photographed in Providence, Rhode Island on February 20, 2010

We have never said—until the skyscraper—“We want such and such a building because it is suited to our lives , the way we work, the way we play, the way we live—simple, strong, and fairly intelligent lives.” At least, if it has been said before the last [...]

photographed in Tokyo, Japan on September 4, 2007

If you don’t like “street photographer,” how do you respond to that other tiresome phrase, “snapshot aesthetic”?
I knew that was coming. That’s another stupidity. The people who use the term don’t even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or [...]

photographed in Decatur, Illinois on October 7, 2009

What to do
1. Choose a magazine picture.
2. Cut an important part of the picture such as the head of a dog, a baby’s foot, or a glass of milk. Glue it to the base of the paper or cardboard.
3. Choose another unrelated magazine picture and add a [...]

Santa Catalina Island, California. June 13, 2009.
The physical domain contains a wide range of limitations, but generally relates to respiratory, metabolic, and musculoskeletal body functions associated with movement. The [2008 American Community Survey] focuses on ambulatory difficulties in question 17b of the 2008 questionnaire, which asked respondents aged 5 years and older, “Does this person [...]

Stillwater, Oklahoma. October 12, 2009.
Where the grass is yellow-tangled / O’er a long-forgotten mound / Still a gray stone, lichen-hoary, / Lifts its record from the ground.
Now have passed three generations / Since the river quenched the life / Of the two, whose friends so crudely / Carved the stone with rustic knife.
Druid trees with [...]

Martin, Tennessee. October 13, 2009.
Section II: The Interview. 3. Definition: a. The Army interview is a specialized pattern of verbal communication initiated for a specific purpose. This takes the interview out of the category of casual conversation or discussion for its own sake. Interviews normally are scheduled at an appropriate time and place to be [...]

Near New Richland, Minnesota. February 23, 2009.
In the fall when the days became crisp and gray, and the long Minnesota winter shut down like the white lid of a box, Dexter’s skis moved over the snow that hid the fairways of the golf course. At these times the country gave him a feeling of profound [...]

Cincinnati, Ohio. September 11, 2009.
The admiration of these ladies for strangers naturally provokes the disgust and jealousy of the Peruvian gentlemen; while, strange to say, it doest not excite them to emulation of their attractions and virtues. So long as they can lounge in idleness and smoke their cigars, there seems to them nothing in [...]

Quincy, Illinois. September 5, 2009.
A German writer has well said, “There are eyes which only need to look up, to touch every chord of a breast choked by the stiff atmosphere of stiff and stagnant society, and to call for tones which might become the accompanying music of a life.” “This gentle transfusion of mind [...]

Quincy, Illinois. September 6, 2009.
Hamilton Burton had always denied with scorn the existence of blind luck as an element in human greatness or failure. Now if he had leaped head-foremost into an empty swimming pool, at the exact moment when he stood midway of an enterprise which should crown him as omnipotent—or ruin him, perhaps [...]

A national park in upstate New York. October 16, 2006.
Within the last few months there has crept into our literature a little story, so classic in its simplicity, so pure in its style, so clear in its enunciations of a great primal truth, that we are sure it will abide. One reads it only to [...]

Clarksville, Tennessee. October 14, 2007.
‘You don’t understand me, Harry,’ answered the artist. ‘Of course I am not like him. I know that perfectly well. Indeed, I should be sorry to look like him. You shrug your shoulders? I am telling you the truth. There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the [...]

Jackson, Tennessee. February 19, 2009.
According to his statement, the Apaches and Mohaves gave great trouble to the pioneer settlers during this year. A band of them followed Freeman’s train into Skull Valley, and when he went into camp the Indians came out on the hills and wanted to come into the camp. They professed to [...]

Chicago, Illinois. July 26, 2009
There are always occurrences of one kind or other taking place among schoolboys to set their eyes sparkling and their pulses playing. Some private enterprise, or some public expedition is to be undertaken, or an unexpected visitor at the school obtains them a half-holiday, or the old errand woman brings them [...]