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Good Intentions
I have already posted about Tim Carpenter’s (author, photographer, philosopher) book “To Learn to Photograph is to Learn to Die” but I continue to revisit this book and share ideas about it with the hobbyist photographer. Essential to Carpenter’s argument, that photography can prepare the photographer for death, is the act of “decreation.” In a…
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Building Bridges
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”- Rita Mae Brown Recently I have been culling through old photos and came to the conclusion that my photography, and its subjects, hasn’t dramatically changed in the past 10 years. It’s as if I am a mad man,…
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Architectural Vulnerability
by James V October 24, 2020 Urban architecture has always fascinated me. From when I was eight years old, I dreamed of designing a high rise. I still do and the ideas for one continuously gestate in my mind. I wanted green terraces in the late 1980’s, floating in the middle of a skyscraper. Actually,…
Amateur in photography. Amateur in life. 