May 2013
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
- Barenboim’s Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas as Rite of Passage
- James Turrell and Roden Crater: “We Are Light Eaters”
July 2012
- The Movie That Haunts You
- The Snake and The Mongoose
- Tacita Dean at the Tate Turbine Hall: A Farewell to Film?
June 2012
- Auguste and Louis Lumière Meet Bertrand Tavernier
- Antheil, Léger, Murphy, Man Ray: The “Ballet Mécanique”
May 2012
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
- Trisha Ziff and The Mexican Suitcase
- The New York Times: “The Year in Pictures”
- Chely Wright: WISH ME AWAY
December 2011
November 2011
- Matthias Stork: Chaos Cinema/Classical Cinema, Part Two
- Matthias Stork: Chaos Cinema/Classical Cinema, Part One
October 2011
- Second Year Blogging: A Salmagundi, Part 3
- Second Year Blogging: A Salmagundi, Part 2
- Second Year Blogging: A Salmagundi, Part 1
September 2011
- AMPAS in Africa, Part Four: The Mountain Gorillas of Rwanda
- AMPAS in Africa, Part Three: Kigali and Rwanda
- AMPAS in Africa, Part Two: Nairobi
- AMPAS in Africa, Part One—Kakuma
August 2011
- In Search of a Cinema Canon
- Thom Andersen: “Los Angeles Plays Itself,” Part Three
- Thom Andersen: “Los Angeles Plays Itself, Part Two
- Thom Andersen: “Los Angeles Plays Itself,” Part One
July 2011
- Four-Minute Fame: The Warhol Screen Tests, Part Two
- Four-Minute Fame: The Warhol Screen Tests, Part One
- Our Men in Havana: Walker Evans and Alexey Titarenko
June 2011
- David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy at LACMA
- The Lost Painting: A Caravaggio Found
- At AMPAS: Cinematography in The Digital Age
May 2011
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: The World’s First Photograph
- The Met’s Mourners Visit Los Angeles
- Eddie Martinez: “A Painter”
- Robert Bresson: Notes on the Cinematographer
- Bergman on Fårö: A Testament—Part Two
April 2011
- Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros: Two of Ten
- Bergman on Fårö: A Testament—Part One
- Lynsey Addario: Back From the Brink
March 2011
- Paul Martineau: The “Still Life” in Photography
- Ponyo, And The World Out of Balance
- The Ruins of Detroit: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
- Tommasini’s Top Ten
February 2011
- Spomenik—Jan Kempenaers and “The End of History”
- Jehad Nga in Barrow: A Winter Desert
- A Cauchetier Valentine: Romanesque to New Wave
- Owen Roizman, ASC at AMPAS
January 2011
- Kodachrome Fades—Out: But the Afterglow Lingers
- Joao Silva, The Bang Bang Club and Jehad Nga—Part Two
- Pina Bausch: “Dance, Dance or We Are Lost”
- “Let There Be Light”: John Huston’s Journey into Psychic Darkness
- “Over the Rainbow”: A Video Jukebox
December 2010
- Cauchetier’s Christmas Card: Adoration of the Magi
- Cauchetier’s Christmas Card—The Nativity
- Henryk Górecki’s Sorrowful Songs
- Francesca Woodman: The Naked Prisoner
November 2010
- Teun Hocks: A Dutch Everyman
- Joao Silva, The Bang Bang Club, and Jehad Nga
- “Hollywood” at Point Barrow
- Jack Cardiff’s Magic Life: Part Four
October 2010
- Jack Cardiff’s Magic Life: Part Three
- Jack Cardiff’s Magic Life: Part Two
- Jack Cardiff’s Magic Life: Part One
- First Year Blogging: A Salmagundi—Part Two
September 2010
- First Year Blogging: A Salmagundi—Part One
- Arion Press in the Age of Kindle
- Engaged Observers: At The Getty
- The Cinematographer Today: Evolution or Devolution — Part Two
August 2010
- The Cinematographer Today: Evolution or Devolution? — Part One
- Willy Ronis: “Emperor of the Banal”
- James Nachtwey’s “Aftershock”
- “Cinematographer vs. Producer”
- Looking, Looking But Not Seeing
July 2010
- Eyeless in Gaza: Joe Sacco and Reportage Comics
- Maureen Bisilliat: Brazil’s Camera Poet
- Last Man Standing in Toxic Town: Part Three
June 2010
- 3-D, 3-D, 3-D, in All Directions
- Roberto Rossellini and World War II: Part Three
- Roberto Rossellini and World War II: Part Two
- Roberto Rossellini and World War II: Part One
May 2010
- William Kentridge’s “Nose”
- Kendall Messick’s Impermanence
- W. Eugene Smith, David X. Young and the Jazz Loft
- Ashley Gilbertson’s Two Wars
April 2010
- Kodak’s “On Film”: A Brief History
- The Revson Fountain and Global Water Music
- Magnum Sells Out
- Raymond Cauchetier’s “New Wave” — Part Three
March 2010
- Raymond Cauchetier’s “New Wave” — Part Two
- Raymond Cauchetier’s “New Wave” — Part One
- Ray Zone and the “Tyranny of Flatness”
- Frank Hurley: The “Endurance” and Paget Color
- Evelyn Glennie, Musician
February 2010
- “From My Window”: The Late Work of André Kertész and Josef Sudek
- Krzysztof Penderecki in Nashville
- Twilight Visions: Paris Surrealism in Nashville
- Gerhard Richter’s and Robert Storr’s “September”
January 2010
- Werner Herzog’s “Of Walking in Ice”
- Where Do We Go Now? “Avatar” and Beyond
- Claude Monet’s “Haystacks” in Chicago
- Update Number Two
December 2009
- Karl Struss, A Tripod in Two Worlds: Part Four—“Sunrise”
- Karl Struss, A Tripod in Two Worlds: Part Three—Paramount to 3-D
- Karl Struss, A Tripod in Two Worlds: Part Two—Early Hollywood Years
- Karl Struss, A Tripod in Two Worlds: Part One—New York
- Happy Birthday, Mr. Carter: Centennial Plus One
- Street-Wise: The Photography of Garry Winogrand and Alexey Titarenko
- White Elephant Art Vs. Termite Art — Manny Farber
November 2009
- Higher Ground — Iris Dement’s Journey to Self
- The Red Book: A Psychic Odyssey
- Pilobolus: From Jock Goof-offs to the Oscars, and Beyond
- Subway to Synesthesia
- The Sphinx of Delft—Part Two
- The Sphinx of Delft — Part One
- Orval Ray, Last Man Standing in Toxic Town—Part Two
- Orval Ray, Last Man Standing in Toxic Town—Part One
October 2009
- Update Number One—Roy Andersson, Robert Frank, Shirin Neshat
- Bearing Witness
- “Slow Fires” and the Morgan Library
- The Parthenon Marbles
- Flag Down The “Cash Cab”
- “Film Author, Film Author” Part Two
- “Film Author, Film Author,” Part One
- The Maximum Minimalist
- “Small Trades”
- From the Wall to the Wave
- The “Guiding Light” Flickers Out
- Product Recall: Kodachrome Fades
September 2009
- Route 66, Lucien Ballard and the Coleman
- The Olivier Messiaen Centennial
- Movie Magicians, the Archivists
- Busking With Bach
- An Octogenarian at Fifty — Robert Frank and “The Americans”
- The Kodak Lunar Orbiter Camera
- Shirin Neshat, Iranian Filmmaker
- A Hideous Loss: David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962–September 12, 2008)
- After the Fat Lady Sings, It’s Still Not Over
- The Swedish Comedian—An Oxymoron?
- Statement of Principles
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