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Monday, April 5, 2010

Rediscovered Negatives: Los Colores de Coahuila

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Ruta Fiscal 57, near Progreso, Coahuila, November 2007 Mexicans have a sophisticated way of appreciating color, by integrating it with bui...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

Happy Easter

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U.S. Route 181, Floresville, Texas, April 2002 Easter is a time of resurrection and spiritual renewal.  Which reminds me:  I have a 1967 Pl...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

Rediscovered Negatives: Los Colores de Coahuila

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Sabinas, Coahuila, April 2002 This photograph of a well-worn -- but still very sweet -- 1964 Plymouth Valiant was featured in Los Colore...
Friday, April 2, 2010

Rediscovered Negatives: Los Colores de Coahuila

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Villa Hidalgo, Coahuila, April 2001 Villa Hidalgo is a small hamlet near the Colombia border crossing, just north of Laredo, Texas.  I had ...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Kitties

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Tommy and sister Nernie, Bowie, Maryland, 1974 The essence of every photograph, if it is to appeal to the emotions, is that it is a snapsh...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Rediscovered Negatives: Los Colores de Coahuila

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Piedras Negras, Coahuila, March 2000 This photograph is from one of my first excursions into Coahuila, in the border city of Piedras Negras...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Rediscovered Negatives: Los Colores de Coahuila

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House entrance, Monclova, Coahuila, March 2008 This photograph was from my last excursion into Mexico before moving to Minnesota later in 2...

Rediscovered Negatives: Im Augenblick

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Flatbush Avenue at night, Brooklyn, New York, 1988 An artist friend emailed me recently, commending my photograph of the tire shop in Pixle...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

William Mortensen, 1897-1965

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c. 1930s The late William Mortensen was, by the time of his death, a largely forgotten figure in the photographic world.  Along with Balti...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Rediscovered Negatives: Im Augenblick

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U.S. Routes 180 & 62, Seminole, Texas, November 2007 This defunct drive-thru window was outlasted by the roll of Kodak Panatomic-X 32 A...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Hasselblad Xpan

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Santuario Chimayo, New Mexico, June 2006 This photograph was made on the Hasselblad Xpan, a camera that makes panoramic photographs on 35mm...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Rediscovered Negatives: Im Augenblick

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U.S. Route 87, Swisher County, Texas, November 2004 File this photograph under the category of "commercial archaeology."  Thousan...

Requiescat In Pace

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Johnny Cash at San Quentin Prison. Photograph by Jim Marshall, 1969 Another great photographer has been called home,   Jim Marshall (1936-...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Camera Phone Heresies

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Pixley Tire Shop, Pixley, California, November 2009 I pulled off California State Highway 99 to photograph this tire shop.  Tire shops and ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Love Letter, Straight From My Heart

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Actor, painter, photographer, director, and all-around Renaissance Man, Dennis Hopper The sheer heft of Dennis Hopper's latest photogra...
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Robert Jones
Robert Jones is a photographer and writer living in Southeast Minnesota. Originally from the East Coast of the U.S., he has worked for Time-Life publications in color correction, as an Army photojournalist, and as the entertainment editor for The New Individualist.
His work has appeared in Black & White, the Oxford University Press, and Lose Blätter.
He is currently working on his first book.
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