Photography is inescapably a memorial art. It selects, out of the flow of time, a moment to be preserved, with the moments before and after falling away like sheer cliffs. At a dinner party earlier this year, I was in conversation with someone who asked me to define photography. I suggested that it is about …
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seelenfaengerin: Sunset in Waldport, Oregon One of the unbelievably beautiful sunsets my unbelievably beautiful wife photographed during our unbelievably beautiful trip through Oregon and Washington this month.
This idea of “ruining,” or really, “changing” Cuba, felt condescending and arrogant, erasing the Cuban people from their own narrative. Since the founding of the United States, when Thomas Jefferson’s “candidly confessed[ed]” his desire to colonize the island nation to the moment when Americans “celebrated” Cuba’s independence from Spain—and then proceeded to exploit the country’s …
gradientlair: Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928-May 28, 2014). Dancer. Singer. Poet. Author. Speaker. Educator. Creative. Inspirer. Mother. Black woman. Beautiful. She means so much to me. Everything. May she rest in peace. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, …
Another Terry Richardson Victim Comes Forward – The Cut
Because I keep seeing images of Terry Richardson’s underwhelming fashion & celebrity photo shoots on my timelines, here is a reminder what a predatory rapist creep he seems to be. You can easily google numerous other accounts like the model’s linked above, from equally reputable sources like NY Magazine. [CN: description of sexual assault in …
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vintagelibraries: Story time, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, year unknown.
Women in Artsy Photography
It really irks me how often women* in ‘artsy’ photography, especially in art-erotica and high fashion photography, look and pose like corpses. I am by no means the first to point this out, but I was reminded of the issue when I stumbled upon this Helmut Newton image. It could be a really great, really interesting, …
Moon over the Seerhein.
seelenfaengerin: This almost seems to be too surreal to be true
Distinguished sociologist Erving Goffman noted that women in photographs are often portrayed in compromising or submissive situations such as having the head turned upwards to expose the neck or in a contorted stances often with light self-touching. Such poses invite the gaze of the viewer and make the subject of the photograph seem vulnerable and exposed to …
CLARITY AND CHAOS 