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He devised special equipment for night photography
He devised special equipment for night photography
Favourite photographers?
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Alex Webb is my current fave, but I dig many, including Saul Leiter, Daido Moriyama, Dan Winters, and August Sander.
+1, fascinating story. Both the photographer and her work.
Vivian Maier - Wikipedia
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I like street photography.
Vivian Maier was unknown and unpublished, but after her death over 150,000 of her pictures were discovered. I saw a very interesting doc about her a few years ago.
Apparently, Vivian Maier also worked in 8mm film. She is (was) totally unknown to me, so this is a great TDPRI day for me, learning about something new. Here's a trailer for the documentary about her.
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Very similar to Gedney. Caught a retrospective on him in the late 90s at SF MoMA, bought the monograph. His archives (at Duke) are linked below too:Vivian Maier - Wikipedia
I like street photography.
Vivian Maier was unknown and unpublished, but after her death over 150,000 of her pictures were discovered. I saw a very interesting doc about her a few years ago.
William Gedney - Wikipedia
William Gedney Photographs and Writings / Digital Collections / Duke Digital Repository
Photographs and contact sheets by 20th century American photographer William Gedney made between 1955 and 1989.
Good call, I had that book and know the photo well but take pictures because I have ADHD and cannot process or recall very well, or I recall odd bits of a scene but never names.
My Mother was actually in a Weegee book and I've seen the NYC nightclub scene in the book but could never find it for sale.
Interestingly, huge piles of glass negatives shot at crime scenes for the NYPD were dumped in the East River because nobody could think of a better idea.
When I was a junkie I was down by the river one day and found a giant binder full of NYPD mug shots, all polaroid. Hundreds of them, fascinating and I really wanted the book but was always running from the cops at that time and the binder was gigantic, maybe 6" thick.
Stashed it and never went back.
It was the abandoned factories area along Kent ave where they used to line up the stolen cars for stripping.
I used to take pics of guys cutting up cars with my M3, sometimes they'd yell at me but mostly the camera and white boy was ignored. Not Winogrand IYF though!
He wasn't shooting folks who would shoot back!
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The German Karl Blossfeldt, a new objectivity pioneer from the 1920s.
Right that's a name I was trying to recall and posted that a new photog had been discovered.Vivian Maier - Wikipedia
I like street photography.
Vivian Maier was unknown and unpublished, but after her death over 150,000 of her pictures were discovered. I saw a very interesting doc about her a few years ago.
Got a DVD about her.
I love love love NYC and sometimes think it's cheap to take pics of stuff people would look at no matter who took the pic or how well they took it.
But while NY, Chicago etc "back then" is engrossing to the viewer, some shooters capture more than what the passer by would see.
I think the photographer who is constantly shooting is really trying to work through their own internal conflicts, and that's what makes their pics more interesting than just the captured subject. Not that we can see what internal conflicts drove them.
A big part of her story is about the man who "discovered" her and her work after she died. Really an inspiring story in and of itself.
I got to know Duane a bit, one of my assistants went on to work with him for many years. He is a character, boundless energy, and very funny. Reminded me of Robin Williams in many ways - he certainly told you what he thought. He spoke very simply about writing on his images - he wanted you (the viewer) to know exactly what he was thinking. He has to be close to 90 now.
Editing and selling from the office.
You spoke of Contact Press, I remember Jeffrey Smith back in the day.
Worked with Henry and his Archive at Corbis, the greatest sweetest guy.
I have a bunch of his stuff. Really fun to look at!
I think this is true of some, but by no means all constantly-shooting photographers. Art is made for all sorts of reasons.
Philippe Halsman - "Dali Atomicus":
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WingedWords
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One of the sparks that recently reawakened my interest in photography was watching the documentary about the photographer Mike Disfarmer with its music by Bill Frisell.
That's what he claimed in public, most of the time, but I seem to remember that it wasn't quite true. In fact, his most-famous image, the one of the puddle-jumper, is cropped in post.
As far as trusting what you see in past photos, well, you really can't. Photographer's position and a lense's angle of view can tell a lie, and darkroom and scene manipulation started as soon as photography did.
Cottingley Fairies - Wikipedia
Fineman has a decent overview of the subject:
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