Vivian Maier NYC? Circa 1953
Amazing photos by Vivian Maier that lay undiscovered, Atget like, until recently.She worked as a governess in NYC and Chicago for years and photographed daily accumulating an enormous body of work that was never published or exhibited until recently. Her photographs and negatives were sequestered away in storage and were going to be thrown out but thankfully John Maloof came to the rescue and started scanning and posting. Thankfully she has now joined the photographic canon of great street photographers although sadly she was never recognized during her lifetime
Mark Feldstein Diptych 7 Circa 2000
"My groupings ranged between 2 to 8 images in a single panel. As the individual images have become more surreal, confrontational and complex i have reduced their number to 2 creating pairs to intensify and clarify their dialogue. I collect images to create a visual resource from which i can construct relationships. My negatives are for me a visual bank similar to words in a dictionary which provides me with a great range of possibilities. I photograph wherever i go looking for additional visual moments. My subjects are found, appropriated or setup, macro or distant as long as i recognize an aspect of poetry with which i can construct a relationship. I feel that my work is a visual language of interaction and i assemble the pairs as one would create a poem or a line of text. I am interested in the interaction of images, metaphysical and formal as they speak to one another- as they effect and modify each other. This relates to the dream experience-to poetic memory and thought. The work also reflects the complexity and random juxtaposition of 20th century culture and media.
The viewing experience is binocular as as if each eye sees a different view. The pairs are to me fleeting moments which together form and evoke a new moment between two apparently unrelated subjects. Nothing is clear-nothing is truly known, questions are raised nothing is answered.”
Mark Feldstein NYC 1976
In Memory Of Mark Feldstein.
The loss is still indefinable because the friend, teacher and mentor that both nurtured and sustained us has now been gone for ten years.
This work needs to re-embraced and placed within the pantheon of the current photographic aesthetic.
“Sightings refers to a physical process by which moments of experience are visually sighted and then separated from continuous linear time via the camera. As I travel, something in the distance glows, glistens, seems magical or in some way attracts me. Traveling and perception are to me a kind of navigational process through life with the moments photographed functioning as pauses in time. I often lose track of physical time and distance in my wanderings. My pictures are of momentary situations which change and therefore exist afterwards only on my film. Time flows, realities shift and my images are to me intervals, punctuations and markers in that flow”
Photo from the book “Sightings” New York City 1976
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