Links are collected at the bottom of the post.
I’m still resting the brain.
Good photography is revelatory and manipulative. You’re seeing something you may not have seen, or not have seen in the way the photo shows it, and you’re seeing it the way the photographer wants you to see it. Sometimes that’s obvious, as with studio photography, and sometimes it’s not, as is often the case with street photography.
Here’s a site devoted to women street photographers,1 who aren’t recognized for their work on nearly the scale men are, and two photos selected at random from the galleries. And here’s a story about the founder of the site, and the books her organization is publishing.2
I’m an evangelist for photography and socialism. Here’s a taste of Alexander Rodchenko,3 a Soviet-era painter and photographer and, it must be said, an avid propagandist for the state.
Trumpeter Clifford Brown and a bunch of other people playing on “Joyspring.” Highly recommended for jazz appreciators.
That’s all I got, comrades. Take care, be well.
You're an evangelist for a well regulated capitalist welfare state that you call socialism.