Dispatches: Douglas Kirkland

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I’ve spent the bulk of my adult life in photography. Granted the last five years have been fringe, but prior to that I was stuck right smack dab in the middle of it. Over my life I’ve encountered a range …

Read: Award Season

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I’m an introvert. (More on this later.) So when I go to an award show I have no idea what to do. I’m finding small talk more and more difficult. It’s not that the people at these shows aren’t great …

Read: Paris to the Pyrenees

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“Do we have time for a visit?” I asked, checking my pedometer and watch. “About three months,” Alison reminded me. “Who’s keeping track, other than you?” I have to say, at first I was not interested in reading this book. …

Read: Los Angeles Photography Night

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I hadn’t been out in years. Yes, I know. I live here. But I don’t go out much these days. Life with Lyme means sleep, but last night I went for it. My wife was hosting a major opening at …

Read: More Postcards

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I’ve told you how much fun it is to make postcards. More evidence. I have my system down, which you can see in an earlier post, so I can bang out a set like this in minutes. This is the …

Read: 438 Days

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Several weeks ago I got in an elevator, punched my desired floor and waited while the doors creaked shut. Several minutes later the device made a groaning sound followed by a chorus of metal on metal noises then shuddered to …

Read: The Quest by Daniel Yergin

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Do you really think I’m going to recommend a 700 page book about energy? Because I am. Daniel Yergin is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Prize and his latest creation The Quest is a beauty of a follow …

Print: Press Print

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Yet another cool publication from Chloe Ferres. This time a collaboration with her Raffles pals. Pages with vertical images, others with horizontal. The bleed through you see on one of these images is actually caused my by iPhone app. The …

Print: just make pictures

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Issue #6. The brainchild of Michael Jarecki. Yes, I’m officially in love with the Zine. Michael has been sending these for a while, but I think this is the first I’ve featured. I love everything about this. The title, which …

Read: This is Your Brain on Music

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There is a line in the movie Margin Call where the Jeremy Irons character is asking a young analyst to sum up his findings in regard to an impending financial collapse of epic proportion. “Please, speak to me as you …

Print: 30FPS with Jeff Frost

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If you don’t know Jeff Frost by now I’m not sure there is any hope for you. I post about him more than I post about myself, and I’m a savagely good looking, wildly important individual who lives as a …