Last month we reviewed ‘Camera Club Girls’ by collector and publisher Jim Linderman; in the course of our communications about that article, I felt that I wanted to learn more about his adventures in self-publishing. So Jim had been good enough to join us again for a closer look at [...]

Contemporary Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum is an artist who doesn’t believe in the word ‘compromise’.  As a young man he fell in love with the art of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, and, much to the chagrin of his art instructors, refused to stop attempting to paint like them. Now, anyone who [...]

I distinctly remember the first ’serious’ photographs I made, about six years ago now. I’d been shooting family and friends forever, of course, like all of us, but these were the first where I was going to make a photograph ‘mean’ something more than just record a place, person,or event. We [...]

OK, OK, just kidding. Did I get your attention?

Almost every serious photographer has a bookshelf of photo books at least six feet wide. You, too, right?

What I’m suggesting here is getting outside of your ‘camera magazine’ and ‘camera book’ and ‘Great Masters of Photography’ box. There is an entire world [...]

Anyone thinking about becoming a professional photographer (or engaging in any other creative business, actually) might benefit from this bit of whimsy by the incomparable Robert Graves.  When folks start buying and selling  ’product’, one’s creative options do tend to become a bit limited…

Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist

He found a formula for drawing comic [...]

In a world saturated with sexual imagery, when we can buy, rent, read or view more porn than the Marquis de Sade could ever have dreamed of (and he could dream, you betcha), when we can open up a web browser and ramble through thousands upon thousands of photographs of [...]

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The work of Helmut Newton is always banging around in the back of my mind. Like a tune I can’t get out of my head.

When it comes to the nude photograph at the beginning of the 21st Century, few photographers cast a wider stylistic shadow than Helmut Newton. Anyone who [...]