(This is part of series looking back at posts I wrote a decade ago. First published on November 4, 2011.) If Albrecht Dürer were alive today he would be a photographer. I’m sure of it. I’ve been a fan of Durer’s work for many years and have always felt he…
The Internet loves listicles—articles of the top ten this, the world’s best that. Easy to read and easy to write, they score high in Google’s search rankings because they are easy for the algorithms to parse and the search results are easy for the viewer to scan. Here’s my listicle:…
(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 during the early 1970s when the chapters in this book…
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 is the plane that fell from the sky. The nation…
Christmas is over, the new year begun, and it's time to put the ornaments away, time to take away the tree. But before I do I wanted to share a few things I found under the tree on Christmas morning. A Middle Earth Traveler (John Howe)Lord of the Rings Sketchbook…
(This post is part of a guided tour of my book, Computational Photography, on sale now for $49.95 with free shipping.) If you peel back the dust cover of Computational Photography you can see the actual hardcover of the hardcover book. This is the case cover, in book-speak, and is…
When I was young and poor I used to walk across the street from the camera store where I worked and buy vinyl record albums at Quonset Hut, which was the cool place to buy music (and music-related t-shirts) but also the closest. I didn't choose what I bought by…
Book review of Zaido, by Yukari Chikura, Wednesday, December 9, 3:02 p.m., liveblogging now: Gray slipcase, pleasantly soft to the touch. Thin cardstock. I must be careful not to damage it. It is difficult to remove the book from the slipcase. I try holding the book in the air and…
(Note: This article is part of a series.) Prior installments of this series grouped a decade of articles from the New York Times into a single post. No more. There are too many listings over a ten-year period. Going forward I will break the listing into manageable chunks, in this…
(This post is part of a guided tour of my book, Computational Photography, on sale now for $49.95 with free shipping.) I published a book of my work earlier this year, the books arrived in January, during the early days of the pandemic. The experience of developing this book ranks…