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[there-then]

"Because of my involvement with my photographs, it is difficult for me to really see them objectively. Talking about them is like talking about myself.

[there-then]

“Important for us is the implicit understanding that the picturesque, like the photographic, sits astride the indexical and the iconic. The cultivation of the eccentric, the singular, the authentic, ‘local color,’ goes hand in hand with the commodification of the visual, the photographic record of what is already a picture, a touristic aesthetics.”

--Clive Scott, Street Photography from Atget to Cartier-Bresson

[cartwheelgalaxy-blog]

[artchipel]

Shannon Ebner, Some Clouds, 2009

[grupaok]

Stephen Shore, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 15, 1978

[grupaok]

Arthur Ou, Test Screen (Huntington 3), 2011

[there-then]

"Rather, to feel the beauty of the problem is precisely not to feel the pathos of the suffering produced by the problem; it’s instead to feel the structure that makes the problem.”

—Walter Benn Michaels

[there-then]

Ron Jude, from the series 45th Parallel

[there-then]

Some people think that the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite way. The more they are photographed (or drawn or painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

—John Pfahl

[there-then]

[mpdrolet]

From Light Levels

Naho Kubota

[there-then]

Vivian Maier, Chicago, August 22, 1956

[priezpourlui]

Clayton Coterell

On tumblr

[izyurfimenipaflanyant]

Lindley Warren Shawn Gust, 2014

[boy-code]

lindsey’s bedroom (2007), jason lazarus

[mpdrolet]

From Factory Walls

Adam Wiseman

[there-then]

"Anything that comes out of that camera is a political document. If I take a shot of the carpet, that's a political document."

—Adam Broomberg

[schoolofvisualarts]

Photo by Tim Schutsky