Photo Remix: Red

This will be the first installment of an ongoing series of photographs from my vast catalog where we examine varying themes that connect these images to each other. These themes can be as simple as a location or event, and as complicated as an emotion implied or felt from viewing these images.

We encourage you to comment your feelings on these and possible other themes that you might wish to see in the future.

So I give you this first Theme: RED.

Ever since I was a child red has been my favorite color and has carried through my life to influence my art in varying ways, through politics, nature and fashion. Often changing its meanings as a noun, verb and adjective Red can easily be found through out my work.

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Collecting photographers: Charles Moore RIP

Taken By Frank Siteman

I grew up at a time when Life & Look magazines were middle-America’s eyes on the world. Saturday Evening Post was another outlet that used the photograph as prime communication & informed a nation hungry for a glance. We watched the latest fads & trends & news printed alter the world just beyond our reach. And we assumed we were part of it. My parents indulged my rabid curiosity. Besides subscribing to all the picture publications we were one of the first African American families to have a television. My sister & I sat on the floor surrounded by playmates & their parents watching the small black/white screen.

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Sands of Time

According to an English system of time units, a “moment” is equal to one minute & thirty seconds. Take a moment & think about that.

Throughout the ages some philosophers have argued that time is a basic property of the universe, others claim it to be an illusion or construct of the mind. The beginnings of civilization required knowledge of seasons, length of a year, month & day. All the world’s religions have given it a central role: in astrology, stories of creation, cyclical world histories, notions of eternity, etc.

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