January 2011
11 posts
5 tags
5 tags
lonely (and not so lonely) tables
littlebrownmushroom (Alec Soth):
Celebrating my birthday alone in a crappy motel in Kansas. Woo Hoo.
Anna Shteynshleyger’s Pears and Calculator:
a Stephen Shore breakfast:
a William Eggleston dinner:
Laura Letinsky, from the Hardly More than Ever series, Untitled #54, 2002:
5 tags
The U of C in pictures, a long time ago
Today I started my new job as a Digital Assistant at Special Collections. The project I’m working on involves scanning and cataloging photo archives from the Maroon, dating anywhere from the 1940’s to the 1990’s, but mostly concentrated in the 60’s and 70’s. It’s fun because I get to look at a lot of pictures (yay) and learn about all of the people that made the...
5 tags
Alec Soth, Fashion Magazine, 2007
“I often say that when I am making a portrait, I’m not ‘capturing’ the other person. If the photograph documents anything, it is the space between the subject and myself.
Something similar is at work with Fashion Magazine. I’m not really comfortable saying I know anything about Paris or its fashion world. And I suspect that most fashionable Parisians know just as...
Marion Wolcott Post – “Horse Races at Hialeah...
More images from this FSA collection can be found here on THESE AMERICANS.
3 tags
5 tags
4 tags
Lithuanian chicken bacon buns
Towards the end of last quarter things got pretty busy and I didn’t write much on here, and over break my internet was too slow to upload too many photos. I thought I’d have more time to write this quarter since I’m only taking one class, but things have really picked up again and I think I actually might even busy as busy as last quarter! Nevertheless I’m back at the Art...