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almost all right
“Is not Main Street almost all right?” asked Robert Venturi in his 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. With his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown (who was scandalously overlooked when Robert was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honor, on the basis of their joint work), he went on to write Learning…
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curves #1
Curves are everywhere, softening the horizontals and verticals, but these photographs were all taken in Calgary, Alberta between 2016 and 2020. #1 rear view of Kane’s Harley Diner, Inglewood #2 our Renfrew backyard on 27 December 2016 #3 our much missed Luci #4 overlooking Bottomlands Park and Deerfoot Trail from Renfrew #1 from the footbridge…
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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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Je t’aime, moi non plus
the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Man Ray and his wife Juliette, Serge Gainsbourg (with the Camels, Metro tickets + lipstick kisses), and Samuel Beckett. Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, summer 2002
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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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politics
Photographs taken in a covered market in Sevilla, May 2018. How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics, Yet here’s a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there’s a politician That has both read and thought, And maybe what they say…
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murals in Mission
I photographed these murals in San Francisco twenty years ago next month. How many are still there, I don’t know. Mission district, San Francisco, April 2003
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