Carleton Watkins

some of my favorite photographs

by James

My visit after Christmas to the Getty Center had as its main destination an exhibit of photographs by Carleton Watkins. Watkins worked all over the West Coast, and was the first person to develop an important body of work on… Read More »some of my favorite photographs

virtual vacations: then

by James

In talking about visiting places virtually it’s easy to get caught up in our totally cool advanced state of technology and forget that this sort of visit-by-proxy has been going on for ages. Homer’s Odyssey gave listeners accounts–albeit mythical–of distant… Read More »virtual vacations: then