Photography and Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 A Stitch in Relative Time . What really is photography? I think it is an outgrowth of our inability to revisit moments in time. The old tentmaker wrote: The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on, Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure … Read more
. Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #35 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 . Photography by Anthony Colagreco, Copyright 2019 . I have often been asked why I had my office/studio in Radford, VA, not exactly the center of culture.. In the mid 70s, after the near collapse of the US economy (caused by … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #33 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 . FIGHTING MONSTERS . Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”. I’ve been fighting a monster known as The Commonwealth of Virginia since my life was disrupted in … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #32 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 . PROSTITUTION? . As you know, prostitution is illegal almost everywhere in the USA. Should it or other “victimless crimes” be? That’s a question I’ve pondered over for years. Basically, I’m a Libertarian. I’m in favor of the smallest possible government … Read more
. Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #30 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY . When and where was photography invented? The standard story you will find in books on photographic history is that a Frenchman named Daguerre first fixed an image on a silver plated metal surface. … Read more
