A Photographer’s Uncomfortable Look at the Grim Possibilities of His Future

Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance” had a glorious Broadway revival in 1996. I saw it three times. In the play, Agnes and Tobias, a retired well-off couple, are visited by their good friends Edna and Harry, who arrive at their door in a panic, asking to stay. When the hosts ask their friends what’s wrong, Edna can only say, “We were frightened.”

Harry and Edna’s terror is never explained in the play. It remained an unnamed fear. When I saw the play, I was only 26 and didn’t really understand this ambiguous fear. Now, at age 46, I think I get it.

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All I Own – A Study In A Minimum of Stuff

Swedish photographer Sannah Kvist enlisted a group of kids (all born in the 1980s) to compose sculpture of all his or her possessions. She then photographed them in their respective spaces. As we bury ourselves in more and more crap…

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Stanley Kubrick, Photographer

Before he began his career as a director of iconic films we love, like Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, New York City native Stanley Kubrick was a photographer. He sold his first…

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