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 - AuthorMichael 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)

O'Brien's documentary photography and portraits are extraordinary.
ReplyDeleteI did an item on the Waits book in a Saturday Sharing (if I recall correctly). Quite a book.
I visited his web site, and as Maureen said, his photography is extraordinary.
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