Words about Pictures?
“There is really no such thing as Art. There are only artists.” These are the first two sentences of Chapter 1 in Ernst Gombrich’s classic, The Story of Art. A photographer colleague who has given up...
View ArticlePicassoid?
I am reading a book about Picasso’s work. It’s in two volumes, paper bound and published by Taschen. I must agree with the blurb that calls it “The definitive introduction to the scope and range of...
View ArticleTUQs — The Unanswered Questions
Charles Ives composed a piece of music called The Unanswered Question for solo trumpet, string quartet and woodwind quartet. The trumpet, hidden away off stage, poses the question; the strings respond...
View ArticleWordpress Updated
It’s a new year and now a new version of WordPress. If you see something on the technical side that looks wrong or doesn’t work, please let me know. This morning I hooked up Photodocs to my Flickr...
View ArticleHello there!
I’m curious to know if anyone is still subscribed and/or able to receive posts? I don’t have much to offer at this point except the news that I’m working on a major renovation of this site and the...
View ArticleMusicians — Video Portraits
For a number of years I’ve been making photographic portraits of musicians who were friends and colleagues while I was in the business during the 1970s. That decade was an important time for music in...
View ArticleFrom France — 2015
This is a piece of “Musique Concrète” derived from sound recordings I made on the TGV between Paris and Perpignan in April of 2015. Its reference to Debussy’s masterpiece is purely aspirational. This...
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