photo-breezing

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

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)

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)

itt crude ILP muse-off between major 20th century street-shooter spouses

wd nominate among others

mary frank & june leaf
eleanor callahan
lella boubat

edith gowin, vivian nee meyerowitz, soames leiter, honourary shout out to the women of women are beautiful

yoko araki

http://videodrome-xl.blogautore.repubblica.it/wp-content/blogs.dir/353/files/nippon/sentimental-journey-winter-journey-1.jpg

wow yeah otm
incidentally 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

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

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

those morning sky photographs are real beautiful i think

http://www.we-find-wildness.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC67331.jpg

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

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

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

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

hey dan, still here from time to time :) interested to hear what you think about the book.

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jun/22/nypd-photo-archive-death-destruction/

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

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

yes wow this is classic

ih deep dive super rewarding

http://41.media.tumblr.com/1d9db84cdb386ec28a71a66b3b1552cb/tumblr_noz69vEQNm1qzywvpo1_1280.jpg

IH should be in the smithsonian

Internet History Is Hard To See

agreed

http://i.imgur.com/OJnIW0d.jpg

GAH - wow.

http://slash-paris.com/en/evenements/shimabuku-city-in-the-sea

http://i.imgur.com/hN0Gj8Z.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8b6pWoT.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8m2m_C1Fbg?t=12m48s

http://by311.tumblr.com/

https://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1595

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I sublet from one of those artists once, and I just have to accept at this point that apparently people like what he makes

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my reaction too

hmmm
fwiw 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

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.

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

ha ha hey thank you for the clarification, that is helpful. really pleased to know finally i am the dad at the gallery who is only interested in what kind of d-rings they used to hang the artworks.

think we can all agree the real enemy here is pink-floyd-based #vinylwave meme art, pretty sure next year moma is going to show three-colour jimi hendrix screenprints & letterpressed inspirational slogans

nah I like the picture a lot... I like it better as a photo than as representation of the actual 'piece' (which I didn't know was meant to be regarded as an artwork before, but had just remembered reading about on gothamist or one of those websites)

yeah I can't believe that one xpost

aram saroyan's name taken in vain
maybe there's a reason behind it idk

龜 was talking on twitter about the absence of chinese artists in this; it's also a slightly older crowd than i would've expected, like i would've thought there are waves of fresh photography that are constitutionally limited to under thirty y/os

think when we saw it that one year at MoMA birdhead was included

don't remember what came in between that was so many years ago

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/new-photos-show-bush-administration-reaction-to-911-attacks/

felt really weird noticing the variable exposure of a bunch of shots of cheney/rice/&c hanging out. super unfamiliar, now.

yeah these are like drug store prints!

lomography in the west wing

man, those look like hell. i've been back in the groove of scanning long-ago negatives and while i'm taking lots of shortcuts i'm doing a little better than THAT. kinda lame that fulfilling FOIA requests doesn't require running digital ICE or a little bit of fiddling with levels but i guess it's good that the public gets in this sense an 'undoctored' image. but it almost looks like these were scanned with a dirty mirror or something. (i recently went through this procedure with my baby, facing down the prospect of FINALLY rescanning maybe fifteen rolls that have haunted me ever since i botched the scans circa spring 2007.)

looks like a lot of color balance problems. also looks like what happens if you leave scanning software on default settings and don't move sliders around much. I just figured the scanning job probably just fell to some government functionary to satisfy the foia request. some of my early attempts as scanning film shot indoors looked sort of similar.

i definitely don't have the techniques down. it's okay for filling the gaps of shit that i didn't get develop-and-scanned as a combo. and i never shot on good slide film or anything like that. but i'm sure i'm not really doing it "right."

oddly, for me, the bad scanning/ color correction makes those images somehow more resonant
the fact that the room looks like, just, a banal conference room, with bad lighting (as opposed to a beautifully-illuminated tv/movie set)
there’s like intimacy to them too, feel like taken with an unobtrusive rangefinder rather than big dslr
so strange to see relatively contemporary white house images with grain