[Tuesday, January 22, 2008]
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Years ago, I’d hurtle home each evening on the 39 bus to Jamaica Plain. Bending onto South Huntington and passing the start-and-stop E-train trolley, we’d bypass traffic cones and cement barriers, construction-in-pause, sunk in […]
[from the portfolio]
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[Monday, January 21, 2008]
My wife and I adopted our baby girl, Carmen Laura, from Bogotá, Colombia. While the courts processed her paperwork, we spent two months in Bogotá waiting to take Carmen home. Carmen’s birthmother gave her a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. “I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity,” […]
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[Monday, January 7, 2008]
A gruesome narrative inevitably develops.
I’ve posted decontextualized advertising images here before — there’s something very alluring about a well-photographed object (with drop shadow) existing with no background, only blank, white space — particularly when the brand name and commercial bullying are removed as well.
So it was surprising to see a blood-stained towel, nicely folded and […]
[the allure of decontextualized advertising imagery]
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