Location: Princeton University campus...
moreOn the Princeton University campus, even the manhole covers have a pedigree...
moreThere are kisses and there are kisses. That photographs can be kisses is not an obvious idea, but you could imagine a list of ways that could get long before it came to the type of kiss embodied in the life and work of Emmet Gowin, who is retiring from Princeton University after 36 years of teaching photography and is the subject of a retrospective show at the Princeton University Art Museum through February 21.
moreThe holidays linger in Palmer Square in Princeton...
moreDespite the Rutgers bowl victory last night and the reigning-Super Bowl-champion Giants' spot at the top of the NFC East, New Jersey still isn't quite recognized as a sports powerhouse. Princeton, even less so. (No offense, eggheads.)
moreI don't know what it is about the holidays that makes you want to watch shows, movies, and performances you've already seen a bunch of times. A combination of nostalgia and tradition, I suppose. But we're all sucked in.
moreStanding in front of something with a camera in your hands is no time to rationalize why you are drawn to it.
That can come later, when you decide whether the picture worked--that is, whether it transfers to two dimensions something of what you experienced in three (plus time.)
But that still doesn't explain why you were drawn to it.
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