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photojojo:

The trailer for the Vivian Maier documentary is out, and it looks sogood.

You might recall the incredible story — Vivian was a nanny living a double life as a street photographer in the 50s and 60s but has since passed away.

Her work only recently discovered when a historian, John Maloof, found hundreds of thousands of developed and undeveloped negatives.

Watch the Vivian Maier Documentary Trailer

When historians find my rolls of undeveloped film, I hope they can still be developed. I also hope the historians don’t expect anything as great as Vivian Maier’s work. 

I went on to flickr and it was just thousands of pieces of shit, and I just couldn’t believe it. And it’s just all conventional, it’s all cliches, it’s just one visual convention after another.

Stephen Shore (via magnificentruin)

Translation:good photography can’t exist in the same place as bad photography

In other news: Some people drive poorly, so we should close all roads. Some food is spoiled, so we shouldn’t eat. Get off the lawn!

...: “I love photography.Why am I telling you this? Isn’t it self-obvious?...

“I love photography.

Why am I telling you this? Isn’t it self-obvious? Don’t we all love photography? The answer is no. There is a percentage of photographers who hate photography. They do not appreciate photography. They do not consume photography. They don’t look at photo books or photo…

This article is a great counterbalance to all those boorish moratoriums on Instagram, “levitation” photos, etc.