“That’s what I recommend.”
Attend Events. It’s Important.
You may even discover who made the last image on the poster.
All Bow Down (and we mean that).
Heck, we’ve been avoiding cell phones in our street shooting; now, once again, Mr. Friedlander owns a meme. Click on http://elleryeskelin.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/spring-2015.html and scroll down a bit. I agree that he disagrees with a point in the mostly OK article (with its flimsy premise and cliches). Read it mostly for the pictures: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/magazine/lee-friedlander-captures-the-citys-hustle-and-flow.html?_r=0 
Lars Tunbjork, 1956-2015
We love this guy’s work; the sensibility seems to fall somewhere between Lee Friedlander’s and Martin Parr’s.
![larsTunbjork_[flash]_06](https://photodevoto.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/larstunbjork_flash_06.jpg)
![larsTunbjork_[flash]_07](https://photodevoto.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/larstunbjork_flash_07.jpg)
![larsTunbjork_[flash]_10](https://photodevoto.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/larstunbjork_flash_10.jpg)
![larsTunbjork_[flash]_12](https://photodevoto.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/larstunbjork_flash_12.jpg)
Not atypically, this got posted about a week later than it should have been, and Time Magazine scooped us, but since our respective readerships don’t overlap significantly, here’s a link to that item: http://time.com/3819762/lars-tunbjork-obituary/
Update: https://vimeo.com/124850025
The 606, on 6/6
We would be remiss if we were not to follow up on this. Plan now to register your grupo o troupe for the big procession!
Pinhole Day Is Coming
We’ve demonstrated a number of times how quick and how easy it can be to make a pinhole camera; we’ve also seen examples of how specialized a camera can be designed. Now is the time to do it for World Wide Pinhole Photography Day.
http://pinholeday.org/participate/
There are endless links to resources, from Kodak to artists to enthusiast groups to youtube tutorials. Dig in! Here are a few examples from the Huge School.
A Poet, A Poem, And Its Performer
The Back Country, by Louis Jenkins
When you are in town, wearing some kind of uniform is helpful, policeman, priest, etc..
Driving a tank is very impressive, or a car with official lettering on the side.
If that isn’t to your taste you could join the revolution, wear an armband, carry a homemade flag tied to a broom handle, or a placard bearing an incendiary slogan.
At the very least you should wear a suit and carry a briefcase and a cell phone, or wear a team jacket and a baseball cap and carry a cell phone.
If you go into the woods, the back country, someplace past all human habitation, it is a good idea to wear orange and carry a gun, or, depending on the season, carry a fishing pole, or a camera with a big lens.
Otherwise it might appear that you have no idea what you are doing, that you are merely wandering the earth, no particular reason for being here, no particular place to go.
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/mar/15/mark-rylance-wolf-hall-interview-the-gunman
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/author.php?auth_id=1284
http://everythingbutamisprint.tumblr.com/post/3169026020/an-introduction-to-louis-jenkins
I Prefer “Decline.”
“Every format has particularities and film renders space, light, color and volume in distinct ways from digital as well as from the formats previous to film’s invention. Those distinctions affect content because of the inherent links between technique, form and meaning: changes in how photographs appear create different readings just as the changes in how the words we choose when we write a text alter meanings as we read them.”
http://www.fototazo.com/2015/04/the-meaning-of-films-decline.html
Guggenheims
The 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation grants were announced yesterday. The grants are awarded to over 175 applicants from the Arts and Humanities each year, and (currently) the average grant is a gift (in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service) of at least $43,000. These are the photographers (some of whom are FBFs).
Gary Briechle:
Miles Coolidge:
Susan Lipper:
Susan Meiselas:
Arno Rafael Minkkinen:
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/arno-rafael-minkkinen-video-art-is-risk-made-visible
Richard Renaldi:
Stuart Rome:
Richard Rothman:
Moises Saman:
William S. Sutton (hey, you look up his pictures);
Terri Weifenbach:
Three others, musicians (known to us) and a music essayist:
Darcy James Argue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q9ezXTYZUM
Etienne Charles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yASatU_DThw
George Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x09K4BXcE4c
Alex Ross: http://www.therestisnoise.com
Creative Camerawork 