Q.V.

7Series 7 #300 - 349

Photographs by Roger Hagan fromthe Photo of the Day series of 2009

In 2009 I began sending a photograph every day to a small list of family and friends, drawing on my file of more than sixty years ofpersonal photography. It was to get another look at the photos, imagining seeing them through others’ eyes, and to achieve theminimal discipline to prepare or create at least one each day.

One recipient thanked me for the “visual haiku.” I like that way of thinking of the captioned photos. (Thank you, Terry.)

They probably work that way best when arriving one per day, rather than collected as here. They are of mixed intent, some aspiringto be photographic art, others being casual observations or personal history. These books are my accumulating catalog, fiftyphotographs per book, in no particular order beyond the occasional cluster. There are no page numbers; to refer to one, use booknumber and title. I reserve the right to sell prints, but I allow most other uses if I am asked.

RogerHagan@earthlink.netwww.RogerHagan.com

Copyright © 2010 Roger Hagan

q.v. abbr [L. quod vide] which see_______________________

If we pay attention, a photograph becomes a challenge. Even if simple, it is rich withinformation. Even if commonplace, it has intention. Though unfamiliar, it may resonate. Ifabstract, it is nonetheless real. The challenge is to see well. I think photography cultivatesthe eye to help us experience life more richly.

In 1997, many years after I began making pictures, I found some words that made me feelgood about my lifelong enthusiasm, and regret the years when I made few. They are fromJohn Szarkowsky’s Looking at Photographs (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973).

In childhood, each of us was open to dramas of the senses, revealed in terms that were trivial and ephemeral:the lost space between the window screen and the glass, the reflection of the sun from a hand mirror on thedressing table, slowly tracing its elliptical course across the ceiling.

Many of us forget the existence of such experiences when we learn to measure the priorities of practical life,or we find that they are rare or elusive. A few, whom we call artists, maintain an easy intimacy with thesewonders of simple perception.

In this century many of these have been photographers, and the exploration of our fundamental sensoryexperience has been in large part their work. It is photography that has continued to teach us of the pleasureand the adventure of disinterested seeing.

I have generally photographed not for a purpose, but simply because I thought somethingwas worth noticing. As I age, I do not notice as much or as well. These images are things Iam glad I noticed, some long ago.

I must try to keep noticing. You too.

Roger Hagan

Trail to Gold Run Pass, Washington Cascades 1965

Mt. Baker

Sharp dressers

Los Angeles 1948

Yonkers-on-Hudson

The Hagan family seat 1950

Olympic rainforest floor

La Push, Washington 1988

Last light

Barn, Marblemount, Washington Cascades 2009

At the metate

Grinding chilies, Northern Mexico 1953

San Joaquin Valley, California 1950

Barn door

Florentine sunset 2005

1967

13th century movie

Chartres Cathedral 1955

Sidewalk sales in Morelos, Mexico 1959

Seeds, beans and herbs

North from L.A.

From Malibu West to Oxnard 2005

Lopez Island 2004

Pacific Northwest portrait

Laguna de Coyuca, Guerrero, Mexico 1959

Getaway

Fruit stand

Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico 1959

Piazza de la Signoria

Florence 2005

Winter dogs

Stinson Beach, California 1999

Prevost Harbor

San Juan Islands, Washington 1966

Winter sun

Puget Sound from Queen Anne Hill, Seattle 2009

Teotihuacan

Mexico 1953

G. L. Burgess Tel. 18-2

Vinalhaven, Maine 1960

Symbols of love, 21st century fashion, on Ponte Vecchio 2005

Young love in Florence

Roman Baptistery, Arnolfo’s Cathedral, Brunellischi’s Dome, Giotto’s Campanile,Florence 2005

Marble shrine

Flores

Xochimilco, Mexico 1953

Florence 2005

Venice 2003

Rite

Sacramento Delta, California 1974

Cathedral

Festival of La Virgen de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico 1953

Workmen

Completing the new University of Mexico near Mexico City 1953

Tulum, Quintana Roo 2003

Limestone cleft

Monument Valley, Arizona 1991

Sandstone pinnacle

New York 1950

Fifth Avenue

Newport Beach, California 1948

Sailing family

Padilla Bay, Washington 1998

Dozing family

Skagit Island, Washington 2003

Small church on ancient temple platform

Mitla, Oaxaca 1952

Puerto Rico 1959

Cloud

Cuesta de Gomerez, in the style of David Hockney

The street that climbs to The Alhambra, Granada, Spain 1996

Below Echo Cliffs, Arizona 1991

Evelyn and David Riesman

Their farmhouse outside Brattleboro, Vermont 1963

Brattleboro, Vermont 1962

Evie’s music room

Hamlet’s castle

Danish school trip to Elsinore 1955

Before the race

Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico 1955

Clement Street

San Francisco 2009

Surfer with gulls

Below Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco 2009

The laundress’ boy

Guadalajara 1953

Bus stop

Below Ixtaccihuatl, Mexico 1959

Puerto Rico 1961

Bamboo

Hammock

Baby, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo 2010

Hammock II

Cancun 2010