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"He's so interesting to photograph. He always goes around looking like a refugee from the English countryside or a Prussian general," she said.

Hour long Saul Leiter documentary on BB4 right now.

apologies BBC4

http://natgeofound.tumblr.com/

I've been really enjoying that Nat Geo Found tumblr, some incredible stuff.

these are pretty great imo:
http://lpvmagazine.com/2013/04/kitai-kazuo-a-photographer-who-chooses-a-side/

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/NinaLeen_08.jpg

these nina leen shots are incredible; they sorta veer between evidence & some of stezaker's collage.

i should give it more of a chance but the article linked at the bottom of the kitai kazuo article, about the hermit photographer, is making me want to buy a digital camera & then set fire to the guy's remote country darkroom

that article is ridiculous, and I can't find it now, but I think there was some followup where the guy made the big reveal that it was a fiction, meant to provoke thoughts or something.
I like some of the photos on that site and can't help but check in from time to time, but a lot of the time I think the writing is baaaaaad.

it looks like an interesting site. i think i wish i had more photo sites to visit? maybe just because i can't look at photos of the day on lens anymore, because it is too much.

we definitely need some more thought provoking ideas about how sensitive guys just want to strut around in their longjohns communing with nature though. i feel like this has definitely not been covered enough between walden & that one bon iver album, feels ripe for re-dissection with a sexy new digital camera/google plus angle.

there was that one alec soth book or show... wait a sec..

i would also be into seeing some more photologs. i think they are broadly & ridiculously generalising the most compelling thing happening, photographically, for me. even people like sarah soquel morhaim, who are just posting intermittently; the temporality & kind of wavy fade to it is really exciting to me.

http://alecsoth.com/photography/projects/broken-manual/

which was mentioned on lpv here: http://lpvmagazine.com/2012/02/the-digest-sunday-february-19-2012/

http://alecsoth.com/photography/wp-content/gallery/broken-manual/thumbs/thumbs_2008_02zl0122_ver2.jpg

lol

I started writing a post earlier to make fun of his weekly wrap ups that tended to always include some comments on a recent photojournalism contest, instagram article, or other non-interesting item that were presented as a major controversy, and ta-dah! first thing I see on that link is an article about some world press photo thing.

this set is kinda a mixture of the best & the worst imo. some real medium format bloat.

ha, i'm gonna catch up on this. really wish weird separatist narcissism-of-small-differences shit wasn't fueling my appetite for new photo blogs but i am prepared to indulge my outrage here.

I like to read this when it's updated: http://francishodgson.com/
I might have found it from here in the first place though.

oh hey thank you. looks interesting.
the last thing I tried to keep up with was this, the tagline of which I think had deterred me a couple of times. it's sorta just a good list-format source for finding people to google image search. there can be a paucity of actual content but I caught little glimpses of really nice new Japanese stuff, like these arita taiji shots:

http://www.japanexposures.com/images/2012/12/arita_motherson.jpg

http://tsite.jp/daikanyama/event/assets_c/2013/01/FirstBorn_3-thumb-960xauto-2884.jpg

is that soth photo a frank tribute

he is such a cheeseball

i feel like if i knew him he would maybe think i was a bully

alec did you get hard when you saw this, http://alecsoth.com/photography/wp-content/gallery/broken-manual/thumbs/thumbs_2006_08zl0011-ver1.jpg

oh I forgot. agree or disagree this one is a good lively read, usually, and digs into the gallery scene, makes fun of some stuff that deserves to be made fun of etc:
http://carlgunhouse.blogspot.com/

btw cv, dlkcollection.blogspot.com is a really good resource for photography exhibits in nyc

oh wow.. thanks for that, I had no idea.

holy wow at the paul mcdonough phots linked from one of those blogs. feel like gr8080 would feel these,

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4hgkCwNTlLE/TFW2KuAWG_I/AAAAAAAABJg/sU_7fG0-1zU/s1600/paul+mcdonough2.jpg

http://media.artlog.com.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/still/file/12445/proportional_620_florida_201979.jpeg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qlqVS8UQ8Gg/Ttwe6mlakCI/AAAAAAAAAuI/MrY15lbe2lI/s1600/proxy.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G1lH3cVSgTI/UVGxP-JAF4I/AAAAAAAACP0/h1nuPMO8G8w/s1600/Paul+McDonough,+Sight+Seeing+@+Sasha+Wolf+Gallery.jpg

http://www.sashawolf.com/images/Artist_PaulMcDonough/exhib/14.jpg

looks cool.

new pushinsky book from hamburger eyes:

http://www.hamburgereyes.com/2013/04/12/facing-it/

dunno if i have time to watch this but for frankophiles http://www.americansuburbx.com/2013/04/asx-tv-robert-frank-leaving-home-coming-home-2005.html

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/04/the-surreal-world-of-nina-leen.html

yeah has anyone watched the frank doc yet? p keen to hear him crankily commentate on his work. I have Seven Stories from the library at the moment, it's nice.

this is good: http://www.vulture.com/m/2013/04/color-photos-from-black-and-white-era.html

whole lotta winogrand prints on ebay right now

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/rescuing-a-photo-prince-from-obscurity/

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/public-enemys-private-photographer/
http://www.jamelshabazz.com/

yeah that guy kills - he took the pic of the jumping dog in the street right?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lonsy0jAdM1qlvw76o1_500.jpg

yes

picture of run dmc presumably vacationing in florida is adorable

wow

http://killyrvinyls.tumblr.com/

http://i.imgur.com/m6YzZLk.jpg

lol

http://www.lenscratch.com/2013/04/six-shooters-365-days.html

i enjoyed this series + the concept

maybe we could do a rolling ILP thread version of this??

yeah that's neat. the aline smithson shot in there is really something also.

did we see/talk about this? really hypnotic:

http://dinakelberman.tumblr.com

I can't decide if I am too distracted to be part of a cool ILP photowheel but it's a really good idea. I generally think doing anything to sorta mobilise a history of images is pretty smart, like it's weird to have a private backlog if you're in possession of something people would find engrossing.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/civil-rights-one-person-one-photo-at-a-time/

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/a-life-sold-on-photography/

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/01/03/the-dapper-rebels-of-los-angeles-1966/

ha I was just cruising that site today having followed a link to pictures of an old Paris apartment. I was disappointed to find it was chic-er than messiness-chic.

beautifully light, muted tones in those shots, like it's a minute after golden hour,

http://content.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/20130103-190222.jpg

http://www.huangjingart.com/

the website of the leicawinner dude upthread, i'm kind of in love with all his pics (probably because me and him have identical styles :o )

you both take very slow photos i think. lil frozen photographs.
the guy's tones are really interesting. sometimes when i am scanning b&w negatives i forget to switch from the colour settings, & the first strips come up with a kind of orangy-lilac tint. they remind me of that. not quite sepia but just this muted solemn brown. mixed w/some of his style it makes them look historic, but not in a sort of sepia instagram way:

http://www.huangjingart.com/files/gimgs/6_345345734563467.jpg

feel like i probably posted this before but i have been thinking about contact sheets & negatives a bunch, about expressing time through sequences of images, & my mind comes back to it:

http://the-space-in-between.com/2004/10/28/the-art-of-losing-love-pt2-seiichi-furuya-and-christine-gossler/

http://the-space-in-between.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/102804_6furuyacontact.jpg

there has obviously been this switch between the degree to which a photograph is presented in isolation, & this seems like a really extreme example of this, the relationships between the images and then the relationship between the images and the details of what you are looking at.

http://www.huangjingart.com/news/congratulation/

^ can i say that this just killed me

http://www.mustafahabdulaziz.com/memory-loss

i sort of love these weirdos of america / america is weird series

by the way, was tipped off to this book of text by jason eskenazi, he asked something like 276 phtoographers what their favorite photograph from the americans was:

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/null_zps7c165937.jpg

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/27945aef-f87a-4026-a954-c67bd7ebd1bf_zpsd0833955.jpg