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My Personal Favorite
Continue ReadingOf the spontaneous environmental portraits I have made, this is my favorite. He is a private tour guide, an Egyptian hustler with voluminous knowledge of travel by horse and camel in the desert. I could not have engineered this backdrop myself more perfectly. I thus caught his personality and his place in the world at […]
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Civil War Photographer, Irritated
Continue ReadingI was attending a Civil War Re-Enactment of the Battle of Perryville when I encountered this gentleman. He was demonstrating vintage technique with an antique camera, impersonating a glass-plate photographer from the 19th century. I got interested in him as a human being, and not as the actor in a presentation, and so unobtrusively […]
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There Is No Explaining This
Continue ReadingThere is no explanation for some things you see in public. Analysis fails. You must let the mind dissolve into pure experience and refrain from judgement.
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