“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist – moving an audience through a movie … making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.”
Klute (1971) Cinematography by Gordon Willis
Gordon Willis, ASC.
Elderly Holocaust survivors have this week returned to the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, 70 years after it was liberated, to bear witness to one of history’s worst atrocities.
A memorial at the camp, shows one of the three photos taken clandestinely by prisoners, of the bodies of […]
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It’s ironic that I stumbled upon this article after yesterday’s post. I found myself watching the video on the homepage of www.rescuedfilm.com, intrigued to see what images of such historical significance may have been found.
It serves to remind us what we are doing when we take any photographs, recording moments of our existence in the […]
“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.”
From the article :
“Once you take a picture with WhiteAlbum, it disappears — there’s no finished image shown on screen and nothing is added to the camera roll on your device. After you’ve taken 24 pictures (and you can take as long as you like to finish a roll) you’ll receive printed copies through the […]
Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
China has begun cracking down on one of the few avenues its citizens and foreigners have to accessing the full internet, the People’s Daily Newspaper in Beijing reported.
China announced it is “upgrading” its internet censorship to disrupt VPN services inside the nation of 1.3 billion people, the paper said.
The Great Firewall of China has long […]
Sex is the best high. It’s better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
Bai Ling
There are not many people who haven’t heard of or even taken a selfie. Over one million are shared across social media everyday making up 30 per cent of all photos taken by people aged between 18 and 24. And in 2013 the Oxford Dictionary crowned ‘selfie’ its Word of the Year.
But is all that […]
