Photography & Vintage Film Cameras

The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer Geoff Dyer writes about the history of photography when making photographs required cameras containing film...

I had some hope of enlightenment about the theoretical underpinnings of photography from John Berger' book, Unerstanding A Photograph ; ...

 I decided the time had come for me to come to grips with the work of Walker Evans.  I have never found myself drawn to it, but it has obvio...

Paul Strand: Southwest is a slim volume, but it contains a lot of pictures and information about the photographer that I had not come acros...

  Heart of the Circle  Photographs by Edward S. Curtis of Native American Women      Edited by Sara Day I found this book today at the main ...

 We enjoyed an afternoon performance by the Spanish Broom group on the patio of the Tiny Grocer cafe.

I have been wanting to read Diana & Nikon , Janet Malcolm's book about photography, for a long time.  The essays on photography  ori...

 Photographs are made with a purpose in mind, though the intent or meaning may not be fully articulated at the time of exposure.  The meanin...

 Of my twin-lens cameras the one I enjoy shooting the most is the Yashica-Mat.  It has a very bright finder, a fine lens and it is light in...

I have done several repairs on my Nikon EM to keep it going.  I like the camera because of its small size, light weight, and the fact that i...

 I first became aware of photography by birds when I acquired a well-used copy of Pigeon Heroes by Marion B. Cothren , with a copyright dat...

 Toyo Miyatake, a skilled and successful photographer, was one of ten thousand Japanese-Americans imprisoned during World War II in the Manz...

Carl Van Vechten-1934 I was able recently to dispel a little of my ignorance about music with the help of Angela Davis and her history of ea...