Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 . MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS . I’ve made a sort of study of musical instruments from around the world, each with its own unique sound. From India there is the sitar, best known, but also the sarod, sort of an Indian lute, and another stringed instrument called the veena. … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #30 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY . When and where was photography invented? The standard story you will find in books on photographic history is that a Frenchman named Daguerre first fixed an image on a silver plated metal surface. The … Read more
. . Photography and Text by Ed Simmons, Copyright 2018 . VENICE BEACH TRASHED . OK, like the way most things go in Venice, we should hope too that this is transitory. God only knows it ain’t normal this blight. Walk out onto the sand, step in someone’s shit, maybe get stuck by a syringe … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #29 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . FAMILY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS . Maybe photography is in the genes. My father was an avid photographer, and my sister and I both got the bug. One of my great uncles, Hank Jewell, was pretty famous as a photographer in southwest … Read more
. Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #24 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . CAR REVIEWS IN A PHOTO MAGAZINE? . At some point in the mid-90s, Don Cooke, our national sales manager at Shutterbug, had an idea to diversify our advertising base. Glenn Patch, Sbutterbug’s owner, had a policy that there would never … Read more