Ancient Corners of Spain
In 1997 I walked five hundred miles from Saint Jean Pied-de-Port in southwest France to the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. While walking I visited many Cathedrals, churches, monasteries and other places of worship with varying degrees of grandeur. Often I found that I was more drawn to the energy in […]
American Ground
WHEN I first saw Aaron Siskind’s Glove photograph (Gloucester, 1944) around 1965 I was amazed. This was in the George Eastman House where I was working for Nathan Lyons as a Museum Assistant while studying photography at R.I.T. The picture was so simple and expressive—just an old glove and a couple of planks. It had […]
After Hokusai
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūrokkei) is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849). The series depicts Mount Fuji from different locations and in various seasons and weather conditions. Despite its name, it actually consists of 46 prints, with 10 of them being added after the initial publication. […]