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…there remains a sizeable part of the art world that simply does not get photography. They get artists who use photography to illustrate their ideas, installations, performances and concepts, who deploy the medium as one of a range of artistic strategies to complete their work. But photography for and of itself -photographs taken from the world as it is– are misunderstood as a collection of random observations and lucky moments, or muddled up with photojournalism, or tarred with a semi-derogatory ‘documentary’ tag.

Paul Graham — The Unreasonable Apple

I have had a few good discussions about this recently. Photography “for and of itself” is one of the hardest things to get.

(via jenbee)

A Look Back at the Rooms Series - NYTimes.com

The fact is, New York City is a city of rooms, and the good stuff here always tends to happen behind closed doors. But the best part is that, even after 54 weeks, the surface has been only slightly scratched. One could imagine doing this again in a few years when the rooms have changed, which of course they will. The real estate racket will see to that.

One in 8 Million - New York Characters in Sound and Images

New York is a city of characters.

The NYT is collecting their stories on audio and then playing them back on the web with beautifully shot black and white photography.

Recommended: Singing Waitress, Mozzarella Maker, Urban Taxidermist

Slate is organizing its readers in an effort to photographically document the current recession/depression/economic crisis. The 30s had photos of people in soup lines and the 70s had gas lines but what does the economic crisis look like when everyone is online?

You can’t take a picture of the unemployed if they never leave the house.

Interested photographers can upload their photos to Slate’s Shoot the Recession group on Flickr.

(via Photos of the recession)

Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light a survey of London’s remaining professional darkrooms (via Richard Nicholson Photography - ‘Last One Out, Please Turn On the Light’)

At work - The Big Picture - Boston.com

When the economy makes big news, many photographs of people at work come across the wires, usually to help illustrate a particular story or event. By collecting these disparate photos over the past few months, I found that a global portrait emerged of we humans producing things. People assembling, generating, and building items small and large, mundane and expensive, trivial and important. I hope you enjoy this look into some people’s work lives around the world. (45 photos total)