George Stranahan

Creativity

October 10th, 2007

If you want to develop a cultural creativity, then be careful to harm the least, for a child to develop that will require more than curiosity and will provide pain along with joy. It will require the personality traits of ambition, endurance, perseverance, and obsessive single-mindedness.
I watched a lecture the other day by Walter Isaacson, [...]

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Essential Loneliness

October 14th, 2007

I began photographing at age 11 with my  mother’s Leica IIIg and moved through 2 ¼ x 3 ¼, 4 x 5, 5 x 7 and 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ formats through his college years. I was published and exhibited in Engineering and Science magazine, Newsweek, Boston Metropolitan Museum, Toledo Museum, and others. Believing [...]

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