let us now catalogue famous people

really i will enjoy looking at just any photograph so deeply working the lilac spectrum

yeah those are great.
bruce gilden, that's the guy. boy is he annoying.

martin parr is a little tough for me, because the beach photos, he claims, are affectionate or even celebratory, so, ok. they look nice too.
but then the photos of conservative party soirees I like because they seem cutting or damning, but I guess if I'm giving the benefit of the doubt the the beach photos then I have to do the same with these? they also look nice though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97GwbI27w10

I have this open in a tab right now and I am so excited I cannot press play

ha, oh wow. hyped. did you ever see any of doyle's pictures? he put out a book.

http://www.body-pixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/doyle13.jpg

there's also an interesting profile in the new film comment that attempts to introduce the director of infernal affairs as a constitutive element of some the films for which doyle gets credit - i think he was somehow a part of the cinematographic machinery of that string of pretty wkw flicks.

Hmm Andrew Lau? He's a big name but all the films I've seen done by him were pretty ... bad, but bad in the sense of commercial-blockbuster bad, so maybe he's got an art streak to him that I haven't seen

To me Mark Cohen represents the realization of Winogrand's (apocryphal?) comment that you can take a great picture anywhere

Wilkes-barre! That's where one of the Phillies farm team is

And to Cohen's credit his pictures are good in a way that's almost separate from the environment

OK well maybe the sense of the rust belt is permeated into his pictures. But not in a way that you'd expect

Think the difference between Mark Cohen and Gilden is that Cohen gets good pictuers

I'd forgive Gilden, maybe, if his pictures weren't also so awful

It's been posted in this thread before but Cohen's technique is just so... comical

You don't really want to punch him, like you do with Gilden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcgEnC3bLY

gilden is awful. can't be said enough.

it was specifically that video that had caused me to link the two previously. will rewatch.

although haha "he discovered using the flash for contemporary photography"

Was reading this Zhang Xiao interview

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2013/07/asx-interview-zhang-xiao-a-conversation-with-zhang-xiao-2013.html

And came across the name Boris Mikhailov

Do a google image search and it will stagger you (also NSFW)

http://i.imgur.com/rK1hx2X.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/3UOyqEC.jpg

IH

http://i.imgur.com/YaMSRe5.png

http://www.sarahsoquel.com/latest/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1_04720006.jpg

sarah soquel morhaim

top third of photo is basically a new artform

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

IH

This is what you see when you die, I think

am I drowning? WAIT did SHE do it??

a few times a year i get lost in the kind of mycological network of flickr & users' flickr favs & the subsequent favs of those faved, & it eventually seems mostly to elicit feelings of inadequacy around equipment or scanning or presentation rather than feelings toward the photography itself - how did this guy get those muted tones - but i like these mariano brizzola phots-

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1r7kg_ydYco/T5hAUYHtg8I/AAAAAAAAA7A/XYOmKt4_I34/s1600/6832403203_91a4b80de5_z.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nZ1AEKuPXuY/T5hAyP-S8_I/AAAAAAAAA8A/cuPHta-a3TE/s400/6010654534_8e35a86e34_z.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S22LY1eXezI/T5hAiNSgClI/AAAAAAAAA7g/0KgkMmIeixY/s400/6157419296_35faaa47cd_z.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6763129993_875bdb48bb_z.jpg

Only putting up 109 photos since Dec 2007 is doing it right imo

i think less is kinda undeniably wiser/safer/&c, here, but i do think there's something about the internet being the venue that changes that calculus at least a little. like it makes sense that a portfolio should be pretty elemental, as succinct as possible, not overlap or duplicate, &c. but when the thing you are looking at is flickr, or if you are one of a million photographers in the world who are putting something online for others to see, part of me thinks that maximalism is interesting too. like i think the conditions of exhibition are conducive to embroiling people in other parts of what you're doing outside of just successful image making. only putting up your best work can't really fail but i'd love to see everything else, too. these pictures are quite egglestony, & as another amateur middleweight eggleston fan-fic author i have to think about what it means to be practicing an art that's already been honed. some of the pathways toward making it interesting involve other stuff, i think.

Very well written but you're still not getting access to my contact sheets

straight up 1000% the aim of my post

ive got about 19-20 months of catching up to do on my flickr

not gonna lie the main reason i use it is for the screensaver on my appleTV

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/taking-care-of-people-and-pictures-in-hong-kong/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Followup to ^ http://globalnation.inquirer.net/106886/i-dont-feel-like-an-ofw-just-a-girl-with-a-camera-shooting-hks-street-life

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/artscape/

Can't view from inside the US but you can find these on youtube - "The New African Photography"

http://i.imgur.com/kF5ghtX.jpg

Dang

h/t NA on the chicago thread:

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2013/Black-Chicago-In-the-1970s-Through-the-Lens-of-John-H-White/#/0

http://media.chicagomag.com//images/cache/cache_4/cache_2/cache_b/42b8903a6c18bc9065bf3c546607afb0.jpeg?ver=1403146036&aspectratio=0.664

warning: some pretty rough/depressing stuff

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/07/17/brenda_ann_kenneally_documents_life_below_the_poverty_line_in_troy_york.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWdgjYHy7YQ

Need a 24 hour music video channel that's just stuff like this

Elizabeth Huey (via an interview with Bryan Formhals)

http://elizabethhuey.com/

http://i.imgur.com/2YNIZ3t.jpg

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

from an acquaintance's FB feed (and who is not a photog as far as i know):
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/61653_10204564032290036_8967141821077139652_n.jpg

^^wonderful, def 77-content/internet history caliber

http://www.reportagebygettyimages.com/features/the-british-abroad/

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

really enjoyin pari dukovic lately. pari dukovic, grain cultivator,

http://www.paridukovic.com/tearsheets/Denk,JeremyFeb.06.2012.jpg

http://www.paridukovic.com/tearsheets.htm

njoyin these. v fresh.

http://37.media.tumblr.com/9cb9a2250e18c611151bd5ffaa29711b/tumblr_n9qmhuDhoY1ryt1zno1_1280.jpg
http://38.media.tumblr.com/b136aa3b9f06c467999ef3d02d4f3b5a/tumblr_n9cpmedtQN1ryt1zno1_1280.jpg
http://31.media.tumblr.com/11ce185fe5a7d719c72e1f3c881cef10/tumblr_n8zvanjxQz1ryt1zno1_r1_1280.jpg
http://33.media.tumblr.com/97f4948c65a269665987b0046ce3b0c0/tumblr_n91i7b8TXR1ryt1zno1_1280.jpg

http://instaxgratification.tumblr.com

http://31.media.tumblr.com/a4250988f2838e04545d052739cf0ddc/tumblr_n7hd787ycj1ryt1zno1_r1_1280.jpg
http://38.media.tumblr.com/a34b9d61343f2211291b3e4c7cc9b8f9/tumblr_n6wrq1AUHL1ryt1zno1_1280.jpg
http://38.media.tumblr.com/b9bc4a1aa6d2de569e7586526e4459dc/tumblr_n6ai9eXfwE1ryt1zno1_1280.jpg
http://38.media.tumblr.com/d384620ed3223d12de6c5debe0d7a587/tumblr_n6b9906qnR1ryt1zno1_1280.jpg

any thoughts on this essay?

http://gawker.com/the-problem-with-humans-of-new-york-1617812880

imo its bullshit

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/fukushima-three-years-later

the kind of sober-landscape-dispatch isn't really my favourite school of photography right now but i found this v moving

nb @ gr8080, i feel like the gawker piece is basically mad that philip seymour hoffman did not fully realise the dream of synecdoche new york in its infinite complexity

Obviously, the site isn't journalism—it's documenting nothing more than Stanton's own viewpoint and, now, how much he evidently enjoys being a known quantity. And art thrives on the unexpected, so it's not that.

^ this is what is called a taxonomy

http://www.canon.com/scsa/newcosmos/gallery/1994/report/index.html

Frank: I feel a good approach for a photographer is to start by closing his eyes and listening to the voice of his heart. The obsession and intuition that he has never taken notice of lead him to photograph in the right way. And, then the photographer edits the photographs while personally critiquing them. Such an editing process should be the best teacher for that person. I am opposed to taking photographs with the forced intent of a pre-determined concept. With intelligence and knowledge, a photographer can easily take photographs that can be sold at high prices. But, I don’t want people to take photographs of that nature. First of all, one continuously takes a series of photographs. In the subsequent editing process, the concept will emerge. This is also the method I used to create “the Americans.”

i love reading this in context & imagining that you can just talk about how you feel for a while, toss some ideas around, spitball, throw in your two cents but then pause for a second & say "Also this is how I created The Americans".

http://www.zoecrosher.com/images/303.jpg
http://www.zoecrosher.com/images/314.jpg
http://www.zoecrosher.com/images/323.jpg
http://www.zoecrosher.com/images/326.jpg
http://www.zoecrosher.com/images/332.jpg

zoe crosher's out of the window (lax)

ah, this is such a beautiful window-

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/same-sex-couples-at-ease-at-home/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body#

Those pics are amazing xp

mm-hmm, & kinda super cohesive, too, considering she's sort of looking past everything, just reducing it to shapes in boxes. there are like ten million in the series.

i think i re-posted jamie livingston polaroids itt before, i always go back to them, there are so many, & the arrangement is most conducive to just jumping in out of sequence. i was looking at them again a day or two ago & found them so moving, just the feeling of life, he is out in the world, he is in love,

http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ewtQ35Qxc8Q/TBxYO0iJW8I/AAAAAAAApP4/wkuUv0eEYhk/09-27-85.jpghttp://lh5.ggpht.com/-LY2V781_xDc/TBxWS6uVGJI/AAAAAAAApPo/alfhMlLDh40/09-05-85.jpg
http://lh6.ggpht.com/-GIgafdABKOM/TBxLIJkh9aI/AAAAAAAAmn4/_oXeCSp7T-M/03-31-86.jpghttp://lh3.ggpht.com/-YqSWzoAbBJ0/TBxXq_KzJ5I/AAAAAAAAlTk/c_uRpoYU69Q/08-18-86.jpg
http://lh6.ggpht.com/-9lIi-t0UWH4/TBxk4FPZwEI/AAAAAAAAlRo/RaSqz1wWFfU/12-21-86.jpghttp://lh6.ggpht.com/-Ga23nkOEusM/TBxzMPjpvtI/AAAAAAAAeyQ/RofRiuUpAVc/07-08-94.jpg

http://www.vocativ.com/underworld/drugs/meth-head-wiccan/

http://angelastrassheim.com/PHOTOS/Family%20Studies/07%20daddy

from family study, which is really good, by angela strassheim. kinda bummed looking through her other series; so much life in the unposed work.