let us now catalogue famous people

michael wolf is pretty famous!

Ah really? *abashed*

yeah, he has a few books out, regularly has exhibitions out, seems to be the de facto guy to go to w/r/t modernity, population density and east asia

very german in his sensibilities

http://i.imgur.com/1l0z7.jpg

sort of obsessed with this picture atm

Don't know who took these, but I love the look of them. One of my new challenges to myself was to get some dire, grim and wonderfully bleak shots like these.
Sometimes The Mail can be ok if you ignore the words.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256796/Rows-boarded-terraced-houses-Accrington-brought-life-10m-revamp.html

parks pic is amazing in a lot of ways, 乒乓. it's not "detail"y but it's shadowy.

feeling this bertien van manen shot, maybe just seasonally

http://www.gabrielrolt.com/images/full/39TomskRailwaystation.jpg

yes I love that van manen shot!!

http://shanghaiist.com/2013/01/06/thomas-sauvin.php#photo-1

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/alex-webb-rendering-a-complex-world-in-color-and-black-and-white/

some of these are very HCB like

i think he just drew a horse onto the negative in pic #3

haha just a paper cutout he taped to a stick that he puts in front of the camera

sure! ditto the girl on/off the diving board later in the set.

hadn't grasped the connection between alex- & rebecca norris webb

http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb410/Alex_Korsi/CropperCapture32.jpg

echoes of the iirc russian guy you're into

http://www.masterfoto.info/?p=5391

there was somebody in the New Photography show who was using acetates on the camera lens, iirc

michelle abeles: http://www.blumandpoe.com/sites/default/files/exhiibitions/01_5.jpg

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2013/01/review-don-hudson-from-the-archives-2012.html

don hudsons been on flickr for a minute, cool to see him w/ a book out!

I feel like rebecca and alex should just publish all their stuff under one name, like that new photography collective or w/e xp

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/09/26/110926fa_fact_malcolm?currentPage=all

garry winogrand color photographs:
http://www.sevensevennine.com/?p=2438

it's funny, there's a picture in front of an Air India storefront that's shown up in a couple of Meyerowitz shots too. those guys must have really loved that corner.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/01/shomei-tomatsu-rip.html

'found internet images' might be burning out but I enjoyed this

http://craigslisthighart.tumblr.com/

haha, nice.

http://images.craigslist.org/3E33M83L15Gc5F15Mad187ef42056a91616d3.jpg

makes me want to do an entire series of architectural interiors flipped upside down

http://www.laroquephoto.com/blog/

Not famous but a Montreal photographer who I dig

talking barnacles in chronological order: http://barnaclestalking.blogspot.jp/

not famous afaik, but just putting this here because i like his big, clean tumblr layout, and might want to steal it at a later date: http://nathannedorostek.tumblr.com/

haha I should probably clear it up that this is just a rolling thread of cool photo sets by photographers, don't have to be famous or w/e, the thread name is just a tribute to james agee/walker evans

phew i feel much better

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/detroit-dave-jordano/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/MikeBrodie-16.jpg

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/01/slide-show-pictures-from-mike-brodies-a-period-of-juvenile-prosperity.html
i like these; there is probably always a series of romantic local subcultural phots on photo booth but these are really measured & transportive, i think

putting this link here, too much to consume at once

http://www.americansuburbx.com/channels/w/william-eggleston

http://www.thegreatleapsideways.com/?p=3624

“To say that photographs lie implies that they might tell the truth; but the beauty of their nature is exactly to say nothing, neither to lie nor not to. Then what purpose may be served, or disguised, in attempting to deny so obvious a fact, in attempting instead to mean that emptiness? If the purpose is to counter those, real or imagined, who bluntly claim photographs never lie, then the counter only replaces the Village Idiot by the Village Explainer. There must be some more attractive purpose. I believe the motto serves to cover an impressive range of anxieties centred on, or symptomatized by, our sense of how little we know about what the photograph reveals: that we do not know what our relation to reality is, our complicity in it; that we do not know how or what to feel about those events; that we do not understand the specific transformative powers of the camera, what I have called its original violence; that we cannot anticipate what it will know of us or show of us.”

— Stanley Cavell What Photography Calls Thinking in Raritan Reading

feelin this http://internethistory.tumblr.com/post/42301837134

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4LmchI7dIg

http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/11.fall-2008/23.alibosworth.20080801_02_02.jpg

http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/12.winter-2009/06.alibosworth.20090117_01_34.jpg http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/11.fall-2008/12.alibosworth.20081017_01_12.jpg

http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/15.coast-2009/07.alibosworth.20100110_04_11.jpg

http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/01.2007/31.alibosworth.20071002_03_10.jpg http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m34oovDafn1qz7sd5o1_1280.jpg

http://s3.alibosworth.com/photographs/11.fall-2008/03.alibosworth.20081213_01_27.jpg

peaceful ali bosworth phots

http://thenoumenonrevelation.blogspot.com/

feel like u would vibe with this schlump

http://davidzilber.ca/INDUCTIVISM

http://payload10.cargocollective.com/1/3/101826/2503807/0017_20.jpg

oh swoon
the colours

huh generally a lot of nice stuff on that site.
one thing, it seems to me that deadpan vertical photographs are sort of a 'thing' right now, especially when combined into diptychs. I feel like I see more and more of this and that it is meant to work as a shorthand signifier for quickly identifying the pictures as belonging to "art" and not just your dad's photography. something kinda bugs me about it. I guess not the deadpan vertical format itself, but the way I see a lot of stuff presented. diptychs, triptychs, grey borders, vast white borders around shrunken photos, etc. all of which I thought was pretty decent presentation when I first encountered it, but all of which reads more like very standardized code to me now. like it's just meant to whisper "hey, serious stuff here. worthy of attention. operating with delicate sensibilities, check it out."
I'm also just grumpy sometimes so I might be way off. and I like the pictures! I think I might regret this or have second thoughts later today.

xpost

somehow I think this ties in to the current vogue for brightly lit still lifes too

yeah I can kinda see that. probably something to write in there too about how our tools dictate our way of seeing. simply easier to take a horizontal. I'd like to shoot with an olympus pen (the old half-frame) to see how shooting verticals only might change the way I take pix

something about people inclined towards photography but maybe a little defensive about it's place in the art world. feeling the need to add presentation elements, or do some staging etc. to show intent and authorship or something.

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oh god *starts browsing used olympus pen listings on ebay*

I've even found myself going for more verticals lately, I think from loving the Stephen Gill stuff I've seen so much!

hey a half frame would be great for verticals but also just to squeeze in twice as many snapshots on a roll. and why not mess around with some smaller lower resolution formats?

ok, I'm realizing the other thing that bugs me about a bunch of diptychs/triptychs I see is that the photos sometimes seem to communicate *nothing* in combination or to each other etc. like the desire for a diptych was stronger than the need.

what am I even talking about, my zeiss ikon shoots verticals. although I thin kit may have a light leak. whatever!

yeah I can kinda see that. probably something to write in there too about how our tools dictate our way of seeing. simply easier to take a horizontal.

this is true but i remember feeling all wowed when a friend & i were talking about cameras, how they'd arrived at their shape & form (like that steven wright thing, if photos are square why are lenses round), & we realised that the horizontal/landscape format resembles the actual height x width ratio of our eyes. like something about them makes sense! my favourite thing since then is shooting horizontally & presenting the photos vertically, it's such a satisfying editorial move.

china otm about some of those presentation tropes. i snobbishly always felt a little that way about getting white borders on prints at the lab.

http://thenoumenonrevelation.blogspot.com/

feel like u would vibe with this schlump

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ty for this btw, am only just getting to look at it, am finding it weirdly hypnotic. i think bc she's a technically gifted photographer who is shooting v messily sometimes for the effect of it?

feeling this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--vlQ1AU0Ui8/UFiESeRbWdI/AAAAAAAAHRk/QyygZCqcaI4/s1600/Arianna&theFlame.jpg

please ignore my prior white-bordered-prints sass