let us now catalogue famous people

dentist as plural of dentist, like sheep, memorable mistake

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/03/william-klein-the-new-york-school-photographs-1936-1963-1992.html

some good quotes from klein

I've flipped through a copy of new york once - very stunning, I wonder if it's still in print

klein is the guy, if you think photographing reflections or skewing the horizon or blurring the frame is somehow outrageous... well you just can't top him

http://edge.neocha.com/chinese-creatives/the-night-in-the-day-from-si-chuan-photographer-feng-li/

http://blog.jiazazhi.com/2011/04/feng-li/

wow.

works as a govt photographer. uses mostly point and shoot.

I sold a camera to a govt photographer once. said he mostly shot boring stuff like state banquets on the job. in his personal time, shoots 4x5 and 8x10 view cameras. hires migrant workers to carry his (very heavy) view camera equipment up to scenic lookouts because hey, it's cheap!

the photos in the second link are pretty spectacular - feel like some verge on being mean-spirited but I've got a few of those in my archives too so who am I to talk.

http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2010/10/stephen-tamiesie-photography/

taken mostly in the american west iirc, and the harsh light here and its recording reminds me of robert adams - like if robert adams shot color

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/03/lost-found-project-japan.html

slideshow very much worth clicking through

puts me very much in an eternal sunshine frame of mind

RFI: Japanese/Chinese/AZN portrait/lifestyle photographers who are not Nobuyoshi Araki

also, Hi everybody, I want to start lurking here more.

Daido Moriyama?

I'm taking whatever you all have idk

Ah I've seen him. I recognize those chairs. I've been commissioned to do an album cover and I know their influences are primarily j-pop; also this question is rooted in the fact that I have no idea what it means to be an asian artist (even half of one) and I am interested in researching. I think most of my work is p mannered, so I fit in in that way, but I lack the weird sex shit that modern asian artists seem to have.

RFI: Japanese/Chinese/AZN portrait/lifestyle photographers who are not Nobuyoshi Araki

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this book:

http://img.zvab.com/member/16306a/3004632.jpg

is a really great intro to some japanese photography, including & outside of araki. i love hiromi tsuchida, who was a great societal photographer:

http://infocast.nl/storage/TsuchidaHiromi01.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1276960760555

& shomei tomatsu, who i think was mainly famous for photographing debris and relics from nagasaki - clocks stopped at the time of the detonation, etc:

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w9/fyamma/ShomeiTomatsu11heure02Nagasaki.jpg

i also just caught an amazing marc riboud retro, some of which was stuff he'd shot in japan

http://blog.madame.lefigaro.fr/stehli/7-%20femmes%20japonaises%20mains.jpg (v large img, so good though; all of my favourite stuff was of japanese working women, in offices and behind glass, i can't find a lot of it online)
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhy30kGs0c1qawyaco1_500.jpg
http://www.hackelbury.co.uk/images/artists/riboud/riboud_pic14.jpg

also some of his chinese stuff is just interesting because it's so good:

http://cameraobscura.busdraghi.net/wp-
content/uploads/2007/10/marc_riboud01.jpg (i think this is china)
http://www.theartkey.com/photos/news/9/5/thumbnails/440x460/3008w.jpg (china)

this looks maybe useful also: http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/exhibition,past,2,0,0,518,41,0,0,0,_woman_with_artificial_flowers._aoshima,_miyazaki,_.html

wow, his recent colour stuff is real pretty also (towards the bottom of this page):

http://www.marcriboud.com/marcriboud/accueil.html

http://www.marcriboud.com/marcriboud/portfolio2/images/87.jpg

http://japan-photo.info/blog/2007/07/10/john-szarkowski-1925-2007-and-japanese-photography/
also
wrt ilp patron szarkowski

struggling to remember the name of the 'japanese eggleston'

ah: http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/09/20/rinko-kawauchi-at-galerie-priska-pasquer-cologne/

also: http://japan-photo.info/blog/2007/10/18/mikiko-hara/

the floating girl is really popular with tumblr type ppl: http://yowayowacamera.com/

yasuhiro ishimoto recently passed away, is well regarded by the_west

there's hiroshi sugimoto but u2 has plowed that furrow already

you can go here to see what some chinese photographers are doing w/ portrait: http://edge.neocha.com/category/photography/

http://invisiblephotographer.asia/ collects street photography from asia, it's pretty uneven but maybe you'll find something you like there

I really like those photos by Mikiko Hara, posted above.

more here: http://www.amadorgallery.com/Mikiko_Hara.html

thx everybody for this

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

oh that's great, i'd forgotten to keep checking in there

y'all should add Junku Nishimura to your Flickr contacts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/junku-newcleus/page1/

xp

patrick tsai's website: http://hellopatpat.com/menu_e.html

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

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.

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.

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

this article's great, it's like pro-leica propaganda

"William Eggleston appears in the movie Great Balls of Fire as Jerry Lee Lewis's father."

http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0802/080212.html
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0801/080126.html
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0802/080214.html

famous people i dunno but
i really like these series

http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0802/080227.html
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0803/080308.html
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0804/080418.html 3 more

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

ahh these are great!

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 he
had 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 sinks
i 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

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.

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.

do you have a link to the first entry? these are v good even individually

http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0801/080126.html is the oldest one i can see but i just emailed to ask for the earliest

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.

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

just to bring the tone down, can anyone work out what camera he's using:
http://hiranotakaci.jp/pic/tottoriukraine/0803/080315.html

maybe an autofocus/autoexposure canon eos kinda thing??