Long Notes
Robert Mapplethorpe’s “Kitchen Sink"
The Bechers are Hilarious
Candida Höfer, On Kawara, Date Paintings
Carl Van Vechten's backgrounds in Kodachrome
A few decisive moment paintings
MFA Books & Interview Music
Atget, Kertész and Google photograph one street in Paris
On Winogrand:
- Free Garry Winogrand
- Mark Steinmetz and the Winogrand influence
- The Garry Winogrand rumor
Rauschenberg's contact sheet of Cy Twombly in Rome
A collection of Japanese Ama diver postcards
Nick DeWolf's end of roll
Mary Ellen Mark's "Prom" and the ethics of portraits
Alfred Eisenstaedt's most famous photo has a new context
How to Photograph the Entire World: The Google Street View Era
Michael Jang, "the Jangs"
Richard Prince's Canal Zone
Internet memes, Giovanni Anselmo and 70's conceptual art
Survey Photography: Mars Curiosity & Timothy O’Sullivan
Mars Curiosity & 19th Century empty space photography
Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" and Photography
Comparing Avedon and Cindy Sherman murals
A wishlist for museum photography exhibit websites
Sources for photographing India
Early color: Ernst Haas in Life magazine
The "Here" exhibit at Pier 24
The Fisher Collection at Pier 24 in San Francisco
On Rosalind Solomon's mastery of the flash
The greatest American panorama by James Calvin Patton
How to Destroy a Photograph; attacking an Andres Serrano
Cy Twombly: Photographs 1951-2007
Eizo Ota's snapshots transformed into one of the great photo books
On family portraits across time
1970's color and Mark Cohen's Wilkes-Barre, PA
Richard Avedon: Three Singers (Janis Joplin, Cat Power, Whitney Houston)
A review of "Street Photography Now"
Eleanor Callahan
The day Apple buys Kodak
See all notes, long and short
Short Notes
Carleton Watkins escapes the 1906 earthquake
Photography episodes of the MAN Podcast
Danny Lyon in Lower Manhattan
When I see colorized historic photographs
Fenton's Crimean War photographs
the 1970s were not red
Gabriele Basilico, 1944-2013
Tumblr has no backup
Is this a Walker Evans photograph?
A group portrait by Hugh Mangum
Why and How - Attribution of photographs on Tumblr
a WWI photo from my collection
Every couple in Robert Frank's Americans
Goodbye Kodachrome, Hello Kodachrome
Masao Yamamoto & Lee Friedlander at 49 Geary
Putting Ansel Adams in a new context
On Raymond Meeks' Pretty Girls Wander
Marcelo Montecino's Chile
Pete Brook's Prison Photography project
The self-portraits of Ezra Caldwell
Receiving photographs in the mail
Looking at photography books
Walker Evans' Polaroids
Which version? Louis Faurer, Family, Times Square
Claxton's Coltrane at the Guggenheim
A Few Short Interviews
Demian Bulwa on Oscar Grant's photograph of Johannes Mehserle
Jason Roberts Dobrin on his book "Mountains"
Hans Mauli on Paris in the 1960's
Dave Glass on "Veterans Day"
Barbara Crane on "People of the North Portal"
About
I'm Wayne, my own photos are on flickr or instagram ; I'm usually in San Francisco.
Every photograph is published with attribution and a link to the original source. The photographs are presented on the blog, alongside the many articles linked above, as a combination of criticism, commentary and research about photography and communication with images. You can email me - wbremser at Google's email service. Please use the ask form for questions and requests.