A Morning's Work

A Morning's WorkPhotography and modern medicine were born about the same time. The presentation by Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre of the daguerreotype (1839), the first practical form of photography, came only seven years before the first public demonstration (at Harvard) of general anesthesia. The discovery of antisepsis by Lord Joseph Lister, which made safe surgery possible, came only decades later, in 1867. Thus, early photographers, many of whom were also

Masculine beauty is examined in these sensitive portraits of men

Essays by George Balanchine

at the drugstore soda fountain

they compose a familiar

96 pages printed on uncoated paper

It's like it all existed within a dream

Hujar made his photographs distinctly his own: a perfect and unmistakable mirror of his own body and milieu

Robert Frank

Norman Mauskopf has spent the last decade photographing the Hispanic people and their culture

Through my work I explore technology and a poetry of existence

In lieu of written memoirs

In 1977 Frank Moore took a freighter from Montreal to Santander