Nicholas Nixon photographed his wife and her sisters with his 8×10 camera in 1975, and has continued to do so annually. Here are the pictures through 2010.
Soooold American!
Mama, don’t take my monochrome away.
Blooperino!
Who can spot the wrongo dongo in this video (whose narration becomes unnecessarily dense over time)?
P.S.: There’s a reward in it for ya.
The Disaster Tells Stories
This took a (…n academic) week for moi to link; it keeps well:
http://thedisastertellsstories.com/2012/07/13/people-take-pictures-of-the-summer/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKlMvvc-WSk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l8erdPprSc
The Word “Daguerreotype” *Can* Be Spelled Correctly
This really puts a lot of issues and concerns into perspective:
Schoenberg & Monk Play Table Tennis
John Cage keeps score.
We Are The Hoppers, My Friend
Here’s our April 30 AP field trip in a nutshell:
1. Buy your Metra tickets. $6.00 round trip for students with ID. If you’re smart, and if you can, you’ll do this before Tuesday morning. Lines are typically longer when folks are buying monthly passes.
2. Gimme $4.50 to load the CTA cards for our two rides on the El, if you haven’t already.
2a. This leaves you $89.50 for lunch. 
3. Bring a pencil with you, in order to take notes at each exhibit.
4. We take a short bus ride on a short bus from the huge school to the depot.
5. We… y’know… commute.
6. The French Market awaits.
Oh, you haven’t been?
7. We descend from the County Building to the bowels of the Loop, surfacing at the Cultural Center.
8. The Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University presents pictures from Guantanamo:
http://www.roosevelt.edu/GageGallery.aspx
9. The Brown Line transports us to River North.
UPDATE! The Wells Street bridge is out again for reconstruction of the second half, so we’ll take the Red Line (the State Street subway) instead.
10. We hike to the Newberry Library to see the annual show by the Chicago Calligraphy Collective:
11. Zigzag through the Rush Street area, in broad daylight, to the Loyola University Museum of Art for Lewis Kostiner’s exhibit “Choosing Fatherhood-A Photographic Journey.” http://www.luc.edu/luma/exhibitions/upcomingexhibitions/lewiskostinerchoosingfatherhoodaphotographicjourney/
12. The Water Tower, the actual Water Tower, has “Animal Kingdom,” a show of posters for bands and concerts:
http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/animal_kingdom.html
13. Munch on luncheon at one of 6 or 7 quality joints along Chicago Avenue.
14. Rapid Transit back to the Loop, and sprint to the train.
UPDATE: The return will either be the Red Line again (and hike to Ogilvie Center) or just hoofin’ it from River North. I suspect we’ll prefer the former.
15. Work on your notes, so that you may be quoted on this here blawwg.
16. Borington. Walk back to school. Or not.
Photo Devoto Alumna Gets Work
Stefani Pappas was in the AP class… what, six years ago, plus or minus one (or two)?
http://www.boysbygirls.co.uk/index.php/editorial/branko
Creative Camerawork 