Snapshots and Art

Snapshots as Art
In addition to an Edward Hopper show and the J.M.W. Turner show, the National Gallery of Art in Washington has a show of anonymous snapshots taken in the United States from 1888 to 1978. Sadly, the National Gallery still maintains one of the most boring websites you’ll attend this year and they [...]

Fluffytek Blog Review

I admit to being an Anglophile. How can you not love the British who brought us Shakespeare, Churchill and J.M.W. Turner ? Back in the days when the dollar was healthy and Americans could afford to travel to Europe, I went to the U.K. as often as I could. I feel safer and [...]

Art Nudes Blog

Here is the first in what I expect will be a long line of reviews of photography blogs and web sites. After each review, I will add them to the blogroll at the right. Unless, that is, I find nothing useful or redeeming about them in which case I’ll just omit them.
As you [...]

Democratization of Photography

We’ve reached the ultimate democratization of photography: Anyone with a point and shoot camera can take a picture and anyone with a computer can start a photography blog and write about the picture.
The question thus arises, “Why should I look at these pictures or read this blog?”
First, these aren’t pictures; they are photographs.
Second, this isn’t [...]