Margaret Bourke-White

I know of nothing to equal the happy expectancy of finding something new, something unguessed in advance, something only you would find, because as well as being a photographer, you were a certain kind of human being, and you would react to something all others might walk by.



 

Joan Didion

I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.
David Hurn

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of such complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure for me, in things such as they are

Tuesday
May292012

alviso

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Alviso, California

Friday
May252012

friday links

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Palo Alto, California

 

  • Alfred Hitchcock ~ my all-time favorite director on his definition of happiness here
  • Celebrating Gordon Parks - the International Center of Photography celebrates with an outside exhibition up until January of 2013. And I soo want to se it.
  • If you're in the Los Angeles area the exhibit Who Shot Rock & Roll is coming to The Annenberg Space for Photography this summer and I can hardly wait. Surely worth a five hour drive. 
  • "Think about where you are, this very moment — and imagine all that has happened there before now." A  project by photographer Gregg Segal mixing history and present day in an interesting way.

 

 

Have a nice long weekend and be safe ~

Wednesday
May232012

the only thing i collect...

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...postcards. These are my last four acquisitions. If you ever go away and want to bring me something back bring me back a postcard. I will love you forever. Sort of. Well, I will definitely like you forever ( let's not get carried away ).

Tuesday
May222012

the little lady agency

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Saturday
May192012

maurice sendak

 

“It’s sublime, to go into another room and make pictures. It’s magic time, where all your weaknesses of character, the blemishes of your personality, whatever else torments you, fades away, just doesn’t matter. You’re doing the one thing you want to do and you do it well and you know you do it well, and… you’re happy. The whole promise is to do the work, sitting down at the drawing table, turning on the radio, and I think, what a transcendent life this is, that I’m doing everything I want to do. In that moment, I feel like I’m a lucky man.”

(  Found via Austin Kleon )

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