TRANSIENT LIGHT, FLEETING TIME

This book is composed of: *50 essays of about 350 words each laid out across from *a full page photograph *and note about the picture itself.THE IDEAThe full-page images thoughtfully relate to the texts. They are not an attempt to illustrate the text but to ask questions about image-making .There are portraits, landscapes, still-lives, and documentary images. The book is 112 pages, 218 mm x 218mm, bound to lay flat on opening. Its natural audience are students of the medium including amateurs; *it is appropriate for university level discussions and for advanced amateurs, and for those who appreciate the beauty of the medium. It is entertaining and educative but not overly technical, appropriate for artists, writers and theatre practitioners of other media.The essays are:LOOKING AND SEEING CURIOSITY FIRST CURIOSITY AND MYSELFWHY PHOTOGRAPH DISCOVERING THEMES I AM MY THEMESTHEMES, CONTENT AND SUBJECT MATTER A RIGHT TO PHOTOGRAPHAN ACT OF LOVE MUSE PRE-VISUALIZATION PASSION AND ILLUSIONREPORTING OR COMMITTING IBIZA (or Learning What's Important To Photograph)THE LOAM OF STORYTELLING A STORY ABOUT STORYTELLINGSTORYTELLING AND THE BRAIN WE NEED A STORY OF OURSELVESREALISM VS NATURALISM SIX KINDS OF PHOTO-ESSAYS DEEP SONGDUENDE CONTRIBUTING WITH MY CAMERA MEMORY AND FORGETTINGA STORY FOR GENERATIONS I ASK THIS PRESERVING TRADITIONSPHOTOGRAPHING HISTORY BEAUTY STYLE SEARCHING FOR GRACETHE DECISIVE MOMENT DISCOVERING EQUIVALENT'SMYSTERIES OF MEANING LIGHT (The First Material) TIME (The Second Material)HISTORY IS NOW SENDING A QUIET MESSAGE A JOURNEY TOGETHERRHYTHM IS AT ITS HEART THE SELFIE UNIMPORTANT THINGSMOVEMENT IN PHOTOGRAPHS TWO WAY PORTRAITS THE MOST HEARTENINGPHOTOGRAPHING THEATRE STREETS AND THEATRES PHOTOGRAPHING A PROJECTMAKING THE INVISIBLE, VISIBLE A FINAL THOUGHT