Snowy Thursday

I stumbled upon this picture while sitting in my apartment on this snowy Thursday. This is exactly what I imagine I look like from the street.

Captured: The Great Depression

There was an article I came across from this summer from the Denver Post sharing photos taken during the Great Depression between 1939 and 1943. The photos' quality and texture make it hard to believe they we're taken nearly a half century ago. These are a beautiful collection of photos.

**Here is the link to the rest

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

 An American photographer, born in 1881, Alfred Stieglitz was an influential photographer who spent his life fighting for the recognition of photography as a valid art form. He was a pioneering photographer, editor and gallery owner who played pivotal role in defining and shaping modernism in the United States. He took pictures in a time when photography was considered as only a scientific curiosity and not an art. As the controversy over the art value of photography became widespread, Stieglitz began to fight for the recognition of his chosen medium. This battle would last his whole life. 

A Snapshot: Paris

A Snapshot: Paris

The Steerage

Georgia O'Keefe

 Between 1917 and 1937, Stieglitz shot over 300 portraits of Georgia O'Keefe. Stieglitz believed a portrait needs to be more than just the face to portray the subject's overall experience.

"Stieglitz had a very sharp eye for what he wanted to say with the camera. . . . His idea of a portrait was not just one picture. His dream was to start with a child at birth and photograph that child in all of its activities as it grew to be a person and on throughout its adult life. As a portrait it would be a photographic diary." -Georgia O'Keefe

Faces of New York

The photographer Simon Hogsberg did a photo project called Faces of New York. He photographed 10 New Yorkers and ask them how they thought about their face. It is a beautiful project.

Hogsberg's Artist Statement clues us in the to the aim behind this project.

Faces of New York

Once in a while I see a person on the street who immediately attracts my attention. I’m fascinated by the appearance of the person and feel a strong urge to walk over and say hi. I spent one month, seven hours a day, walking the streets of New York in search for people who had this effect on me. I found ten, and asked each of them the same question: What do you think about your face?

Sevilla

I love photography. I love the way time is frozen in that one snap shot. The photography that I tend to enjoy the most I have a connection with, I'm drawn to the familiar.

These are photo's I found all taken in my favorite city in the world.. Sevilla, Spain

*I took the last two shots when I was studying in Sevilla.

Rob Gardiner's Pinhole Photography

I enjoyed the slightly distorted view that the pinhole gave Rob Gardiner's photos. I especially like the way the geometric urban photos are skewed by the sharp center focus.

Slow City, Pinhole

Ireland Yard, Pinhole

Careful, Pinhole

Under Blackfriars Bridge, Pinhole

Time

While procrastinating, I came across this video. This guy took one picture of himself everyday for eight years. It is fascinating to see this man grow through a time machine of photography.

Morocco

Being the new photographer that I am, I racked my brain to remember a time or place when I was particularly inspired. Nothing resinated more than my trip to Morocco in December of 2009. I was inspired to document the beautiful colors and shapes that I found while traveling the country.