posts tagged "photography"

proustitute: Duane Michals, Joseph Cornell, 1972 (via)

"In the future the word for image will be word and the word for word won’t be a word but just silence.”
-Thomas Sayers Ellis, from “Selected Lens Caps"

What was important was that moment when I first saw an image coming out of chemicals. I was about 10 years old, and I was waiting to get into a basketball game, when a friend of mine came by and said “do you want to see developing in my dark room?” and I said “what’s that?”. I went with him to his basement, and I saw that first picture come out! With the red light it was all very spooky, and intimidating, yet I was very much attracted to it. So I ran home and asked my mom if I could empty out my grandmother’s jelly closet, and make a dark room out of it.

It was always about the passion of photographing, of making a “click”, then putting that little thing into something else and it became alive! That’s what drives me: the beauty of it all, the little click on my Leica. It’s very cosmic, because that’s exactly what happened: a flash, and then the cosmos came out of the water, out of the void. Then time was invented.

-Bruce Davidson

  “William Eggleston is a “color” photographer. Here there is also some room for interpretation. Rather than list the possibilities I will just explain directly. Eggleston is associated in such a pronounced fashion with color photography that the uttering of his name immediately brings to mind the word ‘color’.”

How lovely it must be to have your very name bring to mind color.

“If I could do it, I’d do no writing at all here. It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood and iron, phials of odors, plates of food and excrement… a piece of the body torn out by the roots might be more to the point.” - James Agee