A first batch of photos taken at the Old Lookout is here. Oddly, it doesn't show all the photos I uploaded, but make with the clicky.
ETA:And now in a set.
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Doubles


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Statues


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Children's Fictions


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Swastikas


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Grave Stones


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Two of the better exhibitions I've seen of late (and it has been a great year) have been Gerhard Richter (at Tate Modern) and Wilhelm Sasnal (at the always marvellous Whitechapel Gallery). Whilst both of these are paintings (Sasnal also works of film), both of them take as their incipits photos, usually found rather than taken. Richter often goes ( Read more... )

I wish I'd taken more like this - but it was risky and this was the only one of four shots without reflection of the camera.


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For various reasons - not all of them need detain us - I've been thinking about the act of looking at a photograph and the distance in time and space between the looking at and the taking of or reproduction of the image. It is odd when my own words come back to me - from lectures, reviews, articles, books, offhand remarks - and that old absent/ ( Read more... )