‘The Suffering of Light: thirty years of photographs’ presents a sort of timeline of Alex Webb’s work from 1979 to 2009, in all their hyper, headache-inducing, overly-crowded excellence. I picked it up after reading a brief interview with Webb, or a quote or something, that suggested he was particularly proud of this monograph, and when I first flipped through it, I guess I was in a negative mood, because all I saw was the great hunks of totally blocked up shadows, and it’s taken me months of looking randomly, and a two hour session of careful looking (and reading) to really come to grips with it.
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‘Family Photography Now’
Family Photography Now (Thames & Hudson, 2016) is a sort of follow-up to Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren’s Street Photography Now of 2010. Instead of an international (and somewhat historical) selection of street photographers, organized by general thematic concerns, the focus is now on photographers who work with families, both their own and others.
Continue reading “‘Family Photography Now’”handsome, sometimes
…especially when appropriately blurred. Continue reading “handsome, sometimes”
don’t know what you got, ’til it’s gone
A couple of weeks ago, now, I went to Arkansas to visit Mom, and while there, wandering around photographing) running errands for her, I slipped and fell, twisting my right knee in the process. There’s a bit of slowly-healing road rash, but the most fun is the stretched or torn MCL and possibly damaged meniscus. For the first few days, I could barely stand without pain, and took to sitting down to pray, bending my torso only for the bowing and prostrating portions of salat. And it didn’t really strike me at first, but after 10 days of modified prayer, I’m suddenly angry at myself for my prior ingratitude. Continue reading “don’t know what you got, ’til it’s gone”
