{"id":6904,"date":"2022-07-22T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=6904"},"modified":"2024-10-05T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T17:23:25","slug":"jackson-table-of-content-thoughts-on-photography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=6904","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On Photography: Bruce Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\">Return to VJIC Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 1480px;\" width=\"506\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>Bruce Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture at University at Buffalo. Some of his books are <em>Places: Things heard, things seen<\/em> (BlazeVox, 2019) <em>Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons<\/em> (Texas, 2013), <em>Being There: Bruce Jackson Photographs 1962-2012 <\/em>(Burchfield Penney Art Center, 2013).<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/731840497?h=4933eb02fc\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><strong>Thoughts On Photography Table of Contents<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=6888\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7037\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/book-cover-Sontah-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/book-cover-Sontah-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/book-cover-Sontah-99x150.png 99w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/book-cover-Sontah.png 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=6888\">Go to Thread #1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\">September 2022<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=6888\"><strong>Against Photography: What Sontag Actually Wrote<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>On Photography<\/em> ignores almost entirely the materiality of the craft. Making photographs isn\u2019t theoretical, and neither are photographic prints. The first is a behavior in the real world; the second a fact of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7182\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mail-evans-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mail-evans-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mail-evans-500-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mail-evans-500-150x146.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\">October 2022<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=6900\"><strong>Walker Evans&#8217;s Polaroids<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;People ask me what camera I<\/em><br \/>\n<em>use.\u00a0 Its not the camera &#8230; its the eye and the brain&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=6900\">\u00a0Go to thread #2<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-7232\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/strand_0018-1024x838-copy-150x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/strand_0018-1024x838-copy-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/strand_0018-1024x838-copy-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/strand_0018-1024x838-copy-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/strand_0018-1024x838-copy.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\">January 2023<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=7196\">&#8220;All my books&#8221;: Paul Strand&#8217;s Arc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Strand, the greatest of the modernist photographers, was born in New York City in 1890.\u00a0 Strand, Alfred Steiglitz and Edward Weston were the three photographers most responsible for getting photography accepted as an art form in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=7196\">Go to third thread<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7698 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-06-at-17.47.25-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-06-at-17.47.25-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-06-at-17.47.25-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-06-at-17.47.25.png 457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\">October 2024<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=7627\">Intermezzo: <\/a><br \/>\nNotes on words and process<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to take a break in this series looking at the work of other people to clarify my use of certain terms and say a few things about my sense of the photographic process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=7627\">Go to 4th thread<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_7770\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7770\" class=\" wp-image-7770\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/evens-1-120x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/evens-1-120x150.png 120w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/evens-1-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/evens-1-820x1024.png 820w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/evens-1-768x959.png 768w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/evens-1.png 977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landowner in Moundville, Alabama<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\">\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">December 2023<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=7762\"><strong>Walker Evans: Public Photographs 1935-37<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walker Evans was perhaps the most influential American photographer of the Twentieth century. The work of Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, David Plowden and Diane Arbus is inconceivable without his photographs and vision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=7762\">Go to the fifth thread<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: top;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8018\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/16-146x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/16-146x150.jpg 146w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/16-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/16.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=8001\">Go to the sixth thread<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\">\n<h1>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">October 2024<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Killing a Grain Elevator: A Buffalo Crime Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=8001\">Go to the sixth thread<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents Return to VJIC Table of Contents Bruce Jackson Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture at University at Buffalo. Some of his books are Places: Things heard, things seen (BlazeVox, 2019) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=6904\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88910,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6904","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2KsSU-1Nm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8049,"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6904\/revisions\/8049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}