Zines and Blogs

The Dagger started as a zine, a little self-published, low cost publication that would come out irregularly in editions of 500 to 1000, and be sent off to a mailing list and given to friends and acquaintances. It featured work by regular contributors and new writers as well. There were nine editions in the mid-90s, and then it morphed into its web-only form, thedagger.com.

Now we are hearing a lot about blogs, and it seems to me that blogs and zines are similar in that they take advantage of communications technology to enable freelance and independent journalism.

The term "blog" comes from "web log," and it refers to a log or journal maintained on the web. It may be interesting; it may be narcissistic. You can judge. If this interests you, welcome. In the meantime, it allows me to archive my most interesting pictures.

"And this was really the way that my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell."

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Filters and Frames

"Ordinary language fixes the difference between handmade images like Goya's and photographs by the convention that artists 'make' drawings and paintings while photographers 'take' photographs. But the photographic image...cannot be simply a transparency of something that happened. It is always the image that someone chose; to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude."

— Susan Sontag
Regarding the Pain of Others

Mar 2005 - LA and environs

Downtown LA, Manhattan Beach.

Mar 2005 - Central California

Wildflowers. Birds at the Carmel River Mouth. Chumash cave paintings. Carrizo Plain National Monument.

Feb 2005 - Chicago

Visit with anarchists at Emma Goldman's grave, Chinatown, Museum of Contemporary Art, Millennium Park.

Feb 2005 - New York

Christo's Gates, Staten Island Ferry, the Eighth Wonder of the world.

Essay: On Susan Sontag On Photography.

Feb 08, 2005

Silverlake: TVs. "Ask Why."
Yachting with Clifford.
Manhattan Beach with Herschel.

Jan 18-23, 2005

Seattle. Anna-baby, Children''s Museum, Japanese Garden.

2004 Photoblogs