#onehourphoto

[pass-temps]

Robin Williams is an angel 

One Hour Photo (2002)

[clarkgregguniversity]

‪Happy Birthday to #RobinWilliams. ‬ ‪You are so very much missed. ‬ ‪Here is a throwback of @clarkgregg a/ Robin. Clark also was in a movie w/ Robin called “One Hour Photo” ‬ ‪#clarkgregg #wemissyourobin #onehourphoto #agentsofshield ‬#ironman #philcoulson #thor #avengers https://www.instagram.com/p/CC6oSWvlGd4/?igshid=18rdies70xq4h

[unr]

“And if these pictures have anything important to say to future generations, it's this: I was here. I existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture.” — Sy Parrish, One Hour Photo

[bulletinthebrian]

“No one takes photographs of things they want to forget”

(One Hour Photo, 2002)

  “When people's houses are on fire, what's the first thing they save after their pets and loved ones are safe? The family photos” (One Hour Photo, 2002)

Hope you enjoyed these two quotes from the movie One Hour Photo, I thought they were perfect as the heading of this post. Anyway.

Photography has been a growing business since its dawn, especially thanks to the improvement of its technology (Vivienne & Burgess, 2013). It is actually a quite fascinating practice. Don Draper (If you don’t know who he is I am sorry for you…) said it best, when he stated that “it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved” (Mad Men, 2007).

Unfortunately, with photography going digital, and with the advent of social media and apps like, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, that perception has changed a little. If back in the day, taking a picture of something was kind of a big deal, nowadays, it’s probably one of the things that we do every day and without thinking too much about it (Vivienne & Burgess, 2013). There is no film, all is digital, autofocus, easy to store and view, and cameras are not as big as two-seater couch anymore. This practice has been completely transformed (Vivienne & Burgess, 2013). Anyone can take a photograph now, cameras on our smartphones are getting more and more advanced in quality (Vivienne & Burgess, 2013), and there is no need to “attend a two-day seminar to master the art” (One Hour Photo, 2002) (thanks for the input Sy Parrish a.k.a Robin Williams in One Hour Photo, excellent movie about photography) of taking pictures. Another aspect of photography, strictly connected to self-representation, is the importance that sharing photographs has acquired (Vivienne & Burgess, 2013). And all the aforementioned apps are responsible for this. The importance of getting likes on our pictures on Facebook and the eternal pursuit of insta-famousness, makes photo-sharing one of the most popular activities in the digital era (Vivienne & Burgess, 2013).

What do you think about this “evolution”? Personally, I have always been a Golden-Age Syndrome kind of person (If you have seen Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen, another great movie, you’d know what I am talking about), the past has always fascinated me a lot, how people used to live back in the day, all the changes we have gone through and so on. But when I think about it, I can’t help but think that it is just getting worse and worse, as life is getting more and more complicated, we are losing sight of real values, and I find myself missing the simple life we had, and that I have experienced for a little while when I was younger, before digital communities, selfies and omnipresent technology.

                                                    Reference

 Vivienne, S & Burgess, J 2013, ‘The Remediation of the Personal Photograph’, Journal of Material Culture, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 279-98

One Hour Photo 2002 [DVD], Catch 23 Entertainment, Killer Films, John Wells Productions, USA. Distributed in Australia by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Midnight in Paris 2011 [DVD], Gravier Productions, Mediapro Televisió de Catalunya (TV3), Versátil Cinema, USA & Spain. Distributed in Australia by Sony Pictures Classic

Mad Men (2007), The Wheel, AMC.

[kariorvik]

The inimitable Mark Romanek- a photographer's director...I'm not always able to share the portraits I take - was excited that he was responsive and generous about me sharing this one. @markromanek thank you! #onehourphoto #markromanek #tintype #wetplate #sf #studiolife (at San Francisco, California)

[clarkgregguniversity]

Have you seen #OneHourPhoto that stars #RobinWilliams but also our very own @clarkgregg . . . A mentally unstable photo developer targets a middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine. #ClarkGregg #PhilCoulson #AgentsodShield #sundancefilmfestival https://www.instagram.com/p/B6OlPrQl0vi/?igshid=89fqy1vq2lzn

[adamwekarskivibes]

One Hour Photo

Every time I think about anyone who decides to start stalking me I always think of this movie.

This movie is more relevant now than ever because of the fact that there are now people who work at the fuckin' grocery store who are now casing me (and they'll be casing anybody who they believe has more money than them).

I think the performance Robin Williams gave in this movie actually DOWNPLAYS the insanity of OBSESSION that STALKERS have (due to an obvious abnormality in their psyche).

When we live in a time when I am the person that folks are beginning to case at the store (even though they work there; they're not supposed to be doing that to customers), you KNOW shit is getting FUCKED.

This one goes out to every single person who has been stalking me and casing me at the various stores I may or may not frequent (I'm starting to run out of different stores to go to to get the things I need because I am having to go out of my way to avoid people who are obviously interested in me and my life and all they THINK I have because they keep paying attention to me and what I am buying).

When will employers hire folks who will leave me alone?

Self-Checkout is the BEST. Every company should adopt it.

Post-Script: Fucking stupid motherfuckers will NEVER learn. It's not enough I have the greedy idiots stalking me at the store, but literally now the stalkers in my neighborhood feel like they need to start showing up and putting on a fucking three-act-play in the fucking parking lot just because they don't know how to respect our fucking space.

You know you're digging yourself deeper with your stupid fucking antics right??? I am not going to let you get away with this.

NOBODY stalks me or my family and gets to walk away free from me.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Don't say I didn't warn ya.

You are the ones referred to in The Bible. You are the fools who would not listen to the prophets whenever the word of GOD was being presented to you in all it's might..

..You are the fools who would not listen to the words that were spoken.

[funkyfreshfurlong]

PORING IS CLOSED

One-hour photo project

Poring is a tiny hamlet of tourist shops occupying the strip across from the famous hot springs of Sabah, Borneo. When Malaysia went into lockdown, some of the strictest and longest running globally, communities like Poring folded overnight.

The families who left their businesses behind must have thought they would be coming back to resume trade sooner than they did. When we visited, in between two lockdowns when travel within the district was permitted, the residents had not returned.