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This account is updated automatically with posts from my blog. I generally don't spend much time on social media. If you wish to see more of my work or contact me, please do so at my website: guytal.com.
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · 14d
Aboutness—Further Thoughts
Today, I share with you more thoughts on the topic of “aboutness,” which I discuss in a couple of my books. As always, I offer these essays free of the annoyances of advertising and pay…
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · Sep 4
Those Great and Simple Images
Camera, camera, what do you do—and I damn your eye, damn your wink, damn your memory—for with all of that you still can’t think. —W. Eugene Smith In 1937, Albert Camus, then just 24 years old, publ…
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · Aug 25
Classical Photographers and Jazz Photographers
I’ll play it and tell you what it is later. —Miles Davis This is a re-edited version of an article originally published in the online magazine On Landscape. If you are not already a subscriber, I r…
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · Jul 1
Finding Creative Fulfillment – An Interview with Grant Swinbourne
It was my great pleasure recently to speak with Grant Swinbourne’s as part of his podcast, Landscape Photography World. My thanks to Grant for featuring me and for the excellent questions. Be…
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · Jun 26
Discretionary Time
This article is offered in response to an anonymous reader who wrote to say that they “would love to spend more time philosophizing, but who’s got the time?” Have a philosophical question you&#8217…
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · May 8
Random Morning Thoughts
My thanks to those of you who sent me philosophical questions (see previous post)! Please keep them coming. I’ll have some answers for you soon. If you’d like to purchase any of my book…
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · Apr 18
Art and Nihilism
Announcements: Ask Me Anything Philosophical: Today’s post was inspired by Jason Pettit’s comments on my previous post, Sub Specie Aeternitatis. After many years of writing primarily about ph…
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · Mar 20
Sub Specie Aeternitatis — A Philosophical Meditation
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair. — Th…
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · Mar 8
Beyond Storytelling
To speak of “reading” a picture is appropriate but dangerous at the same time because it suggests a comparison with verbal language, and linguistic analogies, although fashionable, have greatly com…
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · Feb 21
On Seeing
Accustom yourself every morning to look for a moment at the sky and suddenly you will be aware of the air around you, the scent of morning freshness that is bestowed on you between sleep and labor.…
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · Feb 4
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Complex Art
Art is too complex and diverse to be explicable in terms of a single category such as the aesthetic. ‘Artistic value’ is constituted by a set of different kinds of value. The modes of appreciating …
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Guy Tal @guytal.com · Jan 21
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Viewerly and Artistly
Announcements: After prematurely announcing its final date a few years ago, the Moab Photography Symposium will be back in September, 2025! I will join several of my talented photo colleagues and h…
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