Aaron Scharf: An appreciation
A Case of Spirits: The origins of Spirit Photography
A.D. Coleman: Defining the Peaks among the Plain
A.D.Coleman: Introduction to his book, Critical Focus
After the Rapture: Introduction to Michael Kenna's night pictures
Allen Dutton: The serious side of humor
Animal knickknacks: odd items from the 19th century photographic press
Ansel Adams: A personal appreciation
Arcadia in Suburbia: Greek influences on Victorian erotic photography
Arnold Newman: A personal appreciation
Art vs. Ideas: A book review
Artists- Rebels without a Cause: Fine-art photography and commercialism
Beaumont Newhall: Notes on a psychic experience
Bedford and Bertie: The historical context for an otherwise indecipherable cartoon in Punch, 1862
Bill Brandt: A true but fictional first encounter
Birt Acres: "the first Englishman successfully to produce and publicly show animated pictures."
By the Light of a Putrid Haddock: Odd processes in 19c photography
Book Of Revelations: An introduction to Jerry Uelsmann's book, Approaching the Shadow
Charles Darwin and Everything Else
Cheap Portraits in Low Dens: 19th century studios at the "wrong" end of the social scale
Choosing and Losing is a human condition, not the special problem of the artist
Confessions of a Feisty Romantic: An open letter
Confessions of a Gallery Hater
Contemplating Venus: Victorian sexual repression and its release through academic painting and photography
Cow Licks and Colored Lights
CRAP: Wall label of an exhibition of my melted cameras
Creating a Viable Dialogue Situation: About Talking
Cubist Photography: A possible caption for a Punch cartoon
Dangers in the Dark: Poisonings and explosions in 19c photography darkrooms
David Hurn: A personal appraisal of a Magnum photographer
David Hurn: Notes on his exhibition- Sculpture, Carvings and Controversy
Diane Arbus: A personal snapshot
Do Not Disturb: Photography, censorship and the Iraq war
"Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Jack!"- A Jack Stuler Appreciation
Early Ballooning: The first instantaneous photograph from the car of a free-floating balloon by Cecil Shadbolt
Emil Otto Hoppe 1878-1973: A personal snapshot
Explosion of the Hindenburg: "The most famous news photograph ever taken" - with notes on Sam Shere
Exposed to the Wind: Why the wind direction affected exposures in 19c London
Family of Man Exhibition: In defense of an unfairly maligned exhibition
Ferenc Berko and the fickleness of fame
Fifty Thousand Photographs: In praise of the exuberant Victorian exhibition
Footnotes to Fame: Forgotten Victorians
For Richer, For Poorer: Victorian studio extremes
From Magic to Mimesis: The artist's quest for a faithful representation of a natural object prior to the introduction of photography.
George Bernard Shaw: by Emil Otto Hoppe
Hat Cameras: A late 19c snapshot craze
Heroes and Entrepreneurs
History of Photography: the inside-out approach
How to be Famous, Sort Of: And why fame has nothing to do with it
Hypothetical Encounter: A chance meeting alters photographic history
Images in the Eyes of the Dead: Retinal photography in the 19c
Incest in Academia and an appreciation of Myron Wood
Infantry Tactics: How 19c photographers coped with babies
In Plain Sight: The photographs of Beaumont Newhall
Jack Mitchell: Photographer of Dance
Jack Stuler: In the Nature of Things
Julia Margaret Cameron: An Appraisal
Keraunography: The photographic effects of lightning in 19th century journals
Life/Work: When photographs are too personal
Madonna Made Me Do It: How to appear profound when talking about your photographs
Magazine Memoirs: Reminiscences of Creative Camera and Album magazines
Memento Mori: Post-mortem photography in the 19c
Michael Smith -A Visual Journey: Interview
Move a muscle and I'll Blow Your Brains Out: Keeping sitters still for early portraits
Ms. Miscellany: Feminine facts and fancies from 19 century photography
Myths and Legends: from photography's shady past
Nelson King Cherrill: one of the most respected names in Victorian photography, now largely forgotten
Original (and Reproduction) Thoughts: Choosing Caponigro over Van Gogh


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