Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 . Pacifism, Guns, Religion, Revolution, etc. . I’m a committed pacifist (what used to be called a peacenik). No apology.. I hate war and everything associated with it. I believe that human disagreements are best settled by peaceful means. This is not something I came to later in … Read more
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 . Photography by Anthony Colagreco, Copyright 2019 . The Digital Era . Many of you reading this came of age in the digital photography era. Most likely you’ve never used, maybe never even seen, a film camera. My girlfriend Marion was like that. The first time I handed … Read more
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