Every one of us can continue to learn from Ms. Groover’s pictures. Find the video entitled “Jan Groover: Tilting at Space” and pay careful attention.
She had the intestinal fortitude to state “Formalism is everything.” Believe her.
Jan Groover, 1943-2012
Glimmer Twins Do the Right Thing
The recently departed Hubert Sumlin with Chester Burnett.
“God bless the Rolling Stones.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uljcbObxSOQ
Paul Motian, 1931-2011
Perhaps you already read this piece: it was posted on the classroom homosote: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/arts/music/jazz-records-inspired-by-paul-motian.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=motian&st=cse
Here is a photographer’s reminiscence: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2011/11/23/142680423/dinners-and-drum-music-a-friendship-with-paul-motian?ft=1&f=104014555
An typical excellent performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaY1GVeHqKw
Best of all, a lucid essay (with a bootleg clip): http://dothemath.typepad.com/dtm/the-paradox-of-continuity.html
Frank Driggs, 1930-2011
Mario.
Mary Lou.
Edward.
Duke and Sweet Pea.
Thomas.
Pops.
Miles.
Kodachrome
http://www.shorpy.com/image/tid/179
…and don’t forget Duane’s, in Kansas: 
Despite that start date, the product was in development for a while before that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_RTnd3Smy8&feature=related
Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart), 1941-2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsr7YQj4b00
“When it comes to capturing the feeling of archaic, Delta-style blues, he is the only white performer who really gets it right.” -Robert Palmer, NYT
“I don’t like getting out when I could be painting. And when I’m painting, I don’t want anybody else around.”
Ken, Ray, Joe, Chuck… RIP, Joseph Sterling
This is Joe Sterling’s cover image for Aperture magazine 9:2
…which featured work by the five graduate students of the Institute of Design in 1961: Ken Josephson, Joseph Sterling, Charles Swedlund, Ray K. Metzker, and Joseph Jachna. Each of them had their very best work ahead of them, and are still working — but for Mr. Sterling.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/2886740,CST-NWS-xster12.article
“There is a world of a cowboy against the empty wastebasket, of the Bessemer converters and the cheap Montana hotel, a world that exists — but not for the adolescent. His world must be created — created for the physical and emotional self. Although highly affected by surrounding forces and opinion, the world of the adolescent is totally interlaced within itself and incapable of freeing itself… It whirls, rolls, and engulfs what it is allowed to engulf. Sometimes wavering… wavering… AND THEN opportunity is revealed and must be exploited. Exploitation exists for exploitation itself. A world created, enlarged, and accessible to those already interwoven… but his world will grow, move on and be assimilated.” (Sterling’s text in Aperture)
RIP Geoffrey Crawley
This is the obituary that matters; the one that ought to prompt sainthood:
THIS one, however, is how the world will probably remember him:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/world/europe/07crawley.html?hpw
Creative Camerawork 
