let us now catalogue famous people

ha
they're beautifully played off, too, though - the distressed, bare wall of that fort greene place. i've only seen these written up as apartment snooping shots but they're very beautifully composed; there are some double portraits, like classical, decoloured hockneys, & this kinda oscillation between busy flash & really neatly squared compositions. also they look so cool printed like that in the middle of the page.

this is across the street from us!

(let's see if this works)

http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1563510&t=w

yeah they are some of the ... craziest photo urls

I would buy a book of these

but they definitely messed up some addresses!

I would buy a book of these

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otm, absolutely

incidentally i was just looking back at some of jamie livingston's polaroids; although their context probably makes assemblage kinda complicated, it's crazy they aren't in a book

http://lh4.ggpht.com/--UYzNkVVuMI/TBxKxjLxd9I/AAAAAAAAYEA/d3dJ3TbZM5s/04-20-84.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/-5eSzx6R5w9c/TBxbq1QaY5I/AAAAAAAAa5s/ERi0HQqdOsU/10-26-84.jpg

another one I'd buy a book of in a heartbeat. I think about those a lot.

yeah all the time. it's amazing being able to loop back to them & plunge into this slow-changing stream. they are like watching time pass, look:

http://lh6.ggpht.com/-C7UWvA_5vho/TBxV0jH7zuI/AAAAAAAAZ9Q/HW8tff3-z_4/07-09-90.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiOcVWQY2bc

http://lightbox.time.com/2014/01/15/the-peoples-republic-of-television-portraits-from-1960s-china/

http://i.imgur.com/a48M2eE.jpg

really neat
the variations aren't really addressed but they seem so deliberate?

My intuition is that every time she bought new clothes she wanted to show them off

She would get dressed in her new threads

And choose the best background in her house

Which happened to be her TV, a symbol of wealth

http://i.imgur.com/0OcHyLN.jpg

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/01/emerging-photographer-jenny-hueston.html

they're really nice. i bristle when i see too kinda ... kitschy an old telephone, or any sort of chrome-fendered american vehicle hood, but at the same time it reminds me of how much of a template eggleston is for just most everything now, my pictures way more than hers really. they're great though.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/9dafc0c046051d709c0c1ceed414c72e/tumblr_mz5yttRO8s1ryvuqio1_1280.jpg

izumi miyazaki is still the best

http://wearetheperiscope.com/detail.php?id=225

craigslist mirrors is blowing up I think

It's a really good tumblr

More IH: http://i.imgur.com/hQw2T6A.jpg

http://modeschina.com/tagged/travels-in-china/chrono

i think this is some russian guy who re-posts stuff from russian humor sites but he has a really good eye

http://miloserdie.tumblr.com/

January 21 is v Nan Goldin

really loved modes china

Feel like could write a book about the lineage of masks in photography

http://icplibrary.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/masquerade/

Before Meatyard, more playful but ends up being haunting in its own way

Just caught up with Jesus Days - totally sweet

http://i.imgur.com/9MshK8e.jpg

From CL mirrors - looks like an astronaut suit

Or pre-CGI shot from Gravity

oooo:

http://www.photobookstore.co.uk/photobook-pictures-from-moving-cars-_divola-cover%5E.html

http://thesandpitdotorg1.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/12-pfmc-divola-spread-2.jpg

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/looted-but-not-lost-an-african-artists-life-work/

^ Incredibly sad story

Really want to get an Izumi Miyazaki tote bag btw

Also love the Vimeo in that pictures from moving cars, how they ran the tape in reverse

!!! i lost my shit seeing there is izumi merch - i didn't have a lot of time & my computer was wilting but the broccoli design was tentatively my pick - & couldn't totally figure out what the deal was; that maybe she has a new site that isn't quite up yet? there was a picture of a covered book, too, that made me wonder if she'd made something. her work is just the freshest thing. i really really want a print of the picture of her waking-&-dramatically-stretching in a messy bed, it's so inspirational to me

http://i.imgur.com/QBMA0Uz.jpg

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/alex-webb-looks-back-in-black-and-white/

killer
think he is actually a way better photographer then!
like martin parr, maybe
even if his trajectory led him somewhere interesting & new

how do i order one of those izumi pins

i think she maybe has a new website online soon, & also did make a book, & sells it at fairs in japan. psyched that there is izumi-mania on ilp, we should group-order her everything once it's available to save on north american shipping (i haven't thought this through)

Whoa now I'm not getting mine shipped to North America ; )

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/02/harlem-renaissance-photographs-carl-van-vechten.html

Thought I was over the death of Kodachrome but I cried new tears today

http://www.100ojoslatinos.com/

http://www.fototazo.com/2014/02/profile-100-ojos-latinos.html

Wish I knew Spanish :(

http://icplibrary.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/recent-japanese-photobook-reprints/

I want all these books

http://i.imgur.com/9jKXjVs.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5dTjHND.jpg

will ingest & respond to those asap - i remember the latino-phots site from years ago! - but oh man those kodachromes ;__;

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/african-american-history-from-family-albums-to-museum-walls/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odgHrU1T9a8

Two great sites dedicated to two great photographers I love, William Gedney and Luigi Ghirri (one by Duke University and the other by Biblioteca Panizzi):

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/

http://digilib.netribe.it/bdr01/Sezione.jsp?idSezione=77

"Great sites" maybe should be qualified because each is, in different ways & for different reasons, a pain/ annoying to navigate. (Well, the latter's in Italian.) On the other hand, they make available SO FREAKING MUCH-- almost "everything"-- of the work, viewable/ downloadable at such generous large sizes. Really worth diving in and exploring.

There's a real generosity to sites like this. Their examples bring up questions about the way photographers (or their "estate") may bequeath their work to institutions (e.g. universities/ libraries), to be archived and made available to the public/ future researchers. Analogous to writers (or their estate) who leave their papers/ manuscripts to such institutions. Which also involves questions re the analogue/ digital divide, treatment of negatives/ paper manuscripts vs. digital files. It's harder for an analogue photographer to "edit" his posthumous legacy-- as a film person myself, who keeps each and every negative of each and every roll, I sometimes think it's like a record of a writer's every scrap of paper, silly/ ridiculous scribble, including things that aren't even "drafts" so much as "doodles" or even "coughs." Cf. question of private letters, diaries, etc. And then there are curious cases like Vivian Mayer, a legacy not in the hands of an estate or public institution but distinct private individuals/ collectors.

hey, drash: i really dug this, am just starting to take a look; gedney & ghirri are both a treat, & totally enveloped in their own time periods, & it's really nice to have access to where they they were at, like seeing vivian maier's stuff with the geography of her streetwalking in mind. i kind of think of the gold standard of this type of thing as being the met's walker evans holdings, where you can click through just roll after roll, his visits to robert & mary frank's place (& frank loved evans' picture of his mabou stove), a total enlightening generosity. there's totally something in the posterity of archives, the overwhelming presence of context almost overshadowing single images, that i respond to; it actually feels less pronounced with these guys, because they were so good that you aren't seeing five shaky frames for every good one. but texturally seeing a roll feels like life to me.

these gedney photos almost make me cry
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these gedney photos almost make me cry

Me too, they're so beautiful. Dipping into his diaries/ notebooks is moving too. (Normally as a superprivate person I have mixed feelings about that kind of thing, but he left-- entrusted-- all this stuff to Friedlander who left it to Duke, so in that sense all that's available to us was granted by Gedney.)

Gedney has one of the most exhaustive online archives of any photographer, but it's tragic he wasn't able to publish any books-- he lacks, deserves them. Browsing the work online, it's so (painfully) clear he had material for a number of (would-have-been) classic books.

Wrote a long post of jumbled half thoughts on Gedney & photography presentation but it vanished (just as well, it was a mess), too lazy to redraft it now. Might try again later. But want to say by the way: greetings from a longtime lurker, love the conversation here, ILP is probably my fave ILX board.

Love the Evans photos!, thanks for the link.

drash do you have any of your negatives scanned??

drash do you have any of your negatives scanned??

Sure do-- each and every one. (Not all well scanned, of course, but every frame/ roll is at least lo-res scanned and catalogued in Aperture, I guess equivalent to contact sheets. Then a select few get the special scanning treatment.)

I'm shy about sharing online, but I'm sure I'll join in with y'all at some point. Actually, I think I finally decided to register as an ILXor (after years of on-and-off lurking) because I had a yen to photo breeze.

William Eggleston's Stranded in Canton (amazing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1eDzz5fKio

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/02/sarah-moon-in-color.html