But my vanity is fairer than yours. When I canceled my subscription to Vanity Fair a couple of years ago, some months after I stopped reading my monthly subscription issue, it was because, slow as I am, it had finally occurred to me that despite the high end gloss – or, rather, actually, because of […]
Now You See It
In the February Harvard Magazine, Craig Lambert’s “From Daguerreotype to Photoshop” offers a primer on on the tension between the image as pictorial artifact and mirror of reality. The issues are many, but here is one brought to mind, Robert Doisneau’s iconic Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville. As Wikipedia explains The identity of the […]
Button Up Your Quantum of Gran Torino
Traveling among the rural reaches and small towns in an RV (with, supposedly, work to be done) can make film-going an uncommon occurrence. We’ve seen only three since leaving Los Angeles in early November. (My college self disdains me.) We are currently seventy-five miles from the nearest movie theater, in Safford. Back in Banning, California […]
Photo Workshops
Julia will fly back to Southern California to teach two photo workshops from 1/17-1/24: The Crash Flash Course in Escondido and Mastering Your Flash at the Venice Beach campus. There are still a few openings in each class, so if you have an opening in your own schedule, register here, here, or check out the […]
Artful Humanity
Denis Dutton’s new book, The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution, argues that art is not a social construct, but hardwired through evolutionary development into human being. Which is what I’ve always argued. He just wrote the book. AJA