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It was at this moment that I realised I'd wasted my entire fking life with a camera. Why didn't I know about Rodney Smith when I was 16 ???? It would have changed the course of my life. I don't know how it's possible to take this many exquisite images in just one life. I'd be happy with just one of his highly stylised images.
Unfortunately the solitude of the experience was interrupted by background noise of some kind throughout a large portion of the latter half of the video.
This man had undiagnosed PTSD from his photography in the pacific theater. He landed on as many beaches with the marines and accompanied them throughout their jungle assaults. He has more beach landings than many pacific veterans. If that wasn’t enough he flew with the air corp during their bombing missions and also racked up more bombing missions than some pilots. The photos from these show you that he was in the front with the infantry armed with a camera. That participation in what he was photographing took its toll and in the postwar years you can see this in his behavior. They called him anti social and difficult to work with etc and I think we can attribute much of this to the toll on his psyche from the war.
As a lifelong fine artist & pure creative myself, I strongly relate to Vivian Meyer's unique POV & genius for capturing photos of strangers in downtown neighborhoods at their most candid. Her wonderfully composed self-portraits via ornate & gilded mirrors in store displays through the storefronts' windows containing the secondary reflection of her capturing the shot, are genius at depicting in a single-shot photograph her ability to summarize the richness of her inner world in the layers of that single image, without any sort of post-editing. I am so happy that she is recognized, even though posthumously, from an accidental auction purchase by John Maloof, the film's co-director who discovered her work: I learned of her about 7 years ago from the documentary 'Finding Vivian Maier.' I see her as a creative peer: able to find the living blood & pulse of life in the most seemingly banal of settings
his late digital work looks horrible compared to his film work. not talking about "nostalgia" vibes. it's just that his digital work is trash. i don't even think he took those things, might be pics added by the creator of the video. the difference is atrocious.
Impressed with the photos presented here. In the country where I was born and grew up, they were forbidden. And the name Arbus was mentioned once or twice in criticism of the declining West. What are the characters of the posers! What a vulnerable author! What a clear photographic language! What affinity with the object in front of the camera! Thank you very much for the opportunity to meet! A touching collection!
I always felt he was underrated as a photographer but he was up there with the best in my honest opinion. And that shot of the men on top of the building in Sao Paulo is iconic! Loved his work, a master of his craft. RIP Rene Burri.
Master of the craft - and nothing ‘automatic in this 6 x 6 rig, except her well-trained eye. Thank you for sharing. I especially enjoyed the portraits 😊, and have subscribed.
It seems that we cannot escape her tragic death which defines her. That in itself is a tragedy. Beyond that we know little about her - which allows people to weave their own version of her life.
