The ‘hallowed camp’ is a collection of photographs that I return to on occasion. In the words of the Eagles, these photographs ‘can check out any time … but (can) never leave’. Here is the ninth picture from the series, this one by Fay Godwin.
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The ‘hallowed camp’ is a collection of photographs that I return to on occasion. In the words of the Eagles, these photographs ‘can check out any time … but (can) never leave’. Here is the eighth in the series, this one by Wright Marion Morris.
Straight Back Chair, The Home Place, Near Norfolk, Nebraska, 1947
A while ago I wrote a short post on Morris here.
The ‘hallowed camp’ is a collection of photographs that I return to on occasion. In the words of the Eagles, these photographs ‘can check out any time … but (can) never leave’. Here is the seventh in the series, this one by Sally Mann.
I often gaze at this image. It is a picture of the ‘Bridge on Tallahatchie’, the river where Emmett Till’s corpse was recovered. Unfortunately the reproduction above does not do the picture justice. Sally Mann’s wonderful book ‘Thousand Crossings’ has this picture beautifully rendered.
For the rationale behind this series see here.
The ‘hallowed camp’ is a collection of photographs that I return to on occasion. In the words of the Eagles, these photographs ‘can check out any time … but (can) never leave’. Here is the sixth picture, this one by Shore.
The pictures in this series have stopped me and made me think. I am drawn to looking down the length of streets, bridleways, paths …
Today, it is difficult to catch the sense of pioneering playfulness that existed in the early days of what we now call Modernism. On visiting the Bauhaus Museum in Berlin a few years ago, I was struck by the scale of creativity of those years, inspired, I was told, by Friedrich Schiller’s “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, in which play is the force that makes creativity possible.
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In my post about my journey of cameras I briefly discussed whether a camera is just a tool and what this little word ‘just’ meant. In this post I reflect a little more on this question and why simplicity is an important attribute.
Continue readingI’ve never thought of myself as being a victim of ‘gear acquisition syndrome’ but looking at the number of cameras that I have, perhaps I am …
Continue readingThe ‘hallowed camp’ is a collection of photographs that I return to on occasion. In the words of the Eagles, these photographs ‘can check out any time … but (can) never leave’. Here is the third picture, this one by Frederick H. Evans.
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