Joel Simpson

My blogs

Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Photographer, writer
Location	Union, New Jersey, United States
Introduction	A photographer since age 13, I've also had careers in college teaching, jazz piano and music software. But I'm having the most fun now as a photographer--and don't have to correct student papers!
Interests	photography, art, history, nature, geology, archaeology, paleontology, prehistory, literature, music, jazz, psychology, politics, languages, education
Favorite Movies	The Gods Must Be Crazy, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Mountains of the Moon, The In-Laws, Honeymoon in Vegas, Battle of Algiers, War, Inc.
Favorite Music	Jazz, classical, New Age, Third World
Favorite Books	Primitive Mythology (Joseph Campbell), The Time Before History (Collin Tudge), McMafia, The Satanic Verses (Rushdie), Sexual Personae (Paglia), After the Ice (Mithen), American Theocracy (Phillips), The Penguin History of the World (Roberts), The Selected Poetry of Rilke, Invisible Cities (Calvino), The Photography of Jan Saudek, Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Extraordinary Landscape (aerial photography of Wm. Garnett), Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, Atlas of the Prehistoric World, Prehistoric Art (Randall White), Fantasy Worlds (outsider architecture).