July 2009
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Sheeple
spinopsys:
Sheeple via xkcd.com on 14/07/09 Posted via email from Spinopsys | Comment »
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Vital
Main Entry:
vi·tal
Pronunciation:
\ˈvī-təl\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Middle English, from Latin vitalis of life, from vita life; akin to Latin vivere to live — more at quick
Date:
14th century
1 a: existing as a manifestation of life b: concerned with or necessary to the maintenance of life<vital organs> <blood and other vital fluids>2: full of life and vigor : animated3:...
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NO CAPTION NEEDED ; iconic photographs, public... →
a link to a blog I’ve just discovered which seems to being saying some thoughtful and helpful things (as against the drivel that too often is associated with ‘contemporary photography’)
todays is called -
Showing Coffins, Revealing Isolation
yesterdays was also interesting -
Photographing Poverty: Realism or Sentimentality?
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“I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, ‘What...”
– Martin Parr
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Watch
Women Empowered →
interesting project from CARE worth a look - ignore the slightly irritating voice and start with ‘learning to lead’ under THE STORIES
new york times on Lillian Bassman →
interesting article about this photographer also try an image search under her name or the link to the photo above which goes to the Stanley Wise Gallery.
As quoted by (notes on)
Politics, Theory & Photography
“In the period dominated by Avedon and Irving Penn, Ms. Bassman was one of the few female photographers in the fashion business, and her work had a distinctly different cast...
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“The photographer must be absorbent—like a blotter, allow himself to be...”
– Robert Doisneau
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“I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge...”
– Michael Kenna
just stumbled on this quote from an inspirational photographer
seemed apt today
there is a link above to some of his work
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35 Beautiful Photography Websites →
a set of (somewhat) inspirational websites from Smashing Magazine via Gavin Gough’s blog. This week I am a bit tired of slickness as the dominant notion in photography at present which I am thinking turns too many images in to a representative of a style. Of course I’m infected too…..
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“RINEKE DIJKSTRA
I don’t need to know anything about the people I photograph,...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rineke_Dijkstra (not the source of the quote but a starting place if you want to see her work but also try Google images)
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A desert party near timbuktu (tombouctou) →
a link to a recent report on the 2009 festival au desert which includes a basic multimedia. Some of my images from this festival a few years ago have been posted on LTS previously. Click on mali in the tag cloud.
(if you can’t see the tag cloud you are probably looking at the basic RSS feed so click on read more… to go to the site proper - the tag cloud should be there now. BTW if...
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“I don’t believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of...”
– - Excerpts from an interview with Sebastiao Salgado by Ken Lassiter, Photographer’s Forum
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“The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less...”
– - “The Lyric Documentarian” published in An Uncertain Grace (Aperture), 1990.
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“the ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected;...”
– wystan hugh auden (via jancain)
“when i ask to photograph someone, it is because i love the way they look and i...”
– amy arbus (via jancain)
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