February 2012
3 posts
I take photographs to affirm reality, not explain reality and that reality often...
– Alex Webb
via Leica & Magnum: Photographs from the Streets of Chicago by Alex Webb « The Leica Camera
(via photographsonthebrain)
December 2011
2 posts
When Soth is on the road, he has notes describing types of pictures he wants...
– Alec Soth - Photographer (via solsetur)
Vernissage Sprezzatura (exposition photographique) →
If you’re in Paris tonight (8th of December) don’t miss this.
November 2011
9 posts
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph is like...
– Edward Weston (1886 – 1958, photographer)
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What we see is not made up of what we are seeing but rather from what we are.
– Fernando Pessoa.
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...: “There’s no way I’m going to blend in on a... →
“There’s no way I’m going to blend in on a beach where people are shooting each other and I’m a western journalist,” he says. “My M.O. is to engage people as much as I can and it doesn’t take long to create the psychology that you belong there. That gets you in the orbit of being able to work…
October 2011
29 posts
THE PHOTOCOPY CLUB
thephotocopyclub:
THE PHOTOCOPY CLUB
The photocopy club is a new monthly exhibition Based in Brighton and London.
This monthly exhibition will feature Photocopied/xerox photography from photographers around the world. what we are hoping to achieve with this project is to get photography off the Internet and get printed matter back in the the hands of the public. Photocopying is the one...
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Diane Arbus au Jeu de Paume du 18 octobre 2011 au... →
Enfant avec une grenade en plastique dans Central Park, New York 1962 / Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962, Diane Arbus
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September 2011
35 posts
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How to Revisit an Iconic Photograph - An Interview... →
ninaperlman:
SB: The issue of copying can be kind of touchy among photographers. Did you have any qualms about exploring these iconic images so directly?
AS: I really didn’t have any qualms about this. Photography is a language. And in order to speak the language, you need to learn about how other people use it. I know that there have been a number of controversies about photographers...