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]

People file out their negative holders so that the borders of the images show product codes, frame numbers, directional arrows, (even sprocket holes on 35mm film); the two little Hasselblad tick marks; and shadows of the hold-down strips on four by five film holders. People using Polaroid 55 P/N make sure that you can see… [Read More]

There are many movies portraying professional photographers. The characters in the movies make their living taking pictures, and you would expect them to be skilled in the use of a camera. It would be nice if the actors appeared to be similarly adept; but that doesn’t often happen. Here’s my analysis of a few films…. [Read More]