1. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose?
Happy new year everyone on “still searching”. This is my first real attempt at writing a blog, and I want to thank the Fotomuseum Winterthur for inviting me. I have to beg readers to bear with me while...
View Article2. “What if God Was One of Us?” (On portraiture, One)
My daughter, 14, had a school assignment about finding and analyzing a song “with a message.” She is very musical, and good in school, but she sometimes seeks our advice. After discussing the notion of...
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3. Meet Billy the Kid (On Portraiture, Two)
In my previous post I raised the question, “why is it that commercial portraiture, which in the 19th century and into the 20th made up an overwhelming majority of all photographs taken, has received...
View Article4. Trove Found at Naval Yard (On History, One)
This week, as happens every so often, a post on the PhotoHistory list forwarded a press article relating the discovery of a “trove” of forgotten photographs — in this case, a collection of 150 glass...
View Article5. Archives forever (On History, Two)
Our recent discussions on this blog have set me thinking about the notion of archives in photography. My personal and professional concern is primarily with historical uses of photographic and other...
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