February 2012
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Severin Koller: A Critique on Street Photography →
severinkoller:
After years of practicing Street photography and following the development of the genre and its photographers, I’ve started to think more theoretically about the topic and what it means to me.
In the last seven years of photographing, I’ve went trough many different stages and lately I’ve become…
January 2012
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Taylor Davidson: It’s not Life’s responsibility to... →
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It’s not Life’s responsibility to make our lives great. That’s up to us.
Life’s a party, New Orleans, LA, Oct 2011
It’s not Life’s responsibility to make our lives great, happy, meaningful, fulfilling, enjoyable, adventurous. That’s our responsibility, and it comes from every choice we…
“Real moments seldom react properly to flash.”
– Chris Weeks (via ryanmuirhead)
December 2011
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Leica's "long tender kiss..."
ryanmuirhead:
“Shooting with a LEICA is like a long tender kiss, like firing an automatic pistol, like an hour on the analyst’s couch”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson (via seonnantonphotos)
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Love in the margins.
How to fill the blank pages? I turn them and like a desert they seem to demand nothing less than my bones—photographs of places I may not come back from, fingernails testing the borders, blood or what’s left over from love in the margins.
— Stephen Dunn, The Photograph Album
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement....”
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“It is like a thing of ether that exists Almost as predicate. But it exists, It...”
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Fire and ice - British Journal of Photography →
Sally Mann sees her husband, in love and gazing intensely, after all these years…
August 2011
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“An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of...”
– In Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit quotes Lucy Lippard. I love this. I like thinking about the distance anger might take me. (via carpentrix)
July 2011
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Everything is biographical...
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Lucian Freud, undated photos by David Dawson
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross. —...
“Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of...”
– Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life. Today in The River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
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