The Photographer’s Archive – What Happens to it?

So, you’re in mid-career. What age is that, anyway? Perhaps you have another ten, twenty or thirty years left behind the camera following your passion, making art and earning a living. But what happens to all those negatives, contact sheets, digital files, and work and exhibition prints after you drop your SLR on that destined…

Developing Photo Ideas: Where Do They Come From?

Thankfully – miraculously – I still have the energy, curiosity, and perseverance that I had when I was a twenty-something, self-taught photographer during the mid-1960s.  Now, almost 67, my “modus operandi” remains unchanged. I still think in terms of visual stories that would be fun to show and tell.  My ideas still come from some…

Seeing the Big Picture

The news that 271 works by Picasso valued at nearly $80 million recently discovered in an electrician’s garage, shocked the art world. Then there was the art fiasco that left egg tempera on the face of funnyman and serious art collector Steve Martin when his German painting was discovered a forgery. The art business can…

Charles Kuralt: A Role Model

I think it’s safe to say that each one of us has a role model, someone who touched us or influenced our direction in life, either directly or indirectly. With the passings of Walter Cronkite, the CBS Television newsman, and Don Hewitt, a CBS news producer and director, there was another CBS broadcaster who shaped…