BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I recently finished a wonderful biography on Walker Evans: Walker Evans: A Biography by Belinda Rathbone. Some critics have said that the book reads a little too matter of fact to be interesting, but that’s a perfect type of biography for a man like Walker Evans–an objective biography for an objective man. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Towards the end of 2001 I started posting photos from my walks or explorations of my neighborhood, using my new digital camera. And though I was pleased at the photos of Yosemite Park, or the Embarcadero and the Golden Gate or Bay Bridges then, I am not as content with […]
Spring didn’t gradually intrude this year; it exploded in a verdant flood, blossom-bedecked and ready to roll. The bird tree on the corner, visible from my window went from naked limbs and buds to full flower to green leaves in just a matter of a few days; the fields have already greened, and it’s only […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve spent the last week reading about the photographer Walker Evans. The more I read, the more I understand why I like his photos so much, and will have more to say on this later. There are some excellent biographies and compilations based on Evans, but my favorite of the books I […]
I was going to write a long essay on connection and communication and use photos I have of blossoms from the Magnolia tree, which I call the “all or nothing” tree because the blossoms are there one moment, gone the next. But I think I’ll just give the photos, throwing a few others in, and […]