photographic essays
there is an old old song performed by tammy wynette, "Stand by Your Man" which was the theme song for an old old movie "Five Easy Pieces" starring jack nicholson…..both the song and the movie are classics….the two women i photographed here are classics as well…. and both are unusually special women who have "stood …
the best of intentions….yes, i definitely had the best of intentions…and that was to keep all of you "plugged in" to the "Festival of the Photograph" down here in virginia…..basically, i disappeared from all traces of my "normal life" for the last three days… i do now have enough material to write several good stories…..the …
the drive from new york to charlottesville, virginia is about 7 hours…..but it is like going from one planet to another…..we went from gridlock traffic in the morning to a peaceful campfire in the woods by evening..i will be “reporting” all this week from michael “nick” nichols “”Festival of the Photograph” which has transformed charlottesville …
we just got this exhibit hung yesterday….honestly, this was not really so difficult to hang because we literally tacked the 44" x 32" pigment inkjet prints to the wall…no frames…raw like the subject…loose….experts hung five of my pictures, 8 feet x 6 feet prints, by wires from the ceiling… as each print went up, i …
somehow i have been spending my whole life trying to put together my "portfolio"….it is almost a joke really because i still do not really have one…if someone asks to see my portfolio now, i just send them a book, but for 20 years or so i honestly did not have a real "portfolio"…just never …
energy….wow…wow…so much energy…..anyone who meets ann will feel this blast of energy in a split second…and you had better hang on, because this woman is moving at the speed of light….and, in my opinion, for the purest reasons of better communication….. for those of you in europe, south america, asia and africa you may not …
i am such a romantic it is really sickening actually….full moons kill me……i am looking at a half-moon out my window right now and that is not bad either…cliche romantic that i am, i like the wine and candlelight mood for "communicating" to someone with whom i am interested…jack johnson playing and my lights turned …
last night i sat in the audience and listened to a master….a man i have respected my entire photographic life….humbling…..the man does not stop……and for most of his work he never really left home…. bruce davidson’s lecture was concurrent with his exhibition "Time of Change" at the Aperture Foundation …bruce gave an "old fashioned" slide …
"ruck" was always in the back…."uptown" was always in the front…i met both men at the same time in the bronx river project in the south bronx, but uptown usually did most of the talking…he is more the showman, ruck the perfect sidekick… but on june 14, it is ruck who will be on center …
flying can be kind of a pain sometimes, but i get in a "zen" kind of mood when i travel and so the whole process is relatively painless for me…besides, i look at the upside…i try to do things when i travel that i cannot possibly do any other time….like expense accounting…..like making my "to …
