phew i feel much better
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/detroit-dave-jordano/
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/MikeBrodie-16.jpg
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/01/slide-show-pictures-from-mike-brodies-a-period-of-juvenile-prosperity.htmli like these; there is probably always a series of romantic local subcultural phots on photo booth but these are really measured & transportive, i think
― schlump, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
putting this link here, too much to consume at once
http://www.americansuburbx.com/channels/w/william-eggleston
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thegreatleapsideways.com/?p=3624
“To say that photographs lie implies that they might tell the truth; but the beauty of their nature is exactly to say nothing, neither to lie nor not to. Then what purpose may be served, or disguised, in attempting to deny so obvious a fact, in attempting instead to mean that emptiness? If the purpose is to counter those, real or imagined, who bluntly claim photographs never lie, then the counter only replaces the Village Idiot by the Village Explainer. There must be some more attractive purpose. I believe the motto serves to cover an impressive range of anxieties centred on, or symptomatized by, our sense of how little we know about what the photograph reveals: that we do not know what our relation to reality is, our complicity in it; that we do not know how or what to feel about those events; that we do not understand the specific transformative powers of the camera, what I have called its original violence; that we cannot anticipate what it will know of us or show of us.”— Stanley Cavell What Photography Calls Thinking in Raritan Reading
— Stanley Cavell What Photography Calls Thinking in Raritan Reading
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
feelin this http://internethistory.tumblr.com/post/42301837134
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4LmchI7dIg
― 乒乓, Thursday, 7 February 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/11.fall-2008/23.alibosworth.20080801_02_02.jpg
http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/12.winter-2009/06.alibosworth.20090117_01_34.jpg http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/11.fall-2008/12.alibosworth.20081017_01_12.jpg
http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/15.coast-2009/07.alibosworth.20100110_04_11.jpg
http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/01.2007/31.alibosworth.20071002_03_10.jpg http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m34oovDafn1qz7sd5o1_1280.jpg
http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/11.fall-2008/03.alibosworth.20081213_01_27.jpg
peaceful ali bosworth phots
― schlump, Monday, 11 February 2013 06:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://thenoumenonrevelation.blogspot.com/
feel like u would vibe with this schlump
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://davidzilber.ca/INDUCTIVISM
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://payload10.cargocollective.com/1/3/101826/2503807/0017_20.jpg
oh swoonthe colours
― schlump, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
huh generally a lot of nice stuff on that site. one thing, it seems to me that deadpan vertical photographs are sort of a 'thing' right now, especially when combined into diptychs. I feel like I see more and more of this and that it is meant to work as a shorthand signifier for quickly identifying the pictures as belonging to "art" and not just your dad's photography. something kinda bugs me about it. I guess not the deadpan vertical format itself, but the way I see a lot of stuff presented. diptychs, triptychs, grey borders, vast white borders around shrunken photos, etc. all of which I thought was pretty decent presentation when I first encountered it, but all of which reads more like very standardized code to me now. like it's just meant to whisper "hey, serious stuff here. worthy of attention. operating with delicate sensibilities, check it out."I'm also just grumpy sometimes so I might be way off. and I like the pictures! I think I might regret this or have second thoughts later today.
xpost
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
somehow I think this ties in to the current vogue for brightly lit still lifes too
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I can kinda see that. probably something to write in there too about how our tools dictate our way of seeing. simply easier to take a horizontal. I'd like to shoot with an olympus pen (the old half-frame) to see how shooting verticals only might change the way I take pix
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
something about people inclined towards photography but maybe a little defensive about it's place in the art world. feeling the need to add presentation elements, or do some staging etc. to show intent and authorship or something.
xpost again
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
oh god *starts browsing used olympus pen listings on ebay*
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
I've even found myself going for more verticals lately, I think from loving the Stephen Gill stuff I've seen so much!
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
hey a half frame would be great for verticals but also just to squeeze in twice as many snapshots on a roll. and why not mess around with some smaller lower resolution formats?
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
ok, I'm realizing the other thing that bugs me about a bunch of diptychs/triptychs I see is that the photos sometimes seem to communicate *nothing* in combination or to each other etc. like the desire for a diptych was stronger than the need.
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
what am I even talking about, my zeiss ikon shoots verticals. although I thin kit may have a light leak. whatever!
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I can kinda see that. probably something to write in there too about how our tools dictate our way of seeing. simply easier to take a horizontal.
this is true but i remember feeling all wowed when a friend & i were talking about cameras, how they'd arrived at their shape & form (like that steven wright thing, if photos are square why are lenses round), & we realised that the horizontal/landscape format resembles the actual height x width ratio of our eyes. like something about them makes sense! my favourite thing since then is shooting horizontally & presenting the photos vertically, it's such a satisfying editorial move.
china otm about some of those presentation tropes. i snobbishly always felt a little that way about getting white borders on prints at the lab.
― schlump, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
― 乒乓, Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:41 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ty for this btw, am only just getting to look at it, am finding it weirdly hypnotic. i think bc she's a technically gifted photographer who is shooting v messily sometimes for the effect of it?
feeling this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--vlQ1AU0Ui8/UFiESeRbWdI/AAAAAAAAHRk/QyygZCqcaI4/s1600/Arianna&theFlame.jpg
― schlump, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
please ignore my prior white-bordered-prints sass
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/02/13/everyday-life-in-the-hood-new-york-1970-1973/
― 乒乓, Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
man...
http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/x52_hoe-ave-at-e-172nd-st-south-bronx-1970_.jpg?w=735
thinking about those kids watching this, and wondering where they are now and how they dress.
― chinavision!, Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
”Neither Evans nor Atget presumes to put us in touch with a pure reality, a thing in itself; their cropping always affirms its arbitrariness and contingency. And the world they characteristically picture is a world already made over into meaning that precedes the photograph; a meaning inscribed by work, by use, as an inhabitation, as artifact. Their pictures are signs representing signs, integers in implicit chains of signification that come to rest only in major systems of social meaning: codes of households, streets, public places“
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― 乒乓, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/02/19/a-casual-conversation-with-saul-leiter/#1
leiter is so good. I wish I could be like him.
so many echoes of the future in those leiter pics - of [tomatsu & barth, & that totally painterly abstract quality that makes them confusable for richters or rothkos
http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/xpf77522.jpghttp://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/xpf107793.jpg
interesting to note the last shot is 2004 - would love to see more of his recent stuff, that single image does seem to have more of that kinda new, "democratic" sensibility
― schlump, Thursday, 21 February 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
he puts the telephoto to such good work - the telephoto is not meant to zoom in on far away objects, it's meant to frame the immediate present
― 乒乓, Thursday, 21 February 2013 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.zhangkechun.com/
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 February 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ow6C-4pyjw
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 February 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
haha, from that leiter page
And his color photographs predate those of “pioneer” William Eggleston by a quarter of a century.
huh, sure Eggleston, "pioneer," whatever nice try
― chinavision!, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
they have almost nothing in common besides working in color
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
I should have properly put that sentence in quotes in case anyone thinks that reflects my thoughts
-Time Magazine, 2013
― chinavision!, Friday, 22 February 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.findingvivianmaier.com/Finding_Vivian_Maier/Trailer.html
guessing you guys know about this, right
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Friday, 22 February 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
oh wow. & there's film, too.
― schlump, Saturday, 23 February 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
her portraits - the girl in the car, say - are just so almost unrealistically good.
― schlump, Saturday, 23 February 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/02/joshua-lutz-hesitating-beauty.html#slide_ss_0=1
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
i sorta hmmmed through that, they are kinda clunky imo :/
― schlump, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, patternizing the images is a little heavyhanded - but the first one, man. probably feel affected because mental illness scares me.
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
no, sure. i feel like getting to put together a set of images with stray captions & to sorta work the space in between them is doing a lot. I would read stories about the Invisible Man even if they weren't well written, just because it's interesting territory, & this all - the old photos, &c - is a lot to think about.
― schlump, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/when-violence-is-against-domestics/
feel the personal reverberations from this one :/
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
they're really fine. feels crude to talk technically when its power isn't really coming from there but the kinda less-contrasty/more midtone-y vibe makes the interiors so vivid.
― schlump, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
btw can we change the board description to "the pretty toney album"
haha agreed
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
we've linked to jeff bridges' stuff before but this post has a lot more
http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/203503.html
fabulous stuff makes me wanna go out and get an xpan rite now
also v appropriate that he would use an xpan on a movie set
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://photographyofchina.com/Zhang-Yaxin#.US44LOvF00x
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
linked to him above thread but there's some new pics in this post
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/chinese-family-memories-recycled/
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 March 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
also more bertien! http://lpvmagazine.com/2012/04/bertien-van-manen-lets-sit-down-before-we-go/
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 March 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link