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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 2d

"Maybe that’s the cruelty that some critics have detected in Avedon’s photographs of his father [...]: a reminder that once a person has died, there is no more opportunity to say what could, or should, have been said — in effect an admission of their own fallibility as human beings."

CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 2d

"Photography doesn’t really stop time. Sure, in a photograph it does. But time still goes on and on, and at some stage only the pictures are left."

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 3d

“To know that *looking* (the act, that is, of looking at someone, as one ordinarily does, without any special awareness) was such a proof of the rights of those who are alive, and that this *looking* could also be an expression of cruelty…

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 3d

The best part is that while students are dressed up in the most outrageous fashion, they’re also being incredibly polite about it.

Kyoto University in Japan made headlines by allowing students to wear anything they wanted for graduation ceremonies, resulting in bizarre cosplay outfits. #cosplayer #graduation #ceremony #kyoto #...

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 3d

“The University of Kyoto has an ongoing tradition during the graduation ceremony where, instead, of a rented cap and gown, it’s Halloween all over again.”

It’s Halloween Twice a Year at the University of Kyoto: An Eclectic Graduation Ceremony Tradition<br/> — sabukaru

Dry-cleaned, smooth wool suits or heirloom silk kimonos: whatever your choice for graduation attire is, it’s boring. Sure, the dress code is hard to navigate colorfully, but this university in Kyoto k...

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 3d

“all of this came to me now as a vivid experience.”

From Yukio Mishima: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, p.33 (transl. Ivan Morris)

CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 3d

“To know that *looking* (the act, that is, of looking at someone, as one ordinarily does, without any special awareness) was such a proof of the rights of those who are alive, and that this *looking* could also be an expression of cruelty…

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 3d

I strongly suspect that this is the final time of me writing about Avedon. I don't think I will be able to add anything later.

CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote a longish article about Richard Avedon and what his photographs of his old, dying father might tell us.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder that @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI, and has of late published a spate of asinine articles that are uncritical in framing, and just read as press releases for the company and for "AI" in general.
The headline/implicit framing of this article seems consistent with its biases.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

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Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 7d

I've never been paid when people re-used my texts. None of this makes anything any better; it's just that people do not value the work of writers or translators at all.

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote about Takashi Homma's new Portrait of J, about the idea of portraying a country through its denizens, about how flawed that ideas is (throwing in some thoughts about August Sander), and about what the book instead shows us

Portrait of J

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 9d

"After we rob your house, you are invited to opt out from our Goods Removal Service, after which point we are willing to work with you to come to an arrangement about removing your personal goods. Meet our negotiators, Knuckles and Tiny. They will be assisting in your opting back in."

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote about Takashi Homma's new Portrait of J, about the idea of portraying a country through its denizens, about how flawed that ideas is (throwing in some thoughts about August Sander), and about what the book instead shows us

Portrait of J

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 10d

A very cool Japanese mixed-media photography exhibit at the National Asian Art Museum, where every process is many times more complicated than most photo processes, with incredible results

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 13d

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KIDILL and Seppuku Pistols - Japan’s Gone Mad, and that’s the Point │Yokogao Magazine

No seats. No rules. Just raw drums and rebellion. KIDILL & Seppuku Pistols ignite Paris with punk soul and tradition gone wild.

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 13d

“After the Meiji period, tradition in Japan was dictated by elite authorities—rigid, sterile, and disconnected from youth. We’re just trying to make tradition wild and fun again.”

Seppuku Pistols PUNK ISLAND 切腹ピストルズin NY パンクアイランド

YouTube video by ドキュメンタリー「切腹ピストルズ」公式 Seppuku Pistols Documentary

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 21d

Have been thinking about continuing relevance of Dada artist George Grosz's political critiques. His scathing 1926 painting "Eclipse of the Sun" portrays alliance between feckless political & military leaders and capitalist financiers. Grosz, branded "degenerate" by the Nazis, fled to the US in 1933

Image of table at which sit headless figures, a military figure, and a top hatted capitalist whispering in his ear. The sun above includes a dollar sign

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 21d

Wouldn’t surprise me

CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 21d

"The MUUS Collection was founded around a decade ago by Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, a US-based property developer turned serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist with a focus on the alternative energy space. (The name MUUS is a stylisation of his initials.)"

The estate of the late American photographer Larry Fink acquired by the MUUS Collection

The firm, which purchases, studies and promotes the work of under-recognised photographers, will stage a show of Fink's images at Paris Photo in November

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 21d

"There's a part of me that will never forgive the tech industry for what they've taken from me and what they've chosen to do with it."

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 21d

"I feel cheated, like if I could go back in time and tell the younger me in high school that all the practice, all the love, and all the hope from your parents and friends for your future gets you is carpal tunnel and poverty, I could have gone into a better job field."

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 21d

As James Baldwin said: “Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”

(Please don’t misread this as saying that Rob has no talent. He certainly does — a lot of it.)

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CPhMag.com @hotelamnesia.bsky.social · 21d

This is well worth your time. It showcases some of the qualities that are essential for a good photographer: a vision, combined with deep knowledge of the medium’s tradition, combined with precise aspirations — and all of that made to work out through a lot of hard, consistent, persistent work.

Rob Hornstra / The Europeans @theeuropeans.bsky.social · 21d

Over a year ago Anders Mørch invited me for an interview with Louisiana Channel – the world’s largest archive on contemporary art (as mentioned on their YouTube channel). We talked about my graduation, The Sochi Project, The Europeans & more. Full interview here: @arnoldvanbruggen.bsky.social

Photographer Rob Hornstra: We Have to Get Closer to Each Other

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