photographer Michael Eastman

Ghost Towns of St. Louis

By Michael Eastman, Walter Johnson & Michael E. Willis

This photo, like so many of those in Michael Eastman’s beautiful, moving, beguiling, maddening collection, transmutes history into timelessness. The house stands alone outside of time. It is a token of the past detached from its actual and ongoing social history.

Mama, Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away

By Jeannette Cooperman

In an artist’s hands, digital technology is a toolkit whose wands and transformations grant almost magical powers. But what about the rest of us, holding up our phones everywhere we go? Now we, too, live as Photographers.