Real diary (659)
‘The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.’
P.s. According to you, what’s the story of this picture?
Lucas Dewaele, dagboek
Over fotografie en leven.
Month: August, 2018
August 31, 2018
Real diary (658)
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. The good ones are on the border of failure.
Winogrand
August 30, 2018
Real diary (657)
BXL. Trains and art. (And thinking of false artists A. Conrad, G. Goiris, M. Vanvolsem and their poor ambassadors, whose names I’ll remember soon)
August 28, 2018
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Esen. (I had some family there, back in 1914)
August 27, 2018
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Mechelen.
August 23, 2018
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Berlin.
‘Und am Ende gewinnen die Deutschen’…. and we’re coming home again with the tail between the legs.
August 23, 2018
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Berlin.
“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.”
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
August 22, 2018
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Berlin. With another academic year in mind.
“You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.”
Garry Winogrand
August 22, 2018
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“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described I like to think of photographing as a two way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.”
Garry Winogrand
August 21, 2018
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Berlin. Mediterranean colors.
August 21, 2018
Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof.
Berlin, am Mauer.
August 21, 2018
Stripes, no stars.
(I begin to understand Garry Winogrand)
“The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed.”
August 21, 2018
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Berlin. In der Mitte.
August 20, 2018
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Berlin. On our way to Alexanderplatz.
August 20, 2018
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Berlin. Tiergarten.
August 20, 2018
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Berlin. Attractaction – if this word would exist…
August 20, 2018
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Berlin. Violating privacy rules.
August 20, 2018
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Berlin. Model.
August 12, 2018
Real diary (642)
All the people I didn’t meet today.
August 12, 2018
Real diary (641)
I’m always thinking of Martin Parr, Lee Friedlander and myself.
August 9, 2018
Real diary (640)
“Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images.”
Helen Levitt
August 7, 2018
Real diary (639)
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
Andy Warhol
August 5, 2018
Real diary (638)
Different worlds in my backyard.
August 5, 2018
Real diary (637)
Too much summer, still.
