Reads tagged with “photography”
Weather, Weather: Maira Kalman and Daniel Handler’s Lyrical Illustrated Celebration of the Elements
A dreamlike meditation on our elemental companion.
Eudora Welty on the Difficult Art of Seeing Each Other and the Power of Photography as a Dignifying Force
“If exposure is essential, still more so is the reflection. Insight doesn’t happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.”
Aristotle’s Aperture: An Animated History of Photography, from the Camera Obscura to the Camera Phone
…and how a greedy attitude to intellectual property made the camera’s primary competitor perish.
The Emperor of Time: A Dreamlike Short Film About Motion Picture Pioneer Eadweard Muybridge
A foundational story of modern culture, told from the point of view of an abandoned son and viewed through an antiquated device.
Feathers: A Stunning Photographic Love Letter to Evolution’s Masterpiece and Its Astonishing Array of Beauty
Art meets science in a poetic celebration of Earth’s astonishing diversity.
Hold Still: Sally Mann on the Treachery of Memory, the Dark Side of Photography, and the Elusive Locus of the Self
“Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time’s continuum.”
The Möbius Strip of Remembering and Forgetting: Teju Cole on How the Paradox of Photography Clarifies the Central Anxiety of Existence
“Photography is at the nerve center of our paradoxical memorial impulses: we need it there for how it helps us frame our losses, but we can also sense it crowding in on ongoing experience, imposing closure on what should still be open.”
Susan Sontag on How Photography Mediates Our Relationship with Life and Death
“We no longer study the art of dying, a regular discipline and hygiene in older cultures; but all eyes, at rest, contain that knowledge. The body knows. And the camera shows, inexorably.”
The Annihilation of Space and Time: Rebecca Solnit on How Muybridge Froze the Flow of Existence, Shaped Visual Culture, and Changed Our Consciousness
“Before, every face, every place, every event, had been unique, seen only once and then lost forever among the changes of age, light, time. The past existed only in memory and interpretation, and the world beyond one’s own experience was mostly stories.”
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