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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'dream'
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
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 [...]
Tags:dissent·dissent decree·dissentdecree·dream·economics·educated fools·mediocrity
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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