October 2009
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“‘…..Carried over into photography, that might mean that being...”
– David Levy Strauss in Between the Eyes in an essay called ‘The Documentary Debate: Aesthetic or Anaesthetic?’ in which Salgado’s work is discussed.
the concepts of “visually and conceptually compelling” (or not), the importance of tension in the work and attempt to...
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“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via psychotherapy)
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“The most political decision you make is where you direct people’s eyes. In...”
– Wim Wenders, The Act of Seeing
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“‘As to black and white, perhaps its current repititious feel can be...”
– Stan B at Reciprocity Failure click the link for the full piece and to discover another good blog.
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Black Boys On Mopeds →
click this link to find yet another reason why I think duckrabbit is such a great blog - a fine challenge to revisionist nonsense…..
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the illusion of the exotic..
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‘making photographs of unusual things…..is the low hanging fruit in photography…….Whether it is a compelling photograph must be judged on other criteria.’
and later
‘…photograph your subject as if you’ve seen it a thousand times and then suddenly see it in a new way.’
p25 Within the Frame David duChemin
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testing "Subscribe in a reader" button
I just added the little orange button/link just above the following section on the right of the blog to see if this helps people who tell me they can’t work out how to access feeds. Problem is you need to be using a ‘reader’ which I suspect most of the friends who ask about feeds do not. Ok please let me know if the button works/helps/confuses etc.
(it is a...
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jonathan berger in 100 Eyes
this is a sample image from a series by jonathan berger on the 100 Eyes site/blog called Chag-Po Nang-Ha which means ‘take care of yourself’ in Tibetan. Here is the link. Have a look. I am trying to work out why I find the images so engaging. They are certainly elegant and calm and balanced and not over-saturated. Maybe they communicate a warm but not sentimental act of seeing that...
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Photos of Military Deaths in Afghanistan Banned
conscientious:
“The U.S. military in eastern Afghanistan recently changed its media embed rules to ban pictures of troops killed in the war. ‘Media will not be allowed to photograph or record video of U.S. personnel killed in action,’ says a ground rules document issued Sept. 15 by Regional Command East at Bagram Air Field.” - story
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“Therefore they are commissioning The Impossible Project to develop and produce a...”
– The Impossible Project (via davidcliffordphoto)
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PTP/QUOTE…….Japanese photography, in its ultimate...
‘So, apart from helping the reader learn how to understand Japanese photography books, I want them to know how essential it is to Japanese photography. It’s very different from western photography, which has this idea that photographs must exist as a print. Japanese photography, in its ultimate form, is the photobook. Communicating that simple idea, to even a Japanese audience, is the main...
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“on ….’the democracy of universal vulnerability’
‘Rail:...”
– from the Robert Bergman with John Yau (rail) interview
another fragment to tempt you to read the interview………
which also really speaks really eloquently about the anguish of making ones own work and also wanting it to be seen……eg ‘……So I said, “If...
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Robert Bergman
….there is a lot to think about in the ‘burst’ of Robert Bergman’s work brought to my attention through Jorg Colberg’s always interesting blog Conscientious. Not least is that “The 65-year-old photographer went his own way over the past four decades, never selling a work until two years ago, but he nevertheless is about to burst onto the scene with two museum...
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