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Jim Livingston Art's Newsletter, New Mexico Based Fine Art Photographer and writer.
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT (opens the original)
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTAnd yes, you gotta read to find out. I meander in my thoughts, so mosey a bit with me. Indulge me. I love alternative photographic processes. Recently, I watched someone on you tube make a large-format camera using a flatbed scanner, a magnifying glass, cardboard, and duct tape. That was pretty much it.And the photographs were made on ordinary copy paper. I was amazed by them. Not because they were technically perfect, but because someone looked at a machine designed to scan a
The Photographs Beneath the Floorboards (opens the original)
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The Photographs Beneath the FloorboardsLi Zhensheng hid photographs beneath the floorboards of his apartment.That fact has been stuck in my head.Li was born on September 22, 1940, which is how I ended up spending part of this week looking at his photographs instead of doing several of the things I probably should have been doing. I have been studying the history of photography for years, and for me, studying the old masters and mistresses of the lens teaches me as much as practicing with my own
The First Time Was the Last Chance (opens the original)
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We Never Know Which Photograph Will MatterSometimes the quality of the photograph matters less than the moment saved.One hundred eighty years ago today, on September 15, 1846, Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard made a daguerreotype of his daughter, Louise-Marie-Julie, with a magpie at Argentelle.<div c
Being History or Recording History? (opens the original)
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On June 6, 1944, Robert Capa went ashore with American troops at Omaha Beach.He carried cameras.That sentence sounds almost absurd when you think about it.Men were being shot. Men were drowning. Landing craft were exploding. Soldiers were trying to get off a beach that had become a killing ground.And Capa was carrying cameras.He photographed what he saw.Most of the negatives he made that morning were lost in a darkroom accident. Only a small number survived.The surviving photographs are blurry,
What a Snapshot Is Worth (opens the original)
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I normally close this newsletter with an I Am portrait. Today I’m opening with one.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="2550" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n9Pa!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:stee
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