January 2011
14 posts
Facebook discussion re: future of the printed...
Andy Adams of Flak Photo started an interesting discussion over on Facebook. Andy asks “will the printed page remain the ultimate venue for photography in the 21st century?” My initial take:
“Imagine having an 80 inch television that can display photographs with the resolution of paper. Or an iPad with paper-like resolution. That’s your medium for the 21st C. The gulf...
Mornings/Evenings is now available →
Walnut Creek to San Francisco, twice a day, five days a week. Photographing the daily commute, being present in the now with an unsophisticated camera and captive to a time and place. Twenty-four photographs, sixteen pages, six bucks.
“I think a photographer has to measure what lines he’s willing to cross and...”
– Gregory Crewdson Q&A
Daily Meh: Street Fighter: Art Philosophy Edition →
I read this out loud to my wife and she said, “Don’t you hate to have to agree with Andy Warhol?”
dailymeh:
Francis Ford Coppola:
An essential element of any art is risk. If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before? I always like to say that cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to...
“There is a pathos of complaint, criticism and negativity that permeates our...”
– Alec Soth and his Open Letter to The New York Times « DARIUS HIMES
“Bellocq had Friedlander. Atget had Abbot. Disfarmer had Miller. Without their...”
– B: The Flame of Recognition
“Feedback exchange is extremely important, but the merits of a more private and...”
– Shaping the Future: 7 Predictions for the Creative Community :: The 99 Percent (via photographsonthebrain)
Lately I’ve been craving a more private, slower, intimate photography circle. Maybe with in-person relationships - gasp!
A Measure of Success
My own measure of success is this: what did I learn from making a picture? Did I learn something about the craft and the making of an image? Did I learn something about the world, my subject? Did I learn something about myself, my motivations, my inclinations, my drive, my world view? I am only successful if in making a picture I experienced a change in myself. And that sort of success, or...
