“The savviest piece of advice I got as a rookie reporter-photographer came my first week on the job at the Exeter News-Letter in New Hampshire. The picture editor told me, ‘If you think you’re close, get closer.’ Words to brand on your brain, maybe even your retinas, if you’re being paid to see, especially when laying bare the natural world.”
Dana Jennings
more infosource: “Au Naturel: Books by Ryan McGinley, Robert Longo and More,” New York Times, June 28, 2012.
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medium: Book review
“Rothko paints how the blind see.”
David Stephen Mitchell
more infosource: Cloud Atlas: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2004), 218.
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category: blind, Mark Rothko, painting, see
medium: fiction
notes: from Jonah Lehrer's Twitter feed
“I keep forgetting how precious those moments are—when art puts a glaze over life and arrests it and you can stop and look at it and sink into it without being pulled off the edge of the picture by the strings that lead to daily life. How can you ever see life unless you see it that way?”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
more infosource: Locked Rooms and Open Doors: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1933–1935 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 20.
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category: art, daily life, see
medium: letter
notes: letter to her mother dated Monday, March 6, 1933
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