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A Case of Spirits
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Birt Acres (Unpublished,1973)
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Choosing and Losing (April 1982 for Camera Arts; also published in Ffotoview, Wales, Summer 1983.)
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Confessions of a Gallery Hater
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Contemplating Venus
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Do Not Disturb (This was written early in 2007 when the news media was endlessly debating the “surge” in troop levels in Iraq.)
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Emil Otto Hoppe 1875-1973 (Published in Studies in Visual Communication, Special Issue, University of Pennsylvania, II (2), 1985.)
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Ferenc Berko and Fame (Published in Sun in the Blood of the Cat, Nazraeli Press, 2001)
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History of Photography- inside out (2007)
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Incest in Academia (Written for Camera Arts, November 1980, and illustrated with photographs by Myron Wood.)
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J.M. Cameron- an appraisal (1978)
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Jack Mitchell (Written c.1985 as an introduction to a portfolio of Jack Mitchell’s photographs but I have no idea if it was ever published.)
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Photo as Metaphor (Published in Newsletter, Daytona Beach Community College, Spring/Summer 1987)
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The Photographer
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Photographic Pleasures (Published in The British Journal of Photography, 10 January 1986.)
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Uncaring Camera- Morality (1990)
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Victorian Traveler (1981)
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