coffee, cars, tuba, photography.
pro-choice, feminist, wanna-be riot grrrl.
artist, musician, tuba player, college sorority girl.
minor obsession with the 1970s.
Anything else, you can probably guess from my posts.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Say Cheese!
Amanda and her cousin Amy by Mary Ellen Mark
North Carolina, USA, 1990
In 1990, Peter Howe at Life magazine sent me to North Carolina to photograph a special school for children with problems. The school was a very strange place because all of the twenty or so children were in the same classroom and their problems ranged from mild behavior instability to severe schizophrenia.
Nine-year-old Amanda was the most interesting child in the class. She was my favorite child. Amanda was very intelligent and very naughty. One day I followed her home on the school bus. When the bus stopped at her house, she dashed ahead of me and ran into a nearby wooded area. I continued to follow her into the woods and eventually found her sitting in an old stuffed chair having a cigarette. She thought that I would reprimand her since I was an adult. But I said nothing.
The following Sunday, I spent the day at home with Amanda and her mother. Amanda totally controlled her mother. She constantly gave her orders and proceeded to put on her mother’s nail polish and makeup. Amanda smoked openly in front of her. Her 8-year-old cousin Amy was coming over, and she was very excited. All day long, Amanda and her cousin played like children. Every forty-five minutes or so, Amanda would take a break to have a cigarette. Her mother could say nothing; Amanda was the boss.
Just before I left, I looked for Amanda to say good-bye. I found her and Amy in the backyard. They were in a children’s inflatable pool. Amanda was taking her regular cigarette break.i wonder where amanda is now
Cari Ann Wayman comes from Chicago in the mid-western Illinois. The 23 year old is something between an explorer and a photographer. She delves into the landscape of the Mid-west USA in search of abandoned derelict buildings, cars, anything that holds memories of prior prominence.
Her pictures have a enchanting mood, they feel like memories put into images. Though, by modelling in them, she brings those memories back to life. Those old mansion are not forgotten any more, someone is there, someone cares.
Abelardo Morell - Camera Obscura [New York]
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yurie nagashima
So many yesses!
These photos are of violinist Jascha Heifetz as photographed by Gjon Mili in 1952 for LIFE Magazine.
Those squiggles are exactly what you suspect they are — a light attached to Jascha’s bow.
Thanks, Darrell!
Photographer Imagines What World Cities Would Look Like Without Lights
French photographer Thierry Cohen wants to show you what the cities might look like if they went dark on a clear day, and if the photographer focused on bringing out the stars. His project Darkened Cities shows recognizable cityscapes in darkness under the night sky.
To create the images, Cohen first traveled to locations that are untainted by the light pollution of large urban areas, capturing beautiful night shots of the Milky Way floating overhead.
He then combined these photographs with manipulated photographs of various cities (e.g. San Francisco, New York City, Tokyo, Rio de Janerio) to complete the effect.
Liv Tyler photographed by Ellen von Unwerth
Kate and Mac
