Penny Thoughts and Photographs

Penny Thoughts and Photographs
I love the interplay of words and images, and the way they overlap. In fact, saying and seeing are so closely related in my daily thought, work, and experience that they often seem to be one and the same thing. In Penny Thoughts and Photographs, I�d like to further examine this relationship while learning something of the photographer�s art. The last time I took more than just a few pictures and anything other than family snapshots was when my brother and I traveled to Armenia in 1982. I still have the old faded prints in a drawer. They were taken with a simple point-and-click Kodak that offered no adjustments other than a built-in flash. Several are quite nice. I remember one in particular that I like, taken of a seminarian-friend dressed in black, walking along a grassy path toward the ancient monastery at Lake Sevan. I expect these pictures to be better, or at least more interesting � not because I�ll be using a digital camera, although that should help, but because of all the life that�s been lived since then, and all the words that have been written about that life. Words have eyes. I�m pretty sure pictures do also. *� William Michaelian, Salem, Oregon, August 4, 2009* *�� Penny Thoughts and Photographs ��* *August 2009* Glen Ragsdale, Detail, 1973 Papa, 1908 Sunrise Zuv�s Lincoln Holy Willie Parlor and Workspace, 1 Parlor and Workspace, 2 Parlor and Workspace, 3 Eliza *September 2009* Dahlias Ivy, Fence, and Woodpile What You See Dear Ones Light Oak Dining Table White Rotary Sewing Machine Breviary *October 2009* Baker�s Table *November 2009* Henry Coffee Time Birch Scrolls *December 2009* Watermelons	Also by William Michaelian POETRY Winter Poems ISBN: 978-0-9796599-0-4 52 pages. Paper. �� Another Song I Know ISBN: 978-0-9796599-1-1 80 pages. Paper. �� Cosmopsis Books San Francisco Signed copies available Main Page Author�s Note Background Notebook A Listening Thing Among the Living No Time to Cut My Hair One Hand Clapping Songs and Letters Collected Poems Early Short Stories Armenian Translations Cosmopsis Print Editions Interviews News and Reviews Highly Recommended Let�s Eat Favorite Books & Authors Useless Information Conversation E-mail & Parting Thoughts Recently Banned Literature Flippantly Answered Questions
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