Friday, July 26, 2024
"Atget represented to John the very best of photography for many reasons, not least of which is that Atget seemingly saw a purpose for his work that had nothing to do with creating art, but rather, a moral purpose," said Susan Kismaric, who worked with Szarkowski.
— Philip Gefter, What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Is he too young to have coins?
— Edmund
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
The Case for Being Unburdened by What Has Been
— @nymag
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Is that me? I thought that was me.
— Oscar pointing to Wally
Monday, July 22, 2024
Would have done anything to be in the meeting where they brainstormed what emoji reaction Jill Biden should post in response to her husband dropping out of the presidential race.
— @svershbow via @mashable
Sunday, July 21, 2024
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, naturalists, interpreting the Jonah story as a historical account, became obsessed with trying to identify the exact species of the fish that swallowed Jonah.
— Wikipedia, "Jonah"
Saturday, July 20, 2024
We could feed them to Wally in a day and he would gain so much weight.
— Lily on all the quarters in the bag in the trunk of the car
Friday, July 19, 2024
They are 911!
— Nice estate sale man who was half of a duo liquidating Miniature Occasions and Dolls showing us a video of himself messing with a scam caller by pretending that he had gone and withdrawn the cash they requested but now the cops were chasing and confronting him
Thursday, July 18, 2024
How fragile is his pinky toe?
— Isaac
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
I have a massive collection of former students, so do I need more?
— J*
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Mr. Trump also briefly described his recent call with President Biden and said he had asked about the near miss of the bullet in Pennsylvania. “It was very nice, actually,” Mr. Trump said. “He called me, and he said, ‘How did you choose to move to the right?’”
— Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Jonathan Weisman, "In Leaked Phone Call, Trump Tries to Coax Kennedy Into His Camp," The New York Times
Monday, July 15, 2024
And in the introduction Szarkowski offers a simple insight about photography that is hard to argue with, "It is easier for an old photograph to be interesting than it is for a new one," he writes, "to show clearly the life of our own time and place demands acute perception, for our eyes grow accustomed to everyday miracles, but it would seem that the pictures in an old album need only to have been sharply focused and clearly printed in order to reveal the sense and spirit of their past time."
— Philip Gefter, What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Unfortunately, to repeat once again, the clarity of Avedon's reading of the cultural mood, the depth of his intentions, and the quality of his work, were too often obscured in the glare of his own self mythologizing tendencies. The flash and the glitz of Nothing Personal undermined its credibility, and Avedon's need to include too much of his work exhausted the book's potential for cohesion.
— Philip Gefter, What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
Saturday, July 13, 2024
A photo captured the bullet that grazed Trump's ear. He turned his head moments before. If he didn't it would have struck the back of his head.
— @starworldlab
Friday, July 12, 2024
"All my portraits are self-portraits," Dick was fond of saying, and there is truth in that about his portraits, as well as about the nature of all portraiture, whether in painting, photography, or even biography.
— Philip Gefter, What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
Thursday, July 11, 2024
“The audience’s brain does the cooking and keeps seeing relationships,” he says.
— Alissa Wilkinson, "‘Eno’ Review: Creativity, 52 Billion Billion Ways," The New York Times
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
You've probably seen the phrase Al slop already, the term most people have settled on for the confusing and oftentimes disturbing pictures of Jesus and flight attendants and veterans that are filling up Facebook right now. But the current universe of slop is much more vast than that. There's Google Slop, YouTube slop. TIkTok slop. Marvel slop, Taylor Swift slop, Netflix slop. One could argue that slop has become the defining "genre" of the 2020s. But even though we've all come around to this idea, l haven't seen anyone actually define it. So today I'm going to try.
Content slop has three important characteristics. The first being that, to the user, the viewer, the customer, it feels worthless. This might be because it was clearly generated in bulk by a machine or because of how much of that particular content is being created.
— Ryan Broderick via @jenniferxdaniel
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
WIFE IS MAKING QUARTERS OF HERSELF
— Flyer by Alan Wagner via @welcome.jpeg
Monday, July 8, 2024
He was photographing the medium of photography as much as he was photographing the subject before the camera.
— Philip Gefter, What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
Sunday, July 7, 2024
Work grows out of work.
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
