Spring 09 preview: Subway Art
Over the holidays I read a great article in The New York Times about the demise of Polaroid film, and the direct relationship between that and the rise of the digital camera. I have owned a digital...
View ArticleForever Woodstock
Jim Marshall is a legend at Chronicle Books, as well as in the outside world. His three photography books with us are known internationally. My first week on the job, Jim invited me to have lunch with...
View ArticleThe Incomparable Elinor Carucci
I first discovered Elinor Carucci’s work in 1999. I was designing an issue of Aperture magazine called Male/Female (which examined gender differences in making photography), and one of Elinor’s...
View ArticleGraham Nash and Taking Aim
I first met Graham Nash and his business partner, Mac Holbert, at an Aperture gala in 2003 where Graham was being honored for his contributions to photography. A year later they were both in Seattle...
View ArticleWhiskey in hand…
Whiskey in hand, I toast my dear friend and San Francisco’s legendary rock photographer Jim Marshall, who died in his sleep in New York City last night, on the eve of his next gallery opening. He was...
View ArticleArt + Design: Light Art in the realm of Radiohead
In my high school days I was deep into music (vocal, orchestral, live, and through the radio waves) and publishing. Prose, poetry, the school yearbook—I was paid for my first poem as an early teen,...
View ArticleThe Rolling Stones 1972
I write this from the Photoplus Expo trade show in New York City, where Jim Marshall, when he was in attendance, was a fixture at the Leica booth. Scores of enthusiastic photographers, established and...
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