brighter days

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Jacque

spent the day catching up on the Internet, re-designing the blog for brighter days & looking at a lot of photographs. This collection is what I liked the most.

top: Leah Sobsey, Untitled 2013. Artist Website Here.
bottom: Sasha Rudensky, Unititled from Remains 2005. Artist Website Here.

top: Michael Marquette, Inkerman rink #4, 2012. Source Website Here.
bottom: Frank Relle, Tupelo from New Orleans Nightscapes I. Artist Website Here.

shane gray

top: Trent Parke, Untitled 2006. Artist Website Here.
bottom: Shane Gray, Untitled from Roosevelt Island. Artist Website Here.

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top: Shane Gray, Untitled from Manhattan Project 2012. Artist Website Here.
bottom: Todd Gross, Untitled from April 10, 2013. Artist Website Here.

only a witness

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Jacque

I blame living in New York City for my new found interest in looking at any and all street photography.

Jon Harding, Untitled from Analog Days 1980

Artist Website Here.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. – Le Corbusier

I don’t know what’s happening here.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Jacque

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Light Machine and Generated Light Painting, 1940s artistwebstite

Levi Mandel, Untitled from Beast artistwebsite.

Mustafah Abdulaziz, Midsummer in Swedan, June 2011 artistwebsite.

Also, Twitter sure did brighten up my day of class with Ask a Curator Day! So thrilled to see so many museums participating and all the great questions asked! Check out the conversation HERE!! & if you’re not already, follow me HERE!

Classic Tuesdays

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Jacque

You will find it, and it will find you, just start, somehow, anyhow, but: start.

Paul Graham, Untitled from Beyond Caring 1984-1985

Paul Graham, Untitled from New Europe 1986-1992

Paul Graham, Untitled from Troubled Land 1984-1986

Paul Graham’s Archive

The more preplanned it is the less room for surprise, for the world to talk back, for the idea to find itself, allowing ambivalence and ambiguity to seep in, and sometimes those are more important than certainty and clarity. The work often says more than the artist knows.- Paul Graham, from Photography is easy, Photography is hard. Read the full essay HERE. (seriously, read it.)