Sunday, June 30, 2024
Both document and monument.
— Philip Gefter, What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Szarkowski and I once discussed what distinguishes a photograph from an illustration. He said, "an illustration is a picture whose problems were solved before the picture was made."
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
Friday, June 28, 2024
And, you know, we knock on wood, wherever we may have wood.
— Donald Trump, CNN Presidential Debate
Thursday, June 27, 2024
This time, when I seated myself across from his desk and he asked me how things were, I told him my father had just passed away, a year after my mother. He said, "You know, some people believe you don't become your own person until both of your parents have died." This meant more to me than all the sincerely offered condolences from friends.
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Carry that weight a long time.
— The Beatles, "Carry That Weight"
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Like Bobby Troup's rolling list of place names, this has some of the incantational quality seen in American poetry from Walt Whitman to Allen Ginsberg.
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
Monday, June 24, 2024
No anecdote better epitomizes this paradox than the one recounted about Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein. When confronted by someone who claimed that the portrait didn't look anything like Stein, Picasso said with imposing confidence: “It will.”
— Philip Gefter, What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
Sunday, June 23, 2024
One of the threads running through the history of the medium is the redefinition of meaningful content. Photographers find meaning in something where it hadn't been recognized before, and then, over time, that content itself becomes a convention. And when it becomes a convention, it lacks the immediacy of the original picture.
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
Saturday, June 22, 2024
We made a lot of money. We made George a lot of money. We made a lot of people a lot of money. Made lots of people happy. Made lots of people forget the mundane, enjoy themselves for an afternoon or a day. Hopefully, it means something to him.
— Jeffrey Baldwin, Ren Faire
Friday, June 21, 2024
The relationship of content to form—a relationship that underpins all art.
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
Thursday, June 20, 2024
The choices she made in -filling- each page with words and different ideas, like a garden plot, or 🥧 pie, intrigue me.
— @brevigrapher on Hester Thrale’s notebook "Minced Meat for Pyes"
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Hammershoi is not one of those who need to be talked about quickly. His work is long and slow, and whensoever one studies it, that moment will always be an occasion for speaking about the important and essential in art.
— Rainer Maria Rilke via @richardmcguirehere
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
"What Jim wants to do is matter," Frey says. "He wanted a life that meant something."
— Gregory Zuckerman, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Monday, June 17, 2024
How did alphabet books deal with the letter X before the rise of x-rays and xylophones? We've picked out some of the best examples.
— @publicdomainrev
Sunday, June 16, 2024
What a day for a daydreamin' boy.
— The Lovin' Spoonful, "Daydream"
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Imagine being a cow and urinary incontinence wouldn't matter. Those lucky lucky girls.
— Lily looking at cows
Friday, June 14, 2024
They're not going to get hit by lightning and if they do they're insured. I think seals are cheap.
— Lily on seals potentially getting hit by lighting at the Central Park Zoo
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Me?
— Aardman Animations, Wat's Pig
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
In almost every picture' no. 9, about a family struggling to photograph their black dog
— @erik.kessels
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
And I'm so tired
I'm oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, so tired
But I'm trying to keep my customer satisfied,
Satisfied
I'm oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, so tired
But I'm trying to keep my customer satisfied,
Satisfied
— Simon & Garfunkel, "Keep the Customer Satisfied"