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Off-The-Wall Gallery Sale
Off-The-Wall Gallery Sale This is it folks! It’s the first Off-The-Wall Gallery Sale! Here’s how it works… On the Wall, Off the Wall. I hang my images on the Off-The-Wall Gallery. Each photo is numbered, priced, signed on the front, and framed. I stamp my logo on the back and add pertinent information. When the piece is…
Read MoreSurvival Sale #5
Moonset Over Mt. Mansfield Greetings Friends, With COVID-19 still raging in Vermont, I’m locked in my garret and keeping a low profile. Here’s another “Survival Sale” item for your consideration! The sun was a sliver of pink as it crested the Worcester Range and laid down an ascending brilliance over the foothills of Mt. Mansfield.…
Read MoreSurvival Sale #4
Friends, My survival series is doing well. You are gaining first look images that I have found in my archive and made into an edition of nine. I lowered the price so you could afford a work of art and I am gaining some respect with my creditors. Fuel oil and propane is the real…
Read MoreA Vicious, Killing Farm Fire
A year and a half I spent, in a fury of concentration, creating Vanishing Vermonters. Some say it is my best book, more journalistic then documentary. I don’t care, I’m relieved that it is a postpartum factoid. It pales about what I have to say: **************** What matters, in this harsh year, what stabbed my…
Read MoreProjects, Projects, Projects!
Another nasty winter, our collective Vermont souls were desolated by the lack of snow, beauty replaced by a grey wasteland of frozen earth, again a roller coaster of temperature swings, and a new precaution many Vermonters practice–a pair of boots (often insulated Muck boots) equipped with cleats or small metal coils (they do not puncture…
Read MorePeter Miller’s Squashed Gallery Sale
You slide down the ladder, bump on the ground and there you are—whacked. Happens. So then you get up and hope the joints work. Yes, that’s me, Peter Miller. So I have been Vermont Broke. The photography business internationally is in the dumps, thanks to some greedy CEO’s in the stock photo business. The digital…
Read MorePeter Miller Re-invents Himself
I just couldn’t afford it,” said Peter Miller, Former Vermonter of the Year and author of the award-winning books Vermont Farm Women and A Lifetime of Vermont People.“My expenses were over the top and my income was plummeting. It became obvious to me that my house was a liability and I couldn’t afford to keep it…
Read MorePicture a Blob in a Field
So I have finished writing, editing and photographing A Lifetime of Vermont People. I have traveled through the pain of a book that had to be reprinted so it is over a month past its deadline. So I wait. And wait. Time to get my psyche and body back in shape. Yesterday I went out…
Read MoreYou Still Shoot Film???
Do you shoot digital?” is a question I am asked so many times. The reason is I shot my first film photographs in 1950. My first digital photographs were published in a 24/7 America, 2003. Took me a while to adjust. Yes I shoot digital. And I also shoot film. I have a number of…
Read MoreOf Farmers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and Vermont.
In the November 27 Sunday edition of The New York Times, on the edit page, Lawrence Downes wrote a historically introspective piece titled Of Poor Farmers and ‘Famous Men’. The essay was about the powerful book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee, a writer who one critic said wants to write the…
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