Recently I reread John Berger’s 1976 essay, The Primitive and the Professional in which he offers three sources of the primitive in art. The first is art made by artists working prior to Raphael. Second is the art derived from the “colonies,” that is, art from Africa, the Caribbean or the South Pacific. Finally there [...]
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Drawing Conclusions
December 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Art, Design and Communication, Editorial, Images, media, Politics and Social Issues, Uncategorized
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Another September 11
September 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · black and white photography, crime, Design and Communication, Editorial, media, Owosso, Politics and Social Issues
September 11, 2009 began much like that terrible morning eight years ago. I rode my bicycle along Lansing’s River Walk to my wife’s office. The sky was blue and the air crisp, just like it had been when the Twin Towers were struck. On that day I had not known the planes had crashed into [...]
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