urbanautica:

JEREMY FREEDMAN
The Illusion of Validity

I am interested in making photographs as much as pictures.  Sometimes photographs have too much “reality” for my taste.  And of course it’s not really reality, but a kind of photographic reality, one which may constrict experience and not open the eye or the mind.  I’m interested in a different kind of focus, one that lets the mind wander inward a little bit.  My various techniques are ways of isolating and concentrating the experience of seeing.  And for me, pictures are as abstract as words.

© Jeremy Freedman 

frenchtwist:

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From ’71-NY by Daïdo Moriyama

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nevver:

Carnival

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kdo:

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (1964 Version)

last thing

ok where was that post that was going around earlier about how white musicians cover black folks music and everyone acts like the white folks did it first

cause i didn’t even realize the 80s pop version by whatever white boy band version of this song was a cover

and im fucking pissed about it

this isn’t something that stopped with elvis

everybody but black folks can get praise and paid for making black music

I am shocked and embarrassed that I didn’t know about this until today. Hell.

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fuckyeahforensics:

Female and male pelvis

I was thinking my dash needed some color.

Here’s a picture of humans.

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yama-bato:

Casey © Jill Greenberg courtesy of Jaski Art Gallery, Amsterdam

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holysoul:

propers to bestrooftalkever:

Black History Month Story time:

Merry Clayton - “Gimme Shelter”

Before 1969, Merry Clayton was just a Brooklyn-based singer trying to scrounge up any back-up gig she could find. When The Rolling Stones were recording “Let It Bleed,” they started looking for backup singers for their new song “Gimme Shelter,” and their manager suggested Clayton.

Six months pregnant, Merry came to the studio to record her now-infamous backup track. The Stones themselves were very obviously impressed with her talent. Around 3 minutes into the Stones version, you can even her Jagger let out a “Whoo!” when Merry cracks open the note over the word “Murder.”

Though the recording session put to tape one of the most memorable backup performances in the history of Rock N’ Roll, the memory would not be a good one for Merry Clayton. Just after the session, she suffered a miscarriage in her home. Many blame the intensity of her performance.

When the Stones heard this, they were heartbroken. They approached her and offered partial ownership of the track. They also wanted her to record her own version.

This is it. Be careful, it will melt steel.

Merry said, of the whole ordeal, “That was a dark, dark period for me, but God gave me the strength to overcome it.”

Holy shit. Let us all praise music!

life:

In hopes of providing some context and a small measure of perspective on the nation’s ongoing gun debate, we revisit a 1956 LIFE magazine article on gun safety in Indiana. See the work on LIFE.com here.

Caption from LIFE. “Wide-eyed fascination is displayed by boys as Rankin holds his revolver with the cylinder opened to show them there are no shells in it.”

(Grey Villet—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Oh, boy.

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artaddictsanonymous:

Jacques-Louis David, Patroclus, 1780

actegratuit:

KATRIN BERGE

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Ernst Haas - The Cross, NY, 1966

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