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

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Garish: Roadside Color Polaroids Released

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I am pleased to announce the release of my first book, Garish: Roadside Color Polaroids , published by Middlebrow Books. Garish is...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Belvedere

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  Emily Tomlin, State Highway 30, Oslo, Minnesota, July 2012 I took this with my stalwart Rolleiflex SL-66, loaded with a roll of Agf...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Gone Shooting

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Emily Elizabeth Tomlin, Winona, Minnesota, May 2012   This past month, I got back into the swing of photography.  I hadn...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Los Colores de Coahuila to Open in Del Rio, Texas

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Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, March 2001 I am pleased to announce my first solo photographic exhibition in nine years.  My pictorial se...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Revisiting Old Negatives

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  Street scene, Lisbon, Portugal, November 1986 I took this photograph in Lisbon in November 1986, and never knew until now I took this. I...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Tuğba Yüksel

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  All selections from Tuğba Yüksel's series, "The Bus" Viewing a single print, or series of prints, by photographer Tuğba Y...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

California Again

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  Wool Growers' Restaurant Los Banos, California, October 2009 I began my series on the farmers of California's San Joaquin Valley ...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Los Colores de Coahuila

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  Dam reservoir along the Rio Grande Presa La Amistad, Coahuila, Mexico, April 2001 The one thing I learned from A. Aubrey Bodine's spe...
Friday, January 13, 2012

The Shape of Things To Come

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  Parachute ride, Coney Island Brooklyn, New York, November 1988 I don't plan on dying like Eggleston, with more than 1,000 rolls of ex...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Los Colores de Coahuila

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  Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, April, 2001 Great news!  I will be having my first one-man exhibit in nine years, at the Firehouse Galler...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Oh, the Humanity!

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  Hindenburg Memorial Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey, March 2004 This photograph is from, literally, the oldest roll of film I ev...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Concrete Cathedrals

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  U.S. Route 66, Landergin, Texas, November 1999 It's hard to believe that it has been more than twelve years ago that I began the seri...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Pentax Auto 110

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 County Road 1, Ostrander, Minnesota, October 2011 You can't find 110 pocket camera film anymore, but I caught this photo - on a negati...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Concrete Cathedrals

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Off Interstate 37, Corpus Christi, Texas, May 2000 Rescanned the original negative at extremely fine resolution, and found beautiful nuanc...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Concrete Cathedrals

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U.S. Route 150, Fithian, Illinois, August 2011 I was so overwhelmed by the beauty of this grain elevator in Illinois that I previously on...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Christmas Pictures!!!

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  Evan and Sarah wish you a blessed holiday season!
Saturday, December 3, 2011

Painting With Light

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Portrait of Emily Tomlin, Rochester, Minnesota, November 2011 Or, this could be called film from the freezer, as I shot this photograph o...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Garish - Retooling

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Dairy Queen, U.S. Route 63, Stewartville, Minnesota, November 2011 It has been quite a long while since a film emulsion has excited me.  It...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Garish - The Next Generation

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  Trans-Canada Highway, near Lytton, British Columbia, Canada, July 2011 I am not, by training nor inclination, a nature photographer. Whe...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Stairways to Heaven

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U.S. Route 87, Colfax County, New Mexico, February 2002 There is a story behind this memorial.  To be shared soon....  
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Film From the Freezer

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  U.S. Route 63, Rochester, Minnesota, October 2011 A fun thing to do as a photographer, especially when I am bored, is to test film I'...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Ali Sifuentes

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Painting of Kentucky Fried Chicken on U.S. Route 14, Rochester, Minnesota by artist Ali Sifuentes Often when I eat at a fast food restaura...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Road Less Traveled

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  U.S. Route 12, Oakdale, Wisconsin, September 2011 Not to sound like Andy Rooney, but Have You Ever Noticed that whereas the old independe...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Daniel Raven Valdes, 1945-2011

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Portrait of Daniel Raven Valdes, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2005 Copyright © 2005, Lori V. M. Montoya Bad news travels fast, but the sadd...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Madhi Choudhury, Graphic Artist

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  Mahdi Choudhury's reimagining of a poster for Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Vertigo Sometimes, a graphic so totally bowls me ov...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Happy Accident

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Trans-Canada Highway, outside Parkbeg, Saskatchewan August 2011 Shooting with my Polaroid Super Colorpack, I had left the focus ring set at...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Tomatoes!

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  Tomatoes on conveyor belt to washer Ingomar Packing Facility, Los Banos, California, July 2011 It slices, it dices, look at that tomato!...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

You Can't Go Back Sometimes

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Cedarhof Restaurant Trans-Canada Highway, Wawa Ontario, Canada, August 2011 The first time I traveled the Trans-Canada Highway, in October ...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Pixley Tire Shop Revisited

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  Pixley Tire Shop, off State Highway 99 Pixley, California, July 2011 I always like to revisit places I've photographed before, partic...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Tomato Harvest In the San Joaquin Valley

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Tomatoes and Vista of California's Coastal Mountains Huron, California, July 2011 Dear readers, my apologies for being "gone"...
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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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