Rodchenko, who tilted the camera

The volume titled Soviet Photography is an East German book from Chicago’s late Imported Publications, which imported from the Socialist Camp until the Socialist Camp struck its tents.

Faraday day

Pre-Milton

First the breezy dawn.
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Then I carried the camera inside and inserted its memory card in the computer. Clear away some of that cultivation, I instructed artificial intelligence. And prettify the colors. And make more sky.

Was there ever a paradise that wasn’t always already lost?

Karsh of the tropics

After he retired, Yousuf Karsh moved all the way south from Ottawa to Boston. I don’t know why, but let us wonder what might have happened if he had followed a meridian still farther — far enough, say, to sniff at the beaker that is the warm south, draw a tropic night’s darkness over himself, and become again what we all were before we were human.

Then