Licensing the Public Domain to the Public
Museums asserting copyright over the works of long-dead masters.
Back home in Alaska
Some interesting items in environmental news today. The Natural Resources Defense Council along with an impressive coalition of conservation groups has released…
Hermann Broch on Kitsch
On some very provocative essays about art from Hermann Broch.
A defense of romanticism
Romanticism, landscape photography, and Isaiah Berlin.
Point of View in Photography
Looking at two photographs of the same subject, shot on the the same day, by the same photographer, but from two contrasting points of view.
Improvisation
Photography has a connection with time that in some ways is the opposite of a performer. Although photographers rarely speak of improvisation, street photography and photojournalism are essentially improvisational.
Teddy Roosevelt
Misusing Teddy Roosevelt's environmental legacy