PHOTO OF THE WEEK: May 23–30, 2008 Wary girl in downtown El Paso Notes from my Journal, September 1986 I am an illegal alien in a strange land. That’s a phrase they use a lot in the newspaper here: Illegal Alien.
PHOTO OF THE WEEK (#2): May 16–23, 2008 Man who jumped the river, waving at his friends in Juarez (in triumph), standing on US side/ El Paso-Juarez, 1990’s
PHOTO OF THE WEEK (#1): May 16–23, 2008 Moving the man, Uptown (upper Broadway Street), Chicago, 1969 I have moving on my mind. I don’t do it often. When I do it is a reincarnation for the better or worse. I am about to do it. In so doing, I came up with this image […]
Remnant #37, Less gas/Alameda Street, El Paso, Texas — May 12, 2008 “Gas for less.” Less gas. This is not a glitch, it is the changing of a culture. Usually when a culture changes –sorry Barack– it is the result of a calamity: Depression, war, pandemic, natural disaster. Were it not so, but “change,” is not engineered. […]
Editor’s note: This is an interview with Magnum photo greats, Elliott Erwitt and Burt Glin.These are the oldest current members of Magnum, the great photography cooperative founded, in 1947, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Robert “Chim” Seymour and George Rodger. For a certain kind of photography –our kind– this is a group of top notch […]
