Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

'Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits'

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I started reading this biography on a trip this past winter: I saved a few quotes from it. Here are 2 from the introduction that I particul...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Photography as "Mirrors" or "Windows"

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I've been reading "Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists" these last few weeks. I found an interesting...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Color Naming Book from 1955

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I found this in one of the classrooms where I teach at the University of Minnesota: Figure out your Munsell notation (something I became VER...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Thoughts on the Power of Early Photography (From a Mathew Brady Bio)

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The start of Chapter 3 in "Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation" mentions something that I've pondered a lot. And it shares 3...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Catalog from "The Shape of Things" at the Praxis Photo Center

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Sorry, this post has been stuck as a "draft" for about 10 months. Here are a few images from Vol. 2 of "The Shape of Things...
Thursday, October 07, 2021

"Out of the Frame" Exhibition Catalog

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I recieved a package in the mail from Scotland 2 months ago: [click any image to enlarge] It was the catalog for the "Out of the Frame...
Sunday, September 05, 2021

"Open Call" Catalog

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The PhotoPlace Gallery's Open Call 2021 catalog has been put together online. Here are a few screenshots of it: The cover. The title p...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Catalog from the "Making Strange" Exhibition

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Here are some images from the "Making Strange" catalog from the Praxis Photo Arts Center last fall: An example of a spread in the...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

"The Dawn of the Color Photograph"

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I've been checking out photo-related books from my local library over the last 14 months. I recently learned about Albert Kahn and his ...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Capturing the Light: Regarding "The Pencil of Nature"

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Here's an interesting 2 paragraphs from Capturing the Light as the authors wrote about Talbot and The Pencil of Nature: In developing t...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Then & Now: 25 Years of MCAD MFA

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I was recently featured in the Minneapolis College of Art and Design's (MCAD) MFA 25th Anniversary Catalog. I graduated from the MCAD M...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

New Photo Book

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Two weeks ago, I stepped foot inside of my local St. Paul Public Library for the first time since early March. (Thanks COVID.) I walked ba...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Overdue Photobooks

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I checked out a few photo-related books earlier this year : 2 from my local public library in January, and 1 through inter-library loan at H...
Sunday, July 05, 2020

Photography: "an invention of the Devil"

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Here's another quote that I enjoyed from L. J. M. Daguerre: The Worlds First Photographer and Inventor of the Daguerreotype : Click to e...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

"Bare Men:" the Catalog

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I recently got notification of "Bare Men: the Group Show" had a digital catalog ready to download. Here are a few images from it...
Tuesday, March 03, 2020

Monthly Challenge 2 of 12: a "4 a.m." Portfolio Book

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For my February challenge, I created my first portfolio book. I've created my own self-published photo books a few times in the past, b...