thx everybody for this
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
sad to see the end post on talking barnacles
i love this last series http://www.talkingbarnacles.com/2012/03/celebration-1-of-36-by-growing-up-on_25.html
― dylannn, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh that's great, i'd forgotten to keep checking in there
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
y'all should add Junku Nishimura to your Flickr contactshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/junku-newcleus/page1/
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 April 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
xp
patrick tsai's website: http://hellopatpat.com/menu_e.html
― dayo, Saturday, 7 April 2012 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
pretty good stuff in here with Meyerowitz, including some discussion about color vs. black and white: http://blog.leica-camera.com/photographers/interviews/joel-meyerowitz-icon-with-a-leica/I've always dug his color pictures in NYC quite a bit
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 8 April 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
good bits in the accompanying video too. there's a brief glimpse at what seems to the be the scanning and printing process for reproducing a bunch of the street pictures.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 8 April 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
hah yeah. so disappointed when he held up the m9. and the s2 is just sitting there in the background! although he did make mention to a '4x5' camera.
― dayo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
so amazing what a close-knit coterie of photographers those people were. meyerowitz friends with winogrand and frank, before any of them were famous I think
― dayo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
this article's great, it's like pro-leica propaganda
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
"William Eggleston appears in the movie Great Balls of Fire as Jerry Lee Lewis's father."
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0802/080212.htmlhttp://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0801/080126.htmlhttp://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0802/080214.html
famous people i dunno buti really like these series
― dylannn, Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0802/080227.htmlhttp://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0803/080308.htmlhttp://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0804/080418.html 3 more
― dylannn, Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
hah the one of the snowy land, those are 'technically' 'bad' because the snow caused the meter to underrexpose by 1 stop, but I like how the underexposure actually accentuates the barrenness of the land
― swaghand (dayo), Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
ahh these are great!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 12 April 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i really like them too wondered what u guys would think
there used to be a nice index and there are a lot of series of pictures in there but hehad to hide them because he got in trouble after the university he works for in the ukraine googled him and found pictures of naked girls and him peeing in sinksi worry that my tastes in photography are coarse because i hate "pictures" but i love pictures but i like looking at this half or three quarters for the voyeuristic thing of being able to examine the life of the person taking the pictures and the life of the people in the pictures
― dylannn, Friday, 13 April 2012 11:32 (twelve years ago) link
oh for sure. like i think something that gets obscured by weird, mathematical/geometrical analysis of 'pictures' is that so much of the specific appeal of pictures is way more communicative & human than that, it's how much we can read from environments or from expressions. like if you showed our canon of best-phots to another species, say bears, they would go for totally different pics, because they wouldn't be interested in the subtle nuances of mood & manifest familiar behaviour. still looking through those pics but they're v nice.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0808/080812-2.jpg
i just like looking at pictures of her too honestly and it was this horrible feeling that brought me to tears the first time i clicked thru the whole thing and came to the series where you see his apartment emptied out and a picture of her (m, she's referred to) in bed in her crowded tiny apartment laying in bed face against the wall and then these three smiling matter of fact flat pictures of her and you see them eating at the turkish place where you saw them eat when they came back from central asia and then there's a photo captioned "契約の解除をもって、わたしとmの恋人関係は解消された。 We ended the contract about our relationship. That meant we had broken our relathionship./" and she disappears. the pictures are so good it would work even without the minimal captioning.
― dylannn, Friday, 13 April 2012 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
do you have a link to the first entry? these are v good even individually
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0801/080126.html is the oldest one i can see but i just emailed to ask for the earliest
― dylannn, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
ty. i love diaries, it's nice people are doing it on film, like the barnacles person or ruinista. it's like breadmaking or something, to have got to the stage where it's just part of your routine, dropping off/scanning/chronicling. i was on a local photographer guy's site, recently, & he had a section with photos going back to 2000, showing younger, angelic incarnations of some people i know. it just becomes such a good archive. all of your days.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
what you wrote about this is so otm; just seeing their life is really enthralling, all the times they're just going somewhere with a heavy bag or collapsing to eat in a room
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0803/080305-8.jpg
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
just to bring the tone down, can anyone work out what camera he's using:http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0803/080315.html
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
maybe an autofocus/autoexposure canon eos kinda thing??
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
just in case it's driving anyone mad: http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0805/080524.html
i'm only curious, about film, too, the colours in his stuff are really beautiful
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0805/080505-4.jpghttp://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0805/080505-5.jpg
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
(oh)
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
he uses a nikon his ex uses a canon, that's probably why they broke up
― swaghand (dayo), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/1107/110727.html
new girl uses pentax btw
― dylannn, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
awww i hadn't got to new girl yet! spoilersbut i am glad. not to overshare but the main thing i am getting from this is sweet memories for the times you have a camera & a girlfriend & you shoot all day
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
in keeping with the news, I think this is kind of an amazing photo
http://i.imgur.com/E3o4i.jpg
― swaghand (dayo), Saturday, 14 April 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
it's like a flag
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Saturday, 14 April 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
hah the barbs and stripes
also:
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/04/theory-point-and-shoot-how-abu-ghraib.html
(warning: some graphic photos)
thought this made some pretty good points about the role of the image* post-digital and post-blogging and post-social media networks
In any case, it seems fair to agree with Sontag and say that photographs no longer serve mainly as first drafts of history, or ciphers of memory, or treasures of affection, or any of the other high-sounding social functions ascribed to them in the twentieth century. They now are simply visual talk. And rarely are they capable of complete or coherent sentences–they speak in a contemporary patois of whatevers and what have yous.
I think framing pictures now in terms of literacy, of language, maybe gets more at the role they play in the world today
*there's probably some artcrit or critspeak thing out there that ascribes difference and importance in the space that exists between the terms image, picture, photograph, capture, blah blah blah
― swaghand (dayo), Saturday, 14 April 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/04/bruce-davidson-los-angeles.html
this is put together like it's gonna turn into an inspirational cellphone advert but it's p interesting regardless
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Saturday, 14 April 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0808/080804.htmlreal good one
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Saturday, 14 April 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Saturday, 14 April 2012 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
photography is the best
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 14 April 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
I need more irl photo bros
one of my dudes is an actual professional photo/videographer but partly because of that we have very different ~ideas~ about photography as such and can really only talk shop in a technical sense
I mean <3 the dude but he shows up to casual functions with a 5d that has one of those viewfinders that goes over the screen and I'm like c'mon man, keep it social
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 14 April 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
ha haidk that's interesting to me. i think i probably have various small aesthetic partitions between me and some certain friends, to do with what films they like and what music they think is good, & photography is at a strange angle with that. a couple of friends were in town and i was showing them around & they had little digital cameras & it was so interesting what made them stop & shoot. like we walked through this real nice neighbourhood with great houses, where you'd look through the window & there'd be a table w/a box of cereal & loads of empty chairs, sunlit, like residential family life made photographable, then someone's neatly cultivated garden, then a plaque on a house about how the guy from penguin books lived there a hundred years ago, & the streets make dramatic angles as they turn into each other, & saucer magnolia trees were in bloom, & all they were taking photos of was the graffiti closer to town. YOU PHILISTINES. but what i mean is that it feels like what a photo-bro is invested in is a really personal strand of looking at things or relates to what you intend a photograph to be - like a reminder or a document or a synecdoche or w/e. like even if you just intend to take an orderly photograph doing justice to something as a monument or a messy, subjective photo of something as experienced.
i think a good thing about having international photobros is that you're reminded of the specific value of someone's locality, like of how fairly mundane streets-of-my-neighbourhood phots might be interesting to someone far away, the way takaci's japan's super beguiling when unfamiliar.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Sunday, 15 April 2012 09:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20120411/
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
Most of my collaborative foto work is w/, like, illustrator and designer friends. I can't imagine rolling around for lols and talking shop w/ other photographers. We (my circle of photo kids) are all too self-centered and suspicious to do anything but drink together
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 April 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
If I could play nice with other people I'd have gone into film.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
I went into film and still don't play nice.
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:25 (twelve years ago) link
oh. t.b. continues.
― dylannn, Monday, 16 April 2012 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16509382
so sinatra coming out of the helicopter was shot by yul brynner!
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
First one (started on 27th, jul, 2002):http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0207/020727-1.htmlBut it doesn't continue till the recent page. I mean, there is a big blank of the work. The second start (since 16th, dec, 2004):http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0412/041216.html Old photos are small, because the spec of comp was much worse than now.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
oh wow. thanks so much! i am still working through this. still kinda acclimatising to ukraine but it's nice seeing he has a muse again. after the break up i was so depressed to see him just taking picture of like the sandwich he was eating or something, it's too much.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
just came across this arbus and think it's stunning: woman with a veil on 5th avenue
http://i.imgur.com/FjlOP.jpg
― dayo, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like this might have been posted already? But anyway, I'm really enjoying it tonight. And I admit that part of that is due to the close-mic'd vocals, which is something that generally sends shivers up my spine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q75HuLN9FjA
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 19 April 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20120412/
I like being able to look at magnum photos w/o the watermark
― dayo, Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://karapture.wordpress.com/ - linked on TOP today, definite WKIW candidate
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 19 April 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link