photographer michael o'brien

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photos above:
from "Their Own Choice"
A portfolio of LIFE photographers' favorites.
LIFE Magazine's 50th Anniversary Issue . Fall 1986
I took photos... of photos...that were in an article of
the 1986 magazine that i bought at a book sale...
which led to...

The Photographer

Web site for Michael O'Brien here


Book - "Hard Ground" 
Tom Waits - Author
Michael O'Brien - Author and Photographer (his second book)
DJ Stout and Berrett Fry - Book Designers
University of Texas Press
March 1, 2011

78 Photographs by O'Brien
23 Original Poems by Waits

✒ A very good article on the book, @ Pentagram, here.

✒ Maureen Doallas led off her December 23, 2010 post of "Facts, New or Not"
.....with information and links about the book, here.


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light carving -  photo (light) + graph (scratch or carve into stone)

2 comments:

  1. O'Brien's documentary photography and portraits are extraordinary.

    I did an item on the Waits book in a Saturday Sharing (if I recall correctly). Quite a book.

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  2. I visited his web site, and as Maureen said, his photography is extraordinary.

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