Tag: Photography as Nostalgia

Nostalgia and Photographs

Post author By Darin
Post date September 25, 2020

I recently returned to the Park (the proper name is the Arcadia Community Regional Park, but to the hoards of us who marauded around it as kids, it was just the Park) where I spent so much of my pre- and early-teen childhood. Especially those long summer days. The sun, seemingly stuck in the sky […]

Musings

Preservation, Nostalgia, Loss

Post author By Darin
Post date September 21, 2020

Photography seems always to imagine a different world. Photographers don’t record the reality they see, they consecrate a reality they wish to see. In this way, photographs are always about a world that no longer exists. The lure of dilapidated buildings, of abandoned places, and of weed-choked roads testify to the photographer’s urge to record […]