This blog now resumes its normal publishing schedule. A heads-up to subscribers: Recently the service via which this blog fulfilled subscriptions closed down, and I moved to another. Presumably my subscriber list transferred over seamlessly. However, it’s possible that some got lost in the process. … […]
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I turn 79 today, newly ensconced in a house in the woods in upstate New York — Stone Ridge, an historic hamlet within Marbletown in Ulster County, to be exact, roughly 20 minutes from Woodstock, Kingston, New Paltz, and Poughkeepsie to the north and east. Per a previous post, we moved here from Staten Island in July, putting that house on the market. […] Gordin refers to his approach as “conceptual photography,” though by this he obviously means something much different from the haphazardly made, often amateurish or deliberately casual imagery generated as documentation of performances by conceptual artists since the 1970s. Carefully planned and meticulously crafted, Gordin’s images are previsualized as sketches on paper, which he then stages for the production of the negatives necessary to actualize the imagined image. […] On the last days before the rain and chill set in, during the first week of November, Anna and I spent hours on the grounds of the Stone Ridge Library, harvesting the seeds of its female ginkgo tree. I take gingko biloba capsules as a holistic supplement, but Anna knows how to make a tasty, healthful, traditional Chinese dessert from the seeds. We foraged close to 4 pounds of seeds, enough for many such treats. […] |
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Election 2024: Image World (1)
With Nikki Haley’s announcement of her candidacy the 2024 campaign has officially started. And, in my opinion, the imagery that will affect this election has already begun to emerge. So I’ve decided to throw my photo-critical hat into the ring once more on this subject, and to do so even earlier this time around. […]