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usually in California - currently LBC. topics include: jazz, art, photographers. the annoying friend who brings his cocker spaniel everywhere blogging about photography at https://bremser.tumblr.com/tagged/notes

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · Dec 13

I spent some time looking at Robert Frank’s contact sheets to determine the exact location of his 1956 “Covered Car — Long Beach”

Robert Frank on Ocean Boulevard

The late afternoon light, palm trees, their shadows and a covered car are elements so classic to LA and Southern California that Robert Frank's "Covered car -- Long Beach, California" could have been…

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 27m

and for writing the backstory on "Dragon Relief"!

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 5h

people in Philly can smell a NYC design firm

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 8h

the new brand ambassador

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 9h

great line: What is anti-authoritarian and sexy in Ornette becomes over-explained and self-satisfied in the hands of the uninitiated.

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 1d

this photo is making me regret getting the ebook !

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 1d

review captures the inexplicable LA vibe of this exhibit: photos by the radical nun with a Leica at the sprawling Masonic Temple on Wilshire, converted into an art foundation by the Guess jeans founders (who closed it for a time to avoid unionizing)

angela hudson jones @angelahudsonjones.bsky.social · 1d

hyperallergic.com/1046948/sist...

Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane

An installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument.

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 1d

one of the best city nerd eps, “self identified rurality”
youtu.be/6q_BE5KPp18?...

Rural Cosplay is, Unfortunately, A Thing

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 1d

best alt text of the day

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 3d

Eugéne Atget, Café, Avenue de la Grande-Armée Paris, France c. 1924/25

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gregorg @greg.org · 3d

national gallery of art is closed as of tomorrow (10/5), which is too bad because the photography and the black arts movement show is incredible www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...

Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 | National Gallery of Art

The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 7d

Ansel Adams, Basketball game at an Internment Camp for Japanese American citizens during World War II

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 7d

made a Marcel Duchamp fan fic video. Sora’s default tone is so upbeat and schmaltzy.

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bremser on Sora

a young Marcel Duchamp he is riding a bike down a paris street in 1913, wearing a white shirt and bow tie. Image is shot in black and white, high contrast. He takes a minor fall on the bike and as he ...

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 8d

not a single warrior brave enough to stand up and say “sir, this is a Wendy’s”

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 8d

a man in a suit and tie is holding a piece of paper that says ' a ' on it

Alt: Patrick Bateman admiring card stock

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 9d

impressive work from the PR team

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 9d

man with popped collar over a round neck collar tshirt: I have ideas about why people are lonely

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 11d

driving to rikers, listening to NPR, bitching about Reagan

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 11d

based on the podcast, they should throw a Frank Stella in there as well

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gregorg @greg.org · 13d

in the Smithsonian archives yesterday, I learned when the Hirshhorn bought Wolfgang Tillmans' Concorde Grid in 2006, they also got an exhibition copy, so they could show it with the lights turned up, like the artist likes it, without frying their 56 fragile C-prints greg.org/archive/2025...

wolfgang tillmans' grid of 56 photos of the concorde landing or taking off at heathrow airport are all in different formats and vantage points, wherever he was able to capture the image, but all printed at the same size that, to 21st century audience, now echoes a cellphone screen, but in 1997, did not. this edition was acquired by the hirshhorn museum in 2006

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 13d

wild to look up a set list for a show I attended 36 years ago and it was the encore

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 14d

seismically precarious interior design choice

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 14d

stared at this Richard Diebenkorn gouache-crayon on paper (Untitled #37 from 1981, 23 x 28 inches) for more time than i thought i would

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 15d

great example of a film that is so much better than the book it’s based on (at least the English translation)

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15d

everyone should take three hours out of their day and watch THE LEOPARD, a total masterpiece of a film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Claudia Cardinale, glamorous star of The Leopard and Once Upon a Time in the West, dies aged 87

The husky-voiced, chain-smoking actor had a reputation as a fiercely independent, free-spirited woman

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 15d

I love this William Claxton photo of John Coltrane at the Guggenheim Museum, 1960

The painting is by Pierre Soulages.

Coltrane walks by an abstract painting in the Museum

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 15d

apparently the 80s only had 10 fonts