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"Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare / Rides upon sleep" -Yeats
"Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare / Rides upon sleep" -Yeats
"In a photograph, a girl rapidly transforming into an adult can pause her own evolution, if only for a frame. Nearly all photos contain this illusory stillness, despite the unrest of the actual. But Woodman denies us this temporary serenity." openspace.sfmoma.org/2012/01/gann...
August 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"In a photograph, a girl rapidly transforming into an adult can pause her own evolution, if only for a frame. Nearly all photos contain this illusory stillness, despite the unrest of the actual. But Woodman denies us this temporary serenity." openspace.sfmoma.org/2012/01/gann...
When you're trying to explain to your wife why the chores have to wait while you go out and make photographs (via newcriterion.com/dispatch/the...)
April 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
When you're trying to explain to your wife why the chores have to wait while you go out and make photographs (via newcriterion.com/dispatch/the...)
Diane Arbus, born on this day in 1923 - a photographer who showed the intense power and energies that could be unleashed in images made by an artist willing to look and describe the transcendent ineffable mysteries of life and humanity outside the borders of conventional society and norms
March 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Diane Arbus, born on this day in 1923 - a photographer who showed the intense power and energies that could be unleashed in images made by an artist willing to look and describe the transcendent ineffable mysteries of life and humanity outside the borders of conventional society and norms
1. Central Park, Untitled, 1989 from Passing through Eden -Tod Papageorge
2. The Color of Pomegranates, 1969 by Sergei Parajanov (film still)
Both images, and the relationship they appear to describe between the printed word (knowledge) & the world as both futile and freeing resonate in our moment
2. The Color of Pomegranates, 1969 by Sergei Parajanov (film still)
Both images, and the relationship they appear to describe between the printed word (knowledge) & the world as both futile and freeing resonate in our moment
March 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
1. Central Park, Untitled, 1989 from Passing through Eden -Tod Papageorge
2. The Color of Pomegranates, 1969 by Sergei Parajanov (film still)
Both images, and the relationship they appear to describe between the printed word (knowledge) & the world as both futile and freeing resonate in our moment
2. The Color of Pomegranates, 1969 by Sergei Parajanov (film still)
Both images, and the relationship they appear to describe between the printed word (knowledge) & the world as both futile and freeing resonate in our moment
“If your pictures are not good enough, you are not reading enough.” - Tod Papageorge.
📸 1. Mad Magazine, 1978 - Tod Papageorge from 'Passing Through Eden'
📸 2. From past K-Ville, 1994 - Mark Steinmetz
📸 1. Mad Magazine, 1978 - Tod Papageorge from 'Passing Through Eden'
📸 2. From past K-Ville, 1994 - Mark Steinmetz
February 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“If your pictures are not good enough, you are not reading enough.” - Tod Papageorge.
📸 1. Mad Magazine, 1978 - Tod Papageorge from 'Passing Through Eden'
📸 2. From past K-Ville, 1994 - Mark Steinmetz
📸 1. Mad Magazine, 1978 - Tod Papageorge from 'Passing Through Eden'
📸 2. From past K-Ville, 1994 - Mark Steinmetz
"Every photo, every ‘once’ in time is also the beginning of a story…Every photo is the first frame of a movie." – Wim Wenders. 📸 The Theatre, Texas, from the series, “Written in the West”, 1987 - Wim Wenders. Love this pic made in '87 when Wenders revisited some of the Paris Texas locations.
February 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Every photo, every ‘once’ in time is also the beginning of a story…Every photo is the first frame of a movie." – Wim Wenders. 📸 The Theatre, Texas, from the series, “Written in the West”, 1987 - Wim Wenders. Love this pic made in '87 when Wenders revisited some of the Paris Texas locations.
Photos by Garry Winogrand from Garry Winogrand Color, published by Twin Palms Publishing in Nov. 2023, and still available on their site. The statement is from Garry Winogrand's 1964 Guggenheim application and feels just as resonant 61 years later in 2025
February 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Photos by Garry Winogrand from Garry Winogrand Color, published by Twin Palms Publishing in Nov. 2023, and still available on their site. The statement is from Garry Winogrand's 1964 Guggenheim application and feels just as resonant 61 years later in 2025
Variations on Boy with Thorn
1. 📸 Summertime, Girl Pulling Thorn, Suburb to the South of Chicago, 1990 - Mark Steinmetz
2. Dornauszieher ("thorn puller") by Gustav Eberlein between 1879 and 1885. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
3.Lo Spinario (Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini)
1. 📸 Summertime, Girl Pulling Thorn, Suburb to the South of Chicago, 1990 - Mark Steinmetz
2. Dornauszieher ("thorn puller") by Gustav Eberlein between 1879 and 1885. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
3.Lo Spinario (Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini)
February 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Variations on Boy with Thorn
1. 📸 Summertime, Girl Pulling Thorn, Suburb to the South of Chicago, 1990 - Mark Steinmetz
2. Dornauszieher ("thorn puller") by Gustav Eberlein between 1879 and 1885. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
3.Lo Spinario (Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini)
1. 📸 Summertime, Girl Pulling Thorn, Suburb to the South of Chicago, 1990 - Mark Steinmetz
2. Dornauszieher ("thorn puller") by Gustav Eberlein between 1879 and 1885. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
3.Lo Spinario (Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini)
"Well, the rough stuff around the edges in the south is what I like to photograph. You never find treasure in a mowed lawn. It's the weedy areas at the edge where you start finding interesting things" -Mark Steinmetz (📸 Mark Steinmetz from his 2008 photobook South East, published by Nazraeli.)
February 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"Well, the rough stuff around the edges in the south is what I like to photograph. You never find treasure in a mowed lawn. It's the weedy areas at the edge where you start finding interesting things" -Mark Steinmetz (📸 Mark Steinmetz from his 2008 photobook South East, published by Nazraeli.)
All photos are time capsules from the past. I'm fascinated by images that work in the opposite direction. Made in the past, they seem to hold vivid descriptions of the present. This photo could have been made yesterday. 📸 Michael and Sandy Marsh, Amarillo, Texas, September 27, 1974 - Stephen Shore
February 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
All photos are time capsules from the past. I'm fascinated by images that work in the opposite direction. Made in the past, they seem to hold vivid descriptions of the present. This photo could have been made yesterday. 📸 Michael and Sandy Marsh, Amarillo, Texas, September 27, 1974 - Stephen Shore
Follow ATgary.panter on Instagram for more wisdom about living a creative life from an artist who’s spent a lifetime doing just that
February 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Follow ATgary.panter on Instagram for more wisdom about living a creative life from an artist who’s spent a lifetime doing just that
"A photograph, though, is a special kind of object. It’s made of paper and silver emulsion, and also of less tangible substances: light; time; memory; love." A.O. Scott looks at George Oppen's poem 'From A Photograph' I love how photography feeds poetry & vice versa. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
February 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"A photograph, though, is a special kind of object. It’s made of paper and silver emulsion, and also of less tangible substances: light; time; memory; love." A.O. Scott looks at George Oppen's poem 'From A Photograph' I love how photography feeds poetry & vice versa. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
THE SPECTATOR IS COMPELLED… (John Baldessari, 1966-1968)
February 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
THE SPECTATOR IS COMPELLED… (John Baldessari, 1966-1968)
Epigraph that opens Regina DeLuise’s wonderful photo book’The Hands of My Friends’
January 31, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Epigraph that opens Regina DeLuise’s wonderful photo book’The Hands of My Friends’
Photographer Bryan Schutmaat talking about his work in-person at NYC's Penumbra Foundation Wednesday, February 12 at 7pm in a free and public lecture. For more info or to RSVP: www.penumbrafoundation.org/artist-serie.... (Space is limited, I'd RSVP right away if interested!) 📸Bryan Schutmaat
January 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Photographer Bryan Schutmaat talking about his work in-person at NYC's Penumbra Foundation Wednesday, February 12 at 7pm in a free and public lecture. For more info or to RSVP: www.penumbrafoundation.org/artist-serie.... (Space is limited, I'd RSVP right away if interested!) 📸Bryan Schutmaat
"A lot of the work I see now that bothers me the most is by the people who have it so absolutely figured out. Why is it that the pleasure principle has been so completely denied?" Philip-Lorca diCorcia (Via Artforum, 2015)
January 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"A lot of the work I see now that bothers me the most is by the people who have it so absolutely figured out. Why is it that the pleasure principle has been so completely denied?" Philip-Lorca diCorcia (Via Artforum, 2015)
I'm attracted to poets who are finding words to describe emotional and spiritual experiences of light in our world.
January 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I'm attracted to poets who are finding words to describe emotional and spiritual experiences of light in our world.
Man - these red roses, that intense blue sky, that bright white picket fence…and all the depravity just under the surface - really imprinted so indelibly on my psyche. RIP David Lynch you changed how i saw the world.
January 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Man - these red roses, that intense blue sky, that bright white picket fence…and all the depravity just under the surface - really imprinted so indelibly on my psyche. RIP David Lynch you changed how i saw the world.
My sister got me Nan Goldin’s great photo book ‘The Other Side’ for Christmas. Did you all get any good photo books?
December 26, 2024 at 1:32 AM
My sister got me Nan Goldin’s great photo book ‘The Other Side’ for Christmas. Did you all get any good photo books?
Incredible photo by pioneering lesbian photographer Cathy Cade who died Nov. 16 “We wanted to present ourselves as women to be taken seriously, who had skills and who were workers, and this was showing some of our work” 📷 Emerson Street Household, 1973 - Cathy Cade.
December 22, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Incredible photo by pioneering lesbian photographer Cathy Cade who died Nov. 16 “We wanted to present ourselves as women to be taken seriously, who had skills and who were workers, and this was showing some of our work” 📷 Emerson Street Household, 1973 - Cathy Cade.
Still thinking about that Danny Lyon image of El Paso in my last post I came across this Mary Ruefle poem posted by @carlasarett.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Still thinking about that Danny Lyon image of El Paso in my last post I came across this Mary Ruefle poem posted by @carlasarett.bsky.social
Beautiful warm tones of flesh, bricks, clothes, dusty streets and light. We can feel the summer heat. Some of the look probably unified by color shifts and degradation in the image over time - interesting to think how this process of decay might strengthen the photo. 📸 El Paso, 1972 - Danny Lyon
December 13, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Beautiful warm tones of flesh, bricks, clothes, dusty streets and light. We can feel the summer heat. Some of the look probably unified by color shifts and degradation in the image over time - interesting to think how this process of decay might strengthen the photo. 📸 El Paso, 1972 - Danny Lyon
Do you despise the commercialism and endless contests in the photography world as much as I do? The great Japanese poet Bashō felt the same way about the poetry scene in Edo in 1691. Plus ça change... (via @addisonzeller.bsky.social)
December 13, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Do you despise the commercialism and endless contests in the photography world as much as I do? The great Japanese poet Bashō felt the same way about the poetry scene in Edo in 1691. Plus ça change... (via @addisonzeller.bsky.social)
According to this article in the Financial Times on the work of photographer Dave Heath, they used to call baby photographers, "kidnappers." Really? t.co/BjJfiQVnli
December 12, 2024 at 12:31 AM
According to this article in the Financial Times on the work of photographer Dave Heath, they used to call baby photographers, "kidnappers." Really? t.co/BjJfiQVnli
"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -Anton Chekhov (www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT3_...)
December 11, 2024 at 4:33 PM
"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -Anton Chekhov (www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT3_...)