photography
March 20, 2009
- More great news! New Musical Expess, the esteemed British music weekly, is featuring rock photog Tom Wright's amazing images in an online gallery. Check it out here.The photos – of the Who, Faces, Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello, and more – are from Raising Hell On The Rock 'N' Roll Highway, the just-published UK edition of Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out, the '07 photo-memoir ...
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March 13, 2009
- My husband and I love to pack up the car and head out for a drive. We talk. Take photos. And get out and walk where we can. Today I'm blogging about one of my favorite drives -- along the Sacramento River.http://aknickerson.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-heart-sacramento-river.html Cheers!
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March 12, 2009
- My story A Reason to Believe is in Lynn Alexander and Aleathia Drehmer's new magazine Full of Crow. It is really taking form and I'm also pleased to have some photographs there from my "Dead for a Day" series. It is a blend of the New Orleans Bone Men and the Latin Americas' Day of the Dead tradition, which has been warmly adopted on this city's costumed holidays, Mardi Gras and ...
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March 10, 2009
- Tuesday, March 10, 2009Ruffled Grouse makes a wrong move When I was going to check out the vernal pond yesterday, I happened to notice a dead bird in the road.When I turned in , I stopped and walked down the road to the bird, I thought it might be a hawk, but it was a ruffed grouse who happened to fly out at the wrong moment.Still warm, I took him off the road , and took him home to capture the ...
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March 2, 2009
- Great news! Photographer Tom Wright's gorgeous b/w shots of the Who are featured in the April issue of MOJO magazine, the UK's glossy, four-color music monthly.The pix were pulled from Raising Hell On The Rock 'N' Roll Highway, the UK edition of Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out, the 2007 photo-memoir I helped Tom put together.Raising Hell pubs later this month across the Atlantic; ...
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March 1, 2009
- I;m thrilled to be back in Amherst after a great weekend in New York. I will be uploading the texts to both talks I gave in New York shortly, but first am getting the word out about my two talks this week.Just in time for Saint Patrick’s day, I will be giving not one but two slide show presentations this Thursday. The first is at The Springfield Museum at 12:15 as part of their Museums A La ...
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February 24, 2009
- At the little church in Norwood, babies from the 1800's are scattered in the graveyard. The railroad transplanted some. I didn't understood Emily Dickinson's line until now: "Her face was in a bed of hair..." We laughed in poetry class about that line, thinking it was very sexual. Well, it is. But now, in front of me, I see the infants' graves. Dickinson's line was very ...
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February 9, 2009
February 7, 2009
- In the summer of 2000 Michael Katakis, preparing for an exhibition of his photographs at the Royal Geographical Society, wrote from London:
``I no longer believe in countries, corporations, nationalism or unbridled capitalism. What I believe in is the right of the people in these photographs to have lived their lives in full measure, with hope that one day life could be better for themselves ...
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January 27, 2009
- Do yourselves a favor: Go to http://gigapan.org and look at the amazing image of the crowd at President Obama's inauguration. The image was made using a significantly kewl device that collects approximately 90,434,876,079,876 bazillion-million pixels of a panorama, using a digital camera, a panning device and a computer, and, for all I know, Mr. Peabody's brain. In this image you can zoom in on ...
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