Thomas Cummins Art & Architectural Photography | San Antonio, Tx

Heidegger & Art

Thomas Cummins — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:13:25 +0000

In his essay ‘The Origin of the Work of Art,’ Heidegger noticed that all artworks have a thingly character to them. But it is also obvious that art is something more than simply just a thing. Heidegger insists that artworks are different from useful equipment-type objects because artworks “in setting up a world, sets forth [...]

Photographers’ Rights

Thomas Cummins — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:46:03 +0000

Below is an excerpt by lawyer Bert Krage. Buy his book ‘Legal Handbook for Photographers‘ The General Rule The general rule in the United States is that anyone may take photographs of whatever they want when they are in a public place or places where they have permission to take photographs. Absent a specific [...]

Rusty :: The European Tour ::

Thomas Cummins — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:41:57 +0000

QR Code

Thomas Cummins — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:51:24 +0000

Don’t really know if I need this but I got a QR code for this website. This article was pretty good on explaining what it is and how you get your own.

Freud’s Karamazov

Thomas Cummins — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:39:38 +0000

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s (1821-1881) Existentialist writings are universally renown for their convincing ability to portray characters of a complex psychological nature. It is, therefore, no wonder, then, that in Sigmund Freud’s (1856-1939) 1929 article ‘Dostoevsky and Parricide,’ the founder of psychoanalysis proclaims “‘The Brothers Karamazov’ is the most magnificent novel ever written.” Indeed, it is in [...]

Zoomify and Seadragon

Thomas Cummins — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:22:07 +0000

O.K. -this site is a lot closer to being redone. Right now I’m looking for another way to show large-format photography on the web without using the antiquated Zoomify. Zoomify was awesome when it first came out and it continues to be shipped with Photoshop but they haven’t really improved on it at all in [...]

Subject as Object

Thomas Cummins — Tue, 31 May 2011 17:05:40 +0000

How does one concisely articulate Kant’s destruction of our feeble notions about space and time? In Jaspers’ series on the great philosophers, he explains that Kant began by not bothering to question if we can know anything but, instead, he opted to take the more practical approach of asking the obvious question of how it [...]

The Gaze

Thomas Cummins — Tue, 31 May 2011 06:00:58 +0000

In ‘The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis,’ Jacques Lacan (1901 – 1981) effectively redefines Sartre’s concept of the gaze. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980) had previously considered what it was exactly that makes other people (the Other) stand out as people as opposed to something more mundane like [...]

Vivian Maier

Thomas Cummins — Sat, 28 May 2011 09:36:00 +0000

About a month ago, I posted this video to my FaceBook account and it got the most positive responses and Likes my wall has ever seen. While the Chicago Cultural Center is an AWESOME institution, I find it funny that her work has to pass through the hierarchy first as a cultural artifact before it [...]

Portraits of Reflection

Thomas Cummins — Fri, 27 May 2011 07:23:12 +0000

Descartes’ search for a universal language as well as a certainty grounded within the self has now found a home within the artistic nature of Existentialism. Kierkegaard’s dual authorships, as original models for Existentialism, have been rejuvenated today in contemporary expressions of dialogism as well as autopathography. In particular, the recent proliferation of autopathography, [...]