Dissent Decree

Entries from February 26th, 2009

Snapper’s Disappointment

February 26th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Art, Design and Communication, photography

Snapper figured if he bought the best he’d be the best. So he made the call and ordered himself one of the finest digital single lens reflex cameras money could buy. This puppy came with 24.5 megapixel full-frame capability, a magnesium body shell, a carbon fiber composite shutter, a 922,000 pixel LCD monitor, and it [...]

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Educated Fools

February 23rd, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

Her name was Persis which she said meant a Gift of God. She was my great-grandmother, but I always called her grandma. Before I was born she had already raised my grandmother, and my mother. She had lost children in the influenza epidemic of 1918, lived through two world wars, the Great Depression and two husbands. One had drowned [...]

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i 4 Eyes

February 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Art, Design and Communication, Images, photography, Posters

  What photography is–one person’s vision seen for many. © Michael Maurer Smith 2009

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The Art of the Finish

February 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Art, Images, photography

    Annie Dillard, in her book The Writing Life asks “How many gifts do we open from which the writer neglected to remove the price tag? Is it pertinent, is it courteous for us to learn what it cost the writer personally?” This same question can and should be asked of photographers and painters. [...]

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Civilization as Digital Ephemera

February 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Art, Design and Communication, photography

As ever more information (text, sound and image) is shifted from the printed page and onto hard drives and servers, its long-term survival becomes uncertain and problematic.  Where information exists only in digital form many questions of originality, intent, context, and veracity, must go unanswered. For example, after a digital photograph is downloaded from the [...]

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