let us now catalogue famous people

^ 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

ha, oh wow. hyped. did you ever see any of doyle's pictures? he put out a book.

http://www.body-pixel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/doyle13.jpg

there's also an interesting profile in the new film comment that attempts to introduce the director of infernal affairs as a constitutive element of some the films for which doyle gets credit - i think he was somehow a part of the cinematographic machinery of that string of pretty wkw flicks.

Hmm Andrew Lau? He's a big name but all the films I've seen done by him were pretty ... bad, but bad in the sense of commercial-blockbuster bad, so maybe he's got an art streak to him that I haven't seen

To me Mark Cohen represents the realization of Winogrand's (apocryphal?) comment that you can take a great picture anywhere

Wilkes-barre! That's where one of the Phillies farm team is

And to Cohen's credit his pictures are good in a way that's almost separate from the environment

OK well maybe the sense of the rust belt is permeated into his pictures. But not in a way that you'd expect

Think the difference between Mark Cohen and Gilden is that Cohen gets good pictuers

I'd forgive Gilden, maybe, if his pictures weren't also so awful

It's been posted in this thread before but Cohen's technique is just so... comical

You don't really want to punch him, like you do with Gilden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcgEnC3bLY

gilden is awful. can't be said enough.

it was specifically that video that had caused me to link the two previously. will rewatch.

although haha "he discovered using the flash for contemporary photography"

Was reading this Zhang Xiao interview

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2013/07/asx-interview-zhang-xiao-a-conversation-with-zhang-xiao-2013.html

And came across the name Boris Mikhailov

Do a google image search and it will stagger you (also NSFW)

http://i.imgur.com/rK1hx2X.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/3UOyqEC.jpg

IH

http://i.imgur.com/YaMSRe5.png

http://www.sarahsoquel.com/latest/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1_04720006.jpg

sarah soquel morhaim

top third of photo is basically a new artform

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

IH

This is what you see when you die, I think

am I drowning? WAIT did SHE do it??

a few times a year i get lost in the kind of mycological network of flickr & users' flickr favs & the subsequent favs of those faved, & it eventually seems mostly to elicit feelings of inadequacy around equipment or scanning or presentation rather than feelings toward the photography itself - how did this guy get those muted tones - but i like these mariano brizzola phots-

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1r7kg_ydYco/T5hAUYHtg8I/AAAAAAAAA7A/XYOmKt4_I34/s1600/6832403203_91a4b80de5_z.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nZ1AEKuPXuY/T5hAyP-S8_I/AAAAAAAAA8A/cuPHta-a3TE/s400/6010654534_8e35a86e34_z.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S22LY1eXezI/T5hAiNSgClI/AAAAAAAAA7g/0KgkMmIeixY/s400/6157419296_35faaa47cd_z.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6763129993_875bdb48bb_z.jpg

Only putting up 109 photos since Dec 2007 is doing it right imo

i think less is kinda undeniably wiser/safer/&c, here, but i do think there's something about the internet being the venue that changes that calculus at least a little. like it makes sense that a portfolio should be pretty elemental, as succinct as possible, not overlap or duplicate, &c. but when the thing you are looking at is flickr, or if you are one of a million photographers in the world who are putting something online for others to see, part of me thinks that maximalism is interesting too. like i think the conditions of exhibition are conducive to embroiling people in other parts of what you're doing outside of just successful image making. only putting up your best work can't really fail but i'd love to see everything else, too. these pictures are quite egglestony, & as another amateur middleweight eggleston fan-fic author i have to think about what it means to be practicing an art that's already been honed. some of the pathways toward making it interesting involve other stuff, i think.

Very well written but you're still not getting access to my contact sheets

straight up 1000% the aim of my post

ive got about 19-20 months of catching up to do on my flickr

not gonna lie the main reason i use it is for the screensaver on my appleTV

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/taking-care-of-people-and-pictures-in-hong-kong/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Followup to ^ http://globalnation.inquirer.net/106886/i-dont-feel-like-an-ofw-just-a-girl-with-a-camera-shooting-hks-street-life

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/artscape/

Can't view from inside the US but you can find these on youtube - "The New African Photography"

http://i.imgur.com/kF5ghtX.jpg

Dang

h/t NA on the chicago thread:

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2013/Black-Chicago-In-the-1970s-Through-the-Lens-of-John-H-White/#/0

http://media.chicagomag.com//images/cache/cache_4/cache_2/cache_b/42b8903a6c18bc9065bf3c546607afb0.jpeg?ver=1403146036&aspectratio=0.664

warning: some pretty rough/depressing stuff

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/07/17/brenda_ann_kenneally_documents_life_below_the_poverty_line_in_troy_york.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWdgjYHy7YQ

Need a 24 hour music video channel that's just stuff like this

Elizabeth Huey (via an interview with Bryan Formhals)

http://elizabethhuey.com/

http://i.imgur.com/2YNIZ3t.jpg

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

from an acquaintance's FB feed (and who is not a photog as far as i know):
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/61653_10204564032290036_8967141821077139652_n.jpg

^^wonderful, def 77-content/internet history caliber

http://www.reportagebygettyimages.com/features/the-british-abroad/

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

really enjoyin pari dukovic lately. pari dukovic, grain cultivator,

http://www.paridukovic.com/tearsheets/Denk,JeremyFeb.06.2012.jpg

http://www.paridukovic.com/tearsheets.htm

njoyin these. v fresh.

http://37.media.tumblr.com/9cb9a2250e18c611151bd5ffaa29711b/tumblr_n9qmhuDhoY1ryt1zno1_1280.jpg
http://38.media.tumblr.com/b136aa3b9f06c467999ef3d02d4f3b5a/tumblr_n9cpmedtQN1ryt1zno1_1280.jpg
http://31.media.tumblr.com/11ce185fe5a7d719c72e1f3c881cef10/tumblr_n8zvanjxQz1ryt1zno1_r1_1280.jpg
http://33.media.tumblr.com/97f4948c65a269665987b0046ce3b0c0/tumblr_n91i7b8TXR1ryt1zno1_1280.jpg

http://instaxgratification.tumblr.com