Joel Meyerowitz on Vivian Maier:
To go up and photograph a stranger on the street you have to hold your ground and be fearless and take what you want because it is yours.via Vivian Maier BBC Imagine (2013) by Joel Meyerowitz.
Will see an exhibition of Vivian Maier photos in Vienna in mid-July.
Martin Gayford on Ordinary and Extraordinary:
great pictures are often images of very commonplace sights.via What makes William Eggleston's ordinary photographs so extraordinary? by Martin Gayford.
We don’t remember some things because we can’t, or because we don’t want to, and we might even remember things that never happened.via Harvey Benge – The Traveller by Jörg Colberg.
Del Kathryn Barton on Portraits:
There has to be a really tangible, palpable connection between you and the sitter. The best portraits are about sincerity and connection.via Archibald Prize: six winners on what it has meant for them and how to paint a contender by Nick Galvin.
When we are stripped of certainty we are in reality. And reality is not always to our liking. Tough Luck.via The Road to Recovery by Maggie Barrett.
When something inside me resonates with what I see, my finger moves to the shutter. In that moment, I have understood and explained both the inner and outer worlds I inhabit. When others see my pictures and react, I know that I have captured a moment in life. These moments are the core of my art.via Why I Take Pictures by Martin Elkort.
If you’re lucky, the horrible thing that happens gives you some distance from the world and it lets you to look at it in a way no one else does. [..]Because you’re the lucky one.
via The Horrible Thing That Happens by I Wrote this for You (Iain S. Thomas.
I've learned (*) the dangers of my narrowly restricted definitions of image quality. Knowing them can/should become the foundation of my personal work, but they can also be a terrible and unjust barrier to my appreciation of the work of other photographers — especially those whose criteria are different than mine. It is a good idea, I believe, to develop the complimentary skills of knowing our own definitions while simultaneously suspending our personal prejudices when we look at the work of others. Without that, we might miss a lot.via Defining quality (*) by Brooks Jensen (*).
