“..because you’re suddenly seeing the coherence and the connec.. interconnectedness of everything – left to right, top to bottom, front to back – it’s all connected and all.. and – somehow it’s in this balance..” Henry Wessel Via aarh.dk. More Henry Wessel at SFMOMA here. I found this one particularly interesting. Photos at Pace/MacGill Gallery, and Museum of Contemporary Photography.
I’m not sure why I ended up on Jim Goldberg’s site, but I did. And found this.
“I was living in Florida and I had a nice two bedroom condominium with a garage and a swimming pool, some orange and tangerine trees outside, a sports car and Ford van.. It wasn’t really very fulfilling, in the end.” —John Coffer I come across this on various Tumblr blogs from time to time, really recommend taking the six minutes to watch it. By Lost & Found Films.
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Just came across a couple of clips with Garry Winogrand on youtube. Subsequently, a quick www search found me this site, that has the clips, as well as a transcript (plus a good deal more on Winogrand, that I have yet to peruse.) “They do not tell stories – they show you what something looks like. To a camera.”
I seem to be somewhat inspired by men named Adams, here is the latest: “They [photographers] may or may not may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it”. Robert Adams, Why People Photograph, Aperture 1994 Can’t recommend this book enough.
“one thing that struck me very early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out, or vice versa, what comes out is not what you’ve put in.” Diane Arbus