I think I first read about Diane Arbus (1923-1971), when already in England. As Frank van Riper indicates in his article, she indeed is often introduced as someone who documented “the lives of t...
A friend of mine told me recently that this photo of a fountain in the Manege Square looks like it was taken somewhere in Paris. I trust that he knows better; as for me, I’m glad that I was able...
We tend to make much ado about nudity these days. Is it acceptable or not? If yes, to what extent and under which circumstances? The obvious reason for all these questions is that today nudity is inse...
I noticed that Flickr link in my Lijit widget wasn’t working. I corrected it but I thought I’d use the opportunity to give you a peek at my “private” Flickr life. I started usi...
St Paul’s Cathedral, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I look at my own photos of London, taken between 2004 and 2008… and I can’t help feeling that the 2004 pictures have ...
-1- It is always interesting to observe how the media presents the “news”. When independent artists, especially not well-known, turn to Social Media and mobile technologies, journalists an...
When I write a “blog” here, it is about Arts and Culture, and the case of the late David Carradine fits both categories. I have seen him in a few of his B-movies before I watched his perfo...
The poem A Thank You to the Wonders of Photography is currently one of the Challenge Poems during the National Poetry Month celebrated in the United States throughout the month of April. It could not ...
I have been hearing the birds singing at sunrise for half a month now, and last night the air was full of spring, too. Today, however, when I sat to write a post for my LiveJournal blog wishing everyo...
Queen Victoria on ‘Fyvie’ with John Brown at Balmoral, originally uploaded by National Galleries of Scotland. “The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden t...