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Photography, poetry, isolate flecks of truth "Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare / Rides upon sleep" -Yeats
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If the wedding photography doesn't work out...https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/10/13/g-s1-92391/landmines-hilton-humanitarian
Great discussion around photo sequencing with photographer Reuben Radding and a workshop student of his (and strong photographer!) Marshall Scott. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFFu...
Stop Sequencing by Favorites — Office Hours with Reuben Radding
YouTube video by Paulie B
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Critic Parul Sehgal explores the ethical challenges artists and writers face when they use their children as subjects or source material for their art or words. No matter where you land on these knotty issues, I think artists have to ask themselves the questions. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/m...
Is It Abusive to Make Art About Your Children?
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Mann, 74, is now publishing her second memoir, “Art Work: On the Creative Life,” a front-porch chatty reminiscence for artists and writers seeking their footing, by “an old woman,” Mann writes, “close to handing in my dinner pail.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...
Sally Mann, in Her Golden Hour, Faces Fresh Culture Wars
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Katy Grannan talking about a new body of portrait work made in California's Humboldt County, and opening in an exhibition at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco this week. vimeo.com/1109521177
Katy Grannan: Mad River
This is "Katy Grannan: Mad River" by Fraenkel Gallery on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Advice to artists: “If I could say one thing, it’s to always have another body of work waiting in the wings that you’re equally excited about,” she says. “It’s so easy to get discouraged when you finish a body of work, you think you’ll never do anything as good. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘I never hold back’: Sally Mann on her controversial family photos and becoming a writer
The celebrated US photographer was catapulted into America’s culture wars with her photobook Immediate Family. Now she’s written a book of ‘how not-to’ advice for artists
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Sebastian Siadecki breaks down all the components commonly used in contemporary (and a few vintage) photobooks in this great video. Super helpful if you think you might make one someday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhb8...
The Anatomy of the Photobook
YouTube video by Sebastian Siadecki Photography
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"In a photograph, a girl rapidly transforming into an adult can pause her own evolution, if only for a frame. Nearly all photos contain this illusory stillness, despite the unrest of the actual. But Woodman denies us this temporary serenity." openspace.sfmoma.org/2012/01/gann...
"Salinger wanted “In My Room: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms” to be seen in an art context. But she also didn’t want her work, in which she shot teens from the early eighties into the nineties, to be inaccessible to the kind of young people whose lives it portrayed" www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-i...
Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback.
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"Along with that inner aficionado, Meyerowitz recognized his larger vocation as an aficionado of public existence, photographing the transient flares of emotion and surreptitious congruences that once defined civic spaces, imbuing them with dynamic unpredictability." granta.com/the-artist-a...
The Artist as Aficionado
‘Meyerowitz’s subjects frequently appear enmeshed in some variegated social context where anything might happen.’
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"...yes, he [Robert Frank] was there, and no, they didn’t like it, and yes, he’s going to publish the photo anyway, because exploitation is part of photography’s métier, and if he’s going to indulge in it he might as well make it part of the picture’s point." yalereview.org/article/san-...
San Francisco, 1956
A photograph and its afterlife
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