The standard typewriter keyboard was designed in the 1870s to minimize jams. The key layout had the unfortunate side effect of slowing down typists compared to alternative schemes. None of the alternative layouts are popular today, in spite of their demonstrated advantages to a typist trained in their use. The reason? People have gotten used… [Read More]

Before Eric picked out the work for the Hartnell exhibition, he had to know about how many prints he could get on the wall. To figure that out, he asked me how big the matted prints would be. I told him that I usually print these images on 17×22 paper with 1 inch margins. With… [Read More]

Since I’m going to be spending the next few weeks getting ready for the Hartnell exhibition, I thought I’d give you all a blow by blow account, like I did last year for PhotoLucida. First, let’s put this exhibition in perspective with respect to the amount of work the artist does. There are shows in… [Read More]

As I went through the box of prints that Eric Bosler selected for the Hartnell show, I put the image files into a Lightroom collection that I created for the exhibition. The sort order happened to be “Capture Time”, so it was easy to see whether the pictures were from the beginning, the middle, are… [Read More]

Hartnell College, in Salinas, has a large, airy gallery. About five years ago I had an exhibition of the farm workers series there. In December of last year I boxed up about 80 C-size loose prints from the Nighthawks series and gave them to Eric Bosler, who curated the earlier show. Although I had an… [Read More]