Critic, poet, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher A. D. Coleman has established a substantial presence on the World Wide Web since his home page made its debut in the spring of 1995. Below you'll find links to the most notable internet locations for his work.
The Nearby Café: Founded by Coleman in 1995, this popular multi-subject electronic magazine, for which he serves as Executive Director, has had 730,000 visitors through 2002 and presently serves up an average of 1020 pageviews to 466 visitors daily. Coleman's sections thereof include:
C: the Speed of Light, Coleman's influential newsletter on photography and related matters. The most widely read, extensive, and long-running web publication by a critic specializing in photography. Includes notes on Coleman's recent and upcoming activities and projects, complete new and recent essays and book excerpts, samples of his creative writing, extracts from reviews of his books, and a free download of the comprehensive bibliography of his writings published in 2000 by the Center for Creative Photography.
WordWork™: Survival Strategies for the Professional Writer -- valuable information, hard-hitting polemics, and informed commentary on the practical and political issues confronting all those who write for a living. Containing everything from first-person coverage of the 1982 American Writers' Congress to pithy essays on copyright and intellectual property, and from pungent correspondence with editors and agents on numerous subjects to hands-on solutions to the everyday problems of "the business life of the mind." Useful to everyone at the professional and pre-professional levels of serious writing.
Island Living: Tales of the Forgotten Borough, A. D. Coleman's first-person, first-hand coverage of local politics and cultural life in his home territory on exotic Staten Island, New York City's "forgotten borough." This is the online version of Coleman's lively and now-biweekly column on neighborhood, borough, and city issues, nattional and international current affairs, and both general and site-specific topics, written for the Star Reporter newspaper chain. With photographs, links, travel tips, tourist highlights, and more.
Each of these three sections of The Nearby Café contains a variety of Coleman's writings in different genres and forms: critical/historical essays on photography, commentaries on a wide variety of other subjects, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Additional examples of his writings appear elsewhere in the Café, and all the above sections include links to work of his at other websites.
The Photography Criticism CyberArchive, founded by Coleman in 2002, and for which he also serves as Executive Director: an online repository of hundreds of critical/historical essays and other texts on photography by authors past and present, Coleman among them. Subscription-based and password-protected. The single largest collection of writings about photography available anywhere on the Web. An essential resource for anyone involved in research on photography.|
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