A photographic image is a transformation of reality; when selected with consciousness and an intention beyond the recording of surface, it is inevitably a remaking of an event into the photographer’s own image, and thus an assumption of godhead. […]
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Our new house in Stone Ridge, NY provides a perfect setting for pursuing my current front-burner project, the various permutations of the Capa D-Day investigation, while organizing my papers and other professional materials into a coherent archive for eventual deposit with an appropriate institution. […] I think any communication to the polity constitutes, by definition, a political act, whether that’s publishing an essay or performing a poem out loud for an audience, regardless of its content. So I think there’s a politics inherent in, and visible in, all of my writing, regardless of what form it takes. That’s true of my father’s work as well. But not all of his writing or mine is specifically issue-oriented. […] |
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Fall Back: Bits and Pieces 2021
I took the summer off to take care of other business and regroup my forces. I also hoped to relax, but the total lunacy that surrounds us now — which began with The Donald descending the Trump Tower escalator in 2015 and has mainlined steroids — made that impossible, at least mentally.
No man in […]