Category: overnight notes

put the camera down

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I’ve been doing pictures my entire life. When I was younger, I thought everyone could draw. I learned they can’t; they’re too afraid. Many people make photographs because they can’t draw, yet they want to make pictures, express themselves. It was a while, maybe 3 years, before I realized that the lousy photographs were made by those who were the worst at drawing, those who were most afraid of figuring out what a picture looks like, what a picture is about.

Please, if you can’t draw, are afraid of making pictures, put the camera down and take up golf.

Short List: Artists Using Photography

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Aliki Braine, Chris McCaw, Vicki Fornieles, Bindi Vora, Steffi Klenz, Sarah Tulloch, Alexandra Letheridge, Tom Lovelace, Alexandra Hughes, Felicity Hammond, Alix Marie, Liz Nielsen, Emma Wieslander, Catherine Yass, Stephen Gill, Nico Krijno, Antony Cairns, Julie Cockburn, Maurizio Anzeri, Bruno V. Roels, Amy Friend, Curtis Mann, John Chiara, Esther Teichmann.

Books on the Moon

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books are only in the way when you move.

much of photography is built for books, well, for print, the page. Have just gotten two Sarah Moon books. One old and one just new. signed number 91.

hard color and birds with one eye. Last century, I bought several one eye bird prints from an artist at the Mountain View wine and cheese fair. They came framed. After living on the walls for a couple years we moved. Left them behind in a dark box in the attic.

Now, Sarah Moon’s one eyed book has found us again. Signed in pencil.