Thomas Locke Hobbs

Hi! Thanks for visiting. I'm an American photographer living in Buenos Aires. These are photos from the blog I kept on my site from 2003 to 2009. I now have redesigned the home page to just show a portfolio of my current work. I also blog at BuenosAiresPhotographer.com where I post my baires snapshots.

MoMA

On Sunday I went to the new MoMA for the first time. It was an oddly disembodied experience. I crawled out of bed, hungover, and went to the museum on a whim, thinking fresh air and light would do me good, before realizing just how queasy I felt. I shuffled thru the galleries unshaved, unshowered, wearing a baseball cap and listening to my mini-disc, head throbbing. Everyone else was well-dressed and intently engaging with the art, seemingly determined to get value out of their $20 admission. I'm spoiled by my free pass.

Some first impressions: Damn, they have a lot of Picassos, There's nowhere to sit, Minimalist art looks much better in large old factories [Dia], Contemporary photography looks better at exhibition [where you see a bunch of it side-by-side, altho I guess the same can be said of any artist, witness the whole room full of Picassos], the Contemporary galleries are BIG. On the plus side, they have a very generous photography policy; pretty much everything is OK, except, [oddly? ironically?] the Photography galleries.

BTW, if you know me, I can get you in for free. Just let me know.

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Hi. I'm a 33 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.