When we think of art, I think most of us think of paint and canvas. Photography is often not elevated to the same level. I am not sure why. Perhaps it is because not everyone can set up and easel, mix paint and produce beauty, but everyone can point and shoot. Particularly nowadays when phone cameras are so good.
But as my friend and former colleague, Obie Oberholzer used to say, it is not about how good your camera is. It is something else entirely. Mick Rock, Lance Mercer and Annie Leibowitz took brilliant photos of celebrities, capturing something special. I also like Diane Arbus. Luckily for me, we live about 15 minutes’ walk away from Stockholm’s famous Fotografiska, The Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art, and Culture. Their shop is the place to go if you would like gorgeous photography to put on your walls.
Loving photography (as my blog posts frequently show), I was very interested to read about Viviam Maier, who was unknown until her photographs were found in a repossessed storage locker. Find the New Yorker article (and the photographs below) here. She really captured something more than pure reality. The colours, the juxtapositions, are beautiful.
