Finally saw Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
(Source: martyr-of-narcissus)
I'm a photography writer in Tokyo Japan. I moved here after living in San Francisco.
東京に住んでいるアメリカ人です。下のブログで日本の写真について書いています。
Publishing books as MCV MCV
Street Level Japan - blog about Japanese photography
dan at mcvmcv dot net
YING ANG PHOTO BLOG: On the importance of “Personal Photography”.Often we are asked the...
On the importance of “Personal Photography”.
By denying our personal photography because we cannot find a professional home for them, we run the risk of denying a future for images whose importance we have no concept of… the visual history or several interwoven histories which may not have a place now in the confusion of vernacular photographs exploding across the internet, but may yet filter through the course of time and find an important place beyond what we know or have a capability to understand.
This photo shows photographer John Gossage and bookseller Harper Levine touching a book at last year’s 10×10 Japanese Photobooks event. It’s back this year in a new, American incarnation, and I’m wondering what this means about our relationship to technology:
“After a rush to all things digital, it seems only natural that photography audiences would “return” to the physicality of books, and celebrate them in intimate gatherings like 10x10, or the book meetups that I sometimes hear about. Perhaps these gatherings are more significant than the books themselves—after all, you can look at photobooks until your eyes bleed on those crazy websites! I can’t really explain this here, but sometimes I’m convinced that our Facebook-centric model of online interaction, which seems as codified as ever, has actually made it more difficult to meet people through the internet—IRL, that is. This is an important task of technology, and we shouldn’t feel any shame about asking the not-yet-forgotten book to pick up the slack.”
(via photographsonthebrain)
Video of Daido Moriyama speaking at the Japan Society in NYC in 2011
I can’t embed it, but there are some good quotes in this talk 1. I think I linked this somewhere before, but I’m posting it again in the interest of making this blog more functional as a research archive.
