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Sarah Bones: Photographing the Other Side
I have a friend, Sarah Bones, who is an award-winning photographer. Sarah takes photographs for NGOs in some of the most devastated parts of the world–the other side of what we know. She has...
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To Light a Fire
jpbohannon:These are beautiful, wonderful pictures that I know many of you will enjoy. Originally posted on Steve McCurry's Blog: To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out...
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Movie Review: Black, White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert...
Sam Wagstaff and Robert Maplethorpe I discovered a documentary the other night called Black, White + Gray by James Crumb (2007). The blurb calls it a study of the relationship between the...
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Book Review: Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles by Alexandra Schwartz–“learning what I...
Standard Station, 1966, Ed Ruscha. (Park West Gallery) I received a book about six months ago as a gift: Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles by Alexandra Schwartz. At first I thought it was a travel guide, for I...
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The Getty Museum, Los Angeles–“a work of art with a museum inside”
When I think of art museums, I think of urban spaces. In my experience, most large cities ensconce their major museums within the city landscape itself. And often times, the buildings themselves are...
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Emerson, the Transparent Eye, and photos on my iPhone
Illustration of Emerson’s “Transparent Eyeball” that accompanied the essay “Nature” In his essay “Nature,” Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said: “I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all;...
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Photography, Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You,” and blogging again
It’s been a while since I posted something on this site. There have been several reasons: I’ve had to write for another blog for work but that really didn’t take that much time; I was working hard...
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The Getty Museum, Los Angeles–“a work of art with a museum inside”
When I think of art museums, I think of urban spaces. In my experience, most large cities ensconce their major museums within the city landscape itself. And often times, the buildings themselves are...
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Richard Avedon’s Family Affairs at the National Museum of American Jewish...
Subway poster advertising the Avedon exhibit. Jerry Brown, Bella Abzug, Barbara Jordan and George H. W. Bush photograph 2015 by jpbohannon In 1972, Francis Ford Coppola released The Godfather, the film...
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