.

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Mercury in Profile (Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2008)

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Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses?: An Image I Snapped of a Homeless Woman on a Park Bench, the Statue of Liberty Standing in the Distance

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