David Bryan (aka @filminthefreezer) spent a year traveling around the American West, and Twelve Thousand Miles: One Year in the American West is the result.
Continue reading “David Bryan (@filminthefreezer) – ‘Twelve Thousand Miles’”Kevin O’Meara – ‘Breaking the Elephant’
‘Breaking the Elephant’ took me awhile to figure out. It’s really very conceptual and a little bit difficult, and I wonder if it really, I mean, really works.
Continue reading “Kevin O’Meara – ‘Breaking the Elephant’”Daniel Tim – ‘Close Your Eyes It’s Too Much’
It took a few viewings, but Daniel Tim’s Close Your Eyes It’s Too Much has grown on me. I’ve grown a little bit tired of straight-ahead street photography, and the book is just full of it, shot in Hong Kong, on film, and I’m ashamed to say that the first time(s) I flipped through it, I flipped quickly.
But after three or four times, I started to notice some things, not so much in the individual pictures, but in the relationships between them.
Continue reading “Daniel Tim – ‘Close Your Eyes It’s Too Much’”Enter the Kodak Brownie Starflex
This cute little Brownie came to me courtesy of Elizabeth, and it’s cute. Just look at it. Doesn’t it sorta look like a Minion?
Unboxing a basket of Brownies
Back in late June, with only days remaining before my employer closed the local office, thrusting all of us into work-from-home status, a coworker and a former boss cleaned the cameras out of their closets and brought them to me. From the former boss, a Casio Exilim S20 (2 megapixel, fixed lens digital camera from 2003) and an Olympus Infinity II (reviews in progress/forthcoming); from the coworker, a huge basket full of her Dad’s Brownies!
Yum!
Continue reading “Unboxing a basket of Brownies”Jamie Livingston – ‘Twin Towers Polaroids’
Jamie Livingston Twin Towers Polaroids is a sort of companion book/zine to Some Photos of That Day, featuring 22 Polaroids that Hugh Crawford culled from Livingston’s mammoth, 18 year Polaroid-a-Day project, each with some view of, on, or from the Twin Towers.
Continue reading “Jamie Livingston – ‘Twin Towers Polaroids’”1970s Ricoh Compacts, part 4: the Sears 35|RF
The Sears 35|RF (not to be confused with the Sears 35rf) is a black only, Sears-branded clone of the Ricoh 500 G. This is the camera that started it all, it being the superlative 40mm f/2.8 Rikenon.
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