Bill Wolff, PhD

Associate Professor, Communication, Film, and Journalism, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

photography

  • taking portraits on the street

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    Wired.com posted this video of photographer Clay Enos explaining how he takes portraits of random people on the street using just a white sheet of paper, his camera, and some chutzpah. One thing he doesn’t address is if he lets the people know where they might be able to see the image at a…

  • using twitter in the graduate classroom

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    There has been much discussion lately about how Twitter is being used in the undergraduate classroom. Daisy Pignetti describes how she used Twitter in 3 sections (2 online, 1 in person) of English 102 at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.  Monica Rankin discusses how she implemented what she has described as the “Twitter Experiment” into…

  • concerns about newsweek’s oprah cover photo

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    The June 8, 2009, issue of the “new” Newsweek has a cover article called “Crazy Talk: Oprah, Wacky Cures, & You” by Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert. The print version of the US edition has this cover photo Oprah: My scan of the image does not fully capture the problem, but compare this image…

  • new photos: l.j. herman’s 2nd hand shop

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    For some reason I haven’t been posting photos lately (though I have taken quite a few). So, to make up for not posting them, here is a slideshow of some I took today of L.J. Herman’s 2nd Hand Shop, located in East Windsor, N.J. This shop holds a special place in my memory. As…