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hotparade: Francesca Woodman
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zeroing: Fabian Roth
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literallyhyperbole: Vivian Maier, Self-portraits  “Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American amateur street photographer who was born in New York but grew up in France, and after returning to the US, worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago. During those years she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes most often in Chicago, although she traveled and photographed worldwide. Her photographs remained unknown and mostly undeveloped and unprinted until they were discovered by a local historian,  John Maloof, in 2007. She was, in the accounts of the families for whom she worked, very private, spending her days off walking the streets of Chicago and taking photographs, most often with a Rolleiflex camera. John Maloof, curator of Maier’s collection of photographs, summarizes the way the children she nannied would later describe her: She was a Socialist, a Feminist, a movie critic, and a tell-it-like-it-is type of person. She learned English by going to theaters, which she loved. She wore a men’s jacket, men’s shoes and a large hat most of the time. She was constantly taking pictures, which she didn’t show anyone. Between 1959 and 1960, Maier traveled to and photographed in Los Angeles, Manila, Bangkok, Beijing, Egypt, Italy and the American Southwest. As she got older, she collected more boxes of belongings, taking them with her to each new post. At one employer’s house, she stored 200 boxes of materials. Most were photographs or negatives, but Maier collected other objects, such as newspapers,and sometimes recorded audiotapes of conversations she had with people she photographed. Toward the end of her life, Maier may have been homeless for some time. She lived on Sopcial Securityand may have had another source of income, but the children she had taken care of in the early 1950s bought her an apartment in the Rogers Park area of Chicago and paid her bills. In 2008, she slipped on ice and hit her head. She did not fully recover and died in 2009, at 83.”
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mills: Park Benches - Love is Everywhere [Couple flirting on a fire escape], 1946, by Stanley Kubrick. More can be seen at the Museum of the City of New York. He took an astonishing number of perfect photographs.
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portraitsofself: brbnightmares: Cindy Sherman, Untitled #479, 1975.
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manques: By Hermann Försterling But is it rose petals or is it wafer-thin ham?
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if-youre-feeling-sinister: Erwin Olaf, The Keyhold installation Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf addresses social issues, taboos, and bourgeois conventions within the framework of a highly stylized and cunning mode of imagery. With the aid of his razor-sharp aesthetic intuition, Olaf purposely conceals his themes so that the viewer unconsciously and initially accepts the concealment found in his photo series
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hyperallergic: Irving Penn, “Still Life with Watermelon, New York” (1947) Dye transfer print mounted, 24 x 19 7/8 inches (610 x 505 mm), signed, annotated in ink and Penn/Conde Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the reverse of the mount). Emulson surface with craquelure, but overall an extraordinarily attractive image, probably printed 1960s or 1970s. Penn Moments Preserved p. 117; Szarkowski Irving Penn 1984, plate 63; Penn Passage: A Work Record p. 41.
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fuckyeahartandscience: scipsy: Oldest known photograph of a tornado. South Dakota, 22 miles southwest of Howard. August 28, 1884 (by NOAA Photo Library) OH WOW.
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steroge: “Lauren E. Simonutti, 1968, USA, passed away last week due to complications from her illness. On March 28th, 2006 she started hearing voices and was diagnosed with “rapid cycling, mixed state bipolar with schizoaffective disorder”. She felt she was going mad and spent her last years almost in isolation. She turned the camera on herself and the space she was living in. She has left us with an impressive, honest and strong body of work. With her photographs she gave a voice to those that suffer in isolation.” * (Image: ‘Resumé’) R.I.P.
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