L'Orto Incolto
Orto incolto means uncultivated vegs garden in Italian. It's where I throw seeds of what i like, hopefully they'll grow on their own.
Alessandra Sanguinetti. Mother and son in their East Avenue home. Rochester, NY. April 2012.
©Alex Webb, Erie, Pennsylvania, 2010, last photograph of “The Suffering of Light” (Aperture, Contrasto, Thames and Hudson, 2010)
RIP - Horst Faas 28 April 1933 - 10 May 2012…
Well known and much respected photojournalist Horst Faas has passed away. He was mainly associated with his iconic images from the Vietnam War. You can read the New York Times obituary here.
Images © Associated Press/Horst Faas
Horst Faas / The Associated Press
In this January 1965 file photo taken by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, the sun breaks through dense jungle foliage around the embattled town of Binh Gia, 40 miles east of Saigon, as South Vietnamese troops, joined by U.S. advisers, rest after a cold, damp and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that didn’t come. Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, died Thursday May 10, 2012. He was 79. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)
Horst Faas (28 April 1933 – 10 May 2012)
He was a photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best-known for his images of the Vietnam War.
Plane and Sugar Loaf Mountain, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil by Michael Kenna.
Alfred Stieglitz, 291—Picasso-Braque Exhibition, 1915, platinum print.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs. As a matter of fact nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love; and viewed in this light the incorrectness of the popular classification is readily apparent. - Alfred Stieglitz - in 1899
Graciela Iturbide - El señor de los pájaros
NAYARIT, 1985
