Ellen von Unwerth | Ana Beatriz Barros

Posted: December 25th, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: Photography

Happy Holidays!

Ana Beatriz Barros by Ellen von Unwerth

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Henri Cartier-Bresson | Ezra Pound

Posted: December 25th, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: Film, Poetry, Quotes

Ezra Pound, Venice 1971 © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos

VENICE—Ezra Pound, 1971 Henri Cartier-Bresson © Magnum Photos

Martine Franck, Cartier-Bresson’s widow, accompanied her husband to just one — probably atypical — portrait session, that of the poet Ezra Pound in Venice in 1971, a year before his death at 87.

There was a tremendous, heavy silence,’ recalled Ms. Franck, herself a photographer. ‘Pound didn’t say a word. He just seemed to condemn the world with his eyes. We were there for about 20 minutes. I stayed to one side. I huddled in a corner. Henri took seven pictures.’

- From This Decisive Moment On by Alan Riding in The New York Times, January 26, 2006

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Richard Avedon | Ezra Pound

Posted: December 24th, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: Poetry

Ezra Pound at William Carlos Williams' house in 1958 by Richard Avedon

Either move or be moved.

-Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound, 1945 mug shot

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

-Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound, Easter 1971, Burano, Italy by Franz Larese

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

-Ezra Pound

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Portrait | Cheryl Daro

Posted: December 23rd, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, Film, Leica, Los Angeles, Mamiya

Shot with a Leica M6 TTL, 35mm Summicron, Mamiya 67 Pro II, Agfa APX 400 and Fuji NPZ 800.

Cheryl, Pepperdine, Malibu © Doug Kim

Cheryl, Downtown Los Angeles © Doug Kim

Cheryl & Perry, Downtown Los Angeles © Doug Kim

Tags: 35mm summicron, Agfa APX 400, Cheryl Daro, Downtown Los Angeles, Fuji Pro 800Z, Leica M6 TTL 0.58, Los Angeles, Malibu, Mamiya Pro II 67, Pepperdine, Portraits, Women | 2 Comments »

Blizzard 2009 | Addendum

Posted: December 22nd, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, New York City, Nikon

Fulton Street Mall, Blizzard 12/19/2009 © Doug Kim

Fulton Street Mall, Blizzard Dec 19, 2009 © Doug Kim

1st Ave, Blizzard Dec 19, 2009 © Doug Kim

Broadway, Blizzard 12/19/2009 © Doug Kim

Broadway, Blizzard Dec 19, 2009 © Doug Kim

Times Square, Blizzard 12/19/2009 © Doug Kim

Times Square, Blizzard Dec 19, 2009 © Doug Kim

Tags: blizzard, Broadway, Brooklyn, East Village, Snowstorm, Street Photography, Times Square | 2 Comments »

Blizzard 2009 | Snowball fight Times Square

Posted: December 20th, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, New York City, Nikon

This was an impromptu snowball fight in Times Square around 1AM in the midst of the blizzard Saturday night. The real danger wasn’t the snow and subsequent moisture destroying my gear. No, the real danger was shooting the mayhem with a wide lens which meant that I was a prime target. I had to put the gear down several times for some payback.

Note: due to demand, prints can be purchased now at SmugMug. For higher end archival prints, please email me directly. Happy holidays everyone!

Snowball fight in Times Square 12/19/09 © Doug Kim

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Kahi Lee | TriBeCa

Posted: December 19th, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, Film, Leica, New York City

At Walker’s Tavern:

Kahi Lee, Leica M6 TTL, Kodak Tri-X © Doug Kim

Tags: 35mm summicron, Kodak Tri-X, Leica M6 TTL 0.58, Portraits, TriBeCa, Women | 2 Comments »

Daido Moriyama | Shinjuku

Posted: December 17th, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: Books, Film, Photography, Quotes

One of my favorite single series is Daido Moriyama’s book of wanderings in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo. Viewing his fractured, scattered, shattered images is to embark on a journey as a furtive outsider, stalking the streets, seeking prey in alleys, noodle shops and sex bars.

Shinjuku, Daido Moriyama

As long as I can walk, I will continue wandering the streets.

-Daido Moriyama

Shinjuku, Daido Moriyama

I want to express the realness of Japan. I want to show what is really going on.

-Daido Moriyama

Shinjuku, Daido Moriyama

I’m not always a stray dog. Sometimes I’m a cat or an insect.

-Daido Moriyama

The cover of the limited signed edition of Shinjuku, Daido Moriyama

The streets are my territory and I still wander them aimlessly with my camera.

-Daido Moriyama

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Portrait | Jessica

Posted: December 15th, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: dougKIM photography, New York City, Nikon

Tags: 35-70mm Nikon, Mid-town, Nikon D300, Portraits, Women | 3 Comments »

Henri Cartier-Bresson | Random Images from the Magnum Archives

Posted: December 14th, 2009 | Author: doug | Filed under: Film, Photography, Quotes

Magnum Photos has been releasing some images online from their singular historic archives which is an incredible opportunity to study and learn from the masters in their catalog. These images by Henri Cartier-Bresson, some of which have not been widely published, provide a rich insight into his style and process.

BERLIN—Taxi drivers, 1931, Henri Cartier-Bresson © Magnum Photos

I am in awe of him, I am in absolute awe of him. Everyone is a Cartier-Bresson baby…I worship him.

-Richard Avedon.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

You mustn’t want, you must be receptive. Don’t think even. The brain’s a bit dangerous.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

I don’t consider myself a photographer, I am using a camera, but there are millions of photographers….I’m just a human being. Anyone that is sensitive is an artist.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is nothing–it’s life that interests me.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

They . . . asked me:

‘How do you make your pictures?’ I was puzzled . . .

I said, ‘I don’t know, it’s not important.’

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light – even when there isn’t any of it.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson – “The Decisive Moment”

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Ellen von Unwerth | Ana Beatriz Barros

Henri Cartier-Bresson | Ezra Pound

Richard Avedon | Ezra Pound

Portrait | Cheryl Daro

Blizzard 2009 | Addendum

Blizzard 2009 | Snowball fight Times Square

Kahi Lee | TriBeCa

Daido Moriyama | Shinjuku

Portrait | Jessica

Henri Cartier-Bresson | Random Images from the Magnum Archives

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