let us now catalogue famous people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_N75LZOxvU
Takuma Nakahira

Fuji sponsored a show by giving some big names one of their X-series cameras (Eggleston, Goldin, Shore... Richardson and McGinley FFS)
http://www.aperture.org/exhibition/photography/

not exactly mind-blowing (okay, mostly bad) but goddamn that Goldin photo is fantastic. <3 Nan

http://www.aperture.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/GoldinGallery-620x340.jpg

<3 nan too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cEd_ctEZQw

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/man_meticulously_documents_affair_with_his_secretary_1969-1970_here_are_his

fantastic. love "margret" & her gazes back to the camera; the obsessively chronicled banal/poignant details by the unseen unreliable photographer; that amazing hair. wish they'd publish another edition of the book someday

In September 1970, the diary entries set in, with precise descriptions of what happens during foreplay and then of the sexual act itself, but also mentioning all kinds of things happening besides. All this is meticulously typed, in red and black ink, as by a bookkeeper of his own obsession. The couple go on "business trips" in Günter's Opel Kapitän, stay at spa hotels and visit the casino in Wiesbaden. Then the trysts begin to take place in an attic flat in Günter's store building. Nobody is supposed to know, but people must notice something. Margret prepares roulades and redfish filets with cucumber salad. They drink Cappy (orange juice) with a green shot (Escorial, strong liquor) and watch "colourful television." Margret dresses for him in the clothes he has bought her. He, the perfect lover, in truth is a macho man who wants to have everything under control. She enjoys his attention, his generosity, is happy to let herself be manipulated, is jealous, becomes pregnant despite the pills, and has an illegal abortion − for the third time in her young life. Just before Christmas 1970 the reports and photographs break off. The relationship appears to be at an end. Margret is scared. She tells him that "after Christmas the fucking will be over and you will not dance at two weddings anymore." He gets involved with other women. These are no love stories, though, just obsessive sexual romps, chronicled nonetheless in hundreds of grotesque documents testifying to the stuffy German milieu in the early years of the Kohl era.

yeah, fascinating stuff, thanks gr80. margret's hair really is extraordinary, and that picture of her against the red flock wallpaper is perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_PIqg449is

From the Kubrick thread

I could watch stuff like this all day

Reminds me that I picked this up in a Taiwanese bookstore at retail, even though it's been OOP/OOS at all the usual places in America lol http://www.phaidon.com/store/photography/stanley-kubrick-drama-and-shadows-9780714844381/

http://36.media.tumblr.com/f20029610f51869adc0c72354eb2058c/tumblr_nm654wp1TY1qe50hoo1_1280.jpg
http://36.media.tumblr.com/cbfb26465b70263236f04fdda0070c5d/tumblr_nm2tkc7AdT1qe50hoo1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/8671373be2fd173dc417112f47d1a2a0/tumblr_nm5kt0WmWu1qe50hoo1_1280.jpg

http://hiranotakaci.tumblr.com

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0CpZXUdnZAs/VLVBUcQao7I/AAAAAAAALbI/kjQF7gwZ258/s1600/photo%2B(21).jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MLWeKRAIdGw/VLVBay6qG-I/AAAAAAAALbQ/n4MUJr0nSas/s1600/photo%2B(16).jpg

ruth on the phone, http://www.nigelshafran.com/pages/ruth_phone_pages/001ruth_phone.html / http://toysandtechniques.blogspot.ca/2015/01/nigel-shafran-ruth-on-phone.html

those are both lovely

such lightness of touch, delicacy, understatedness, apparent casualness, gives them more epiphanic power

hirano takaci’s “etude" reminds me a bit of rinko kawauchi's "cui cui"

much as i love photobooks, there’s different potentialities to the longform photo diary as genre (and other internet forms, cf. ilp favorites unchanging window & internet history)

been thinking of different genres/ media for organizing/ presenting photographs

there’s nothing like the intimacy of a book, or the look of a photograph on a page (screen images don’t invite you to linger, quiet & still, don’t entrance like printed images do— i think)

yet i resist/ resent “projects” as organizing principle

maybe internet provides more freedom to juxtapose, essay in different ways— diaries (not necessarily personal), poems, short stories, doodles, stray thoughts, discontinuous glimpses

on the other hand, maybe internet enforces regime/dichotomy of photographic projects vs democratic flickriver, so most photobooks now are “projects” realizing “artist statements”

http://www.artslant.com/ams/articles/show/42421

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

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/farah-al-qasimi

http://www.osiris.co.jp/tad/hara014.jpg

Mikiko Hara

i liked the farah al qasimi pic; kinda reminded of http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/yoshinori-mizutani

liked farah al qasimi pics too. appreciate they're not just or so much "lol/wow dubai" but reflections of her own surreal sensibility

thank you for leading me to mikiko hara

http://i.imgur.com/bBLDRo1.jpg

"Overstuffed urban interior" is a favorite genre of mine

http://41.media.tumblr.com/e3d4806305df22451f9a362ce5320f5a/tumblr_nmgybt1Oim1qhrx8po1_1280.jpg

http://dalejbolender.tumblr.com

overstuffed urban interior so otm btw

i am really dying to see this book of Cool Japanese Apartments, tokyo style by kyoichi tsuzuki

http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loomr5Eryj1qcipy4o1_1280.jpg

http://shihlun.tumblr.com/post/116306643224/darksilenceinsuburbia-haruto-hoshi-shinjuku

My main takeaway is paint all my rooms blue

http://i.imgur.com/0UGzg58.jpg

http://www.parisphoto.com/content/events_images/3243/file/slideshow/53ccf40694aecsans-titre-ca-1970-c-william-eggleston_courtesy-eggleston-artistic-trust.jpg

”Overstuffed urban interior" is a favorite genre of mine

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HMTcR_29J-w/TD9jLOkawZI/AAAAAAAAC0E/cgYcqumRBP8/s640/5.jpg

taylor mead’s living room (by dominique nabokov)

My main takeaway is paint all my rooms blue

http://www.parisphoto.com/content/events_images/1110/file/lightbox/5245aa1484858fran%C3%A7ois-halard-blue-bedroom-i.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jgwgv3eJ-Ok/VQqIQgsba-I/AAAAAAAAAMk/EVn6bBMkUms/s1600/R0013513.JPG

luigi ghirri’s home (by francois halard)

http://theheavycollective.com/post/117208644028/f-r-i-d-a-y-f-r-y-u-p-z-h-a-n-g-k-e-c-h

RIP mary elln mark :(

^yes :(

http://scs.viceland.com/int/v15n7/htdocs/mary-ellen-markz-145/1.jpg

need to see friedlander's family in the picture book

http://www.flanderstoday.eu/sites/default/files/webimages/ft349-p15-agenda_visual_arts_0.jpg

http://artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/07/Family_030.jpg

http://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/publications/friedlander_family_spread03.jpg

i need it

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/culture/video-games/213967-video-game-photography

https://theintercept.co/officer-involved/

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/09/john-divola-dogs-chasing-my-car-1995-1998.html

john divola was pretty special huh

love that
more of those on his website divola.com under 1990s
fan of genre 'photographs taken from moving car', practitioner myself

there was this remember
http://oneyearofbooks.tumblr.com/post/76512778907/joel-meyerowitz-daido-moriyama-john-divola

yes, and this published recently
http://www.photobookstore.co.uk/photobook-glimpse.html

robert frank from the bus
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/features/robert-frank/from-the-bus-1958.html

tom wood's bus photographs are amazing

in the eggleston multivolumes some pics seem carwindow-taken

multivolumes a v good word for the matrix-era we are living in of infinite eggleston photographs

grateful to goddesses of fate to live in this age
please let me last at least long enough to see 10 volumes of the democratic forest:
1. the louisiana project
2. the language
3. dallas. oil. miami
4. pittsburgh
5. berlin
6. the pastoral
7. the interior
8. the surface
9. the forest
10. the finale

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/michael-bachs-preservation-through-photography.html?smid=nytimesphoto&_r=0#

into it

Photography, he said, gives him a purpose, a daily mission to complete. ‘‘Sometimes I wonder what the hell I’m doing,’’ Bach said, ‘‘but photography has been a stabilizing force.’’

relate to this
photography saved/ saves me

shihlun unearth koudelka's photos from greece

http://shihlun.tumblr.com/post/123395505469/josef-koudelka-periplanissis-following-ulysses

http://shihlun.tumblr.com/tagged/josef-koudelka

beautiful

some more koudelka greece photos from magnum photos site

http://mediastore2.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/e/6/1/e/PAR269351.jpg
http://mediastore3.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/d/4/f/3/PAR71532.jpg
http://mediastore.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/c/7/8/e/PAR58498.jpg
http://mediastore4.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/6/9/e/0/PAR58503.jpg
http://mediastore.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/8/9/c/c/PAR73870.jpg
http://mediastore.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/a/2/4/a/PAR149700.jpg

some more koudelka greece photos from magnum photos site

I like these photos but there's something that's been annoying me for a while. I see a lot of art photography, including on Flickr, Tumblr etc., where in among, say, a series of ten landscapes and enigmatic street scenes there will be one seemingly random shot of a dog, either looking out of a car window (or generally staring, bug-eyed, at the camera) or (as above) doing something odd. I think they are almost always dogs of a certain type (as in the above photo, terriers and other, similar dogs that have pointy heads/faces and large eyes relative to the size of their heads). Where did this meme come from? Is it just a recent thing or has it been around for decades? I don't like it.

I think that's partly because I don't like dogs anyway, but also because I don't find the shots funny or meaningful, and there appears to be this bandwagon where people have to have one of these shots (to add some 'anarchic' quality to a series?). Having said that, the above example is less objectionable than many, because it's TWO dogs, they're NOT staring at the camera or leaping towards it, and what they're doing -- in terms of physical pose/juxtaposition with each other -- is somewhat visually interesting. It's still borderline for me, though.

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

http://i.imgur.com/xjtgW2D.jpg

I'm ok with other animals (I have a particular fondness for photos of horses) but it's pointy-faced, bug-eyed dogs I don't like. I like the above two photos; they don't have any grotesqueness about them.

how do you feel about elliott erwitt's dog bictuers?

From a quick glance, I'm ok with them. They are much more subtle. Affectionate, not grotesque.

My original question was where did the meme come from, and I am wondering if what I don't like is a fairly recent distortion of an older meme. I notice that a lot of the people on the HCSP group on Flickr (who I detest) are into the version of this that I don't like. I find the way people are depicted in street photography often to be grotesque, as well, so maybe it's the same with how they use dogs.

i feel like cruising a flickr group you detest is super unhealthy, like it's a photo-centric comments thread plunge. i don't really know what street photography is, now, feels like a very grey internet zone to get tangled up in.

I don't spend any time cruising it, although I've looked at it in the past. I avoid it now because both the photos and the discussions make me angry.

Here's an example of what I don't like (from that group):

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7371/14149098572_e92b25857f.jpg

It's a different type of dog breed to the usual but otherwise fits.

After all that, I'm having trouble finding photos with the exact kind of dog doing the exact kind of thing I don't like. But this is kind of what I'm talking about (again, different dog type -- not a terrier):

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8475/8079062332_1bd61dde24.jpg

I'll shut up now as it's getting off-topic (and really quite far removed from the photo in the series Drash posted).