Life Photography

That’s a Camera

Elsa Dorfman, Who Made Art With Giant Polaroids, Dies at 83 She used a 200-pound camera for her natural portraits of everyday subjects and celebrities — even while Polaroid, outpaced by technology, was fast going out of business. “she was smitten with the Polaroid’s power to render a painting-size image so rapidly that she and […]

Big Business Society

Tim Bray takes a stand

Tim Bray, now ex-VP in Amazon, quit his job in protest at the treatment of the warehouse workers: Amazon is exceptionally well-managed and has demonstrated great skill at spotting opportunities and building repeatable processes for exploiting them. It has a corresponding lack of vision about the human costs of the relentless growth and accumulation of […]