Category: reflections
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window shopping #1 (Amsterdam)
I am far from the first to photograph shop windows. The camera captures what our brains, navigating the urban landscape, habitually filter out: the melding of the displays behind the glass with reflections from the street that produces beguiling and sometimes disturbingly surreal landscapes. Eugène Atget’s “Boulevard de Strasbourg: Corsets” (1912) and “Magasin, avenue des…
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are, bure, boke #1
The Japanese photographers associated with the Provoke group, whose best-known member was Daido Moriyama, espoused an aesthetic of “Are, Bure, Boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus.” There can be many reasons for blurry images – too low a shutter speed, too wide an aperture, camera shake, reflections, errors in focusing, a dirty lens – but the…
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not dark yet
A handful of mostly joyful images captured on a 1 megapixel first generation Sony digital camera on a visit to New York City a year before 9–11 changed everything. We stayed in the trendy Hudson Hotel on West 58th Street, then newly remodeled by Philippe Starck.
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Prague after COVID
These photos were taken in Prague between August 15–25, 2021. Travel had just reopened after the first wave of the COVID–19 pandemic. The streets were eerily empty. Though social life was tentatively starting to resume, the economic devastation is palpable, the sadness overwhelming. Old Town/Staré Město Old Town (#1 + 2 Jilská, #3 Na Perštýně)…
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Fallingwater + Polymath Park
In August 2011 we embarked on an architectural road trip that began in Washington D.C., progressed through rural Pennsylvania, and ended up in Chicago, where we took the Mies tour. For me Wright’s renowned Fallingwater was a disappointment. It didn’t match up to what I had imagined. While the house sat beautifully in the landscape,…
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