This is an Open Letter to the Students and Faculty of the San Francisco Art Institute. In September 2011, it was a real pleasure to travel to San Francisco for the express purpose of photographing the Great Depression era murals that exist in the city. I visited the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), where I made photographic studies of Diego…
Four minutes of dazzling footage comprises the eye-popping, jaw dropping opening sequence of Spectre, the latest James Bond film. In the first scene, James Bond (played by actor Daniel Craig), is seen walking through a Día de los Muertos procession in Mexico City wearing a skull mask. He sports a Top Hat as befitting a bourgeois Mexican gentleman of the…
I did not start my American life at Disneyland but it was a close starting point I was born September 7, 1953 Disneyland opened in California in 1955 my parents took me there in 1959 I was six-years-old. That same year Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was denied permission to visit Disneyland I liked Tomorrowland where I rode the look-alike U.S….
