The Third Van Gogh Sunflowers
The painting is by Vincent Van Gogh and depicts three sunflowers, arranged in a vase. It is twenty-four feet across, thirty-six feet high an it leans upon its easel some eighty feet in the air at the top. It is…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
Darin Boville
Timothy O’Sullivan Speaks
We know Timothy O’Sullivan almost entirely through his images. Almost nothing else is sure about him. His most famous photographs are of the aftermath of battles in the Civil War, bodies strewn across the ground. But to photographers the name…
New Work: Trump: Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Hate, Fake News and Traitors
A sample video from an ongoing project:
Book Review: Looking at On Photographs, by David Campany
(This review is co-published with Photobook Journal: The Contemporary Photobook Magazine.) When I was a young man I labored through the book On Photography, by Susan Sontag. I was a subscriber to the New York Review of Books, though not…
Landing On Mars
(This is part of series looking back at posts I wrote a decade ago.) Originally published on November 26, 2011 as “What Audacity Looks Like.” Sometimes I get a little jealous of other fields, outside of art, outside of photography.…
Lincoln’s Head
This post is from a series of articles chronicling a 2020 cross-country trip with my wife and two daughters and a boyfriend, from California to Ohio (to visit family) and Pennsylvania (to drop off my oldest daughter at grad school),…
Things Are More In Focus Now
It’s September 2001. The twin towers lay ruined and smoldering in New York City. At the Pentagon there are nightly vigils and there are flowers for the dead. In the small towns of eastern Pennsylvania the only topic of discussion…
Art, The Endless Frontier
(This is part of series looking back at posts I wrote a decade ago.) Originally published on November 2, 2011 as Chuck Close eyes the money, Steve Jobs envisions art’s importance Chuck Close wants his money. At least from works…
Televised Anger-Lullibies
Every night when we got to the hotel the outrage-of-the-day was waiting for us. Sometimes it was one of the up-and-comers, maybe Jesse Watters, his goofy frat-boy smirk his natural facial expression at rest. Watters came to national attention on…
Trump Country, 2017
I crossed America by car in the summer of 2017, looking for Trump. I looked for him in truck stops and restrooms, parking lots and malls. I looked for Trump in roadside signs and unplanted fields, in thrift stores and…