Visual Thought

Art, photography, design, objects, ideas, and other things that intrigue and amuse me.

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(via Classic album covers in Google Street View – in pictures | Cities | theguardian.com)

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(via John Stezaker: 'cutting a photograph can feel like cutting through flesh' | Art and design | theguardian.com)

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Untitled, Bed (2003) by Andy Lock. From the series Orchard Park.

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via Twitter / olafureliasson: Museums are vision machines. #MuseumWeek @ARoSKunst

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Film editing involves putting on the finishing touches. More than this, it is a process of breathing life into the work…

— Akira Kurosawa | Something Like an Autobiography

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This is Heinecken Explains Heinecken,” a 45-minute film by Phil Savenick. ... On this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, both guests discuss Heinecken’s role as an educator. 

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I don’t really think of myself as a photographer in the classic sense. Rather, I use the term paraphotographer which in the same sense that a paramedic or a paralegal person need only know enough about that field to keep people out of trouble until the real guys show up.

- Robert Heinecken

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(via A Chicago Humorist Named ‘Dont Fret’ Cracks Up The Street)

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(via Timeless works of art ruined by John Elway | Kissing Suzy Kolber)

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(via Equinox Gallery Vancouver - Curtains by Fred Herzog)

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Content cannot be manufactured, in my opinion. That which I can find is better than that which you can make. That which we find, the work and the use of the people out there, it’s natural, that’s what ordinary people do, that interests me.

Fred Herzog

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 “Self-discovery through the camera? I am scared to look for fear of discovering how shallow my Self is! I will persist however…because the camera has its eye on the exterior world. Camera will lead my constant introspections back into the world. So camerawork will save my life. I wonder if camera will give me an image of my Self that I will want to live up to.” Minor White Read my essay: Hope, Failure and Binoculars – Meditations on Minor White

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(via The Beautiful Infographics Of Ted Williams's The Science Of Hitting)

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Recently Received: I Wish You Where Here by Luke Strosnider

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Herman Schaefer with a 5×7 press Graflex camera during a game between the Washington Senators and New York Highlanders in 1911.

(via PetaPixel)