Posts by: bonanos
Black-eyed Susans and dark-gray brick on the High Line, on a July weekend not long ago.
Photography 101: Rule of thirds, good color mix, soft against hard. Plus that nice piece of white siding at lower left to anchor it. Tell me again that you can’t make a good picture with […]
Looks like nothing special: a small octavo volume containing annual reports of the Chemical Society, based in London. Any big university library is likely to have it, probably in deep storage.
And then you open it, and it turns out to be special after all:
In 1969, when Edwin Land’s team first produced a photo that could develop out in daylight, he presented his team with a celebratory cake reading “From darkness there shall come light.” The epigraph sounded Biblical, or maybe Shakespearean, but Land (who, let’s face it, thought a lot of himself) had just made it up. The […]
Was in Chelsea Market last weekend (for you off-islanders, it’s a big food hall on the West Side of Manhattan, with great vendors of fish, baked goods, produce, ice cream, and the like, as well as some other shops) and stopped by a sale of small designers’ clothes and jewelry. One of them, a T-shirt […]
I always figured this whole crazy interest in Polaroid photography stems from playing around my dad’s camera and my grandmother’s, and later my own. Turns out I may have discovered the (extremely unlikely) root of it all.
In the fall of 1976, ABC aired a sitcom called Holmes & Yoyo. It was a type […]
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