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Vivian Maier: eccentric amateur street photographer or maverick? Vivian Maier – Her Discovered Work  Created in dedication to the photographer Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s – 1990s. Vivian’s work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she resided most of her life. Her discovered work includes over 100,000 mostly medium [...]

“In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. “ -Susan Sontag

“Nobody ever takes a photograph of something they want to forget.” – Syd Parrish – A recent trip to the One Hour Photo at Walgreens recently lead me to Re-visit one of my Favorite Movies: One Hour Photo, written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams as Syd Parrish. The film, with its [...]

  1.  unwanted plant: a plant, especially a wild plant, growing where it is not wanted 2. unwanted plants: weeds in general ( often used before a noun ) “weed control” 3. plant growing in water: a plant that grows in water, especially seaweed   VERB  1. weed·ed – past and past participle 2. weed·ing – present participle 3. weeds [...]

The May/June American Photo Magazine  reported on JR, a guerilla street artist/self proclaimed “photograffeur”. JR enlarged his photos to huge proportions and created large scale installations by illegally pasting them onto buildings in: LA, Paris, Israel, Palestine, and the slums of India, Africa, and Brazil.  He especially gained noteriety during the riots in Paris and also by getting arrested in Shanghai. [...]

 In Sao Paulo I stepped off the plane and into a taxi. On the highway my first thought (aside from trying to convert Kilometers/Horas to Miles/Hour) was the vast number of motorcycles. All single cylinder: Suzuki, Yamaha, and Honda. All ridden recklessly by what I could only describe as dusty silhouettes. Anonymous, the riders band [...]

Elifas: Writer, Artist, Publisher, and Brazil’s most famous  Graphic Designer, celebrated with Thomas the launch of Elifas’ new company: Fabula.  Elifas gave Thomas a copy of one of his books and inscribed it for Tom’s birthday. He told Elifas, through an interpreter, that he was going to loan it to Montserrat  College of Art’s “bibloteca” because the students [...]

“I photograph what I can not paint, and paint what I can not photograph.” ~ Man Ray

  Imagine you are me   I always lose my keys   and lock myself out   of my house…     Imagine you are him   always finding keys   yet still locked out   of someone else’s house.  

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