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I recently read a wonderful interview with Tobias Wolff from which I posted a couple of quotes on the LBM Tumblr. My favorite was this one: We live by stories. It’s the principle by which we or...

https://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/nine-stories-about-my-man-in-rapidan/

Breakfast, Trail’s End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah by Stephen Shore I was recently reminded of last November’s post, ‘Should Artists Be Entertainers’ when I read about Nick Hornby’s new boo...

https://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/should-art-taste-good/

photo by Sarah W. Newman On the website for The Sustainable Practice in the Arts, Robert Adams was asked, “What part does an artist play in society.” This was his answer: First we have an obl...

https://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/instruct-delight/

Funny what photographers find on the street once they start looking. Robert Frank found latent disillusion; Gary Winnogrand found random social clarity; Phillip Lorce DeCorcia found the breadth a...

https://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/found-photos-in-detroit-reviewed-by-vince-leo/

Reading Joerg Colberg’s reflections on the ten-year birthday of his blog made me consider the way in which blogging is like parenting. Both take a ton of time and energy and the rewards, while ...

https://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/on-raising-a-healthy-blog/

If you enjoyed Carrie Elizabeth Thompson’s recent post on being an artist and a mother (here), you might enjoy following Carrie’s Tumblr. For over a month, Carrie has taken on the ambitious t...

https://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/this-post-is-dedicated-to-carries-turtle-windsora/

From May 17-24, Brad Zellar and I visited a dozen towns and cities throughout Ohio in search of community life. We went to soup kitchens and McDonalds, proms and churches, golf courses and cemete...

https://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/ohio-published/

Two men reading the Sandusky Register, Sandusky Ohio, December 1914 Forgive the silence on this blog. Things have been quiet on the LBM front, but I’m happy to report that I’ve been busy maki...

https://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/ohio/

Last May, five Magnum photographers (Paolo Pellegrin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Mikhael Subotzky and myself) and the writer Ginger Strand, set out from San Antonio, Texas in an RV named Uncl...

https://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/a-postcard-from-rochester/

Last year I worked with Ginger Strand as part of the Postcards From America project. This week Ginger is releasing her new book. It looks fantastic. Read an excerpt of Ginger’s book here Watch...

https://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/killer-on-the-road-violence-and-the-american-interstate/