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Live from '69: Moon Landing →
jstn: History Channel on Monday night: “This special takes viewers back to July 1969 to experience the actual CBS News/Walter Cronkite coverage of man’s first lunar landing. Using minimal editing and leaving the original footage untouched viewers will feel as if they are watching the CBS coverage in July of 1969.” I’m sad I won’t be able to watch this. There’s so much...
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January 2009
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Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light: a survey...
roy bass, michael dyer associates Summer 2006. Durst announces that it will no longer manufacture photographic enlargers. Sales have plummeted from a peak of 107,000 units in 1979 to just a few hundred units in recent years. 1979 was the year my father constructed a darkroom and introduced me to photography. I was immediately entranced by the printing process, and I cherished the long...
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December 2008
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2008 in Pictures: The New York Times →
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Persona
         Persona Is Persona the way others perceive us? Or is it the way we perceive ourselves? This project allowed me to explore my perceptions of other people, while also giving them a chance to express themselves. I took portraits in locations I associate with each subject – whether or not these spaces have any personal relevance to their identities. Although it was to...
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Utopia?
Utopia? In a utopia, people would live together harmoniously, happily, and fulfilled. We don’t live in a place like that. We live in a world where humans and relationships have been replaced with technology, substances, and the mass media. Why engage in real human contact when it’s so much easier to let these other things mediate your existence? In this project, I attempt to...
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Emulation
Emulation: Bernd and Hilla Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher started taking photographs in Germany in the late 1950s. Their photographs document industry all over the world: blast furnaces, water towers, winding towers, factory facades, gas tanks. The Bechers’ images strip down industry to its most basic parts. The composition is simple: centered and straight-on. The tonal range of the...
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Mapping: Infrastructure
Mapping: Infrastructure We live at the surface of a layered world. We move from place to place on top of streets and sidewalks, by foot, bike, and car – thinking little about what we’re walking upon. Not just the Earth, but what we’ve stuck below. We love to outsource our dirty work – carrying energy, water, information, and sewage – to pipe, wire, and conduit below the ground and in...
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The Fabric of Brooklyn A digital photography series “The Fabric of Brooklyn” series presents a vivid and accurate portrayal of the peopling of Brooklyn at a specific point in history. With elaborate digitally composited images, the project compresses time in informationally rich ways, and paints a portrait of neighborhoods through the minutiae of their fine details. Each image is composited...
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Richard Howe – Manhattan Street Corners
The Manhattan Street Corners is my working title for a project to produce a comprehensive photographic portrait of everyday life at street level in daytime Manhattan. Between March and November, 2006, I systematically photographed each and every one of the island’s roughly 11,000 street corners (the exact number is a matter of definition and, in some ambiguous instances, even a matter of...
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