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I am a photographer.
I like lurchers.
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maudkristina at gmail dot com
(photographer unknown)
“A lurcher, mainly Scottish Deerhound, yearning to go outside.”
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Photo by Jane Bown
“…she was still using her faithful Olympus because she was ‘supremely uninterested in photographic technology, accepting her camera’s limitations as imposing a necessary discipline on her image-making,’ as Germaine Greer has observed.
Most of her photographs were taken in sessions that lasted no more than 15 minutes. She had no props and turned up carrying only a shopping bag with her camera in it. Annie Leibovitz she wasn’t. Even exposure meters were shunned. ‘I just looked at the light on the back of my hand and judged it that way.’ Thus Bown perfected minimalist photography: the same camera, the same lens, the same setting, but no flash or exposure meter. In this way she was left free to concentrate on those eyes.
Her work for The Observer was mostly made up of last-minute assignments. ‘I’d be sent with a writer and had to take my photographs quickly so they could get on with the interview. In a typical month I might do Dennis Hopper at the Savoy, Woody Allen at the Dorchester, and a senior politician at his home. Each time, I’d have 10 minutes. So I would march straight in and take over the situation. I had a quick mind. I could suss it all out immediately.’”
Exposures: Jane Bown: 100 Portraits
(photographer unknown)
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Fiskare, ett barn och två kvinnor, ombord en fiskebåt
(Fishermen, a child and two women, onboard a fishing boat)
Albumen print by Carl Curman, 1880s
Parish (socken): Lysekil
Province (landskap): Bohuslän
Municipality (kommun): Lysekil
County (län): Västra Götaland
Via Swedish National Heritage Board
Photo by Jonathan Purvis
“It’s like riding a big rolling wave on the balls of your feet, from far out at sea, all the way to shore, and thrown hard on the beach. Then it’s nighttime and you’ve never seen so many stars and there’s people hiding in the treeline, but you can’t see them. That might be surprising.”
Via Filter-Mag
Photo by Rafal Milach
“Retired circus artist Mieczyslaw Grzebieniowski (77). He performed as rifleman. After finishing artistic career he worked as a teacher at circus school. He is already retired more than 20 years.”
“Circus city was built in the middle of Kampinoski National Park 30 km away from Warsaw. Due to financial problems, the center was closed almost 10 years ago. Huge area emptied. Circus city is slowly dying. I invited few retired circus artists to take their portraits at the place where some of them has been working for more than 30 years.”
Via Choice Images
