MDM - photography

Came across these two cacophonous and extraordinary fashion photos from Jason Nocito.

This Jabin Botsford image from Butler is new to me. Incredible.

"The book format acts as a sculptural work in itself. Patterson has crafted an artist book object, presented as an aged and worn green, clothbound cover wrapped in a brown paper jacket resembling a grocery sack. Each page is a testament to Patterson’s meticulous attention to detail, incorporating elements such as mold and foxing marks, as if caused by heavy southern humidity, now forever embedded into the book's pages."

https://tbwbooks.com/products/gong-co

"Shot over six years across four continents, (Zed Nelson's) ‘The Anthropocene Illusion’ is a disturbing insight into a world in which the natural world is replaced by spectacle"

https://www.1854.photography/2024/07/zed-nelson-anthropocene-profile/

After taking Zyrtec for allergies last week, I had a dream where someone was waxing poetic about the nature of photography, and they said a phrase that struck me, and in the context of the conversation, it was clear they were quoting someone.

They said: “It's the perspicacious, rapacious nature of the bellows…”

(using "bellows" to refer to pre-1940s camera tech is pretty extraordinary, btw)

In the dream, I replied, “Churchill?” and they said, “indeed!” which confirmed (to me, in dreamworld) that Churchill said something astute about photography at one point.

When I woke-up, I immediately wrote down & googled the quote, and was bummed to discover it wasn't a quote of Churchill's at all. It was just a dream. (I also had to refamiliarize myself with the definition of "perspicacious." I should do crosswords more often.)

Today, after telling a friend I'd taken Zyrtec for seasonal allergies, he mentioned that people who take it often have wild, vivid dreams, that there's something about Cetirizine that allows for a different kind of dreaming.

Two views of nearly the same moment. One’s good, the other is otherworldly.

ok, irony, you do you.

Someone who appreciates Kodachrome & Martin Parr has a "creepy doll" fascination and generated about 50 or so otherwordly examples of what machines can do (like this) on August 11th & 12th with their requests to Stable Diffusion AI.

david burnett on the scene at jan 6 public hearing

Check this Bill Eppridge photo of Ed Sullivan strumming McCartney’s Hofner in 1964 with a band-aid on his thumb.

PHOTOGRAPHY!

I’ve never seen order-of-the-edit receive a separate copyright before. Musta been a fun conversation!

Days later, I still can't get over this incredible image, made even more remarkable by its caption, by Erin Schaff. https://twitter.com/erinschaff/status/1309971242519322629

Fortunate to pass through this piece from Nicholas Dawidoff again, which made me wonder about the perspective of some views from Mabou, which I think I've located.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/podcasts/the-daily/robert-frank-photographer.html

What a smart idea to have Katy Grannan venture to Nova Scotia for the accompanying photos, considering she'd embarked on her own extraordinary steps into filmmaking.

Original piece here: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/magazine/robert-franks-america.html

photo of Atlanta tonight by Alyssa Pointer

When you post a single photo to Instagram because your photo friends are hosting a participatory thing and you want to support their effort -- and when it's over, you go to delete your pic but you can't, because you're on the web, as if you needed one more reminder why/how Instaface forces users off of open-platforms and standards to their mobile app... so you switch your browser's user-agent to an iPhone 6, and sure enough the delete option appears. Wash, rinse, never repeat.

via Vanessa Renwick

that feeling when you can incontrovertibly tell which of these Gordon Parks photographs was taken first #bighandlittlehand

FALCONS

Didn't realize that this great picture of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson reacting to getting their first film ("Bottle Rocket") green lit is essentially a family photo - taken by Owen's mom, Laura, who assisted Avedon for six years on his American West project. http://laurawilsonphotography.com

I miss seeing Larry Fink's flash on analog film; the frames felt alive, born of intuition and accident. Another excellent photographer whose new(er), digital work is (perfectly fine and acceptable) a shadow of the unpredictability once committed to emulsions.

“Waters wanted the photographs to look deliberately amateur, so Shacochis printed through a piece of glass that he covered in dirt and tea-bag stains.”

This is what it looks like when Bruce Gilden photographs Harmony Korine.

pretty great Winogrand I’d never seen before

CNN Becher'ing without Bernd & Hilla