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City Kids
Buddies, February 24, 1974 Back in the days when I was doing natural light street photography in South Baltimore (in squint-producing sunlight on this occasion), just about the only challenge I had was...
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Blind John at the Movies
The Day the Earth Stood Still The 20th Century Fox remake of the classic 1951 science fiction movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still, opens December 12, 2008. When I was growing up in the early 1950s,...
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Three Sex Symbols
Jacquie Roland, a writer of wonderful blog comments on some of my posts—several of which we’ve turned into posts in their own right—has sent a short personal essay via e-mail this time, occasioned by...
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Today’s Haiku
Summer, and young boys persuade old men to teach them the art of waiting. Copyright © 2009 Jim Sizemore.
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The Lady in the Red Dress
By Jake Jakubuwski Her name was Velma and she rented one of the apartments in the same building in which my family lived. Calling it an apartment is being generous. It was a kitchen, living room and...
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Dead Freddie’s
When my oldest son was five or six (he turned 49 on August 13), we left the women—his mother and grandmother—in the cave and went to forage for lunch meat and hard rolls at Muller’s delicatessen on...
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Hip Shots
Mantis By Jim Sizemore (Click images for larger views.) The “Hip Shots” series of Doodlemeister.com photographs will feature images that were grabbed “on the fly” with little or no regard for framing...
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John Guare On Playwriting II
Adapted From Paris Review, The Art of Theater No. 9 Interviewed by Anne Cattaneo In college I was editor of the literary magazine and wrote sensitive short stories overly inspired by Flaubert. Our...
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City Kids
Buddies, 2/24/74 Back in the days when I was doing street photography in South Baltimore (in squint-producing sunlight on this occasion), just about the only challenge I had was how to frame the image....
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The Encampment
Family, Friends, and Neighbors In March, 1973, I spent a week of great weather photographing kids and streetscapes in the southernmost part of South Baltimore, where Light Street ends and a complex of...
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