The Metropolitan Museum of Art - [Album of Spirit Photographs]
Sunday, October 16, 2011
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Walker Evans and graffiti
More Walker Evans and graffiti.
Favorite photographic subjects: graffiti, dogs, people drinking and smoking, snapshots of couples.
Least favorite: landscapes.
Birthday themes: Walker Evans and Graffiti
Not necessarily together.
Here is a photograph from the Met's database. 1937 November-December taken in New York City.
Friday, May 7, 2010
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.
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