Category: Documentary
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The Hummingbird
On Monday this week I set up a hummingbird feeder. Thursday, I had my first visitor. I’ve lived here for 40 years and had only seen a hummingbird once or twice before. I didn’t think…
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Photo-essayists
In the 1950s, Robert Frank and William Klein emerged as pioneering figures in documentary photography, reshaping the established norms of the genre, as practiced, for example, Dorothea Lang and Walker Evans. Their styles — how…
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Family Portraits
When I saw the pictures of the Crumbey family, all in their prison uniforms, I was overwhelmed by a sense of failure; individual failure, social failure, community failure, leaving the courts to clean up the…
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Remnants of Beryl
According to Wikipedia: “Hurricane Beryl was a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that impacted parts of the Caribbean, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Gulf Coast of the United States in late June and early July 2024.…
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Letters
As I’ve written before, my Uncle Bill served in the US Cavalry, medical corps, during World War 2. He was killed in the Philippines. Next April 16, 1945, marks the 80th anniversary of this event.…
