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joanna goddard

Deer Bed photos by Katherine Wolkoff

We have one of Katherine Wolkoff's glorious deer bed photos -- they're almost life-sized -- and it's one of my most treasured possessions.

cole

Girl Pictures, Justine Kirkland

photos i wish i took. justine kirkland has such a gifted eye.

even*cleveland

Camp Snap camera

We impulse-bought one of Camp Snap's screen-free digital cameras during an airport layover for our 10-year-old. He had the best time snapping shots over vacation; the user experience is akin to a disposible film camera, except the images are captured on a memory card. Reviewing them all once we got home was a total hoot, too, because we had no idea what he shot; some were surprisingly terrific. Now I want one for myself for our next trip as an alternative to phone-snapping.

Sarah Cooney

Camp Snap CS8 Point and Shoot Camera

Ladies, this is the best Father's Day gift for your partner because 1) they're going to be so obsessed with it they'll use it all the time and 2) because they will be behind the camera messing around, you will ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO GET IN THE SHOT WITH YOUR KIDS. I know, I'm a genius. We have two Camp Snap cameras are are obsessed with the old-school nostalgia and modern convenience. It's a rare example of a great marriage between the old and the new that just works. Ordering this camera for my husband... and FEWERBETTER7 saves you an extra 7%.

Wrinkles

Yesterday, I was taking a splendid bike ride to the studio through a hiking trail. I saw a femme person graced with a huge smile, a wooden walking stick, and a face of beautiful wrinkles, meandering alone. I thought about everything she had lived through, endured, and manifested in the world; every flower arrangement of a lifetime. I think we need to celebrate wrinkles. "Annie Leibovitz: Women," is a nice a place to start.

cole

Alicia Dubuis

a still life photographer i recently discovered. i love her styling.

Coco Quizon

Littpopo Microscope Camera

It’s about to be my birthday so I’ve been shopping with reckless abandon. My favorite purchase so far is this microscope camera. I’ve only taken pictures of nugs but hope to capture cool stuff at camp next week.

Sarah Cooney

CS-PRO

We are obsesseddddd with our Camp Snap camera and it's on sale! (Plus FEWERBETTER7 is stackable... you know you want to).

Baby Feet For Your Photostream

From newborn through three, so far, I haven’t regretted documenting the feet.

even*cleveland

Alternative Processes workshops

Would love to jet off to Tuscany and take one of Alternative Processes four-day sun-fueled image-making workshops so that I, too, could make my own cyanotype-printed chandelier prisms, a la Shelly Thomas.

joanna goddard

Taking vacation photos with a disposable camera

Via Jessie Randall

Lily

Selections from Judd Foundation's Photo Archive, Part III

A+ Marfa photos from the Judd archive circa mid- to late-70s.

Take Photographs Without Pulling Out Cellphones

Teach dad how to take a semi-normal pic of mom. I just need one. Normal. Pic.

Lolie Millspaugh

My dog Greg

He just is the best so I thought I’d share

Analisa Burns

Children and Their Fathers - Hanns Reich Photography 1960

just 72 B&W photos of fathers playing with their kids

Lily

Morandi's Objects: The Complete Archive

Hot off the press, Joel Meyerowitz’s photographs of Morandi's objects. “The Complete Archive of Casa Morandi.”

April

Until Death Do Us Part (Thomas Sauvin)

I saw this and my first thought was. “Lovers to their core”. Where are the real lovers nowadays? Then I went on to learn about this sub series from an archived collection focusing on cigarette rituals at weddings and I was like Why does everything fun go to die? So anyway cheers to the lovers and the yearners and a good tradish in culture.

Space Camp

Point and Shoot Camera Pouch

Bring your camera with you everywhere this summer, you won't regret it!

Talia

football by middle east archive

can’t think of a better time to buy middle east archives’ football photo book

Lily

Shells in Color, 1972 photography book

First edition of “Shells in Color” from 1972. “Kjell B. Sandved offers a series of 101 imaginative close-ups and full views the reveal every aspect of the mysterious beauty of shells. A leading expert on mollusks, Dr. R. Tucker Abbott, tells how shells grow, how their different forms develop, and how they function and multiply in the sea. He explains the various classes of mollusks and describes the special attributes of each shell pictured.” Right on!

Louise Buckley

Hazel Larsen Archer - Merce Cunningham 1948

I've had have this saved on my desktop for years. My favorite from this series of photographs. Think I first saw it at the much Rec League'd about Black Mountain College exhibit of 2015.

Analisa Burns

Photography by Myles Malone

@Myles Malone photography is remarkable! support local artists man

Michael Bolognino

Hélène Vanel from her performance at the International Exhibition of Surrealism in Paris, 1938

I was at the Picasso Museum Barcelona a few years ago and this image stopped me in my tracks. So much so that I now have a tattoo of Helene in this pose on my left arm. I love the idea of her putting on a wig and doing a live performance at the Surrealism Exhibition all the way back in 1938. There's something so punk about how she is part of the still life, grabbing at herself, and the masculine/feminine energy she is exuding. And that stare! From Wikipedia: Hélène Vanel was a dancer, sculptor, and painter affiliated with the Surrealist movement of the 20th century. Not a great deal is known now of Vanel, though she was quite famous during her time.[1]

Lily

Paloma Dooley’s large format photographs of America

Shooting on her giant wooden large format camera, Paloma Dooley captures the American landscape and built environment in a way I haven’t seen since Stephen Shore. She’s getting her MFA from Yale now (and is my former beloved studio assistant!) and I can’t wait to see what she does next.

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