Tags | Alec Soth | Interview | photography | photoreads |“People always say to me, “Your pictures are so lonely.” I think if you look at the vast majority of the books [I’ve collected here in the studio] with pictures, they’re lonely. Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.” (…)
One of my favorite essay’s from Words Without Pictures
Tags | Words Without Pictures | Too Drunk to Fuck | On the Anxiety of Photography | Mark Wyse | photoreads | photography | criticism |An interview with Robert Frank while discussing a book project with Gerhard Steidl. An amazing insight into how ideas are formulated into books and some important words of wisdom by the masters.
Tags | Huh. Magazine | Robert Frank | Steidl | photobook | photography | Interview | photoreads |I found this article http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/danny-lyon-vs-google-books/ about a photographer’s work reproduced in Google’s online books. It’s a very interesting case because I love the fact that Google is building this digital archive of books, but I agree with the photographer that there has to be certain rules in reproducing these books. Especially photography and art books.
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