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Freeing the Camera
“Some cameras have software development kits that let you hook up a camera with a USB cable and tell it to set the exposure to this, the shutter speed to that, and take a picture, but that’s not what we’re talking about,” says Levoy. “What we’re talking about is, tell it what to do on [...]
Winning the Future?
To some American citizens it might seem to be an overly simple or self-evident statement. To others it would be subjecting everything we are and stand for to inquiry, criticism, review, assessment and maybe even a great reconsideration of fundamental changes in education, business, politics, diplomacy, religion and even parenting. Many Americans are still simply resistant to [...]
Teaching in the Real Time… 11:11pm 1/1, 2011
In the last week of the fall term, I had a conversation with an instructor in my department about a couple of issues that came up in his class. Together, we explored some alternative responses and even a couple of practical strategies he might introduce in the following term. As we began to wrap things [...]
The Technical Revolution is just a new shiny hamster wheel
If we are to live in this ever increasingly digital world by integrating and utilizing all the technical advances, attempt to become more green, acknowledge the importance in the changing values of a multi-cultural society, we still will not have succeeded in making this world into a sustainable, smarter and more humane place to live. [...]
Portrait…What is it?
How long can a photographer avoid weighing some of the foundations that photography has engaged since its most unconscious, but ambitious beginnings? I am sure that all the traditional ideas concerning the portrait, the landscape and the still life began to be reconsidered on the very same day that the first photographs were studied. Arbitrarily [...]
The Sky Might be Falling… or Maybe We Are Getting Taller
Last month I took part in a panel discussion at Photo Plus in New York. Jeff Curto of the College of DuPage moderated and Erika Gentry from San Francisco City College and Katrin Eismann of the School of Visual Arts and myself, from Art Center College of Design presented. Each of us talked about the [...]
The Portrait...What is it?
How long can a photographer avoid weighing some of the foundations that photography has engaged since its most unconscious, but ambitious beginnings? I am sure that all the traditional ideas concerning the portrait, the landscape and the still life began to be reconsidered on the very same day that the first photographs were studied. Arbitrarily [...]
The Camera is not your Friend…
Your camera, and any other camera, no matter how big, advanced or expensive, is simply a tool. No smarter or more creative than your average toaster, dishwasher or hammer. It may be an excellently manufactured camera. You might have paid a small fortune for it. The guy in the store or the internet may have [...]
How much more do we all need?
I attended a symposium about photography a few weeks ago and in the Q and A someone asked about the explosion of the number of images being made in this global culture. One of the participants responded with a surprisingly personal story about finding a hundred or so images of his childhood in his mother’s [...]
The Photographic Moment
As you are reading this, a moment has just arrived and passed, but another is about to happen. I also know that somewhere else, even if no one notices, another moment will occur in that place. Sometimes photography happens in the moment while other times, it is the moment and still other times it [...]