Monday, May 9, 2022

Between Life and Record: Too Near and Too Far

This blog post relates to Jurgenson pg.83-94, to be quoted in your blog post due May 16.

A “Photographic Shiva” for a Life Partner Lost to COVID

After the writer and curator Maurice Berger died, in the early days of the pandemic, his husband, Marvin Heiferman started sharing his grief through images.

... Heiferman posted a picture to Instagram of an American flag twisted tortuously around a pole affixed to a wet, leafless tree. “I looked at it, and I thought, That’s fucked up, and that’s how I feel,” Heiferman said recently. “I realized that there were no words that expressed what I was feeling. But I saw this thing that did.”

By Chris Wiley

May 4, 2022

Street Photographer as Camera Mechanism Embodied

What 'Street Photography' was...

Before social media the term 'Street Photography' usually referred to confrontational photographs of people, made without permission, on public streets. After social media people often use the term to refer to what used to be called 'Urban Landscapes'...