Don't leave us hanging

After a promising start, this list seems to have gone into remission before being competed. Not sure what's going on. Maybe they're trying to mimic the nature of certain photoblogs which run like wildfire for a stretch before burning themselves out?

Most selections to date have been well deserving. I don't know which blog might be number ten but judging by picks one through nine my money is on a white male with beard and glasses.

Who Shot JR?

Selected Eggleston portraits from the past half century:

High School Yearbook, 1956

Memphis, 1973, Tod Papageorge

Memphis, 1973, Stephen Shore

With Mercedes, 1975, Adam Bartos

William Eggleston, mid-1970s, Geoffrey Biddle

William, Rosa, Andra, William III, & Winston Eggleston
Memphis, 1977, Rosalind Solomon

William Eggleston, 1986, Tom Young

West 28th, NYC, 1986, Maude Schuyler Clay

William Eggleston in His Music Room, Memphis, 2000, Alec Soth

Elizabeth Daniels

At a book signing, 2005, Gayla Trail

2008, Mike Brown for Memphis Commercial Appeal

What To Do? #43

127. SE 50th and Lincoln, Portland, 2005

128. River Road, Eugene, 2005

129. SE 38th and Hawthorne, Portland, 2005

(WTD? is a weekly installment of old unseen b/w photos)

American Prospects Revisited: Rancho Mirage 1979

After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, CA, July 1979, Joel Sternfeld

Spokane Spokesman-Review, July 21, 1979
(from wire copy of original LA Times article)

(American Prospects Revisited matches Sternfeld photographs with newspaper articles describing their events)

Invitation to a mixer

For a while now I've been hunting around for ways to make this blog pay for itself. I don't expect to cover all my costs but if I can just recoup some of my time and expenses I will be happy. Over the past few months I've approached a variety of photo-related businesses to see if they might be interested in a partnership. All of my overtures were rejected.

That's the bad news. The good news is that after casting my net just a bit wider, I have arranged a sponsorship that I know my regular readers will appreciate. Beginning today, when you buy a Euro-Pro EP585 Hand/Stand Mixer from Shopping.com, a small portion of the proceeds will be funneled to me.

The Euro-Pro EP585 is what we use in our home. Never had a problem. It's white. It has black buttons. It goes bbbbrrrrrrmmmm. It looks great on any kitchen counter.

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I know some readers may view this as selling out. I want to emphasize that nothing could be further from the truth. I will continue to write about photography the way I always have. The only change is that very occasionally I may throw in a related commentary on food mixers. I know what you're thinking and you needn't worry. I plan to write impartially about all mixers, not just the EP585.

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