Die Knowing Something

One of my favorite characters, classic and charismatic!

theimpossiblecool:

Happy Birthday, Mr. Caine.

photo by David Bailey

View high resolution

“You are invited to have a professional photograph taken.”

View high resolution

Power to the People, an amazing article by Spencer Lum.

Now we live in a seek and share world. The dam broke, and we are awash in information. We are inundated and overburdened, and what we want is context and relevance. And we find that in other people. Through reviews. Word of mouth. Social media. Businesses that get it take it to the people, creating remarkable experiences that forge followings and encourage sharing. Clients will speak for us.

Is your photography business really about YOU?

View high resolution

Minnie Mouse, Fremont Street, Las Vegas. Shot with Leica M9.

View high resolution

Golden Nugget Girl, Fremont Street, Las Vegas. Shot with Leica M9.

View high resolution

Cowboy, Fremont Street, Las Vegas. Shot with Leica M9.

View high resolution

Long Legs Las Vegas, Fremont Street. Shot with Leica M9.

Paris, immersion…

View high resolution

kennethdickerman:

Would anyone care about this work if Christopher Anderson hadnt spent years toiling away in the festering pussholes of the earth? Would this body of work have granted him access to the hallowed halls of VII or Magnum? Would he be “relevant” today, showing only this body of work? Just pondering.

I, for one, think this work is intensely beautiful. I can look at it for hours and I hunger for more. I’ll go to the Magnum archives and search for more of the work and look and look. In fact, I like this work more than alot of his previous stuff. But, these days Im also drawn to much more personal, diaristic work anyway.

Regardless of whatever philosophical questions about “relevance” this body of work pings in me—plenty of people are throwing accolades its way. See NYTimes lens blog here, for example. He is also taking the show on the road in workshops and galleries, including the Magnum Gallery in Paris, here.

newyorker:

Lovings at Home

In 1950, a young man from Central Point, Virginia, went seven miles down the road to hear some music. Seven brothers named the Jeters were on that night, playing bluegrass in a farmhouse. The young man had come for the music, but couldn’t help noticing a young woman in the audience. The man, Richard Loving, was white; the woman, Mildred Jeter, was black and Cherokee. Seventeen years later, as a result of their meeting, the Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act, along with anti-miscegenation laws in fifteen other states, ending the legal prohibitions against interracial marriage.

On view until May 6th at the International Center of Photography, “The Loving Story” highlights the human element of the Loving v. Virginia case, bringing the ardor that fueled the Lovings’ half-decade of appeals into heart-rending focus…

- For more selection of photographs of Richard and Mildred Loving: http://nyr.kr/wLrC3t

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…

View high resolution

Peaceful pears, Piemonte Italy.

View high resolution

Birthdays keep us childlike. They remind us that what is important is not what we do or accomplish, not what we have or who we know, but that we are, here and now. – Henri Nouwen

Happy First Birthday Colette LaCour!

Sigh, lovely, lovely.