Tag Archives: Helen Levitt photography

ragpickers: rag mama rag

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Dave

Giving significance to the insignificant. Applying ego to the inanimate object, devoid of ego, and conferring a centrality of the marginal and unwanted, the value of debris and discard. The hand-me-down and down and down. A profane illumination in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged atget photography, Charles Baudelaire, E.T.A. Hoffman, Helen Levitt photography, marc berdet, robert wylie, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, vasily perov, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

build a better mousetrap to snag em’

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Dave

build it and they will come? Good intro here, but the Father then went on to extoll the stadium. But, some interesting points. You have to wonder if these massive structures are a perversion of some form of twisted ideology. … Continue reading →

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guilty and lovin’ it

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Dave

Not innocent and bathing in the glory, the release of the burden of innocence. Freedom. There was a time when children were less glorified and spoilt.The child’s innocence was lost in pregnancy and never recovered.. In all our periods and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan gopnik, Charles Dickens, george s. zimbel, Heinrich Hoffmann, helen levitt children, Helen Levitt photography, l. frank baum, R.M. Vaughan, roald dahl, Sir John Donne | Leave a comment

back to brown paper bags

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Dave

Before the late 1930′s record albums were said to have resembled tombstones: plain brown sleeves with the name of the artist stamped onto the cover.Then came a new direction, the formation of a new axiom that was not always true, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged a.m. cassandre, adrian dannatt, album cover art, alex steinweiss, alexey brodovitch, bob cato, dave brubeck, Helen Levitt photography, Janis Joplin, jim flora, Mati Klarwein, neil fujita, Robert Crumb, rudolph de harek, s. neil fujita, Steven Heller | 2 Comments

herzog and disavowal: images of knowing and unknowing

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Dave

Lately, there has been a wave of interest in early color photography which at the time was shunned in the art world. Everything had to be black and white a la Joseph Stieglitz. But, there has been an awakened interest. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged conference board of canada, fred herzog, fred herzog photography, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, joseph stieglitz, Norman Rockwell, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin | 1 Comment

ceremonies of innocence: zesty improvised lives

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Dave

The more things change, the more they stay the same? Before Helen Levitt and James Agee worked together on the documentary “The Quiet One” , they had planned to collaborate on a book of photographs and text. Levitt took the … Continue reading →