Amy Cobb

Media Refugee. Photographer. Expert on photography colleges. Perpetual blogger.

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Photography is a survival mechanism. I use it to navigate the world and process the complicated experiences that make up life. It’s the thing that gets me out of the house interacting with people. Without it I would likely be a hermit. Photography is my experience in the world.

Interview Stacy Kranitz | Ilovethatphoto.net Photography Magazine (via alexjdsmith)

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Mysterious street photographer Vivian Maier’s self-portraits

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In which I ponder the relationship between traditional self-portraits and selfies & wonder whether there's a historical context for considering them art (or insisting that they're not!) 

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Shorts are a terribly undervalued and often scorned satellite of the filmmaking universe: just a stepping stone, a calling card, a 48-hour challenge. There are some absolutely phenomenal shorts, but very few see them and they’re lost in the back catalogue of careers that reach for something greater. That’s a shame.

From "Rethinking the Value of the Short Film: an Open Letter to Vimeo by Robin Schmidt" on why we need to imagine new ways to value short films in the context of our feature-and-television dominated landscape. 

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If you’ve ever been to a modern or contemporary art museum, Mark Rothko’s iconic blocks of color are usually present. 

Eddy de Azevedo shot a series of photos that mimic those minimalist color field paintings by Rothko. 

Photos Mimic Iconic Mark Rothko Paintings 

via Yatzer

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I recently saw a terrible rendition of Red, a play about Rothko as a mentor. These photographs are a much better comment on the color field, drawing from fabric textures as opposed to relying on the light and paint alone. 

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For me today, photography is better than art: it’s in touch (or can be) with reality. Man Ray said the same thing, incidentally. This is a medium that can incorporate time, place, chance events, and can be dated precisely to when it was made. Painting to me is the relationship between the painter and the materials. There normally is something else in a photograph beyond just its maker and the medium: can we call that real life? In primitive caves you find handprints, images where the thing itself makes its picture. This is also a very good definition for photography. It’s a way of saying, “I am here. This is what my world looks like.”

B: Q & A with Charles Harbutt (via photographsonthebrain)

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ICP Lecture Series: A Conversation with Zoe Strauss

School at ICP, Shooting Studio, 1114 Avenue of the Americas

Wednesday, November 13, 7:00pm

Tickets are $15 each. Purchase online.

Watch the lectures live online on each date at 7 pm ET atlectures.icp.edu.

In conjunction...

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If you're in the area, be sure to go to this event! There's no one like Zoe Strauss! 

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Hana Pesut scouts around various city looking for those fashionably dressed couples. 

She then takes a normal photo, followed by one where the couples’ clothes are switched against an identical backdrop. 

Switcheroo - Fashionable Couples Swapping Clothes

via Colossal

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Is anyone else interested in what these photos reveal about how fashion is related to how we perform gender in our everyday life? 

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Dali herding cats. 

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Elevate the art of Tea Time with custom Polaroid Tea Bag Tags. They’re easy to make and just about the cutest thing! 

Learn to Make Polaroid Tea Bag Tags

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Must do for my next tea party! 

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Missing when they were infants

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Posting photos of ourselves online is an inviting and informative way to keep in touch.

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There’s been a lot of debate lately about the relationship between art and technology. A lot of people have been saying that recent technological development