Field Notes

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Ways of Seeing, Again

John Berger, a blue carpet, and the averages AI keeps showing us

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To Collect the World

Susan Sontag's On Photography, read again in the age of AI

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The Stranger's Eye

Robert Frank's The Americans, and learning to shoot true rather than well

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The Photographs She Never Showed

Vivian Maier's hundred thousand negatives, and the order of shooting and showing

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What Would Barthes Have Said?

Camera Lucida, the that-has-been, and images with no one behind them

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