polaroid a day until he died.

May 30, 2008

Mental Floss had an article of a man who apparently had taken pictures of himself spanning over an 18 year period. (March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997). The photos range from friends and family to self portraits in a variety of activities. The mans health takes a decline as he contracts cancer and it is clearly visible from the photos revealing his deteriorating health.

Jamie Livingston was apparently interested in both film and music making as evidenced from a variety of photos in the 1980s. After Livingston’s death, his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid put together a public exhibit and website using the photos and called it PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997, 6,697 Polaroids, dated in sequence. The physical exhibit opened in 2007 at the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College.

Here is a link to the website and all of the photos

http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/


Homeless photoshoot

May 1, 2008

I must apologize for the lack of updates, I have been busy with finals and so forth and I promise the updates will return to normal come May 14th. In light of this I have decided to make two posts today. The first one was an interesting article I stumbled across. It is a page filled with photos of the homeless railway inhabitants shot by photographer Mike Brodie that was shown at the Pens and Needles Gallery in August. The video depicts the homeless in various photos, the most interesting in my opinon involves a dead rat cut open presumably awaiting human consumption. Also of note is the stockpile of alcohol one of the homeless has managed to store away which seems just shy of a typical stag bar.

Anyways, here’s the link, enjoy.