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News and latest photography from photojournalist Robert L. Jones. This blog is proudly a film photography blog

Friday, April 30, 2010

Recovered Silver: Bringing Negatives Back From the Dead

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Cadillac Graveyard, U.S. Route 66  Amarillo, Texas, June 2006 It is very difficult photographing a place that's been made famous primar...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Of Harry and Visual Polytonality

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Twlight of the Harry, March 2009 In March last year, I took on a photo job for a friend, to shoot her Brussels gryphon terrier, one Harry. ...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Garish: The Cutting Room Floor

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Post office, Rainy River, Ontario, June 2009 Is there anything more charming than an old post office?  To me, more than any other edifice, ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Garish: The Cutting Room Floor

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U.S. Route 52, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, March 2009 Having moved to the city of Stepford , Minnesota, in August of 2008, one of the first pla...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Russell Means, Lakotah Elder

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Russell Means at his home, Santa Fe, New Mexico March 2000 It is hard to believe that it's been a whole decade since I photographed Ru...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Los Colores de Coahuila

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Piedras Negras, Coahuila, March 1999 Every picture tells a story, but sometimes a picture has a backstory.  During my first visit across t...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Garish: The Cutting Room Floor

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Highway 68, Burlington County, New Jersey, May 2003 This photo makes me long again for school days, waiting for the bus. But not in New Je...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Signs From Oblivion

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U.S. Route 181, Falls City, Texas, May 2002 An Exxon, previously Esso, station that was closed and abandoned long before I showed up on a h...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Garish: The Cutting Room Floor

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State Highway 43, Winona County, Minnesota, March 2009 This image is what they call "busy" in the graphic arts and art school bi...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Im Augenblick

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Prayer grotto at Sanctuario Chimayo, New Mexico  June 2006 During Holy Week, every year before Easter Sunday, penitents make a pilgrimage ...

Crackerbox Palace

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Brandon, Manitoba, June 2009 Although this Polacolor image was never intended for inclusion in Garish , I snapped up this photograph on one...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Garish: The Cutting Room Floor

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Provincial Highway 8, between Moosomin and  Rocanville, Saskatchewan, June 2009 "The first cut is the deepest.  Baby, I know."   ...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Angeles Verdes

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Somewhere on Carreteria 29, Coahuila, November 2002 In Mexico, if your automobile ever breaks down, just telephone Angeles Verdes (Green ...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Happy Birthday, L.S. King

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Leslie Scher, N&W Railway, Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1988 Photograph by Robert L. Jones A most happy birthday goes to Leslie Scher King , ...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Road Trip: New Mexico

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U.S. Route 66, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, November 2006 On the same trip I visited the El Comedor Restaurant, I also ran across this relic, a ...
Friday, April 16, 2010

My Governor Is a Jewish Cowboy

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Kinky Friedman, Austin, Texas, October 2006 One of my favorite photography shoots as a photojournalist was when I trekked up to Austin fro...

Rediscovered Negatives: Im Augenblick

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Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) Köln, Germany, 1987 Of all the great Gothic cathedrals, my personal favorite is the cathedral at Cologne, wh...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Road Trip: New Mexico

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El Comedor Restaurant, U.S. Route 66 Moriarty, New Mexico, November 2006 When traveling the old highways of North America, I tend to not ...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Rediscovered Transparencies: Model Shoot

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Alissa Capuletti, Medina Lake, Texas, May 1999 Say what you will about Fuji Velvia 50 (and I have nothing but superlatives to say about it)...

Rediscovered Negatives: Los Colores de Coahuila

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Piedras Negras, Coahuila, March 2000 Just ten years and one month ago, I was armed with my Ricoh KR-5 Super and five rolls of Kodak Vericol...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

Let's Go

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Collage after Mondrian, Germany, August 2001 (Clockwise from left: Norden, Lauffen/N, Emden; center, Stuttgart HBF) Just weeks before Sept...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Los Colores de Coahuila

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Ruta Federal 29, San Carlos, Coahuila, January 2002 In the winter, even though the temperatures don't really dip too low, outdoor eati...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Unintentional Photo Effects

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U.S. Route 285, Eddy County, New Mexico, 2008 This photograph was taken on Fuji Velvia 50 color transparency (slide) film, on my Rolleifle...
Thursday, April 8, 2010

Road Trip: Madawaska Valley, Ontario

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Near Greater Madawaska, Madawaska Valley, Ontario,  June 2004 I always carry many different cameras and types of film when I head out on a ...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Los Colores de Coahuila

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Mothers and Children,  Ciudad  Acuña, Coahuila, April 2002 These women are the wives and girlfriends of men detained in the city jail in th...
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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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