See my new post on the JLP blog, Chaos Manor.

See my latest JLP blog entry about the exhibition opening in Chicago.

My second blog post from my recent New Mexico trip is here.  I mention an idea I keep having for a new literary-documentary-media magazine or journal.  I know it seems preposterous in this anxious media age.  I’d want the production to maximize the possibilities digitally, foreseeing all the potential of the iPad and other digital [...]

See my new Jazz Loft Project blog entry regarding my New Mexico trip this weekend.  Of particular note is the part concerning one of the most famous WWII photos made by Smith.  Under what circumstances could some negatives by a different photographer come into Smith’s possession?  Under what circumstances could Smith not be sure if [...]

Here is my new blog entry on the JLP page.

Here is my newest blog entry on the Jazz Loft Project page.  The article I intended to publish about Branford Marsalis never got done, to my regret.  There is a great story there.  In my view his music is state of the art today, and he’s a celebrity, but he operates in a weird kind [...]

See my new blog entry on Norman Rockwell and Gene Smith on the Jazz Loft Project blog.
I believe there are parallels between Rockwell and Smith worth pursuing in my biography of Smith.  The similarities may serve to heighten the differences between them, and between serial photography and serial artwork of a kind that predated photography.

See the Jazz Loft Project blog for my latest entry regarding my trip up to the Pittsburgh area this week and more research on the pianist Sonny Clark.