When I showed up with my camera at his house a few weeks later, I felt as if I had been training for that moment my entire working life. For more than forty years, in locations as disparate as the American South, Inuit villages in Alaska, Havana streets, and Hispanic towns in northern New Mexico, I learned to make portraits without the actual prese... See more
Margaret Sartor • Seeing Reynolds Price Through His Art Collection
the photograph as “memento mori” and “inventory of mortality”
Moyra Davey • Index Cards
These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.”
Bill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
Kimberly Drew @museummammy
instagram.com
‘Hyper’, Denis Darzacq
Henry Carroll • Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs
“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
Simon Sarris • On the Usefulness of Photography
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
Alec Soth still has difficulty approaching strangers, but he does it for the greater good.