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FLATTERY WILL GET YOU NOWHERE
My beautiful mother, well past 21 but curator of a remarkable face. Window light softens, but does not erase, the textures of her features. 1/60 sec., f/4.5, ISO 200. 18mm. By MICHAEL PERKINS THE...
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THE UNKNOWN FAMILIAR
I first photographed Jeffrey Mansion in Bexley, Ohio in the late 1960’s. I look for, and see, very different things in it now. An infusion of three exposures from 1/60-1/160 sec., all f/5.6, ISO 100,...
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PRESERVING THE PERCEPTION
Your memory tells you that this space is more like a “library” than a “drug store”, unless you live in a much nicer neighborhood than mine. By MICHAEL PERKINS THERE IS AN OLD ADVERTISING MAXIM that the...
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YESTERGRUBBING
Remember when the heaviest decision of your day was what flavor syrup you wanted in your Coke? By MICHAEL PERKINS I ALWAYS SCRATCH MY HEAD WHEN I SEE AN EATERY sporting a sign that boasts “American...
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IRRETRIEVABLE
Here’s to the missing persons naturally occurring in all our lives. By MICHAEL PERKINS PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE RIGHTLY ACCUSED, from time to time, of trying too hard to capture every key moment of life. Part...
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THE CANUTE CONUNDRUM
A street entrance that announces an address that is forever vanished. By MICHAEL PERKINS WE BELIEVE WE UNDERSTAND HISTORY IN ITS ESSENCE because some version of it has been handed down to us across...
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THE GRAPHICS OF GRIEF
By MICHAEL PERKINS MY PHOTOGRAPHY DOES NOT FOCUS ON HORROR, nor does it have despair as a factory default. I don’t set out at the start of the day to use my camera to prove that life is worthless....
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LIFE SUPPORT
By MICHAEL PERKINS I WOULD EMERGE AS UNDISPUTED CHAMP OF ANY DRINKING GAME in which I took a shot for every time in my life that I’ve uttered the words “I love photography”. The same, I’m sure, can be...
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FEEL CLOSE, SHOOT FAR
By MICHAEL PERKINS YEAR ONE WITH MY VERY FIRST CAMERA was a demonstration in pure randomness. Whatever passed directly in front of my $5 Imperial Mark XII got caught in the frame. Whatever wasn’t…...
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ALONE AGAIN, NATURALLY
By MICHAEL PERKINS TAGGING, OR MARKING A BUILDING WITH GRAFFITI, seems to me one of the strangest bids for immortality that an artist can undertake. It’s obviously, on one level, a plea not to be...
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THE FACTUAL / ACTUAL FAULTLINE
Back When The Browns Lived On Main, 2022 By MICHAEL PERKINS I RECALL A 1972 INTERVIEW WITH A PROMINENT ROCK CRITIC in which he confessed that, three years into the new decade, he was just getting used...
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WE’LL TAKE A CUP OF KINDNESS YET
By MICHAEL PERKINS IT’S A TIME OF LIFE FOR DECIDING WHAT TO KEEP, and what to leave behind. Photographers, as well as people in general, reach an age when lists must be made. The essentials versus the...
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TAPS FOR CHRISTMAS
By MICHAEL PERKINS By MICHAEL PERKINS I HAVE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO LIVE TO THE AGE OF SEVENTY-ONE before having to type this sentence: This will be my first Christmas without my mother. It’s amazing how...
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