this Public Address 6.0

From the late 80s through the middle 90s I spent most of my nights out at bars making photographs. When I got home at night, for a time, there was a book I picked up in a used bookstore that I’...

https://thispublicaddress.com/2021/07/17/autobiography/

Thinking about the “why” of the years I invested a great deal of my time, energy, and resources into making photographs, I find myself wondering about what I really wanted to get out of pictu...

https://thispublicaddress.com/2021/05/31/round-mountain-road/

He got a hot rod ford and a two dollar bill looking for a spot right over the hill where the engines roar with the smell of gasoline   My father-in-law once asked me:”why do you love to photo...

https://thispublicaddress.com/2021/05/03/gas-station-asses/

I took pictures of the first concert I attended: Steppenwolf at the Civic Auditorium in Bakersfield California sometime in 1975. I scanned some negatives recently, and was trying to isolate the d...

https://thispublicaddress.com/2021/04/28/in-the-auditorium/

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a good camera, must be asked to photograph babies. My first was my niece, shortly after I purchased my first camera, a Canon...

https://thispublicaddress.com/2021/04/23/natal-nature/

Memory is a slippery thing. It flows around moments in life in a stream, conforming to the needs of the moment. One of my abiding interests is pictures and how they work, and it’s a cliché to ...

https://thispublicaddress.com/2021/04/18/self/

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation...

https://thispublicaddress.com/2020/01/13/persuasion/

When I started writing here back in October, I had in mind writing my way through some basic issues of concern to me. The clumsy framing question, which I hope to refine, is “What makes some te...

https://thispublicaddress.com/2019/12/31/year-end/

It surprised me to hear that dab was a printing term associated with stereotyping. I also found it strange that it would be associated with dance move, or internet meme, or drug use. Dab entered...

https://thispublicaddress.com/2019/12/15/dab/

On the wall beside the drugstore, across from a Parisian style cafe, inside a dying enclosed mall in Shoreview (a northern suburb of the Twin Cities) this musical apparition caught my eye. It was...

https://thispublicaddress.com/2019/12/14/the-rationalization-of-sound/