Wednesday

Spirit Photography


Cover of Harper's



"Thoughtography" by Ted Serios
(He claims to have actually photographed people's thoughts. I think that's pretty bogus, but these images are awesome.)



Frederick Hudson


Thursday

Photos that emulate paintings

Shoji Ueda

Andre Kertesz

Edward Cazneaux

Edward Steichen

Arthur Kales

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Anne Brigman

Who knew Walker Evans took Polaroids?

Not me. But how sweet are these?








I got these off of this guy's blog. He wrote that Evans only got the 'roid in his last few years of life. He hadn't done anything in years, but was newly inspired once he got his hands on the newfangled SX-70.

"I bought that thing as a toy, and I took it as a kind of challenge," Evans explained. "It was this gadget and I decided that I might be able to do something serious with it. So I got to work to try to prove that. I think I've done something with it. After all, I am getting older, and I feel that nobody should touch a Polaroid until he's over sixty. You should first do all that work. It makes things awfully easy to have that thing pop out. It reduces everything to your brains and taste. It interests me very much, too, because I feel that if you have these things in your head, this is the instrument that will really test it. The damn thing will do anything you point it at. You have to really know something before you dare point it anywhere."

Emulation: Nancy Rexroth's Iowa


Probably my favorite:



3 people I know, 3 people I don't know, 3 people I'd like to know

3 people I'd like to know:
Yo La Tengo (my shitty cell phone pictures, sorry)





More than 3 people I don't know (forgot to put this under offensive things):


3 people I know:

Wednesday

10 Offensive Images

The Jonas Brothers spraying "white foam" all over their pre-teen audience

Mountaintop removal



SP + Declaration of Independence = no


Elephant killed by poachers

Why??


Manifest Destiny

Terrence Malick, director

So I know looking at stills isn't the same as watching the movie, but here are some awesome images from Badlands (if you haven't seen the movie, this means you should probably watch it now):






Walker Evans

I know it's probably not cool to gush over Walker Evans, but these are two of my favorite photos ever:



Parked Car, Small Town Main Street, 1934

42nd Street


MOST IMPORTANT PHOTO--OF MY LIFE

Like everyone else, I had a hard time coming up with the most important photograph of in my life. I thought of some, though, and unfortunately, none of them are digital or scanned. One is a picture of my great-grandparents on their wedding day that they brought to America from Europe--along with a pair of silver candlesticks, my grandfather, and not much else.

The one that first came to mind, though, is a picture of my brother, my cousins and I laying in my grandparents' bed when I was about three. I am chewing on my hand, my cousin Natalie looks bored flipping the channels on the TV, my cousin Max looks ill, and my brother is throwing up. The picture is sitting on the mantel in my grandparents' house, and I'm truly sorry I can't share it with you. Nothing else even comes close.

Mark Jaremko


Nightscape No. 1: 9:43 PM

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Water:






Movie Theaters: