I usually found that if I had a preconceived idea for a project it wouldn’t amount to much. Discovery—an aggressive receptivity, if you will—of what is in the landscape provides the inspiration for new ideas.
Richard Misrach, High Museum interview (via Photography for a Greener Planet)
This photograph of Ulysses S Grant was in last Sunday’s NY Times accompanying an article about photographic fakery, brought up by renewed questions about Frank Capa’s “Fallen Soldier” photograph. (Capa’s photograph, strangely, is for sale in the NY Times online store.) Gen. Grant’s photo jumped out at me particularly because it is included in “Grant [...]
If you missed the Eggleston retrospective “Democratic Camera” while it was at the Whitney earlier this year, it’s begun traveling and is now showing at the Corcoran in DC. For details, check out the Corcoran site or the Washington Post review.
The Post review raises the question of how difficult it is to describe what qualities [...]
Conscientious has highlighted an article on Vice about the flood of journalists and photographers making the pilgramage to Dtroit to document the implosion of the city. The decline has been going on for a long time, but its the hot topic for media looking for a quick traffic spike. Tomorrow Museum calls it “ruin porn“. [...]
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible.
John Szarkowski, Focus Magazine, May 2007
My wife got a free subscription to Cookie magazine, reason now forgotten. I think of Cookie as the parenting magazine for the “Lifestyles of the Rich or Envious” set. I’d be in the latter category. I’m looking through the most recent issue and was surprised to find a kids fashion spread shot by none other [...]
