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Category Archives: Watching and Looking

On Julia Margaret Cameron, Making Mistakes

Out and About, Photography, Silver and Salt, Watching and LookingBy Elanor DymottJanuary 10, 2017

Julia Margaret Cameron championed errors. Her prints were contact prints, and her photographs made on glass. Starting out as a photographer at the age of 48, she used a coal-bunker for a darkroom, and a hen house as her studio.

If You Wish to Make an Apple Pie

Moon-gazing, Music, Watching and LookingBy Elanor DymottNovember 16, 2016

‘If you wish to make an apple pie, you must first create the universe.’ The first episode of Sagan’s series, Cosmos, aired in September 1980.  I came to it late, through the clip I’ve posted here which shows the work of John D. Boswell, a musician based in Washington. Almost all the samples and footage…

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