Memento Mori, Photography and the beyond: Exploring the relationships

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Hard to fake a Polaroid. Click for source

Hard to fake a Polaroid. Click for source

Ideas pop in your head without warning. Here I was going to buy pull-up diapers when I thought how interesting it was that Vivian Maiers was allowed to live once again because some folks stumbled on her photographs. I have no clue what pull-ups have to do with Vivian Maiers (Being a Nanny maybe?) but this prompted me to think about the relationships humans had with photography when related to death in the afterlife. Here’s some food for thought. Note: Not for too sensitive or easily depressed hearts.

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Insights gleaned from Lee Friedlander’s photography

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Photograph Copyright Lee Friedlander

I eat, drink, sleep photography, but due to constraints, I have been loosing my inspiration lately. Theologians back then called this “Dark night of the soul”. My partner-friend-self appointed grandpa Don suggested I learn about the past, I reluctantly accepted. He’s turning senile but he occasionally is the voice of wisdom…ish. But what do you know? The old coot was right! (Plus one of his photos is now part of Flickr top 500. Won’t here the end of it). The insights I got were so useful and uplifting, I had to make an article out of them in the spirit of the uber popular “Gleanings” articles.

I am starting with Lee Friedlander, as I feel that I understand where he is coming from. Here’s some insights I gleaned from his work. I am sure you can also get a thing or two.

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Unwired- Mobile photography experiments: The Camera-Computer

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The unwired experiment is a project that started cold turkey, I didn’t really premeditate on it, I just did it. Long story short I got phased by the Samsung Galaxy Camera, and more importantly it’s implications for photography. It is avant-garde but undoubtedly the way of the future.

The project is both a photography project and a lifestyle project. It entails 3 simple rules: shoot-edit-publish right in camera. So the pictures are taken, edited and published right on the camera. And yes this was written on it.
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Reboot. Thef8blog v3

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I‘m finally back from vacation. Actually, no. The only thing I did since the small hiatus is grow the site like crazy. Stay tuned for articles but look at the shiny buttons on the top left:

- Free Guides and ebooksRessources on various things, for now it’s cameras but will do one on Street and Philosophy of Photography shortly

- Photographer Directory
Photographers online to check out, a huge, glorified blogroll if you like

-Documentary Directory
All the photography documentaries I could find, mostly streaming.

As for the blog itself, my goal is 50 gleanings articles, 50 photographers and 50 vids + documentary. It’s tough work, let’s get going shall we?