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katherine turczan wins guggenheim fellowship

she won a lot of money. because she's brilliant and deserves it. she is also one of my biggest influences and i am so honored to have her as a professor, colleague, and confidant. i owe a lot of my present and future successes to her. i hope she never forgets me, as i will never forget her.

i love her. i am grateful to know her.

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from my first day

eric ruby took these pictures with his iphone while we were at joann's studio.

the view. the holyland.

yes, those are my shoes.

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boss man, alec soth

this post is dedicated to the incredible genius of alec soth. don't mind the fangirl.

in high school, i made this collage for the cover of a notebook. today, i found this picture alec soth took for the magazine paris/minnesota.

notice anything? even my teenage self was in love with his eye.

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christian patterson

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This is the never ending struggle, I think storytelling is the most powerful art, for me. I just think there’s nothing more satisfying than the narrative thrust: beginning, middle, and end, what’s gonna happen. The thing I’m always bumping up against is that photography doesn’t function that way. Because it’s not a time-based medium, it’s frozen in time, they suggest stories, they don’t tell stories. So it is not narrative. So it functions much more like poetry than it does like the novel. It’s just these impressions and you leave it to the viewer to put together.

Alec Soth (via chrishahn)

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today with eric ruby and joann verburg

at 10am alec soth's first words ever spoken directly to me consist of a question on the length of my fingers.

i dont have long enough fingers to properly assemble books in a timely fashion. i can still do it, just not as fast as ben heyer, aka long finger johnny.

big al's facebook page is up and running. thanks, alan parson for letting me borrow your name today.

eric came home from connecticut empty-handed, but not empty-hearted

west photo. joann verburg. innova photo rag on a roll. i know which inkjet printer papers have added brighteners. liquor store sandwich. reuben, a tuna melt, bear dog, the right light.

901 N 3rd (ave or street). 11x14 negative rolled around glass, suspended in liquid. everything tries not to explode more than once. espresso, the view. joann has such an incredible amount of work. boxes and boxes. negatives, paper, prints. stacked taller than three of me. she is a beautiful mind. i can't believe i spent my day with her.

this is my ascent into the heavens of the photo gods.