David Simonton

North Carolina Fine Art Photographer www.davidsimonton.com

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ARCADE / city of mönchengladbach, germany // 12-2020  

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Grids/Contact Sheets

#’s 1-3, John Menapace

#4, Pete Townshend (“All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes”)

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Ahoskie, Hertford County, North Carolina

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Between Happy and Loving (a Texas Road Trip)

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In my Stu- Stu- Studio this afternoon, iPhone (XR) in hand.

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Well, the film developed and a contact sheet created. It's always awesome when an unknown roll of black and white film is developed and something actually appears. This roll was confirmed to be 50 years old by the t-shirt one of the guys was wearing... that never almost never happens. The street hockey is cool too. If you find film get it developed... our local photo lab doesn't develop old black and white or slides, they still process C-41... and offer 1 hr turn around.

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Photo by Harry Gruyaert

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Patriot Cadillac

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Geometric North Carolina

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At the North Carolina State Fair a few years back, West Raleigh, NC

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Downtown Kenly, Johnston County, North Carolina, 2000s

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“The art of photography is no more—or less—than photography done wonderfully." —John Szarkowski (1975)

—He nailed it! of course.

John Szarkowski was a photographer, curator, historian and critic [and one of the most knowledgeable, perceptive and eloquent writers on the subject of photography I know of]. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

John Szarkowski was born on this date in 1925 in Ashland, Wisconsin—100 years ago today. He died in 2007 at age 81.

TGFJS 🫶

PHOTO- John Szarkowski, 2001 (detail), from “America by Car,” by Lee Friedlander

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Downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, 1990s

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Gordes, France (Cat in window), 1957, Photo by Willy Ronis (French, 1910-2009)

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Found Photograph (1970s)