Month: August 2023

absolutes in changing times

Posted on Posted in overnight notes, the meta 
“… fans won’t work..” forcefully said. Why so strong a statement. Does the speaker keep current with that field? Not likely, since they made their fan decision last decade . 
They are defending their prior commitment, as well as pushing for dominance of the topic. 
These are the positions that stop knowledge as they halt group growth.

landscapes format formula
misread to interpret our bias. we read though our eyes
why does he do it
why do you let him — it hurs; but who, and how
a mis-reader: wiley is very widely mis-read.. suffers from wide misreading of such items as the Carmel Pinecone
DW: freshman scan .. a QC crit..
If yo have a point, make it.


craft can’t be difference [defense] — no elite

Dogleash Mysteries

We begin in gasps for air & become capable of words and walks

are poems are backlit [projections]
some people turn every answer into a polemic— making the forum a pandemic of polemics

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state.” – Paul Outerbridge

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” – Robert Frank

Pictures. Captions

Posted on Posted in book shelf, on photographers

Stieglitz. Odette England.

Finding like images is easy enough, even when the photographers are far from alike. Time separates everything. These two pictures come from distinct generations. Stieglitz had very different struggles than England has. Alfred Stieglitz is a canonized name; Odette England isn’t; she is on an ascent a century (2023) after Stieglitz made his picture (1923).

Alfred Stieglitz made the picture whose caption carries the weight of the image. Spiritual America.

Spiritual America. (or Songs of the Sky A1) 1923. Silver gelatin print.

11.6 x 9.2 cm. (4 9/16 x 3 5/8 in.)

in the Alfred Stieglitz Key Set

Odette England has published three award-winning books, including Dairy Character, recipient of the 2021 Light Work Book Award. Dairy Character is published by Saint Lucy Books. These two associations ring a Jungian bell — I was in Syracuse as Light Work formed, and am an alumnus of the arts school of Saint Lucy’s founder. Those two things mean little to nothing other than being the catalyst for my buying the book.

Once released into the world, texts of whatever form, form their ripples in the perception of their keeper. Books are the key stone of photography, writing in all its forms: text, or image. Ms. England is a shaper of words as much as of images. The text of the book, those inner pink pages, [ K04. Pink Dust]

Captions carry meaning. In this century with a flood of photobooks, text expands. Text in art books is usually written by an arts writer. A critic, or curator provides the context and interpretation of the imagery. There aren’t many James Baldwins. There are many well informed, eloquent writers on photography. There are few photographer-writers.

Ms. England is a story teller. This is a story about her place.

I also have her Past Paper Present Marks; more, some other time.

Caption expands to fill the meaning, until it becomes the meaning.