let us now catalogue famous people

Directors who've explicitly cited Eggleston's influence-- Wenders, Van Sant, Sofia Coppola, Korine; case can be made for Malick, Wong Kar Wai/ Christopher Doyle, the Coen brothers, many others. (The other day happened upon Blood Simple on TV; saw so much Eggleston in it-- like, struck by specific shots that directly reminded me of specific Eggleston photographs.)

Of course, once you start looking you (I) see Eggleston everywhere, maybe fallaciously; but he's permeated so much of contemporary visual culture, in large part through the photographers, directors, cinematographers he's influenced. (Can't help seeing him in "True Detective" too.)

And yet, for all that, he maintains his ineffaceable difference/ distinctiveness, the idiosyncrasy, the uniqueness of his aesthetic sensibility. For all his influence, all the things one sees now as "Egglestonian," he's SO NOT replicable. People copy so much about his photographs (often only the most extrinsic of qualities, like: oh here's a picture of an old American car), but no one else in the world has that eye... or something more primordial than the "eye."

http://i.imgur.com/r9Apyao.jpg

Phenomenal high-keyed B&W from Adams

That's great.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/an-inside-view-of-arab-photography/

http://i.imgur.com/ex7EuWw.jpg

From IH

http://37.media.tumblr.com/c0e7ed2812f8376aa737874c1aee7683/tumblr_n39oriUGKo1qb6mm9o1_1280.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/9431745e88249548163e96c5dc06354d/tumblr_n384mjNgUe1qb6mm9o1_1280.jpg

nice recent vivian fu photographs

into the secretly-pinkhassov-IH, 龜

uhm vivian fu

http://87-mm.tumblr.com/post/76837448959/merging-boundaries-by-ian-teh

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/04/saul-leiter-in-black-and-white.html

http://shihlun.tumblr.com/post/82983643523/wong-ting-hua-jiufen-1960s

http://lightbox.time.com/2014/03/11/beyond-cartier-bresson-a-history-of-a-masters-early-work/

Startling how much the 1st paragraph seems to echo the photograph that turned HCB from painting to photography in the first place, Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika

Second one could be an Atget

I guess there's a reason we never see these early photographs tho

http://lightbox.time.com/2014/03/12/photos-of-the-real-world-amy-powells-family-album/

龜 toiling alone itt

i am gonna catch up on this slick of links ^^^

just beautiful new hirano takaci photographs,

http://37.media.tumblr.com/c777cc1d007e469b04563299524fd2e5/tumblr_n4g7fwZj8f1qe50hoo1_1280.jpg

http://hiranotakaci.tumblr.com

Saw this via Self Publish Be Happy: http://www.robertherman.com/index.php#p=-1&a=0&at=0 ('The New Yorkers')

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/through-her-minds-eye-a-world-apart/

http://24.media.tumblr.com/96c6029172a92429ded5e187684ac74b/tumblr_myjcg82cSi1qzy1h1o1_1280.jpg

http://37.media.tumblr.com/10c822a5f268aa20c1382c04d00d655c/tumblr_myjnecQAwc1qzy1h1o1_1280.jpg

really feeling this steph davidson blog

hard not to love these ian teh photographs

http://www.berettaconsulting.com/barbarossa/WTbigshow.html

http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/3563/Dolce_Via_Rome_in_the_80s

http://i.imgur.com/myP7ni7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/eZY7kxk.jpg

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/chang-chao-tang-in-taiwan/

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/shigeichi-nagano

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-andree-balloon-crash-a-photographic-journey-through-to-most-surreal-of-arctic-disasters

those are wild

http://i.imgur.com/OTIN14S.jpg

What seasoned photographer would ever frame the shot like this unless by accident

Would that I could unlearn everything I know and go back to being a naïf

so otm

guys i miss taking pictures

do you have cellphone snaps you like?

ps hi

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/pictures-on-the-street-its-complicated/

http://www.oitzarisme.ro/2014/04/06/knut-inge-johnsen-snapshots-from-my-window/

Love the repetition here

http://www.lightleaked.com/2014/05/whats-going-on-with-photography-by-carl.html

^ Not pictures, an essay

http://hamburgereyes.tumblr.com/post/85367928414

love michael jang

^ My first draft of the post included 'attn: gr808"

i accidentally shipped his book w/ those photos to my old hawaii address and it never got forwarded to me :-(

Aw :( well it looks like they're reprinting it - I might pick up a copy too

http://vimeo.com/89627741

^ Short lil' thing about Daido M. in Hong Kong - could anything be made that would appeal to me more

woah

hes the best

kind of love this dave eggers photo

http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/images/2014%2B17taxi.jpg

attn: schlump

http://rudygodinez.tumblr.com/post/68709353710/ludwig-wittgenstein-personal-journal-containing-photogra

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/tangled-identities-and-allegiances-in-ukraine/

ty 龜! yeah i'm so into it. there are layers & layers that make a nicely photographed diary of nice photographs nice to look at. like that's almost the most literal & immediate way to finalise & fix your work, right? just with a diary.

also just lost in those mark cohen pictures you posted; i googled to repost a b&w shot from '74 & found this lucrative set on a gallery site. his framing. i remember this interview with the director andrew bujalski, where he was talking about his comfort with his cinematographer, matthias grunsky, how he knows the kind of thing bujalski likes, like an arm suddenly entering the frame. & the cohen shots feel like such a real perspective this way.

http://images.exhibit-e.com/www_danzigerprojects_com/Mark_Cohen_BW_500px_60.jpg

http://images.exhibit-e.com/www_danzigerprojects_com/Mark_Cohen_BW_500px_130.jpg

http://images.exhibit-e.com/www_danzigerprojects_com/Mark_Cohen_BW_500px_210.jpg

I've always been kinda suspicious of Mark Cohen, but those are great. Maybe I need to give him another shot.

ha ha, i think i had the same preexisting opinion maybe? & i forget why. i know we talked about him awhile back. was it maybe because they were like ... levittwave pictures of socioeconomic hard times on porches or something? anyway there's a crazy cohesive thread between the set i posted. thread is really just ... limb-joints. niche.

I think I thought of him as a bit, uh, shoot what's that annoying nyc street photographer? The one with the flashes in people's faces? Totally blanking now but kinda like that guy. Aggressive raw tough street photography. All wide angled close ups in black and white, dwelling on people's flawed bodies or ugly lives in an exploitive way.
Probably what most people think of Martin Parr actually, who I actually like so go figure.
It's bugging me that I'm blanking on that one guy right now.

ha ha, bruce gilden?, right? i say this because this morning after the klein stuff i was watching some of cheryl dunn's everybody street, which has a section on him. he's just such a terrible human being, unredeemed by his shitty photographs. but yeah. i am thinking of the ilx thread where whiney talks about finally a sympathetic eye to the city's homelessness problem.

in case we haven't talked about martin parr within twelve months i can look at his stuff from mexico but only because i'm not regionally aphasic enough to miss its presumably voyeuristic social dimension.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WvOnaoU1UJU/TZsDjs9mQUI/AAAAAAAAAHE/0XVlvTpcryA/s1600/detail_gal03_nov06.jpg

http://www.stephendaitergallery.com/dynamic/images/display/Martin_Parr_Mexico_2992_102.jpg

really i will enjoy looking at just any photograph so deeply working the lilac spectrum

yeah those are great.
bruce gilden, that's the guy. boy is he annoying.

martin parr is a little tough for me, because the beach photos, he claims, are affectionate or even celebratory, so, ok. they look nice too.
but then the photos of conservative party soirees I like because they seem cutting or damning, but I guess if I'm giving the benefit of the doubt the the beach photos then I have to do the same with these? they also look nice though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97GwbI27w10

I have this open in a tab right now and I am so excited I cannot press play