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Talent Added: Photojournalism
Bobby Kennedy speaks at BYU, 1968 (see below) I just wish I’d known it would be that easy. Some things just fall into place. Others, well they need a little work. A little concentration, a little...
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To the Wearin’ o’ the Green
Oh Danny Boy Irish music, Irish dancing, Irish Coffee, and in fact the whole country, are some of my favorite things. But David says I’m just an old fart, because I don’t get the attraction of...
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Oh, No You Can’t Do That!
Try as I might I just can’t help writing about stupid political tricks, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. Newt Gingrich, requested Secret Service protection last week and guess what? He got...
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Hi, and as Passover season arrives, we have a number of PBS stations around the country who are running our documentary, “The Gefilte Fish Chronicles” ….. the schedule (so far as we know it… .they...
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R.I.P. Horst Faas
This past Thursday marked the passing of Horst Faas. Probably as much as about anyone since Capa, he was someone whose mere mention of a name — either first OR last, was enough to conjure up that big...
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Trang Bang: 40 Years Later
It’s difficult to explain to someone who has grown up in the world of digital photography just what it was like being a photo-reporter in the all too recently passed era of film cameras. That there...
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Forty Years and then some
In going through a lot of my older photographs *(yes, that makes me old, too, right?) i found a number of them which I want to find my anonymous subjects.. from time to time I ll post a picture here...
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David Burnett Week in the whole world
It’s David Burnett week so rather than write an ordinary blob, I thought I would share at least, part of the reason why… FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Iris July 11, 2012 Famed Photojournalist David...
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A Tyranny of Ones
The modern world, far from singularly benefiting from the advances in technology seems to find itself trying to figure out the state which it inhabits. From my earliest days in school, in the 1950s,...
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About Those Film Holders….
I have just returned from my 8th Summer Games. It’s not much, perhaps, when you compare it to the venerable Giuliano Belavacqua, who was attending his 23rd Olympics and who says he should get credit...
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Call it Art. Or, Don’t!
(photograph by Doug Rickard, sort of… I mean.. KIND of by Doug Rickard.) Things to do during the hurricane Sandy: Check out Doug Rickard’s amazing appropriated images on Yossi Milo’s gallery site:...
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Lincoln, and the Business of Washington
Today we went to see a 1:00pm “Lincoln,” which we thought would be empty. People go to church and out for brunch on Sunday. Who goes to a movie at 1pm? Turns out, enough people that there was not...
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We’re Just Sayin 2013-01-02 12:56:00
After a too-long respite away from the keys…. The beginning of the year is always one of those times when you reflect on things that were, might have been, and could still be. We woke up in Berkeley,...
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Welcome to Our Own Millenia — WJS # 1000
In a world with very few personal blob(g)s lasting more than a week or maybe a couple of weeks (kind of like Gym Memberships which start on January 1st)…. we are proud to present Blob # 1000 of “We’re...
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Da Fridge
When I look at my fridge in the NYC apartment, ( I can’t do it in our place upstate because it is stainless and nothing sticks but fingerprints), I see a visual diary of moments and people that are...
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The Best Kind of Coverage of All: “Closed Press”
–> Well, well, well. It seems that the White House has decided that there is no need to have any Open Press events. This is certainly a change from previous Presidential administrations (where...
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Fuddy Duddies and the Gift of Entitlement
–> Fuddy duddy is not ever how I would have thought to describe myself. Buy apparently that has happened, and I am not sure it’s a bad thing. There was a surprising article in the New York Post...
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Where the Hell is Major Kong?
Like most high school “Class of ’64” members I was marked by “Dr Strangelove,” to the point where I can (sadly) recite scenes almost word for word as well as sing along with “We’ll Meet Again.” It...
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The East Room
Walking up the driveway… It seems to be one of those Anniversary years: D-Day 70th, LA Olympics 30th, US almost invasion of Haiti 20th, John Kerry running for President (yes, that John Kerry)...
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Another Nine Eleven
There is something quite extraordinary about today. The numbers 9/11 (always pronounced nine-eleven) will never have another meaning for those of us who were of a certain age — anyone over 10 I...
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