March 2009
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“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of night without thinking that...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via Dave Taylor at work)
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Stephen Shore interview on the games he plays →
What I think I love the most about photographers is how honest they are in person, how simple in how they articulate their art. Painters are the complete opposite, and I don’t like them very much.
I love the end where he fits the 10 year rule.
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John Camp on making a living as an artist →
An accurate summation of the choices that stand before us. It isn’t easy. But an inspring opportunity in the end.
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Garry Winogrand on frames and facts →
“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”
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Martin Parr is the usual, goes unnoticed →
“In person, he hardly cuts a controversial figure. Like any successful spy, Martin Parr is the sort of guy you wouldn’t look at twice if you passed him in the street. As soon as he welcomes you into the tall, slightly scruffy Georgian terrace house in Clifton, Bristol, where he and his wife, Susie, and daughter, Ellen, have lived for 20 years, you understand why he has for so long been able...
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Robert Frank Interview with Bob Edwards →
Robert Frank comes off as a non-artist, which is as it should be. Have a clear look at what someone who looks like an artist has produced. Often there will be only a facade and behind that a gaping emptyness.
Also, it’s important to be where the action is and make friends. But go to the center after you have produced at least something. Reminds me of Nachtwey at the beginning of the...
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