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.
I want to bring in the discipline of the art and essentially want them to include the five Ws (what, why, where, when, who) in their pictures. So many narratives are often overlooked in this frenzy of shooting unnecessary, mundane things. And many times we don’t concentrate on the things we should actually be looking at.via Street-savvy photography by Anahita Panicker.
the world is one of self-presentation and surfaces. You can try to go deeper if you want to, but the surface is where you have to start. If you are smart, it is where you will stay.via Diane Arbus’s Strange and Surreal Visions of New York by David Freedlander.
Liz Jobey on Diane Arbus:
How do we become the people we want to be? How do we overcome our genetics and our gender, how do we transform ourselves? How do children become adolescents and adolescents become adults? How do adults become parents, how do children distinguish themselves? These are essential questions throughout her work.via Diane Arbus: the magic mirror by Liz Jobey.
I can pretty much do whatever I want, because I’ve always understood what light and photography do togethervia An inconvenient vision by Anne Marie Burke.
To open the doors of perception we need to go beyond this world. Which is not easy because it is familiar to us and provides a foundation for us. But if you really want to step beyond this world, all you have to do is step – and you are out.via Photography Always Shows What We Already Think We Know by Colin Pantall.
Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
"There is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do," he thinks.
Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted.
Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.
