Evenings on the lake

On Fire: Photographs by Larry Schwarm

On Fire: Photographs by Larry Schwarm

Brown & Dixon Blotters

The inwell pen (ubiquitous until the triumph of the ball-point) required a whole host of accoutrements. One of these was the ink-blotter, a piece of paper which soaked up excess ink after a page had been written. Regarded as the ne-plus ultra of disposable products, they were nevertheless put to use (like so many so-called pieces of ephemera) as a medium for advertising. Take a moment to look over this collection of blotter art, courtesy of the library at Stephen F. Austin State University (Nacogdoches, TX):

Brown & Dixon Blotters

ECCE SIGNUM : Thinking About Stuff, So You Don't Have To

A quick link to a fellow Schuler Books alumni, John Winkelman, who now writes code for a living and takes very nice photographs... Behold the Sign:

ECCE SIGNUM : Thinking About Stuff, So You Don't Have To

the snow show

The Snow Show is a unique cultural project that brings together internationally recognized artists and architects to design collaborative installations using snow and ice as their primary materials. In the winter of 2004 these designs will be built into an outdoor exhibition that presents a dozen unique constructions of significant scale and beauty.

the snow show

William Gedney: Photographs

William Gedney (1932-1989) deserves a much wider reputation than he currently enjoys. His work, particularily the Kentucky series (1964, 1972), displays a graceful aesthetic and keenly humanistic sensibility which transcends his often quotidian subject matter. To look at his images (and I encourage you to spend a bit of time viewing as many as possible--the extraordinary power of his work finds its surest expression not in individual images but in cumulative narrative expression) is to find an artist remaking the American photojournalistic tradition of Riis, Dorthea Lange and the FSA photographers into an aesthetic which, while retaining the documentarian's methodology, is equally concerned with capturing oft-hidden moments of luminous individualism and transcendent expression.

William Gedney Photographs and Writings

Ezra Jack Keats Virtual Exhibit

One of the great childrens book illustrators, Ezra Jack Keats' work has captivated children for generations (I remember seeing his books as a child in the early 70's, and The Snowy Day is still required bedtime reading in my household). His most famous and most beloved creation, Peter (making snow angels in the picture above), was probably the first African American main character in an American illustrated childrens book.

Ezra Jack Keats Foundation Home Page

Also, take a few moments to look through Ezra Jack Keats Virtual Exhibit.

fabprefab - the home of modernist prefab dwellings

Linked everywhere lately, but still of interest.

fabprefab - the home of modernist prefab dwellings

FSA Photographers

Child of Migrant Berry Pickers. Berrien County, Michigan
John Vachon

Sick child in bed in trailer home. Sebastian, Texas.
Russell Lee

From the American Memory project