Check Charles Cushman’s documentation of the slums of Chicago 50 years ago. Without dating the shots, there isn’t a clue to the time or era that the photographs documents, and perhaps, with black and white renditions, this is much more the case. Cushman shot with Kodachrome, state of the art until around 1980. Three shots….
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TwoShoes at the Mike Boros Cafe, in the Buckeye neighborhood, once the largest Hungariam settlement outside of Hungary, itself. The shot was taken in 1989, nine years before The Bar finallly closed after about a hundred years of serving cheap drinks in an ethnic dive bar. Begnning in the late 1970s, the neighborhood became Black,….
Continue ReadingWith regards to hand-made Slovenian sausage, the first big step in the multi-day process is to trim the fat off hundreds of pounds of pork, that, if not done, no one would eat.
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Continue ReadingOccasionally, when mixing, accidentally, with the people i avoid, i will be rudely asked, always by the usual gossiping, out-of-it privleged trolls, “How do you pay for all this?” Especially if they find out that most everyone gets pictures, and it begins and ends there. Handing out prints to my “subjects” including, even, fine art shots….
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One thing about the badlands, its erosion is the quickest of all landscapes. Material on the ground is shaped by water and wind continually, and always changes. Comparison are odious. I wrote that for one of the Sullage books and it simply means, if you’ve done your job right, than there’s a point where comparisons aren’t worth….
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Reality, the world, left even a little uncontrolled, allows for the unexpexcted, as well as, the same old thing. Basic reality, by nature, is always a gamble. In 1995, while shooting a formation at 3:00 a.m., in the eastern Montana Badlands, with Ektar 25 color film, in a 90 minute exposure, a thunderstorm crept in from….
Continue ReadingRealStill, pictures of the lost source, a website for everyone and no one. There are four departments, most easilly accessed with the menu in the left corner of the site’s pages. BOOKS, long-form, often over many years. https://realstill.com/books ESSAYS, short-form, from a few pages to almost book-length. https://realstill.com/works EPIGRAMS, one shot aphoristic wonders, with small….
Continue ReadingJohn Taverner discusses the art of being timeless.
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