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Agrophilia
On September 12, 2010 by pcalvin With 0 Comments
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Recently, I have been rereading J.B. Jackson. In his Discovering the Vernacular Landscape there is a short chapter titled “Agrophilia, or the Love of Horizontal Places” I am seeing some of the things I have been looking at with a camera. In it he talks about change in the landscape, how aspects of the rural and urban landscapes become obsolete. He says that there is a “culture of environmental change, a pattern of decisions worth exploring” and that he American landscape is a horizontal one, one that is different than the European.
The End of Kodachrome
On July 29, 2010 by pcalvin With 0 Comments
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Wurlitzer jukebox from the Hard Rock Cafe collection
San Juan de Dios Market in Guadalajara
Dairy farmer near Big Sandy, Texas
Leicas and Kodachrome: Kodak has stopped manufacturing the iconic film after 75 years and the last Kodachrome lab, located in Kansas, will shut down at the end of the year. I shot thousands of rolls of Kodachrome both for personal work and while on assignment. It was my favorite tool for color work, but today I don’t really miss it. Digital capture provides me more control and flexibility, particularly when working on location. But there was something about looking at those slides on the light box.
On June 19, 2010 by pcalvin With 0 Comments
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The closed Mission Four Outdoor Theatre, Roosevelt Ave., San Antonio, Texas
Mission San Jose, San Antonio, Texas
On May 26, 2010 by pcalvin With 0 Comments
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Mission San Jose, San Antonio, Texas, restored in the 1930s as a WPA project and monetized in the present.