Banality and all its charms

Weegee understands. He could never make a commercial photograph of a girl running on a beach. Or a girl running on a beach with a ball. Or a girl lying on a beach with a ball. For the publishing industry, the variations of the girl on beach are infinite.

Not Weegee though. He liked a nice guy drinking a beer caught in a meaningless but pleasurable moment. But because he was Weegee, he makes the moment have meaning.

Copyright belongs to the ICP but the digital image is from the Metropolitan. Don't know the date. Maybe 1930's.

early morning rush sixty wall street tower

early morning rush sixty wall street tower

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museum of modern art

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Phantom Photographs

My favorite photographs capture something or someone but just a little bit of that or them. Not too much documentation please. Just a glimpse of something or other. Phantoms photographs. I spend hours looking for phantom images. Probably due to an encounter with a photographer of spirits and a love of trick film/photography. Much too much time spent searching for images that document the in between, the trick, the frame by frame, the phantoms. It is always exciting to find a new one.

I found this image on the ICP website. Miroslav Tichy, undated. Owned by his foundation.