Research

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Seiji Kumagai

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I use the camera as a procedure by which continually to affirm my identity, asking myself: “What is the meaning of life in a world and among human beings as grotesque, scandalous, and accidental as the one in which I live and those with whom I interact?

Daido Moriyama (via absurdstreets)

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From an interview regarding Japanese photobooks:

Getting back to the photobook, culturally speaking what makes the Japanese books different?

They don’t make strong statements. They are comfortable with being vague and ephemeral and usually not much information is given outside the photographs. It is like the photographer is saying “I don’t care if you don’t understand”. They have almost no interest in conceptual art; it is not about intellectualizing. They are very resistant to theory and conceptualization; it is more about reality. So from a western point of view there is the risk of over-reading: things are less complicated than you may think. Usually they relate to photobooks in terms of cool/not cool. It is all about the feeling something can give to you. It is not a mental thing.

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It's great when a famous photographer pops up on Instagram. Todd Hido is best known for his landscape work in America, but here it seems he's taken a liking to instagram.

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Made some more progress with my book. Should have the layout done by the end of this week.

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Been playing around with black and white/colour. Trying to decide what would work best with the rest of the photos that I’ll be including in the book.

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An Interview with Todd Hido

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Matt Glassman

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Been playing around with some full bleed edits for my book.

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Too many photographs… No. There cannot be too many photographs, just like there cannot be too much information. The problem most people are facing is how to select: What is important, what is not important? If you preserve your ability to select, there can be as many pictures as there are, you simply pick the ones that are important for you. Those remain, the rest rush through.

Thomas Ruff

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