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don't mean to be a spoilsport but i believe it's prononuced 'shar-kowski'

works great as a sight rhyme though!

乒乓, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link

I posted those bill eggleston q&a's on facebook a while back because I LOVE THEM.

chinavision!, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:48 (ten years ago) link

of course at the time I hadn't watch William Eggleston in the Real World, so now I get to revisit and imagine a mumble accompanied by subtitles

chinavision!, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link

who the hell asks W.E. what he thinks of instagram??

chinavision!, Monday, 1 July 2013 23:51 (ten years ago) link

ha i know. every arts editor question is topical & terrible. it's kinda hard to label these wasted given how satisfying the answers they elicited were but given how interesting eggleston seems it's a bummer that nothing else could be coaxed from him.

sitting here reading artforum (i want an artforum subscription? does anybody have a photography magazine subscription? i almost didn't realise there were photography magazines until seeing aperture stuff online, recently) & feeling this late-winogrand shot from the new exhibition,

http://mobiletest.moma.org/collection_images/resized/023/w1024h1024/CRI_234023.jpg

(there is also a short saul leiter portfolio with a couple very nice, sorta atypical ie-non-shallow-focus-colour shots)

ty for the new-religion-spoiling correction, 乒乓; it sounds even tougher pronounced sharkism.

szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link

I've never read Artforum but do subscribe to the British Journal of Photography, which I enjoy.

michaellambert, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link

that photo is on the cover of a sorta decent book of essays by todd papageorge. it's not bad. I think it's through aperture too.
I have no photography magazine subscription. dunno if I need one with the current combo of reading some pretty good online stuff, and supplementing with a trip to the bookstore every once in awhile. my gf gets artforum though, so that's kinda fun.
I considered subscribing to blind spot until I realized that it was only twice a year and easy to pick up on a newsstand. and that I'd want to skip some issues.
looks like aperture is probably the same kinda deal, though 4 times a year.

chinavision!, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link

I like to flick through the BJoP in WHSmith.

Michael Jones, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link

McCullin is on BBC1 right now. Some pretty incredible situations he covered.

michaellambert, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link

McCullin doc was heavy, how he managed to decompress from those places and return to a more stable environment is beyond me, so many hellish scenarios that were truly heartbreaking.

MaresNest, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 08:39 (ten years ago) link

Very heavy. Glad I watched it though.

michaellambert, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link

That was really extraordinary. The quality and seriousness of work published in the Sunday Times Magazine in Harold Evans' time was amazing. You do wonder what would've happened if McCullin had gone to the Falklands and the Times had run his brand of work.

Michael Jones, Friday, 5 July 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link

getting lost in Japanese photobook websites;
http://books.google.ca/books?id=sX8iKHvr-v4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

if I bought these things I would be buying a lot of Vacuum Press books

szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 8 July 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link

love the look at this. one of a few really good japanese photo book sites, also,

http://www.soft-focus.org/2013/05/entropix.html

szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 8 July 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link

http://internethistory.tumblr.com/image/54943098063

乒乓, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link

wow

szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:36 (ten years ago) link

yeah i'm in awe

乒乓, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link

most every other recent shot on IH is good too, fwiw. but yeah wow.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/bee4db184e670b5229c7857e3d5e9623/tumblr_mpbsdg8Pgx1qzywvpo1_1280.png

szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link

http://internethistory.tumblr.com/image/55022407955

*throws away my camera*

乒乓, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link

that blog is so awesome. it only falters when some of the pics get a little too BH ideas

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 10 July 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link

thinking a lot lately about the idea of working the same beat as other photographers; finding the soft-focus blog was nice, because i can see the value of some individual japanese photographer's personal collection, collection as a verb, of textures or specific landscapes, why it's worth something to them. but it's weird to spend your time chronicling local colour, knowing that other people did this fifty years ago & that it's maybe terrain people have already cleared. there need to be other angles, too.

szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 11 July 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link

http://la-beaute--de-pandore.tumblr.com/image/55305483023

乒乓, Saturday, 13 July 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link

http://bremser.tumblr.com/post/3031798163/oscar-grant

乒乓, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 04:30 (ten years ago) link

saw that today & weirdly didn't read for fear of spoilering the film; maybe I will do so now. really enjoying bremser, lately.

do I post this every three months? it seems kinda related-

http://the-space-in-between.com/2004/10/28/the-art-of-losing-love-pt2-seiichi-furuya-and-christine-gossler/

szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 10:17 (ten years ago) link

posting the same thing again and again is pretty great. I do that some places as well.

those photos above.... I love them! The soft colors are great. It looks really good presenting scanned prints like that. I wish I could send off for optical prints, but realistically it's just too much money compared to scanning.

chinavision!, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link

^ yeah, for sure. my negatives are just a disaster but in my head, & so feasibly one bright & well-intentioned day soon, i'll have a system where i set aside things that i specifically want to print, just stray shots i'd like to have hard copies of or see sorta fully realised. feel like these considerations are very relevant to ideas about collecting photos for a book, too. my friend was talking about her experiences in a colour darkroom, recently, it sounded ... enchanting.

also, just for yucks: here is a very hi-res scan of one of robert frank's fifth avenue bus series,

http://www.phillips.com/Xigen/lotimg/ROBERT-FRANK/NY040111/149

szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link

all of that, excellent

my sort of white whale or moby dick is that I once checked out a book that had robert franks' fifth avenue bus series, and i remember very disticntly that there was a picture, on the front or the back, that was of robert frank's hand trailing out the window, reminiscent of koudelka. yet i found americansuburbx's posting of the series, and it's no there. i've asked people familiar with the works of robert frank if they remember a shot like that, they don't. i'm not sure where i saw this shot but i can see it so vividly in my head, and i am so sure that it came from frank. it is not the shot at the carnival with the sign that says 'the lines of my hand' in french.

i think i just post shots from internet history now:
http://internethistory.tumblr.com/image/55611436546

乒乓, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 09:08 (ten years ago) link

"enhance"

http://media.mutualart.com/Images/2011_01/13/0020/1087993/129392278171377541_bc41c508-b485-4c83-b1ed-07061a52823c_296153_570.Jpeg
http://media.mutualart.com/Images/2010_04/16/0006/826476/129159214549766282_a88d098d-9704-4a0a-90ad-dfea52206d60_72818_570.Jpeg

your image rings a bell though. was it in storylines? i have a similar Robert Frank Vision Quest, for a picture of either Mary or June, I think, on a beach, by the sea, in profile, that I saw in a documentary & I think even screengrabbed. it is notable for not being the image that appears in search results for this shot which sorta conforms to its description.

szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link

not this-

http://www.pacemacgill.com/gfx/images/rf/robert_frank_768.jpg

szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link

also could you be thinking of the final, elegiac shot of heath ledger in his role as the joker in christopher nolan's the dark knight, head lolling cavalierly from the window of a car

http://www.romapublications.org/images/202/R202_10.jpg

Marnix Goossens

szarkasm (schlump), Friday, 19 July 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link

that's the closest one yet! but i distinctly remember a palm xp

乒乓, Friday, 19 July 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link

the new tsaernev pics are some of the most arresting pics i've seen in a long time

and more IH http://internethistory.tumblr.com/post/55808656931

乒乓, Friday, 19 July 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link

JEEZ take it to the rolling stone thread
oh wait
you mean the other pics

yeah

IH shot needs dye-transfer printing

szarkasm (schlump), Friday, 19 July 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link

Gareth of this parish mentioned John Bulmer...

http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/collections/manchester/10.html

Michael Jones, Monday, 22 July 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/19/bob--mazzer-on-the-tube/

乒乓, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link

Just came here to post the Mazzer link! Really terrific.

Michael Jones, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link

http://internethistory.tumblr.com/image/56338352218

乒乓, Thursday, 25 July 2013 09:36 (ten years ago) link

Ha, I just came here to post the Bob Mazzer link too :)

MaresNest, Thursday, 25 July 2013 10:55 (ten years ago) link

There's a pretty strong tradition of 3 am wasted Brits photography I think

乒乓, Thursday, 25 July 2013 11:08 (ten years ago) link

The photography section in that Spitalfields Life Blog is marvellous.

MaresNest, Thursday, 25 July 2013 11:23 (ten years ago) link

attn: gr8080

http://boringpolaroids.tumblr.com/

http://superbomba.tumblr.com/

乒乓, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link

Has anybody watched "Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2480784/?ref_=rvi_tt ?
Or the documentary "restrepo" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1559549/ he made?

not_goodwin, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link

those tumblrs are incredible

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvlksaeUZi1qz5hcoo1_1280.jpg

calling one "boring polaroids" is a real stretch. i was actually just thinking about parr's bored couples. i kinda always thought it was maybe one of his more unfuckwithable sets but it just seems like baloney to me now.

szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link

i think i traded some emails w/ superbomba person back when i was in the tumblr game

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link

Wow that last photo is beeeeautiful. I'm a sucker for out-of-focus foreground.

chinavision!, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 22:11 (ten years ago) link

real nice louis draper set on lens,
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/

kinda in bruce davidson territory

szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 5 August 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link


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