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When making art, we create a mirror in which someone may see their own hidden reflection.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller

Robert Frank’s The Americans

Henry Carroll • Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs

Using a Leica camera with a telephoto lens on a tripod, Horvat took several thirty-second exposures so that the architecture and some people would be still, and the moving crowd would blur. By using this technique, Horvat appears to underscore the physical movement and the transient nature of the environment as well as the moments spent within it. ... See more

Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris

as if he, too, might have another hundred years or two to document what time hides forever in plain sight.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

“taking the time to live.”

Moyra Davey • Index Cards

“environmental portraiture,”

Steven Heller • Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

Not quite ready to go home just yet. Picture just a little too clear to get on the train at this precise moment. Better, it has been decided, to fuzz things a little around the edges before moving back into their other lives.

Anthony Bourdain • Medium Raw

10 Lietuvos fotografijos istorijų. Andrew Miksys

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So strange, so sad that Weegee, writing about Stieglitz, was predicting his own loneliness and decline into obscurity. But Weegee’s book does end on a bright note. Its final words are: “Be original and develop your own style, but don’t forget above anything and everything else…be human…think…feel. When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond bet