One Picture/One Paragraph : Saint Lucy

This picture was taken at Sakonett Point, RI, in the late afternoon on a cloudy July day

There is a window. On one side of the window is a room. The room is taller than it is wide.

I could only think of Bataille as I slipped the picture inside a book in my bag.

How gracefully disciplined their pose. 1953: The year JFK and Jackie got married

One? Just one? The problem with snapshots is precisely that you can’t pick just one.

Everything changes, even when standing still.

Forget the proverbial thousand words, this picture isn’t talking.

As a teacher of filmmaking, I’ve become interested over the years in a peculiar genre of photograph—stills taken from student films.

Recently, I enclosed myself in a completely dark room and made some self-portraits.