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INNER SPACE, OUTER MIND
There really was a nice exhibit on display the day I took this at LACMA in Los Angeles. But this arrangement of space was arguing louder for my attention. 1/160 sec., f/1.8, ISO 320, 35mm. By MICHAEL...
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MAGNIFICENT RUIN
Clay pre-firings and molds for bronze bells at Paolo Soleri’s COSANTI studios in Paradise Valley, Arizona. 1/20 sec., f/5.6, ISO 100, 35mm. by MICHAEL PERKINS IN 1956, ARCHITECT PAOLO SOLERI BEGAN THE...
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THE LAST PIECE OF THE PUZZLE
By “available light”, I mean any $%#@ light that’s available. —-Joe McNally, world-renowned master photographer, author of The Moment It Clicks By MICHAEL PERKINS ONE OF THE EASIEST THINGS ABOUT...
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THE SHORT AND WINDING ROAD
All eras are now. There is no was. By MICHAEL PERKINS PHOTOGRAPHY USED TO LITERALLY BE A MATTER OF MATH. Formulating formulae for harnessing light, predicting the reactivity of chemicals, calculating...
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SEEING THROUGH THE STORM
Alfred Stieglitz captures a blizzard on Fifth Avenue in NYC in 1893. Could this image gain any more power if it were technically “perfect”? By MICHAEL PERKINS LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE PHOTOGRAPH TO YOUR...
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THE ROMANCE OF RUIN
The honeymoon is, indeed, over. By MICHAEL PERKINS I TYPICALLY SHY AWAY FROM USING OR CREATING PHOTOGRAPHS as illustrations of work in another medium. Writers don’t try to caption my images, and I...
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GALLERYLABS
Watching those who watch. By MICHAEL PERKINS MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES COMPRISE SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING WORKOUT SPACES for photographers, but for none of the reasons you might suppose. On the most...
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SPHERE ITSELF
Wet Democracy (2017): The 1964 World’s Fair’s central icon as play space. By MICHAEL PERKINS CULTURAL ICONS, which burn very distinct patterns into our memory, can become the single most challenging...
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BECAUSE WEIRD ISN’T FOREVER
By MICHAEL PERKINS WHAT DO YOU DO when you’re a quirky bit of modern art and the museum that hosts you has been shuttered for missing the rent? Futher, let’s assume your creator’s homeland regards...
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HERE. NOT HERE. MAYBE HERE?
By MICHAEL PERKINS 1,000,000,000,000. One trillion. That’s the approximate number, in the digital era, of annual photo postings to the internet in a single year. That’s a serious buncha digits. And a...
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