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Archive for October, 2006 - click any heading for the full Article

31 Oct 2006

Fun at the Apple store

What a really costly Mac can do for Aperture
My four year old is, understandably, an Apple man, for not a PC is to be found in the family abode. I no more propose to skimp on his schooling, meaning the abomination known as California public schooling will be avoided whatever the cost, than I […]

30 Oct 2006

Kodak sensors

Some interesting products augur well for more full frame 35mm digital cameras.
About the time Canon shocked the digital photography world a few years back with its first full frame 24mm x 36mm digital SLR, Kodak was offering its full frame sensor in a couple of Kodak branded DSLRs which were in fact middle of the […]

29 Oct 2006

Ralph Gibson - Deus ex Machina

Mass passing as class.

You either like Ralph Gibson’s work or you hate it. The pretentious Latin title is certainly a warning. And you really need the nude on the cover?
I’m OK with it, but anytime you see a book published by Taschen, be assured there will be lots of gratuitous nudity, and this […]

28 Oct 2006

The Teds

A book by Chris Steele-Perkins.

By the time I was old enough to think or remember, Teddy Boys were a thing of the past in England. These disenchanted youth made their home in the Fifties, affecting a distinct form of clothing - long Edwardian coats with velvet collars - and strangely shaped hair.
‘Teddy Boys’, the […]

27 Oct 2006

Chavez Ravine, 1949

A fine book of pictures by Don Normark.

This wonderful book, published in 1999 and available from Amazon, showcases the pictures taken by Don Normark when he stumbled upon a Hispanic area of Los Angeles near what is now Dodger Stadium. Little was he to know that one year later the slums there would be […]

26 Oct 2006

Mounting Really Big Prints

Some practical hints.
Every year, a couple of months before Christmas, I invite a few friends to select a couple of prints from a small web presentation, asking that they elect 13″ x 19″ or, now that I have the HP DJ90, 18″ x 24″.
It’s well over a year since I grumbled mightily about the price […]

25 Oct 2006