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    The Salacious Aperture: Paris
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    The Salacious Aperture: Paris

    Nov 13, 2019
    Paris is one super aperture, set in deep focus for over a thousand years, and it encompasses many variegated thematic apertures: thresholds, that yield a myriad perspectives on the specific facets of this ancient cultural capital.
    
    Liquid Mirrors: The Anomaly as Art
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    Liquid Mirrors: The Anomaly as Art

    Oct 8, 2019
    In the art of the letters, the artist can render his work in degrees of ambiguity to attain the sublime, but, the abstract art of poetry is where its effect is more obvious. This is the only aspect, that might position fine writing, as equal, if not greater than music, which is a punctilious art form.
    
    The Last Days of Art
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    The Last Days of Art

    May 22, 2019
    Art Shay, the master visual diarist of America, passed away exactly a year ago. His gargantuan library of photographs, almost two million, were sifted once again, by his indefatigable and loyal archivist: Ms. Erica DeGlopper, for some unpublished masterpieces.
    
    The Abstruse Aesthetic of Ambiguity
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    The Abstruse Aesthetic of Ambiguity

    Jan 23, 2019
    We exist on small blue-brown marble in the ever expanding nebula of ambiguity – a vast nothingness of cold uncertainty and eternal certainly, that we constantly attempt to decipher with our sciences.
    
    The Anonymous Artists
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    The Anonymous Artists

    Dec 19, 2018
    By what mechanism do I see beauty in decay or distress? Why does a defaced-distressed message incite me? And, how can defacement delineate the mundane mess, from aesthetic magic? The answers may reside in the cognitive theory, which, for the most part, is concerned with the development of an individual's thought process
    
    The War that Nourished Photography
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    The War that Nourished Photography

    Nov 7, 2018
    A face is more than just a face. It's a message board, that offers more than we can read. Or it can be a billboard, revealing the inner most condition. The face always conveys the compressed energy of life being experienced in a myriad details – that in retrospect, only a fecund imagination and acute sensitivity can correlate and coalesce.
    
    The Concept of Visual Parataxis
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    The Concept of Visual Parataxis

    Sep 26, 2018
    I am a writer by passion and a photographer by design. What I mean by this is that writing requires a lot of practice, dedicated labor every day, just to attain mediocrity. It is a very discouraging avocation.
    
    The Unknown Photographers!
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    The Unknown Photographers!

    Sep 3, 2018
    Ten years before India's independence, in 1937, a little after 7.00 pm, four men and a five year old boy, after some hearty afternoon snacks at a local eatery, seeking novelty, sauntered into a photo studio, in Kakinada
    
    Photographic Awareness & Perception!
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    Photographic Awareness & Perception!

    Jun 22, 2018
    One of the many joys of photography is in the suddenness with which opportunities manifest in front of us. It would be utterly remiss of us, as photographers, to not cash in on such chances.
    
    India: The Ancient Festival of Color!
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    India: The Ancient Festival of Color!

    Jun 6, 2018
    India! There's no one adjective to capture the essence of it! Superlatives would fall short, in describing the oldest continuously existing civilization in the world.
    
    Niepce’s View & Daggeurre’s Perspective
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    Niepce’s View & Daggeurre’s Perspective

    May 21, 2018
    Our sense of sight guides our life. We touch, taste, listen and even feel with our eyes. Our entire economy and statecraft are dependent on it. Which business brand does not depend on our sense of sight? Which politician is not cued on optics?
    
    Art Shay: America’s Visual Diarist
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    Art Shay: America’s Visual Diarist

    Apr 25, 2018
    “You are a naughty man!” responded an amused, flirtatious and nude Simone de Beauvoir to Art Shay, who had sneaked from behind the open door and shot a whole strip of her nudes, while she groomed herself in the bathroom.
    
    The Romantic Photographer
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    The Romantic Photographer

    Mar 17, 2018
    What is a romantic photographer? The romantic photographer is a visual alchemist, an organic perceiver. Someone, who projects his inner being: emotions and experiences outward, through the lens, in search of resonance and congruence in his subject matter
    
    
    Ten Thousand Fish-eye Lens! By Raju Peddada
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    Ten Thousand Fish-eye Lens! By Raju Peddada

    Dec 6, 2017
    Water! The cytoplasm inside of our cells is water. Life took shape in water, and is dependent on it. One oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms constitute what we refer to as “H2O.” Oxygen is very electronegative.
    
    The Aesthetics of Serendipity! By Raju Pedadda
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    The Aesthetics of Serendipity! By Raju Pedadda

    Oct 16, 2017
    What is “chance?” Chance is the occurrence and development of events in the absence of any obvious plan. Chance events are good, bad or neither. Good is referred to as “serendipity” and bad being “unfortunate.”
    
    
    
    Our Urban Fragmentation: The Aesthetics of Ambiguity by Raju Peddada
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    Our Urban Fragmentation: The Aesthetics of Ambiguity by Raju Peddada

    Jun 13, 2017
    The Stillness Aesthetic is better known as “Still Life.” In art, whether it's painting or photography, this pursuit has been about clarity as it relates to light, in the rendition of the inanimate, as well as the animate. This has been the practice, not only in the visual arts, but, in photography as well.