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New Japanese Photography (1974)

Much as I might wish it were otherwise, in considering the Museum of Modern Art’s latest photography exhibit and catalogue New Japanese Photography it proves impossible to discuss the photographs themselves without simultaneously analyzing the show and book. […]

Cabin Fever: Bits and Pieces (2024)

As I’ve done previously, I’ll discover/rediscover my purpose through the daily practice of my craft. Along the way I’ll find the answer to this question: What does an octogenarian writer have to say? […]

Four Score: A Chronology

My mother Frances gave birth to me at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital in New York City on December 19, 1943, and brought me home to our rented house on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village. […]

A. D. Coleman/ATOA Zoom Session November 20

This coming Monday, on the evening of November 20, Douglas I. Sheer, president of the critically acclaimed series Artists Talk On Art, will conduct a virtual interview with me, hosted via Zoom. I invite all readers of this blog to join me for this event, which is free and open to the public. There’s no registration required; just log in via the link below, shortly before 7 p.m. EST […]

Alternate History: Robert Capa on D-Day (52b)

In the end, it seems fittingly ironic that the Occam’s-Razor explanation for all of Capa’s missing D-Day negatives turns out to be the scissors of the censor. The legend of the lost negatives resulted from nothing more or less than the needs of Capa’s outsize ego. […]