JeddBham64

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 2 years, 5 months and 4 days.

This user participates in
WikiProject
History of Photography.

This user knows what a darkroom is and has processed photographs inside one.

This user enjoys the works of Rudyard Kipling.

This user enjoys music by
Joseph Haydn.

This user enjoys contemporary classical music.

This user enjoys reading poetry.

ArtThis user is an Artist. This user creates.

Hello. I'm JeddBham64.

my second sandbox: User:JeddBham64/sandbox2

Pages Created

Alexander Keighley

Gabriel Cromer

Articles to Create

Cromer's Amateur

Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot

Société française de photographie

Frères Bisson

'King Log' by Geoffrey Hill

My interests

the history and art of photography

I fell in love with photography as an art on seeing the work of Eugene Atget and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Other photographers whose work I find beautiful, intriguing and moving are: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Bill Brandt, Mary Ellen Mark, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Garry Winogrand, August Sander, Sally Mann, Josef Sudek, Bernd & Hilla Becher, André Kertész, Walker Evans, Julia Margaret Cameron and many many more....

• Some of my favourite photographers
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  Steichen - wind fire - Thérèse Duncan on the Acropolis, 1921.jpg
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  Eugène Atget Coin rue de Seine.jpg
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  Tipologie.jpg
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  Roger Fenton -2.jpg
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  Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill, Pennsylvania by Walker Evans.jpg
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  Cameron Fluestern der Muse 1865.jpg

Mycology

Some fungi found not far from where I live.

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  Amanita phalloides (Death Cap)
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  Amanita Echinocephala
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  Amanita ovoidea
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  Geastrum sessile (Earth Star)
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  Coprinus picaceus (Magpie Inkcap)

English-language poetry

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  Gerard Manley Hopkins
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  Edmund Spenser
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  T S Elliot
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  Robert Lowell
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  Robert Browning
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  Geoffrey Chaucer
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  Matthew Arnold

Armchair logic and critical thinking

My father had a lively mind and would engage my sister and I in discussions about art, philosophy, politics, religion, epistemology. He introduced me to Straight and Crooked Thinking by Robert H. Thouless, a practical manual for assessing and critically analysing flaws in reasoning and argument. I have been insufferable ever since.

Classical music

I have quite catholic tastes:

Haydn, Scarlatti, Bruno Maderna, Elgar, Fauré, Brahms, Dowland, Purcell, Frank Bridge, Schoenberg, Ferneyhough, Bartok, Bach (J.S.B and C.P.E), Hans Werner Henze, Schumann...

the Latin language

Studied Latin at Secondary School. Then, much later as an adult, took it up again, using Teach Yourself Latin, Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer and a decent-sized collection of Loebs and old French university text books which my mther's Latin teacher gave her. My favourite authors are Pliny the Younger, Petronius and Livy.