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, [...]
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10 Steps to Meaningful Photographs
January 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Images, Uncategorized
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Oldsmobile Desert
January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Images
As I surveyed the cement desert from the bridge on Martin Luther King boulevard, in Lansing, Michigan, I recalled the civil rights leader’s famous words, “I have a dream.” So he did and so did the thousands of good men and women who once made Oldsmobiles here. What happened to their dreams, I wonder? © [...]
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