Some times a single image is not enough. During the past few days I have been focused on distilling an image into its visual essence. My goal was to convey the significance of the image with just the right amount of detail, no more, no less. Today’s experiment is a bit different. I unearthed a roll of […]
Sometimes I have trouble thinking of what to paint. Most of the time I get ideas from books I read or trying to ‘make visible’ (to borrow a phrase from the great Paul Klee) what is in my head or in my dreams. Today a family member with whom I live had to go back to […]
Memory has been on my mind since I finished Patient H.M.. H.M. was a very famous research subject because an operation on his brain that robbed him of his short-term memory. For example, if H.M. met a person and that person left the room and returned, H.M. would not remember the previous meeting. One of the most […]
I finished Patient H.M. today. I have always been interested in memory and have read some of what has been written about this famous patient whose profound memory loss (induced almost certainly) by a bilateral resection of his medial temporal lobes. There was much personal and political intrigue and an appalling sense of the lack […]
I like word play. Spoonerisms, for example: The announcer at the piano concert said, “Mr. Playbody will now pee for us,” instead of “Mr. Peabody will now play for us.” I remember the following from high school: “I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy.” I had a […]
Below is a self portrait I took at the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal, sometime at the beginning of this century. I was probably on my way to see my parents. The photo evokes nostalgia of that time but other memories crowd their way into my consciousness. During the early 1970s I used to wait […]
Part of what I love about photography is the ability to capture interesting images of strange juxtapositions. Seeing a mannequin in a store window or in other situations holds much promise for a thought provoking photograph. There are many people who misuse the apostrophe. If that is the case above, there are additional meanings to […]
I don’t know the vintage of the manhole cover pictured below. I took the picture in Brooklyn in early 1991.
Did you know that the Brooklyn Bridge has windows? I had almost forgotten this until I found the photo below while offloading some pictures from my computer. When I briefly lived in Brooklyn, I commuted to my workplace in Manhattan. I took the photo below on one of my drives home (as a passenger). We were on the approach […]
For the past couple of days (see View and View – Update) I’ve posted photos of views from hotel windows. Joy and I don’t usually stay in hotels, but we traveled down south to Burbank and points south for a special reason: Our daughter Sarah’s wedding! It was a real Mickey Mouse operation. Everyone had […]
