Stephen Black

Many and in many different genres. I tend to like photographers who can do any kind of project and still be recognizable. The pinnacle of that for me is Irving Penn. Someone I’ve been obsessed with recently is Niegel Shafran and his workbooks edited by Loose Joint.

“Gould looked like a bum and lived like a bum,” Mitchell wrote. “He wore castoff clothes, and he slept in flophouses or in the cheapest rooms in cheap hotels. Sometimes he slept in doorways. He spent most of his time hanging out in diners and cafeterias and barrooms in the Village or wandering around the streets or looking up friends and... See more

The current crisis in the design industry – this race-to-the-bottom pricing and confusion about value – stems precisely from this misunderstanding. When clients treat Design as decoration, they naturally seek the lowest bidder. But when they grasp Design as the methodology for creating desirable change, they understand they're not buying pixels but... See more

Joseph Mitchell both described and conjured the dazzling world of New York when it was really New York — the characters, the grit, the language.

your amygdala just wants to scurry under a rock