photo-breezing

Hi eee! I buy a lot of your books ^_^ I think #heartbreakclub is my fav series in idk how long? Just resonated and reminded me a lot of my own time in China that a lot of other China photography didn't

drash tyvm, I think I'm the same way - never feel as happy as when I'm editing and a good picture clarifies itself

You can check out my previous work here

Thanks Daniel! I'd like to make a heartbreakclub book eventually. I found him on Weibo and the funny thing is that his personal, somewhat random photos are a lot more interesting than his professional work. I find that to be the case with photography generally: photos shot with phones are more spontaneous and personal. It has nothing to do with image quality but how you use the respective devices.

Yeah they remind me a lot of pics I used to take on a Motorola V300

The image quality adds to it. I get frustrated that the iPhone's camera is too good (lol)

I saw that you're working with Rian Dundon (I have his book Changsha)

What other good China photogs are out there?

modes china lookin real good, eee

also hey who is good on instagram
out of everybody in the whole world i mean
i feel like it should be home of the fresh-feeling digi-snap

i like shen li

I'm working on a new book by Rian Dundon actually. Should be out pretty soon. As for other photographers.. I'm way too insular and focused on my own work so I can only talk about those we've published. Check out Jeff Yiu's JAM maybe.

The best living photographer on Instagram: @pinkhassov.

Haha pinkhassov has been much praised before on this board

Unfortunately his photoboks seem to be either OOP or unobtainable in the US

We all saw this link https://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/a-set-of-photographs-by-gueorgui-pinkhassov/

And said, well let's just quit taking pictures. Why bother?

shouldn't approach it that way. rather, be inspired by seeing that you can support yourself and gain recognition without doing fashion photography or other types of commercial work.

nuh-uh, it doesn't work, you get the pictures back after getting all inspired & it turns out they are of a lower quality than those taken by pinkhassov

i'd forgotten he was on instagram, though, so ty.

i really love hilton als' pictures

https://igcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t51.2885-15/1799799_719334848179466_552372376_n.jpg

(thank you for the link 龜; great stuff; dig your eye & sensibility)

Ty for that schlump, reminds me I need to pick up White Girls

Ty drash, basically I'm an old bore who still only worships Frank so I'm glad you like it!

somebody else can slam dunk ^this^ into the ilx out of context thread BUT fwiw i loved white girls, its first long essay especially

I just ordered White Girls. I live a lush life 8-)

not on instagram, have hardly visited (interface with comments annoys me)— should explore more

so my only rec for good instagram is walker evans polaroids
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/walker-evans
http://artgallery.yale.edu/overall-search/walker%20evans%20polaroid

basically i’m an old bore too (with pantheon including frank, top 2 gods prob eggleston & daido)

white girls looks interesting, i like hilton als

also daido moriyama polaroids, alas few of them online

http://www.re-title.com/public/exhibitors/5670/archive_3736_TakaIshiiGallery-1.jpg
http://img5.douban.com/lpic/s4629247.jpg

wow

http://i.imgur.com/6WasVEy.jpg

John Divola, normcore style icon

an excellent look

on a level with daido goth and eggleston gentleman

yeah wow

hey i have a really boring question
is there a lab in manhattan that can quickly turn around e-6 processing? like 24h or something resembling that but stretched across weekend closure
i'm way deep in the b&h site but it's like being in the store, everything is untouchable at arm's length

also if not what is manhattan for

Duggan

Well something that begins with D

http://www.duggal.com/contact/locations-hours/

Their website seems very intimidating but hopefully they do walk ins? Maybe dress as John Divola first?

dress like the unabomber

website definitely super intimidating

"hello i would like to process one roll of film" strongly redolent of every time i have withdrawn <$5 at the bank

but thanks

i am going to use their Live Chat facility to ask whether i can drop in

I think my lil' place in Chinatown does E-6 too but I've never gotten it done there

It's called Yardley, the cool thing is that I was going through some old family photos from 30 years ago, and my parents had gotten a couple of rolls developed at the same place =)

Hey, so I’m not a good photographer, but I’ve been taking pictures, sifting through them, editing them, and posting some of the results to Instagram (follow me if you aren’t already): http://ow.ly/M5Fbq

Anyway, right now I need to get better at the fundamental task of taking a good picture. A lot of the stuff I take doesn’t come out looking good. Basically, I’ll head out and shoot a bunch of photos in VSCO Cam. I don’t put much care into the actual shooting process, which is bad, but I also don’t have much technique, which is also bad. I should probably get a book or read a blog post or talk to someone or something. Anyway, eventually, I’ll do some post-processing, and I’ll get to the point where I’ve post one or several photos from a “shoot,” but even then I often delete stuff I’ve posted. A lot of photos have been deleted from IG! More than are up there now. But yeah. I need to get better and will keep working at it. I’ve been trying out various iOS photo apps too, but when it comes down to it I need to go to more new places, take more pictures, and practice more, I guess. And maybe read up a little bit more.

markers i really like your instagram & sensibility, good stuff

much of what you describe don't sound like symptoms of being a bad photographer, just being a photographer

i'm so unable & unqualified to give "advice" (so don't listen to me). guess reading can't hurt & may help (depending on what your read), but imo from my own experience it's more important to look look look at photography & other art (painting, film), especially pursue trail of things you feel inchoate connection to

obv don't just look at contemporary internet photography (though it's good to look at that too; among other things to get a sense of what the contemporary cliches are)

i'm a little suspicious of/ uncomfortable with notion of "a good picture" (e.g. as defined by how-to books with rules/ recipes for good composition)

maybe reading good photography criticism more helpful than reading photography technique? tbh not sure about that

reading about "what makes a good picture" may be good thing, but imo more important to absorb this through osmosis & intuition & practice

i'm curious what other ilpers might say

i have no credentials or anything but to me, markers, your stream totally seems like you're on the right track! not just blowing smoke, but i mean, you're shooting stuff that draws your eye. so i already feel like that's cool. that sounds like some kind of lame generic summer camp counselor advice but i honestly think it's true. the times i get the most alienated from photography are where i get caught up in what i think it should look like, and the times i get the most joy out of it are when i embrace what i want it to do. that's also of course where the challenges and frustration come in, due to the gap between what i want to do, and what i'm capable of doing with my skills/instincts/time/etc. but that's the hobby of it i guess.

what are you dissatisfied about with your shots? tbh i have no idea what it's like shooting with an iphone, or what kind of controls one has, or how one gets better or anything like that. i also think i'd probably be extremely stumped working from a square crop, though obviously tons of people do fantastic stuff with it. it's just not my native language and i'd feel adrift, compositionally. i can do it when cropping down from a 4x6 negative but shooting as a square... it's weird. maybe another way of putting this is that getting started with photography, the one biggest thing i got taught was composing through the lens, learning to 'see' pictures, and your field of vision is not square. it's not 4x6 through a 50mm lens either, but the latter is closer i think, and obviously the ergonomics of an SLR viewfinder make it a little more natural to move back and forth between seeing things and shooting. i'm just rambling though and none of this is to say that your compositions jump out at me as having a problem with them!

why are there no good photo blogs

what is this

I like this: http://carlgunhouse.blogspot.com/

ooo

hey by the way, cv:

i wondered, when you were talking about finding it harder to gravitate toward photographs, taking them/tending to them, &c

did something else take its place?

are you robert frank in the seventies putting the gun down?

do you make gifs now?

I've been more productive making music, mostly. Which is not bad because when I was taking a lot of pictures I felt guilty about not making music.

I think it's hard to work on two things at once, but that's just me.

though work has something to do with it too unfortunately

cv just so you know I"ve been shouting the joy of seeing your photos in a printed book to anybody who will listen

Your reaction to it was very inspiring actually... Part of the reason I'm making myself do more photo work!

thanks drash and Doctor Casino! i appreciate that you guys took the time out to write all that out. i'm still having a frustrating time. today it's, in part, with instagram's(?) compression, which is fucking up my shit and making it look crappy after i've spent more time than most people getting the photo to look decent. it's making it look like i don't know what i'm doing, which to an extent i don't. anyway, instagram is prob not the best place for me to post all this stuff, but i'm doing all of this for instagram in a lot of ways, so i guess it does make sense. still, seeing people post garbage and get a lot more attention than i do is annoying as all fuck

getting, rather

still, seeing people post garbage and get a lot more attention than i do is annoying as all fuck

This is the iron law of the Internet, but maybe especially of photography on the internet. I feel your pain.

It's also a bit weird seeing one of your own photos getting found by someone else and getting a lot of love all over tumblr, but only discovering so by chance. The second time it happened they'd cropped the original. Included a link back to my Flickr though. And it's nice when people like something.

Particularly weird since Flickr's such a ghost town since the redesign, I sort of forget I even have photos up, and the possibility of anybody finding or liking them, and then you discover that some kinda random shot has gotten dozens of re-tumbles or whatever. Flattering I guess, but also strangely alienating.

risingtensions has some great photos up on her personal blog http://stephdavidson.tumblr.com/

http://i.imgur.com/ZxebQUh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2NuS7Cd.jpg

^agree

(also, wasn't acquainted with risingtensions; thank you)

steph davidson is way cool

meanwhile takashi:

http://36.media.tumblr.com/fc75dc4878b75e25b15e0a09b2729d93/tumblr_noxakcYtBx1qe50hoo1_1280.jpg