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Christmas stamps produced for Royal TNT Post BV (The Netherlands) Design: Eric Kessels/ KesselsKramer Original photos: Kurt Easterwood If you can read Dutch, you can read about the above Christmas stamp for the Dutch postal system, of which I had very little to do with other than to supply the photos, here. (A barely understandable [...]

Green Cine Daily points us towards the 2005 documentary Off Limits (La Rue: Zone Interdite) by Montreal photographer Gilbert Duclos. In the late 80′s, Duclos was sued by a young woman who had appeared in one of Duclos’ street photos. The woman claimed that her right to her own likeness had been violated. She eventually [...]

Sadakichi Hartmann Photographed by William M. Vander Weyde, 191? One of the strangest and most original men of letters of the day — in the United States at all events — is Sadakichi Hartmann, the poet, art critic, and lecturer. He was born in the land of wistarias and chrysanthemums, and he sees life with [...]

The Riva Schiavoni, Venice, 1894 James Craig Annan (Scottish, 1864–1946) Having secured a light-tight camera and suitable lens, there is no more important quality than ease in mechanical working. The adjustments ought to be so simple that the operator may be able to bring it from his satchel and get it in order for making [...]

Full title: Building of the Tanforan Center are plastered at this time with all manner of locally devised posters incident to the election of five members of the Advisory Council. Three candidates were nominated from each of the five precincts. Photographer: Lange, Dorothea. San Bruno, California. 6/16/42 (From the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives) English [...]

I was somewhat amused to find upon my return from America that while I’d been away, this post of mine from 4 years ago about “September 11th” enjoyed some linkage on various blogs — linkage I might add that it never got at the time of writing. I was amused in part because about a [...]