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Photography: back to the future

The other day I unearthed my old film camera: an early 1980s Olympus OM2n complete with its Zuiko 50mm…

Susan Sontag, in her critical essay collection, On Photography, writes that each still…

My eldest daughter Alexandra Elizabeth Waterhouse-Hayward lives in Lillooet, British Columbia. She is an elementary school…

Tokyo has the world’s biggest train set: there are more than 100 rail lines that cut through or under the…

Finding oneself on the streets is quite possibly the ultimate test of inner…

While reading Robert Wilson’s interesting and informative Mathew Brady – Portraits of a Nation a paragraph in Chapter 3 caught…

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