Vivian Maier was a curious bird – a classic loner, if not a voyeur, who lived vicariously through the veiled lens of her camera. Maier shot more than 150,000 images, many of them black and whites of urban life throughout … Read More
Author Archives: Bob Hill
David Shenk on The Infinite Possibilities of Chess (2013)
“It’s so deceptively simple when you’re starting out the game, you can start out by moving a pawn either one square or two squares, each knight can go one of two different places. When you think about it, right from … Read More
Moving On: Things That Go Bump In The Night
My first thought was that it must have been a cat, or perhaps some wandering possum that had slipped in through a window. The sounds fell soft like pattering, occasionally accompanied by the creaking knock a door might make when … Read More
Joel Meyerowitz on Ephemeral Connections (2012)
“When I think about my photographs, I understand that my interest all along has not been in identifying a singular thing, but in photographing the relationship between things – the unspoken relationship, the tacit relationship, the impending relationship. All of … Read More
And This Is Yale
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Terrence Malick on ‘Days of Heaven’ (1979)
“Harvest workers were not people of the soil, but urban dwellers who had abandoned their cities, their factories. Rather than criminals, it would be fairer to say they lived on the margins of crime, fed by elusive hopes. At the … Read More
Galleria: ‘Ten Years’ by Zoe Strauss @ The International Center of Photography
It’s a funny thing about street portraiture in that the artist’s work almost always represents the way the artist views himself. Brandon Stanton (AKA Humans of New York)? Well, now, right there you’ve got a working Joe with oodles of … Read More