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C: the Speed of Light newsletter is the area in the above website that will interest most photographers. As Mr. Coleman states you are free to look around the Nearby Café with its many different areas of interests.
Photography Criticism CyberArchive, a subscription-based archive of many people’s writings about photography from the 1830s onward, including the complete Pencil of Nature, by [William Henry] Fox Talbot, and on up through contemporary writers on the medium.
If you always wanted to think and read about photography in a serious manner both of these websites are very good starting points. There is so much heavy duty thinking going on here you will need your thinking cap on for sure.
I first read A. D. Coleman back in college and soon after college in his book Light Readings: A Photography Critic’s Writings, 1968-1978. If I remember correctly I would have met him in 1973 if I had not flipped my car in an accident on the way to the SPE national conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico that winter.
The accident was my fault because I was going to fast for driving in snow on Interstate Highway 40. I am very grateful to be alive today but I wish I could have made it to the conference. If I remember correctly Minor White, Beaumont Newhall, A. D. Coleman and other greats of photography where there for the conference. I bet being there would have been a life changing experience. I know flipping my car was.
About the car I flipped: I was able to get it going again but it was totaled by the insurance company. I only had labiality insurance so I had the car fixed as best it could. It was so badly damaged that I never had window glass in the driver side for the next two years of college. So when it rained outside it rained inside the car. When it was cold outside it was inside also. Plus it looked like the wrecked car it was. I did not have the money to get another so it was a good learning experience about safe driving and making do with what you have.
I was really glad to sell it for $200 and buy a new Toyota pickup in 1975 when I got my first job after college.
Be sure to check out A. D. Coleman’s website Nearby Café and book listed above. You will be glad you did.
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