Black and white photography is neither inferior or superior to color photography. Each has its merits. However, black and white photography allows the photographer to explore form and light in ways that color prevents or obscures. A particular quality of the black and white photograph is its ability to immediately confer an aura of nostalgia [...]
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In Black and White
September 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Art, black and white photography, Design and Communication, Images, photography
Tags:black and white photography·dissent·dissent decree·dream·Meaning·nostalgia·perception·photograph·photography
Government Motors and Capitol Offenses
June 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Images, photography, Politics and Social Issues
On the first day of June 2009, General Motors became Government Motors. Compelled to declare bankruptcy the company turned over 60% of its control to the Obama administration and the taxpayers of our nation. On this same day a rally was held at the Michigan Capitol building. It was predicted that thousands would attend Reinvest [...]
Tags:dissent·dissent decree·dissentdecree·Meaning·nostalgia·outrage·perception·photography·politics
Photographers: Curators of Time
May 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Art, Design and Communication, Images, photography, Tony and Carmina, Uncategorized
Carmina and Tony Talk Time and Photography: “We are the time police, arresting speeders—that’s what we photographers are. We try to apprehend those, this and that in their acts of escaping. And much of what catch we do not realize until much later, if ever. We are collectors, conservators and curators of experience. We are [...]
Tags:dissent·dissent decree·Meaning·photograph·photography·Walker Evans·Wright Morris
On the Surface
March 29th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Images, Uncategorized
Whether it is a patina born of weather and age or the result of intentional scarring, scumbling, scratching, and dragging by the painter’s brush, etcher’s scribe or limner’s silver rod, all we ever see, with our unassisted eyes, is the surface. It is the gift and curse that reveals itself fully only to those prepared [...]
Tags:abstract art·abstraction·aesthetics·Art·contemporary art·observation·opinion·Painting·perception·surface·White Sands
The Respectable Suit
March 22nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Images, Uncategorized
The function of the suit or uniform is to restrain the wearer’s behavior, particularly that which is exuberant and spontaneous. Likewise, it is designed to make the wearer appear respectable. Business people and professionals wear suits—bankers, lawyers, stockbrokers and criminal defendants. When a person is appropriately attired, they may order mass murder in the [...]
Tags:appearance·dissent·dissent decree·dissentdecree·Madoff·outrage·politics·suits
