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REBLOG: Have a look at this book HERE, I find it really wonderful. It also demonstrates how intelligent text and images can be infinitely more effective than either alone. To my mind it challenges the conceit/defence that images should ‘speak for themselves’ especially in the case of ‘contemporary photography’. All too often the ‘speaking for themselves’ is woefully inarticulate.

Off course these images are wonderful on their own but if you read even one piece of writing it gives a personal context that lingers through viewing them all.

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bryanschutmaat:

When the burglars hit, this is all that they left me. The dust at the bottom of a peanut jar, a bad bent spoon, and a Coke glass filled half-way with dead water. Broken windows—everything the way you’d picture it. Stuff strewn around. Do I barricade the back door? If I keep a baseball bat beside it, will I break arms? My grandfather’s watch. All my cameras. This is a new world then: a glass of water, peanut dust, a spoon, a book, and some sunlight.
- Peter Brown

(This is from the portfolio and book, Seasons of Light, a body of work I recently scanned and edited for the web. It’s now up to view on Peter’s site. Working with these photos has meant a lot to me. About a decade ago, well before I became a photographer, I came across Seasons of Light on my mom’s bookshelf. I didn’t like the book initially, but it made me think a lot about photography, what it meant, and soon I recognized the subtle beauty the images conveyed. It turned out to be immensely influential. Really, before I could even tell you who Evans or Eggleston were, I was flipping through those pages and seeing things in new ways.)

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