Dissent Decree

Entries from January 27th, 2009

What Do I Know (No)?

January 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Images

 
What lies in our power to do also lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle 

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Photojournalism is Nearly Dead

January 25th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Images, Uncategorized

Like most photographers, I have made the transition from film to digital—at first grudgingly—but now I accept the inevitability and embrace the new creative opportunities it brings. However, I lament some of the changes.
Since a digital image file is comprised of code, it is infinitely alterable. Using programs like Photoshop, the photographer can adjust the [...]

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Somewhere In the Story

January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I am sitting in a narrow hall at a tiny 2-person table just across from the men’s room. The wall next to me is a dingy green and the carpet at my feet is reddish brown adulterated with cookie crumbs, mud and oil stains. I hear many voices and smell the competing aromas of several [...]

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Law Cannot Confer Justice

January 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

The American practice of law requires acting, guise, knowledge, guts and chance. It is an adversarial system, which largely reflects the prevailing opinions and biases of the legal community, the corporate elites and the politically powerful. Success at law is measured by wins and billings and is therefore amoral—a game played much like poker—replete with [...]

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10 Steps to Meaningful Photographs

January 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Images, Uncategorized

Most likely, Annie Leibovitz did not shoot your driver’s license photograph. It was probably taken with a dedicated camera, operated by a clerk at the motor vehicle registration office—another example of photographic technology applied to a routine task.
However, when a photograph is intended to be more than a simple record, considerations of its aesthetic, political [...]

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