INNER SPACE, OUTER MIND
There really was a nice exhibit on display the day I took this at LACMA in Los Angeles. But this arrangement of space was arguing louder for my attention. 1/160 sec., f/1.8, ISO 320, 35mm. By MICHAEL...
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Rainy day, dream away. Griffith Observatory under early overcast, 11/29/13. 1/160, f/5.6, ISO 100, 35mm. by MICHAEL PERKINS VISUAL WONDERS, IN EVERY HOUR AND SEASON, ARE THE COMMON CURRENCY OF...
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Compartments, 2014. By MICHAEL PERKINS SPACE, BY ITSELF, DOESN’T SUGGEST ITSELF AS A PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBJECT, that is, unless it is measured against something else. Walls. Windows. Gates and Fences....
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The Visitor Center at Los Angeles’ Getty Museum. 1/1600 sec., f/5.6, ISO 100, 35mm. by MICHAEL PERKINS PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBJECT MATTER, ONCE YOU’VE TRAINED YOURSELF TO SPOT IT, is always in ready supply....
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By MICHAEL PERKINS I’M VERY ACCUSTOMED TO BEING STOPPED IN MY TRACKS AT A PHOTOGRAPH THAT EVOKES A BYGONE ERA: we’ve all rifled through archives and been astounded by a vintage image that, all by...
View ArticleNOT WHAT I CAME FOR, BUT…
By MICHAEL PERKINS ANYONE WHO’S MADE A ROAD TRIP CAN TELL YOU THAT THE DESTINATION IS OFTEN FAR LESS ENJOYABLE THAN THE JOURNEY, a truth that also applies to photography. The best things result from...
View ArticleTHE AGE OF ELEGANCE
The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Berskshire Estate, now a working museum. If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.——Edith Wharton By MICHAEL PERKINS LONG BEFORE HER NOVELS THE...
View ArticleBIG LITTLE WORLDS
You and Scooby and Shaggy meet us at the old dark house: one of the many great exhibits at Tucson’s Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. By MICHAEL PERKINS EVER SINCE GULLIVER GOT HIMSELF HOG-TIED...
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The Brooklyn Museum, 2015. Framing around tourists at attractions means compromising what you want to capture in a given frame. Sometimes it works, and sometimes…… By MICHAEL PERKINS THE MOST...
View ArticleWEIRD SCIENCE
The fetal gestation timeline at Columbus, Ohio’s Center Of Science & Industry. 1/60 sec., f/3.5, ISO 500, 24mm. By MICHAEL PERKINS ONE OF THE RITES OF PASSAGE FOR SCHOOL KIDS IN COLUMBUS, OHIO IN...
View ArticleMANY FACES, ONE FAMILY
By MICHAEL PERKINS Edward Steichen looks over a scale model of the 1955 Family Of Man show, the most famous photographic exhibit of all time. I FEEL THAT THERE SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE BEEN A NOBEL PRIZE FOR...
View ArticleAT WAR WITH THE OBVIOUS
“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important. It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there,...
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By MICHAEL PERKINS ALTHOUGH MUSEUMS ARE DESIGNED as repositories of history’s greatest stories, I often find that the most compelling narratives within those elegant walls, for the photographer in...
View ArticleHAPPY-EN-STANCE
By MICHAEL PERKINS IT’S FAIR TO SAY that photographers are occasionally the worst possible judges of what will save or spoil a picture. Try as we may to judiciously assemble the perfect composition,...
View ArticleHERE. NOT HERE. MAYBE HERE?
By MICHAEL PERKINS 1,000,000,000,000. One trillion. That’s the approximate number, in the digital era, of annual photo postings to the internet in a single year. That’s a serious buncha digits. And a...
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Let’s crank this bad boy up… By MICHAEL PERKINS THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA is possibly the largest collection of musical artifacts in the world, a stunning array of everyday...
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Flight suit A7-LB, worn in 1972 on the Apollo program’s mission 16 by Admiral Ken Mattingly. By MICHAEL PERKINS ASTRONAUT KEN MATTINGLY, ALONG WITH MILLIONS OF AMERICANS IN 1970, never caught the...
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