Last weekend, after the ugliness of the Tacoma Republican convention, I met some oeple who made me feel human again.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Photography’
February 28th, 2012 - 11:29 am § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY Waiting for the NEX 7.
Oskar Barnack’s invention of the Leica succeeded not because the film was big but because the camera was small. Now SONY has introduced a successor to the Leica … the NEX7. Like a Lica C, the Nex7 is small (fits in our palm, light weight, and silent no SLR mirror! I am anxioulsy awaiti[...]
December 22nd, 2011 - 6:41 am § in Misc.
What I want for Christmas.
Well, we Jews do not actually celebrate Christmas. Jesus is not reeally our thing. As it happens though I do have a birthday coming, Jan 1st! All my life, well since college, I wanted a better camera then I could afford. Usually this want meant a Hasselblad. For those who do not know, in the[...]
September 2nd, 2011 - 9:10 am § in America
Where are the tramps?
Claude Fischer, professor of sociology | 6/24/11 | Berkeley Blog One image of the Great Depression was of the tramps, the hobos drifting from town to town. Folk singer Woody Guthrie sang many a lyric on the theme, such as “the highway that’s our home / It’s a never-ending highway / For a dust [...]
May 4th, 2011 - 11:37 am § in America
Finely Made Things
…one reason I became a photographer was the love of finely made things. Leicas, Nikons, Schneiders were as wonderful as the work of Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, and Edward Weston. Sadly, the era of the mechanical camera is past .. what is finely made in today’s digital camera is in their e[...]
January 1st, 2011 - 6:42 pm § in Misc.
Photography: Work by Paul Berger and Others
One of the most amazing things about the UW, is its invisibility! Browsing through the campus I found this remarkable ‘show” of work by photographers .. students and faculty. See more here.[...]
Photograpy: I fear that this great art form is becoming museum quality.
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen. Aranda’s wonderful photo[...]