seeing & being seen

Bill Jay’s 40-year archive of portraits of photographers… Highly addictive browsing, I found.

Bill Jay Robert Adams after a lecture in California, 1979

Portraits of women from Rio’s favelas stare out from the hillsides. Direct link to many more images and project information here.

Laura Horn

Again, not exactly news, but a particularly family-photograph-oriented light discussion of recent trends in photo manipulation in today’s NYTimes.

“If you can’t have the perfect family, at least you can Photoshop it.”

Scientists mimic eye with curved electronic camera.

A reward for your patience. Really. Kent Island proved particularly fruitful for this fetish.

So it’s been a slow summer for posts. I have reconciled myself to this. Will pick up again when I am in front of computer more at the beginning of the semester. In the meantime, I’ve been island hopping in the Northeast. Following are images from Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy.

Neither a new phenomenon nor one restricted to Iranian propaganda.

Elizabeth Atterbury

What is this?

Hoax Photo Test. Slightly inane, but mildly entertaining. Above, Daschle pledging allegiance backwards… maybe.