I take it quotation differs from homage. Homage is a gesture of respect, made by a lesser artist toward one considered on a higher plane of accomplishment. A quotation on the other hand is an intellectual cross-reference. To illustrate I share above a typical homage — to Harry Callahan — an esteemed photographer who seemed […]

We see what artists have taught us to see.   “During the first seventeen centuries of the Christian era, ‘Mountain Gloom’ so clouded human eyes that never for a moment did poets see mountains in the full radiance to which our eyes have become accustomed. Within a century — indeed, within fifty years — all […]

  “What photograph isn’t a still life?”      (Words of Garry Winogrand, American photographer.)   The usual definition of a still life goes like this: “An arrangement of mostly inanimate objects of various textures — porcelain artifacts, fruit and cut flowers for example — pictured in a way revealing something new about commonplace things.” Are the […]

  Have we left photography behind here? In one sense the umbilical cord is still connected. We are attached to a particular time and place, lighting conditions and arrangement of things, so our indexical relationship exists with this real world scene. Still the feeling persists — we have left the realm of reality we know […]