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Amplification
“Goethe’s final words: ‘More light.’ Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry: ‘More light.’ Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s field. Little tiny flashlight [...]
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Window display on Barrington
Window display on Barrington, a photo by with_regards on Flickr. Via Flickr: Halifax, May 2011. That is a statue of Kwan Yin, the bodhisattva of compassion. It’s odd to see religious icons used in advertising. In Edmonton there is a bar called the Funky Buddha which is popular enough to have been around for a [...]
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Photography process
I’m no good at stalking. It feels too voyeuristic. Instead, I sort of mumble with the camera. I wear it on my neck and wander and wait for the right feeling to come, which is often during fleeting scenes. Any person running past or pigeon lifting off I shoot automatically. Or a weird shaft of [...]
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If I Think Cezanne
If I Think Cezanne, originally uploaded by SD STUDIOs*.
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Smooth
Smooth, originally uploaded by with_regards. David Cantine, one of my art professors at the U of Alberta, used to put photographs of his family in jars around his office instead of frames. While they looked somehow three dimensional when shown as a curve, it also gave my mind a lot of other things to think [...]
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On being selective
“Henri taught me to say ‘no.’ He taught me to be selective, never to show photographs one did not want to see published. I believe he learned this himself from Alexey Brodovitch at Harper’s Bazaar.” ~Martine Franck talking of her husband Henri Cartier-Bresson Do you show your clients all your photographs, even those you would [...]
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The purpose of art?
For myself, if any form of art makes you attentive (in the Buddhist sense) is performing the highest purpose that art can achieve. ~ Milton Glaser
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Dancing
While the video has few artistic merits, I love the dancing. They seem so at ease and fluid, relaxed and playful. It looks like fun!
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Let us now praise . . .
What do you think about these images now that you learn about the way Walker Evan’s subjects felt?
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