From time to time I come across or am sent essays on photography or ideas around photography.

Because I firmly believe that time put into thinking around the subject is critical to moving one’s art (and self) forward, I will publish them here.

No response is required. Feel free to download and enjoy them.

Is photography really dead-a response

A couple of weeks ago two different friends from two different parts of the country wrote to me, drawing my attention to a Newsweek article in which the author asks whether photography is really dead. In a post on my website I pointed out this article and asked for responses. Since then, I have had the opportunity to discuss and reflect. This then, after thinking about it, is my response, not so much a point by point response to the article, but more an attempt to provide a global response that in some way outlines how I feel.

On the Straight Print

Last week a dear friend sent me a copy of this essay by French photographer Robert Demachy, in which he discusses the nature of the straight print vs. the manipulated one. Written in the early 20th century, it takes a position….It is worth noting that this was a time when the Photo-Secession was at its height and the influence of Stieglitz and Steichen was profound ( it still is…)