photographic essays
i should be packed , but i am not packed, and i will not be packed before i "crash" tonight…i have a mid-day flight to korea, so i will get up very early and in one hour do what i have not done in ten hours today….some things never change….and i am guessing no more …
william had it right …"parting" really really is "such sweet sorrow"…it just kills me every time to say goodbye to someone i care about…and i probably do that more than i do almost anything else….we all do…i had to do it today..i waved my youngest son and his wife out of sight in the new …
in a possibly weak and exhausted moment i wrote the "rawhide" piece below this evening…i am travel weary …. but a bit earlier, i did check the comments under the "beach bum" story, and i did write something there which i hope you will take the time to read… i would have posted it as …
ever think much about rawhide?? me neither….at least not until i shared a taxi with a Norwegian rawhide entrepreneur… this was after our plane, half full of Mormon missionaries from salt lake city, was diverted to dallas after first being diverted to tulsa because of severe storms…. and this was soon to be my second …
it happens every time…..that is, every time i go to the beach to relax …after two weeks or so of t-shirts and barefeet and jealously watching pelicans magic flight as they skim the faces of the waves, i always make the "decision" to "give it all up" and move to the beach…. after all, my …
oh, that empty feeling…..a blank slate…..past accomplishments are but a background blur….new commission, new assignment…..it is always "a mountain to climb" to even get to this state of "nothingness"…the state of being you are in when you actually get a "commission" and then…and then…and then…now what do i do??? the old adage "sometimes you get …
*the official Magnum website blog will undergo a revival with editor martin fuchs coming on board soonest….martin is the current author of "Journal of a Photographer", one of the most popular european photo blogs….martin will coordinate stories with all Magnum photographers and plans lively discussions to totally make our blog user friendly and fresh….. *as …
i now have about 20 minutes to "get my act together" and be on time for a magnum business meeting….actually, there are now three full days of magnum business meetings staring me square in the face….numbers….graphs……charts…..project approval….more numbers…. just a few hours ago we were all having so much fun at MOMA and the after …
yes, we really do have all types of photographers and personalities in magnum…here larry towell and trent parke hang out after our long long day of portfolio reviews in new york…there were 7 of us looking at the work of 60 photographers for our first ever "First Impressions" review (see "portfolios" post previous)… this is …
i suppose if you walk down the street and you see your name lit up on a theater marquee the experience could be a little "heady"….gene richards, left, and bill allard both wanted me to take this snapshot of them in front of the Paramount theater in charlottesville…i thought it was pretty cool myself….just fun….i …
