Infinity Mirror: Hans Eijkelboom, People of the Twenty-First Century
Hans Eijkelboom is a photographer. In his brief and helpful afterword, the critic David Carrier characterizes Eijkelboom as a modern…
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Reconstructing a Grandmother
From out of the blue, I get a message from Dan, a stranger living on the other side of the…
The Suitcase at the Center of Nebraska
Some of the photographs in my family files are grotesque and frightening, others are mundane, and a few are unintentionally…
Imperfection
Few of us will tolerate a lousy family photo. These days, the marginal cost of a bad shot is exactly…
The Stillborn Photograph
The story is this: Mary bore the twin sons in the shopfront’s upstairs bedroom. She and her husband Will named one…
Swimming Between Two Cities
Tomas Tranströmer’s poem, “Two Cities” sticks with me: On each side of the strait, two cities one blacked out, occupied…
Max’s Half of the Photo
This is my grandfather Max. In 1948, Dora, my freshly divorced grandmother cut his body out of their wedding portrait…
Left Write & Centaur 