cv just so you know I"ve been shouting the joy of seeing your photos in a printed book to anybody who will listen
― 龜, Saturday, 2 May 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Your reaction to it was very inspiring actually... Part of the reason I'm making myself do more photo work!
― chinavision!, Sunday, 3 May 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
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
― markers, Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
getting, rather
― markers, Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 May 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
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.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 3 May 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 4 May 2015 01:33 (eight years ago) link
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
― 龜, Friday, 8 May 2015 11:25 (eight years ago) link
^agree
(also, wasn't acquainted with risingtensions; thank you)
― drash, Friday, 8 May 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
steph davidson is way cool
meanwhile takashi:
http://36.media.tumblr.com/fc75dc4878b75e25b15e0a09b2729d93/tumblr_noxakcYtBx1qe50hoo1_1280.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 25 May 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/q-and-a-liu-heung-shing-on-the-new-shanghai-center-of-photography/
This is cool as hell
― 龜, Friday, 29 May 2015 12:05 (eight years ago) link
this was cool btw
i kinda don't even necessarily want to drag our cool photo treehouse around to ~considering~ it, as Hot Photographic Topic, but the parts of this that respond to/are dictated by an emerging chinese market for photography are weird, i think. like lucrative art fair photography sales. but it's super cool if a city gets an ICP out of it. also hyped to see eggleston go china. he was just in ... brazil, i feel like.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Saturday, 30 May 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/10/world/asia/north-korea-photos-video.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
i love the new york times
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2015/06/09/world/asia/north-korea-ss-slide-V2X8/north-korea-ss-slide-V2X8-jumbo.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
Topical Breezings:
- i have a postcard of this roger mayne picture of sandra blow - i can't find a digital version that gets its texture - but i look at it a lot & it has the qualities i like in a photograph (or a portrait), i think-
http://40.media.tumblr.com/9f2a3ef02e896ef9f096d0b4ee5f5f5e/tumblr_nbgckeGAf51qzlg5xo1_400.jpg
- & thinking of this i think i have wasted my life holding the camera still, i like blur, it's so emotional, it breaks my heart, what have i been doing, i'm ruined
- like i think my hi-iso (colour) shitty-cellphone pictures are more-satisfying-when-backlit to me than my colour film pictures, right now, to me, somehow equivalating the liveliness of grainy colour slide images in an abstract way more than standard colour negative film does
- &, iii., hey, i am borrowing the friedlander family phots book from the library, it's great, like a kind of tom-waits-&-kath-brennan cousin to nick nixon's brown sisters-
http://i.imgur.com/cOfrcrD.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 19 June 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
blur <3! are, bure, boke in general (can be) <3. easier to think of examples in b&w but <3 in color too
may be last person on earth who still uses film for street/ night/ color, so get a lot of it— powdery grain (suffusing the dark), smears & splotches & specters of of color
it’s one reason i’m still attached to film but as you say, film’s not necessary. sense of fugitive glimpse, evanescence, fragility, flaw, abstraction, tenderness, ever disintegrating materiality in grain or pixel. cf those rinko kawauchi cell phone pics
also reason to go back & look at past “outtakes”: stimes set aside pic that’s (lamentably) underexposed/ grainy/ out of focus/ blurred, but keep looking & it sticks, has its own charge (though important & stimes not easy to distinguish this from attachment to what pic ‘cd/wd/shd have been’ if not for flaw)
― drash, Friday, 19 June 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
at yr suggestion sought out friedlander book too, it is great, adds to & changes my appreciation of lf (also now in love with maria friedlander)
― drash, Friday, 19 June 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
itt crude ILP muse-off between major 20th century street-shooter spouses
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 19 June 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
wd nominate among others
mary frank & june leafeleanor callahanlella boubat
― drash, Friday, 19 June 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
edith gowin, vivian nee meyerowitz, soames leiter, honourary shout out to the women of women are beautiful
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 19 June 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
yoko araki
http://videodrome-xl.blogautore.repubblica.it/wp-content/blogs.dir/353/files/nippon/sentimental-journey-winter-journey-1.jpg
― drash, Saturday, 20 June 2015 12:40 (eight years ago) link
wow yeah otmincidentally everything i see of araki's lately i love. his flowers in the nineties. he is one of those guys i/you grow into i think.
+++ i looked through & regrettably cannot justify buying this today. looks interesting. like for the writing mainly
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Saturday, 20 June 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
he is one of those guys i/you grow into i think
i think this may be right
the nude/bondage pics overshadow & distort reception of the totality of his work
the only araki books i own/really know are yoko & chiro (his cat) related, <3 & heartbreaking
that painful tender focus on life/love/death/mortality—
in that context, bondage pics themselves have different valence, meaning, feeling
― drash, Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:34 (eight years ago) link
did i ever post this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6HQVGHIQAABr_g.jpg:large
& yeah exactly. it's like w/ georgia o'keeffe or somebody, the secret richness & dexterity of artists who have one Thing that circulates sorta ubiquitously
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
those morning sky photographs are real beautiful i think
http://www.we-find-wildness.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC67331.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:53 (eight years ago) link
also hey i am mad at myself i left christine furuya gossle off our muse index
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c9/90/f4/c990f493ccb07a446e7430fbeb3d4b51.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:59 (eight years ago) link
also while we are talking about everything hey guess what this is finally coming soon
http://ep.yimg.com/ay/artbook/william-eggleston-the-democratic-forest-2.gif
This ten-volume set containing more than 1,000 photographs is drawn from a body of 12,000 pictures made by Eggleston in the 1980s. Following an opening volume of work in Louisiana, the ensuing volumes cover Eggleston's travels from his familiar ground in Memphis and Tennessee out to Dallas, Pittsburgh, Miami and Boston, the pastures of Kentucky and as far as the Berlin Wall. The final volume leads the viewer back to the South of small towns, cotton fields, the Civil War battlefield of Shiloh and the home of Andrew Jackson in Tennessee.
every time i've sat in a library looking through the other expanded series books it's been like this beautiful eye test
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 21 June 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link
idk if that modes guy still reads this but fan by rian dundon came out http://www.modesvu.com/post/121831734636/fan-a-book-by-rian-dundon-essays-by-jonathan
― 龜, Sunday, 21 June 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
had not seen that araki quote, thanks for posting it
little book "chiro love death" closes with long series of sky photographs
this is finally coming soon
!!!!!!!!!<3<3<3<3<3
― drash, Sunday, 21 June 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
hey dan, still here from time to time :) interested to hear what you think about the book.
― eee, Monday, 22 June 2015 06:33 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jun/22/nypd-photo-archive-death-destruction/
― 龜, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
i got my book the other day eee! i also have to make my way through the new thomas sauvin and the chinese photobook as well so it may be a while xp
― 龜, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 13:16 (eight years ago) link
also i think i ordered 'coastline 'by zhang xiao too and that's in one of my unopened boxes
http://i.imgur.com/0kW4OFz.jpg
via IH
this brings me so much calm
― 龜, Thursday, 9 July 2015 11:06 (eight years ago) link
yes wow this is classic
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 9 July 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
ih deep dive super rewarding
http://41.media.tumblr.com/1d9db84cdb386ec28a71a66b3b1552cb/tumblr_noz69vEQNm1qzywvpo1_1280.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 9 July 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
IH should be in the smithsonian
― gr8080, Friday, 10 July 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
Internet History Is Hard To See
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 10 July 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
agreed
http://i.imgur.com/OJnIW0d.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 11 July 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
GAH - wow.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 11 July 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
http://slash-paris.com/en/evenements/shimabuku-city-in-the-sea
http://i.imgur.com/hN0Gj8Z.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8b6pWoT.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 11:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8m2m_C1Fbg?t=12m48s
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 26 July 2015 09:52 (eight years ago) link
http://by311.tumblr.com/
― 龜, Sunday, 26 July 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link
https://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1595
:|
― 龜, Sunday, 26 July 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
I sublet from one of those artists once, and I just have to accept at this point that apparently people like what he makes
― chinavision!, Sunday, 26 July 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
my reaction too
― drash, Sunday, 26 July 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
hmmmfwiw i think i saw a bunch of things at new photography that Looked Great There & which i might've flipped by in other circumstances, so maybe the kinda graphical works will be interesting up close
it's interesting seeing things like this & wondering if there is critical mileage in another wave of ultra-quotidian faux-casual urban photography
https://www.moma.org/images/dynamic_content/exhibition_page/126896.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 26 July 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
kind of a deeply satisfying photo idk
there's sort of more going on there since thats a photo of an actual newsstand set up by the artist, selling zines, photo books, etc. in the subway. I think the photo is just supposed to be the documentation in this case? not that it makes the photo any less nice, but I don't think it's the photograph that moma is interested in, but the newsstand project itself.
― chinavision!, Sunday, 26 July 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
I guess I don't mean 'more' going on but just that I bet if that were a regular newsstand, that photo would not have made it to moma
― chinavision!, Sunday, 26 July 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link