Crit Lab Love
Report on my class at International Center for Photography (ICP), “Crit Lab”
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Looking Into Photographs
A look at books about photographs
“It Takes More of a Photographer to use Less of a Camera”
On focusing a rangefinder
A History of Photographic Constraints
The Keepers of Light: A History & Working Guide to Early Photographic Processes
An Instant Classic: To Photograph is to Learn How to Die
Italo Calvino said that a classic is a book that has “never finished saying what it has to say.” And so it goes with Tim Carpenter's book-length essay To Photograph is to Learn How to Die. Heavily steeped in literature—most notably Wallace Stevens, but also many
Start Here: On Bruce Barnbaum's The Art of Photography
There's a saying that those who can…do, and those who can't…teach. That's bullshit. Case in point: Bruce Barnbaum. Barnbaum is what I think of as a classical photographer, by which I mean his images have such great texture and depth that few
THE “The Manual of Photography”
Hemingway spoke of his stories being like icebergs where his knowledge of their characters lie in the vast mass below the surface, and that made his stories (the smaller visible aspect) richer and more meaningful. I believe similarly that it's the experience and knowledge of any craft that