let us now catalogue famous people

http://www.shootingfilm.net/2013/02/woody-allen-poses-with-bunch-of.html

me irl

http://shihlun.tumblr.com/post/53407664258/walker-evans-robert-frank-nova-scotia-1969-71

yeah that's a beautiful portrait. you guys have looked through the walker evans archive on the met site, right? it isn't especially easy to navigate but is amazingly comprehensive. a lot of beautiful, frame-by-frame sets of him gallavanting w/the home-improving franks in NS, & a lot of just really nice angles to WE i didn't know about. cf his drawing,

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BH2Gxo-CMAArds9.jpg

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/henri-cartier-bresson-living-and-looking/

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/cartier-bresson-there-are-no-maybes/

http://i.imgur.com/Y5mykoL.png

i almost want to bawl

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/art-of-inner-turmoil/

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/memories-of-a-boys-life-reconstructed/

4x5 serious photography to make cv's eyes roll

hey, you know that eggleston's paris book is filled with drawings of his... they're great!

i just watched william eggleston in the real world, which i'd somehow never seen before (fwiw: it's free on archive.org, but as an advisory is a shitty thing to watch while you are scanning, creating unflattering desktop diptychs consisting of your own photos & his), & there's a nice scene of him drawing. i like his pictures a lot. this book cover is dope,

http://artobserved.com/artimages/2009/09/william-eggelston-sorry-we-are-not-sorry.jpg

one of my abandoned blog ideas is photographers' drawings. cf walker evans, saul leiter,

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V83SR2YI7mo/Tx3UoGeX0LI/AAAAAAAAHEk/bdKvrSDsz2M/s640/tlc_saul_leiter_04_cover_front.jpg

robert herman photos are rad, also a poignant reminder not to give your pictures shitty titles

http://gagosian.vaesite.net/__data/286343c0e262bcde4159b24444e43ce7.jpg
http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/william-eggleston--september-27-2012/exhibition-images
http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1814&fulltext=1&media=#article-text-cutpoint

beautiful egglestons i'd never seen before, here, perhaps just not having spent time with any of the more recent anthologies,

http://www.edwardcella.com/publish/worksimages/WE042web_LG.jpg

http://www.edwardcella.com/publish/worksimages/WE026ewb_LG.jpg

like, from chromes,

http://dailyserving.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Eggleston-cafe-exterior-px650.jpg

'Dear Bill': photographers, curators and fans ask questions of William Eggleston...

Simon Baker, curator of photography, Tate Modern: What was the first photograph that was important to you (by you or anyone else), and why?

A picture I took of some prisoners at the state penitentiary. I'm guessing I was about 20 at the time.

Brett Rogers, director, The Photographers' Gallery: When we recently showed an Eggleston image at the Gallery, we wrote on the accompanying caption that you photograph scenes of everyday life with a 'snapshot style'. When Nan Goldin visited in January, she took exception to this, saying yours was definitely not a 'snapshot' approach. What is your view on this description of your approach?

Thank you, Nan.

Nan Goldin, photographer, New York: Remember our times in Paris? Are you still gonna marry me?

Yes, no question about it.

Michael Glover, art critic, The Independent: You seem to have both loved and loathed the American landscape. How much pain has the holding of such contradictory impulses caused you?

I don't remember loathing any of it.

Chris Dercon, director, Tate Modern: As we are about to show some of your beautiful dye-transfer prints at Tate Modern, I have been wondering how you decide on the size of the prints you make.

I have currently settled on two sizes: smaller dye transfers and large-format pigment prints.

Alice Jones, deputy arts editor, The Independent: What do you think of Instagram?

I don't know what they are.

Martin Parr, photographer, Bristol: What is the difference between your current shooting and that of the 1970s?

The subject-matter is different.

Jason Evans, photographer, Brighton: What's the difference between a photographer who makes art, and an artist who makes photographs?

Not sure there is any difference.

Nina Berman, photographer, New York: Is there a place you've never been that you would like to photograph?

I can't think offhand of any particular place.

Penny Martin, curator and editor-in-chief, The Gentlewoman: What building would you like to blow up?

I'm not in that business.

Alec Soth, photographer, Minneapolis: A few years ago Robert Frank said, "There are too many images, too many cameras now. We're all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It's just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn't an art any more. Maybe it never was." What do you think about this?

I don't disagree with any part of that statement.

Alice Hawkins, photographer, Essex: I know you were interested in Elvis, but have you met your fellow Tennessean Dolly Parton? Would you like to take her picture?

No comment.

Bobby Gillespie, singer, Primal Scream, London: Did you really give the 12-year-old Alex Chilton [the late singer with Big Star] LSD/acid at a party in Memphis in the 1960s?

No.

Nick Hall, picture editor, The Independent Magazine: What's your favourite colour?

It used be green when I was young. Now I don't have a favourite.

Michael Benson, curator, Candlestar, London: Novelist Donna Tartt claims to recognise "a sparkle of menace" in your most powerful photographs. Do you agree?

No.

Polly Borland, photographer, London: What are your feelings about death?

I haven't been there yet.

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, photographers, London: You are on a train from Memphis to Manhattan. It's a 1,102-mile journey and the train is travelling at 80mph. What is the train-driver's name?

I call him "someone I think I trust".

Philip Hensher, novelist and art critic: What should a photographer do with symmetry?

I have no idea.

Lewis Blackwell, creative director, Getty Images, London: Did Garry Winogrand really say to you, "Bill, you can take a good picture of anything"?

Yes.

Peter Dench, photographer, London: Do you fancy a pint; my round?

Why not, of course it depends on what it's a pint of…

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

works great as a sight rhyme though!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I like to flick through the BJoP in WHSmith.

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

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.

Very heavy. Glad I watched it though.

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.

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

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

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

wow

yeah i'm in awe

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

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

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

*throws away my camera*

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

http://24.media.tumblr.com/cf06edbf9084e7c0e57e4e6d2db525a1/tumblr_mcntpbEYI51qz6rc5o1_r1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/35d3bec39a55c5f8fd6772673ccdce93/tumblr_mmr49cvdDr1qz6rc5o1_500.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lidsraiGQs1qz6rc5o1_500.jpg

http://inaniehoff.tumblr.com/

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.

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

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

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/

http://www.inceptivenotions.com/images/blog_2010/1.6/_11s.jpg http://www.inceptivenotions.com/images/blog_2010/1.6/_1s.jpg

http://www.inceptivenotions.com/images/blog_2010/1.6/_24s.jpg http://www.inceptivenotions.com/images/blog_2010/1.6/_22s.jpg

http://www.inceptivenotions.com/images/blog_2010/1.6/_12.jpg

eizo ota

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.

^ 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

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

"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.

not this-

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

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

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

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

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

yeah

IH shot needs dye-transfer printing

Gareth of this parish mentioned John Bulmer...

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