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Wichita in the Artist File Online

I'm in the online "slide" registry at the Artists File Online HERE.

Sex Advice from Photographers

Sex advice from Photographers on NERVE. I doled out some advice to Will Doig of Nerve. What is there now is only partial advice, you'll have to become a subsrciber to read all of the advice. Hope it helps.

polardoid camera GONE

I can not find my polaroid camera anywhere. It looks like this. Have you seen it?

Steve Smith's book

Congratulations to Steve Smith on the publication of his book, The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West. Which was made possible by, The Center for Documantary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize from Duke University.

And I remember when Steve Smith came to RISD. I wonder if he'll sign my copy.

The Four Sisters Brown

The Brown Sisters are in town for the holidays. I was sure they were avoiding a national gathering, since its their 31st anniversary. I can't blame them, who wants to be surrounded by tourists, flashers and old aunts at the holidays that only poke, prod and point at you, remind you that you're still in black & white and that you have not changed a bit.

Go see the Brown Sisters by Nicholas Nixon at The National Gallery in DC. More info HERE. See them at their 25th HERE. Word has it that one of the photography curators at the NG went to high school with the sisters. And in case you didn't know, third from left is Bebe, aka Mrs. Nicholas Nixon.

To see some other Brown Sisters click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
 

Double Paged

Charles Dharapak of the Associated Press gets a gold star for making the front cover of The Washington Post & New York Times on Friday. His picture of Harriet Meiers waving to the press and biting her lip as she delivers her "formal" letter of withdrawl (for nomination to The Supreme Court), to the President, is the perfectly posed timely picture the photodesk has wetdreams about. This guy should get a raise. Check out other front pages of newspapers worldwide HERE.

Sinar Sale?

According to the PDN Newswire that pops up in my email, Sinar Bron is having a 25 years 25% off sale! The ad claims that more details are on the SBI site. I could not find it. Maybe its a secret sale. Well, the ad did mention some numbers to call, SBI: 800.456.0203. Here's the ad I saw:

Sinar Bron Imaging Sale
Sinar Bron Imaging continues to celebrate its Silver Anniversary Year with the largest sale in its history. Through October 28, every item from FOBA, every power pack, reflector, and lamphead from Broncolor and every view camera, lens and select accessories from Sinar is 25% off. Details at SinarBron.com, call SBI at 800/456-0203 or your local dealer. See SBI at PhotoPlus - Booth 454.

Good shopping.

Supreme Court Group photo

Here's a link to the most current (soon to be defunct), Supreme Court of The United States, Group Photo. Not much different from the photo taken of the court in 1954 (the court that heard "Brown v Board of Education") . Maybe Vanity Fair and Annie Leibovitz will have a go at it. She's already done a pull-out cover of Bush's Administration. Maybe, they're on it already. I'm sure they've tried. Imagine, what it would mean if the official United States Supreme Court photo of the new court, once Bush's appointment is confirmed, (whomever that maybe), was taken by David LaChapelle. What would it mean if the official photo was taken by Andres Serano? Or Liu Zheng, or Alec Soth, or Nan Goldin, or William Eggelston, Bruce Weber. What could it have meant to have the official portrait from 1954 taken by Avedon, Arbus, Horst P. Horst, Gordon Parks or Weegee. Imagine. Chances are, whoever passes the confirmation hearings and is sitting with the other eight on the first Monday in October for their official portrait it will look something like this,