Christian teens burn their Beatles record, 1946
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
“Old Lady Faces the Water Cannon,” 1970, © Kazuo Kitai
I wrote about Kazuo Kitai for LPV Magazine. His work is only just recently getting some attention outside of Japan but it’s extremely important. I’m honored to introduce his work.
“I struggled with this even earlier with Katrina; because of the Mississippi River project, everyone thought, “Oh, Alec should go to Katrina.” I wrote about this issue of how many people like me—these fine-art quasi-photojournalists—went there and made pictures, and I think there’s something problematic in it. The cell phone photo culture has changed everything. Everything can be documented. I sometimes think those cell phone pictures are more meaningful in terms of their craft—and lack thereof—than someone trying to get the right angle and the right light and all that.”
“I mean, there was a time when making a good picture was a difficult thing to do. In the photo galleries at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), they have two Ansel Adams prints next to each other. A comparison talking about how he was able to achieve this other kind of print years after the first kind. And now, I hand the camera to my seven-year-old daughter. I put it on “program,” and she makes a stunning picture in terms of technical quality. There’s nothing to it anymore.”
Jean-Luc Godard
(The Dziga Vertov Group)
Le vent d’est / Wind from the East , 1970.
(Source: rockysds)
DJ Koze - Homesick feat. Ada by Pampa Records http://bit.ly/Yxq46e (autopost from Soundcloud)
DJ Koze - Das Wort feat. Dirk von Lowtzow by Pampa Records http://bit.ly/ZXoGZL (autopost from Soundcloud)
