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received this in an email publicising “Artists...

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:08:33 +0000

received this in an email publicising “Artists Unusual”, an illustrated book of portraits of painters invented and extravagant, in which the word is as important as the picture.

Christmas presents

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:08:14 +0000

Christmas presents:

KC and Wesley, Oakland, December 2009.

Being a photographer comes in handy during the holiday gift-giving season. When one has 23 nephews and nieces on his wife’s side…

Charlie Gets a Winter Hat, on a Sunday Stroll Down Broadway. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:53:00 +0000

Charlie Gets a Winter Hat, on a Sunday Stroll Down Broadway. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!:

some lovely pre and post birth photos on this stream…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandersnyc/sets/72157622575195753/show/

"Tonight as teenagers and students head out to parties, pubs and clubs, they will be carrying their..."

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:46:22 +0000

“

Tonight as teenagers and students head out to parties, pubs and clubs, they will be carrying their mobile phones and digital cameras; by tomorrow lunchtime (or teatime if it’s been a particularly heavy night) they will each have loaded 40 or 50 photographs on to their Facebook pages. In a month, they will have taken, and appeared in, more pictures than their grandparents would have had access to in a lifetime. Everyone is a photographer now. Yet Massimo Vitali comments in Photo-wisdom: Master Photographers on Their Art edited by Lewis Blackwell (Chronicle, £35): “The fact that everybody is taking pictures today is interesting and not a problem for me. People can take their pictures, but when they see one of mine they realise it is different to theirs – and they are not going to take a picture like it easily.” This is an outstanding collection, with illuminating commentaries by the photographers, who range from grand old men of photojournalism such as Elliott Erwitt to celebrity-snappers Platon and David LaChapelle.

Plenty of suggestions in this roundup review of the year’s photography books…

”

- Christmas roundup: photography books | Books review | Books | The Guardian

HaiQal | A Portrait | A Personality »

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:17:30 +0000

HaiQal | A Portrait | A Personality » :

Malaysian photographer Wazari Wazir’s latest portrait of his son. But do click through to the blog, to read what he says about sharing fullsize editions of photos online. I like his point of view.

"The machine, which he bought in a Tennessee pawnshop for $50 in 1963, is beginning to betray..."

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:20:00 +0000

“The machine, which he bought in a Tennessee pawnshop for $50 in 1963, is beginning to betray understandable symptoms of old age and hard usage. If the Lettera 32 had hooves, it would have been dragged out to meet the bolt gun years ago. “It has never been serviced or cleaned other than blowing out the dust with a service station hose,” said the writer. “I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not published. Including all drafts and correspondence, I would put this at about 5m words over a period of 50 years.””

- No typewriter for old men: Cormac McCarthy to part with beloved Olivetti

Cormac McCarthy to part with beloved typewriter | Books | The Guardian

Charis Wilson obituary | Art and design | The Guardian

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:16:27 +0000

Charis Wilson obituary | Art and design | The Guardian :

The photographer Edward Weston’s great muse who inspired some of his finest work

Children and sky

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:38:57 +0000

Children and sky:

Holiday in New York

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:41:48 +0000

Holiday in New York:

Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NYC, November 2009.

Rockefeller Center, NYC, November 2009.

On the taxi ride to JFK Airport for our flight home to San Francisco, our Chinese…

My hero: Alan Ross by William Boyd

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:00:44 +0000

My hero: Alan Ross by William Boyd :

I also submitted several short stories to Alan Ross’s London Magazine in my twenties. Unlike William Boyd, none of mine was accepted, but I DID always get an encouraging reponse from Ross, and on a couple of occasions the tantalising ‘almost’.

There’s a good photo of Ross at the head of this piece, taken by Joe Waldorf.

Heaven Can Wait

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:33:07 +0000

nice song and video

Heaven Can Wait

Actors

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:24:01 +0000

Actors:

Aubine, San Francisco, November 2009.

During the last few weeks, I’ve had the greatest pleasure photographing actors at…

People crossing

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:40:44 +0000

People crossing:

From series Crossing, San Francisco, August 2007.

Can anything be more painfully mundane than crossing the street? It’s not even an event or a moment worth…

listening to "The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes"

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:03:41 +0000

listening to "The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes":

long time since I blipped …

Frozen: A cemetery in Colma

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:58:21 +0000

Frozen: A cemetery in Colma:

Tombstone medallions, Colma, August 2007.

The city of Colma is the only city in the Bay Area that has more dead people than alive. So goes the joke….

(via ‘Layka) on a wet November night good to stumble on an...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:45:25 +0000

(via ‘Layka)

on a wet November night

good to stumble on an image such as this

summer…

heat…

love…

Influjos (via salambó)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:38:47 +0000

Influjos (via salambó)

"nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:29:53 +0000

"nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands":

Untitled, Oakland, March 2008.

My wife’s laughter is as abundant as her hydrangeas. She gives them to my camera (and my high jinks) without reservation. Her…

We interrupt this blog . . .

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:23:48 +0000

We interrupt this blog . . .:

… to bring you Billy Bell.

Is that a Leica in my trivet?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:52:07 +0000

Is that a Leica in my trivet?:

OBJECTS OF DESIRE

I stumbled upon these awesome ceramic thingies in Dwell Magazine and found myself compulsively calling Portland, Oregon, to order trivets. (What are…