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I ask Meyerowitz about the combative, confrontational style of street photography espoused by the likes of fellow New Yorker Bruce Gilden, and he grows visibly angry for the only time in our conversation. "He's a fucking bully. I despise the work, I despise the attitude, he's an aggressive bully and all the pictures look alike because he only has one idea – 'I'm gonna embarrass you, I'm going to humiliate you.' I'm sorry, but no."

#SHOTSFIRED

Gilden is pretty dull imo

stupid quote about how street photography is when you can smell the street or whatever

i had lunch with Wayne Levin yesterday!

http://i.imgur.com/FWM9z.jpg

(sprained ankle)

ha ha
that's so rad!
what was it like, you guys trading tips on grain & talking about water temperatures?

ah, I didn't know that meyerowitz quote above was in relation to a new (expensive) book of his work: http://www.phaidon.com/store/photography/joel-meyerowitz-taking-my-time-9780714865027/
totally awesome. I've liked his stuff for a long time, and was frustrated that none of it was ever really available in a book, aside from one of those tiny little phaidon overviews.
too bad I can't afford this.

i think i'd be really disappointed if i bought a book for $800 & it came with a free cd. or dvd. like it just seems so gauche, a freebie. framed cells from the original 16mm transfer or gtfo.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/when-steam-locomotion-ground-to-a-halt/

hoping to make it out of work in time to get to this tonite:

http://www.hawaii.edu/calendar/manoa/2012/11/28/18811.html

http://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/a-set-of-photographs-by-gueorgui-pinkhassov/

so awesome. love his partying/dancing work obv

http://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/a-set-of-photographs-by-gueorgui-pinkhassov/

holy shit these are good

http://instagram.com/pinkhassov

dude has an instagram!

basically I was like "does anybody want my cameras, I am hanging it up for good" after going through all those pics

i may have just exclaimed aloud in my apartment, and smacked my forehead, who is this pinkhassov and how is he so good at color and exposure, i almost want to quit photography

xp!!!!!!

http://www.pavelkosenko.com/lj/0101/072.jpg
this is more painterly than painting

http://www.pavelkosenko.com/lj/0101/082.jpg
IT ISN'T EVEN A REAL BALL

http://www.pavelkosenko.com/lj/0101/083.jpg
welp i quit

and those are just three ~that happened to be next to each other~

wait lol they weren't next to each other but w/e

he is v v v good at using pure shadow areas

btw how did ~swint get in there

totally not afraid to underexpose and get those deep, saturated colors + crushed velvet blacks

http://www.pavelkosenko.com/lj/0101/024.jpg

degas v kubrick

I see that as more of a tribute to alexey brodovitch

i just saw ballerinas and kinda went for it

http://www.pavelkosenko.com/lj/0101/072.jpg

imma challop off into the night and say that this is better than the mona lisa in just about every way

these have gotta be chromes, huh. I think that's aiding the underexposure/deep shadows/lotsa highlight details etc. prob good for taking pictures in winter at northern latitudes with very angled light.
makes me want to try that combo.

I got the link from TOP btw. just ordered the book of his that's avialable on amazon will let you guys know how it is

you're still giving away your camera right?

lol ._.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/recognition-from-the-art-world-he-shunned-in-life/
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/thefashionablemrparks/

guy's northern adventures book looks awesome too,
http://www.amazon.com/Nordmeer-Gueorgui-Pinkhassov/dp/3936543968/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354643924&sr=1-2
& he has another book of photos of how light looks:

http://www.metalocus.es/content/en/system/files/imagecache/blog_content_images/images-lead/ml685_Galeria_Rita_Castellote_Gueorgui_Pinkhassov-Andalucia-Sevilla-Balcony_of_a_hotel-1993-70x50cm.jpg
http://mediastore2.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/9/b/2/8/PAR251755.jpg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/dec/06/finders-keepers-michael-hoppen-photography-pictures#/?picture=400620064&index=0

i really wanna poll non-canonical images from the americans

but i don't really have a way of harvesting & posting them. i was looking through the book at my friend's place. you know with picture books, or books of poetry, or of anything in which content is distributed at one object a page, you do the thing where instead of looking through it linearly, from front to back, you dip in and out of it, skip forwards, backwards, so that you preserve some surprise, see the same thing twice and another thing only eventually? there are so many photographs in it that surprise me

http://cs307511.userapi.com/v307511694/2e7d/7Wbz-2P_xYI.jpg

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_119642_740749_robert-frank.jpg

i wanna be one of those people who draw red lines on HCB photos identifying the geometric trends & recurring angles, only in ms paint on robert frank shots using squiggly lines & ❤ signs & messy writing saying the punctum is the SLICES OF PIE ----->>>>>

THERE ARE NO NON-CANONICAL IMAGES FROM THE AMERICANS

haha if you did that you'd just be emulating frank in the later part of his career when he just wrote on negatives via being sad about his daughter's death

ha ha, aww. i think about this waitress in indianapolis every DAY. i was actually just cruising around some of his later stuff, the beirut polaroids & stuff. i wish i could see more of it. (downloaded this, also).

http://www.blueskygallery.org/gallery/cache/1399__630x500_rf34.jpg

i feel like you have spent more tender hours w/the americans than i have; i don't own it, but it's just weird getting into it when it's been at least reduced to its prominent content in my head. there is enough great grainy black & white 1950s photography, periodically, on lens blog & in books by people you hear about, but either because of what i add to the idea of frank's stuff - like the roaming artistic immigrant to america thing - or because of his eye it's so rewarding getting back to see his work.

yeah maybe it's just because I am so familiar with them but there is definitely something singular about frank's photos - feel like idk I could maybe pick out an unseen frank out of 100s of other 50's b&w shots? dunno man just a feeling

http://lunchtogo.tumblr.com/

oddly soothing and compelling, kinda like stephen shore breakfast photos w/ a 2012 aesthetic

for sure
it's what makes the idea of seeing his later stuff seem so tantalising? like you hear he's shooting with a lomo or with a polaroid kinda carelessly & you want to see what survives the transition

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KdxnUqQdogw/SA0OiP_lZFI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/3cyNs9EXaGY/s740/_MG_6480.JPG
xp

http://lunchtogo.tumblr.com/

oddly soothing and compelling, kinda like stephen shore breakfast photos w/ a 2012 aesthetic

― 乒乓, Sunday, December 9, 2012 7:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"oddly soothing" otm. while i don't typically plate a sandwich in the trunk of my car or on top of my toilet, it still feels familiar

ha I don't find those soothing at all, though I really like them as a grating critique on ppl photographing their food.

Not famous, but some cracking shots.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2246418/Punks-video-games-kids-just-hanging-How-Paparazzo-Peterborough-documented-life-town-70s-80s.html

wow i might need to get that book

http://www.photoeye.com/magazine_admin/resources/articles/331/4011/review_full.jpg

http://www.photoeye.com/magazine/reviews/2012/10_01_based_on_a_true_story.cfm

fao gr8080

http://www.karenglaserphotography.com/images/cache/303__700x500_cc061000.jpg

http://www.karenglaserphotography.com/images/cache/207__700x500_023_mangrovesnappers.jpg

http://www.karenglaserphotography.com/images/cache/156__700x500_008a_uwaterspring.jpg

http://www.karenglaserphotography.com

i want to write a journal-length article about the contrast between the balance of her aesthetic, as demonstrated in the photographs, & the web design choices made on her news page