let us now catalogue famous people

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

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/null_zpsf153d097.jpg

XD XD XD

for reference: http://i.imgur.com/78RMgrg.jpg

whoa!
what a neat idea

which was frank's fav sf shot?

his favorite was the black couple looking back at him

http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/04/by-glow-of-jukebox.html

available in ny for $10, online from $12 + shipping i think? if any ILPers want i can probably pick up a copy and ship it to you if you live overseas or something

ha i figured. it's dolores park, right. i will maybe pick up sometime. at the risk of inciting ilp outrage i should note that i have never actually owned a copy of the americans. i know. it is open to a different page every few days on a stand at my friend's apartment & it is so rewarding to go through periodically, more functional than other photobooks somehow.

also just cause i was thinking of them a couple of days ago when china talked about erasing the foreground from some wheel phots, & just because they are relevant here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/23/mishka-henner-less-americains

http://www.bjp-online.com/IMG/163/221163/rodeo-by-mishka-henner.jpg

http://japan-photo.info/blog/2013/04/18/yutaka-takanashi-towards-the-city-including-a-short-history-of-the-provoke-era-part-i/

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

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

i can appreciate the concept behind that erasure of the americans, the photography community needs a kick in the ass every once in a while. xp

two sets of north korea photos:

http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/25/david-guttenfelder/

http://gallagher-photo.com/blog/2013/04/10/inside-north-korea-photographing-undercover-in-the-worlds-most-secretive-nation/#more-4648

sorry the gallagher gallery is here: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/09/sean-gallagher-inside-north-korea/

americans erasure seems so innocuous, especially compared to other appropriations of photography like sherrie levine or richard prince. I'm kinda surprised people are so apparently shocked by it.

i was at my friend's place looking through the vivian maier book last night, i had seen it before & know a bunch of her photographs from the blog but it was probably the first time that i had sat down & really looked at her photos, & the book is very nice & just well represents everything & i guess the stuff lends itself to that kind of full page hi-res treatment & all of that kinda thing. but man it was such a knockout seeing all of her photographs. there is a part of me that still sorta expects to find out, really, that the photographs weren't in fact rescued from a storage locker but were computer generated, are a fake, that they're too perfect in both narrative & content to be real. they're like a photographic marvin pontiac record. you see things like

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dVcQnF0-tpU/T9kVOHQV4PI/AAAAAAAAAUw/fhNwuBFUNAI/s1600/59-1730.jpg

& it hews just so closely to what you want from a historic photograph - this profoundly old-time looking dude so perfectly rendered (i think there is actually a different shot of him in the book?, i couldn't find it, maybe, maybe not); they're just absurdly well phrased, so apt to be dug up now. in the same way that i can understand that there are tides that, after their initial appearance, control whether biggie records sound better now or tupac records sound better now, whether keaton is more relevant now than chaplin, these just seem to land so extravagantly - i think i saw some weird-usa-MF shots dayo posted a couple of days ago & did my usual self-indulgent eyeroll at the slight grandiosity of MF, but seeing these just spins me around, that they so elegantly & in such detail - not even like granular detail or contextual detail, but actual rich social & interpersonal detail - capture & just adhere to a narrative of the time was just so surprising to me. it's like eggleston having had the foresight to shoot this woman in memphis knowing how she'd anachronistically pop twenty years later. she's very modern throughout - a kind of abstract, evans-ish composition of shadows falling on a wall, her classic self-portraits,

http://concretejunglez.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/vivianmaier_self_1953.jpg

& her social eye is better even than her more explicit portraiture

http://the-apartment-gallery.com/wp-content/gallery/vivian-maier/2370.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--0dz2_3DriI/T_1MtwqoSSI/AAAAAAAADvE/q4yuLQXo-I8/s1600/Vivian-Maier-Undated-New-York-NY-%C2%A9-2012-Maloof-Collection-Ltd.-%E2%80%94-All-Rights-Reserved-1.jpeg

there was also a lot of boring technical stuff to admire; her rollei & seemingly long strap. such a good look.

jamal shabazz photos in a more digestible form

http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/205125.html

http://www.nowness.com/day/2013/5/5/3013/everybody-street

hand-on-hip woman & $20-in-mouth woman photos both really popping in this trailer
i am maybe not leaving my apartment anymore if this further legitimises aggro street photography tho

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/an-open-road-and-narrative/

http://www.americansuburbx.com/wp-content/gallery/fire-island/tumblr_me9u5vqoz11r3ulqfo1_500-thumb-500x608-11449-b.jpg

love these

yah those are great

http://www.yesmagazine.org/multimedia/yes-photo-essays/james-baldwin-in-turkey

love both of those last two

wkiw james baldwin

NSFW http://www.americansuburbx.com/series-2/r/ren-hang-new-china NSFW

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2013/05/asx-interview-emma-wilcox-where-it-falls-2013.html

i dig the darktoned muted blankness of these

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18old4hqwee27jpg/original.jpg

& dennis hopper:

http://media.paperblog.fr/i/506/5061372/dennis-hopper-photographs-from-the-60s-L-s99yBJ.jpeg

modern update on mark cohen's bubble gum pic http://internethistory.tumblr.com/image/51586358768

http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/05/missy-prince-what-was-she-thinking.html

oof, ouch, yikes
http://gawker.com/sun-times-lays-off-its-photographers-on-slow-crawl-to-i-510490745

http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/05/missy-prince-what-was-she-thinking.html

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this is great

i think i want to read a more leiter-esque commentary on photographs - the ~process~ here is really interesting but i think for a lot of people photography is way more brainless!, & it would be cool to hear people explore those dumb instincts that make them lift a camera. i was reading about friedlander's america by car a couple of days ago & dug this:

When asked about his approach, he once said: "I only wanted Uncle Vern standing by his new car (a Hudson) on a clear day. I got him and the car. I also got a bit of Aunt Mary's laundry, and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on a fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It's a generous medium, photography."

i think i could claim premeditation for some awesome aspects of photographs i have taken but for the most part these alignments & symmetries are luck, are part of the translation of using a camera.

wow i really like missy prince,

http://24.media.tumblr.com/88ca40d670bb53464c1aba71a06ebe2e/tumblr_mg9tumEhvt1ro9hzyo1_1280.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8071/8291187501_c4226ebb23_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8203/8205640938_0f6d00d5c4_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8362/8368374160_db4231ff5c_b.jpg http://25.media.tumblr.com/8029816cde17b020af74463d24c828a9/tumblr_mka63zH1oL1ro9hzyo1_1280.jpg

something that has happened since i started scanning photos/negatives is looking at other people's photographs & only seeing them in terms of quality of scan, enviously wondering how they got such a good, dust-free image. but with these they remind me of something else, wondering why my colour photographs lack that slightly formal, to-me-dye-transfer-seeming bold gloss, something to do with black blacks & f-stops of sixteen.

I think one thing here is that she generally shows scans or photographs of chemical prints. makes a diff.

http://www.americanphotomag.com/article/2013/06/sun-times-photo-layoffs-what-were-losing

http://www.nieves.ch/catalogue/giasco2inside.html

i love internethistory http://internethistory.tumblr.com/image/52754256637