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Raghu Rai
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Stupid: love love that early Koudelka :)))...
for me, i’d take anything by Moriyama or Giacomelli (his prints especially are revelations!)...anything by Teru too…anything (installation) by Boltanski…the list is endless..
but, in truth, Erica i no longer care that much about prints…
not, more just about “seeing” (in books or web) things which sing inside my head…
hugs
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Hollywood Boulevard, 1969 by Garry Winogrand
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Gregory Colbert, hard to decide wich one…
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Stupidly giddy about the fact you didn’t link any images by Colbert, Albertina. Rarely have I found a photographer’s work more repulsive than Gregory’s. Why? Sappy, slick, commercial, having virtually nothing to do with the reality of human/nature interaction. Phenomenally successful for all the above reasons, naturally.
Edit: forgot to mention that this one of yours is simply exquisite: http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/456282
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here is Velibor’s pick
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for some reason i can’t seem to find the image on the VII Archive, but hands down my choice would be a photo nachtwey took through a windshield in chechnya (featured in “inferno”). followers of his reportage will know the picture i am thinking of.
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I would like to have Luc Delahaye’s “three brothers in hospital in Kosovo”...
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David, perhaps because he was a Magnum member when he did Inferno..
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Where should I start?
OK Nachtwey’s Xhosa Initiates I think.
Then an image from Parke’s Minutes to Midnight series which is a young Aboriginal girl at sunset.
But wait there’s more….
So much more, I’d live in a gallery if I could!
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Stupid… Colbert is not my fav ph at all but there are some pictures of him that I will see hanging on my wall better than some of my favourite photographers. Is just a question of porpouse… Of course ther’s nothing natural on tham… and this is not the kind of pictures i take and i normaly like but in my bedroom i will prefer tham over a documentary picture… what i have to do? ;-)
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Hey Adam, this one of yours rocks!
http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/244897
I can imagine a BIG print of it on my stupid wall. Yummy.
Kinda wish the Naked Cowboy was in the middle of it, where he belongs. Was he staying out of the rain that day? Kidding!
Albertina, your bedroom, not mine, so by all means hang any prints there that please you! As I said, I’m simply glad I didn’t have to look at any of Colbert’s images again.
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ah Lisa… Trent’s photo of his son “Jem is born” would be cool…..
And Eugene Richards’ book cover of “Americans We”...
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Josef Koudelka France, 1973. 
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thanks Stup… need to up-date thats an oldie! BTW, saw your gallery, I like your minimal style, your work is consistent and your advice more often than not sound
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Thanks, made my stupid day!!
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Well known image of Mafia death in Palermo or Corleone depicting a dead body, covered with sheet and two women sitting beside it. There is a pool of blood oozing from under the corpse and one of the women’s faces reflected in it. I had an A3 photocopy of this up in my room when I was still in highschool, I can’t for the life of me remember the name of the photog…
I would also love a print of Trent Parke’s rainy Sydney street, published in his book ‘Dream Life’...
oh, and also the very very famous Henri-Cartier Bresson print of the the man jumping the puddle…
and what pretty much what Lisa said.. too many to name, I’d want to live in a gallery.
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Child with toy hand grenade, 1962 by Diane Arbus
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This is a very, very hard game to play. I think this Koudelka meets the criteria though..
If I were looking through a stack of winogrands though, I might change my mind.
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any from “intimate family” by sally mann
cheers
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Those Koudelkas I believe go for $3000 per 20×24. Even though I love Koudleka’s work, I really don’t desire to own a print of his—or anyone else’s for that matter. I want to go out and create my own work. . .
I wonder if this is how John feels as well?!
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I feel prints on walls make them either exclusive, dusty or sacred.
Pictures (the good ones) are to be kept alive. Pictures are about sharing, communicating.
I own many pictures. In my head…
John
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Koudelka, Pinkhassov—if I had the money to throw around. . . but one sort of has to reach a certain income level where one can afford new Macs every 18 months, new Leicas that cost $5500 and be able to pay for travel and rent and food before one can buy prints that start out in the thousands. Print sales is the way that Koudelka has supported himself though, so anyone who buys a print is directly supporting new work by him.
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that tennis player scratching her bum
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Paul: you won’t get my head pinned on a wall… ;-))
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John, which Donovan print do you have? I was his assistant for four years…
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rather than own prints I think I’d rather own contact sheets I think
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It’s one of his fashion pics-shot originally for the Times in the late 1980’s. We swapped prints-he liked my shot of an airplane crash! Fantastic that you assisted him for all that time. He was a nice guy and it’s such a shame that he killed himself.
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could play ‘pin the tail’ on the tennis player’s arse!
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i think it’s admirable that some can keep images in their heads but utterly impossible. this is why we have museums, libraries, hard-rives, pockets.
re: original question kind….to many to list but at the top of the list would probably be something from bob frank, koudelka, mike and doug starn, bayat keerl.
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JOHN VINK! :)))
That is it exACTLY! :)))))))))))))))...that’s what i was trying to say…but didnt want to sound too flippant…
anyway….
in the body….
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Ali
The Luc Delahaye picture you are talking about was actually taken in the Kosevo Hospital in Bosnia.
It’s a very powerful image and one of my favourite images from the Bosnian war although I would not have it on my wall. I would prefer to have a happy picture on my wall to look at everyday.
This is the image anyway.
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John V, Bob..yes, of course, but I am sitting at a computer with a blank wall behind it, why not have something to before me?
John W-R.. in the other rooms, I have a White Castle by Tice and a print of school girls by Costa Manos, along with the personal things..
Contact sheets would be great, but you know what other Penn I would ReALLY love.. The image of his portable studio.
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“in the body….”...?
then why use a cam?
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Jake, five will get you ten that the photog you’re thinking of is either Letizia Battaglia or Franco Zecchin. They both covered the Mafia wars in Sicily during the 80’s and 90’s for the now defunct Palermo newspaper L’Ora and I remember seeing that photo in a book, the title of which is eluding me at the moment…(scoots off to check amazon.com)...the title is Letizia Battaglia: Passion, Justice, Freedom; photographs of Sicily. I remember the photographs in that book vividly; really brutal stuff.
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Mark,
Thanks for posting that up… I little bit disagree with you. I don’t think this picture is so brutal, it is from a part of daily life to me.
Well, there is no blood, burned bodies, bombs,tanks, guns, and etc…that we are forced to see recently. This picture shows me the legacy of Philip and Eugene Smith…though I don’t know what Luc does recently..
it is always good to have something on the walls of your home, either graffiti, calendar, a statute, phone numbers, notes, ticket for concerts,or whatever… blank wall reminds me of jails and prisons….and I don’t like white walls at all…I just can’t hold it in my life…
thanks again
cheers, A
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i have one large print on my wall. its a picture i made in spain.
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Ali
That Luc Delahaye picture is very sad. I prefer to be cheerful first thing in the morning :)
I look at a lot of pictures either for inspiration or to reflect upon. That type of picture I prefer to look at in solitude.
I do have a cut out of this on my filing cabinet though.
Image © Mark Seager 2008
It’s obviously a graphic picture but it reminds me that pictures don’t need to have clever composition to be visually stunning or powerful!
I have this picture in front of my desk and it always makes me smile and glad I still have all my teeth!
Regards
M
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Alex..I actually phoned to find out the price of that image, back in 1990…I still love it and wish I had found a way to bring it home..
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seems koudelka has more name-checks here than anyone else, to which i can only add my own nomination. i know its super-famous, but nonetheless one i know i would never tire of…
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“I own many pictures. In my head…” John Vink
Hmm. Got a smart point there. Think I’ll trash my camera and from now on, only go click in my stupid head. Every shot will be a freaking masterpiece and there will be zero danger of any of them becoming “either exclusive, dusty or sacred.” Wish Louis Daguerre had though of that. Could have saved us all a lot of wasted time looking at “either exclusive, dusty or sacred” old Daguerotypes, and all the rest of the “either exclusive, dusty or sacred” prints that came after Henry Fox Talbot.
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And then, of course, there’s
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Jake, the name of the photographer is Franco Zecchin.
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I won some money in a photo related thing… my wife suggested I buy a print with it (gotta love that). 24×36 Larry Towell print, Mennonites project. A little girl laying in a field of wheat grass. boy at bottom right, man at upper left. It sits above our couch, first thing I see when I come home. I’d have to say I like it quite a bit.
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This one?
I’m green with stupid envy!
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This one by Pieter Hugo:
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For me, Koudelka’s dog photo that Alex Reshuan posted above… This photo makes me weak in the knees.. and of course, there are many many others as well.
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I like so much to see the copies. I even tried to purchase a book of Parke to see the pix in paper but is too much expensive the delivery from the other side of the word. Only to dream this are some images to come to my mind. I can’t found others in the web or can’t paste here because they are in flash. 
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Mark
you are right on so am I… :))) It is sad but not brutal when you think of pictures from Lebanon and Iraq… It tells you the story in war zone but shows what love is. It has so much details such as broken glass, doctor, and of course light that comes from window, all these things come 1 for one meaning. Although this picture contains so much things I believe it is very pure and simple. I hope photographers like Luc Delahaye and Philip Blenkinsop will continue to do great contribution to conflict photography.
Trent is the guy I really admire and whom inspires me a lot in magnum and photography world recently.
That’s all Mark… I am gonna disappear…
Cheers, A
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Yeah, stupid, that’s the one.
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Hey Erica , how many are we allowed to choose ??? ?? There is one I can not find . A child sleeping on top of vegetables in a market. Shoot from above
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alex, do you mean this one by YAB ?
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Derry during the Troubles
Hanns-Jorg Anders
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Hi Ali
Exactly, were both right and probably both wrong :)
Yeah I don’t know what has happened to Luc Delahaye. He went into the world of galleries and has gone of the radar.
Best Wishes
Mark
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I know it’s been seen a lot since it was shot, but the following shot by Chris Hondros so accurately encapsulates the insanity of the Iraq war that it needs to be seen on a wall, if nothing more than to remind us/me how important it is to select honest political leaders.
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Ed: yea, i ask myself that question everyday…
Neal: Chris’ photograph shoul be donated to the whitehouse and made to be hung permanently on a wall in the Oval office for all future Prez to reflect upon…...
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B, good thing mozart, picasso, or jonas salk didn’t have that same attitude…
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J-F..I’ve never seen this image, I love it!! posting it here
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Caption for above Chris Hondros, Getty Images, picture for those who are not familiar with the photograph. ONE NIGHT IN TAL AFAR. Samar Hassan, 5, screrams after her parents were killed by U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division in a shooting January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar. The troops fired on the Hassan family car when it unwittingly approached them during a dusk patrol in the tense northern Iraqi town.
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Alex, you might be referring to one of Larry Towell’s pictures from the mennonites project. It is image ref # PAR136676 on the Magnum site. Speaking of the Chris Hondros pic… It’s not showing up on my computer for some reason, which one is it?
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Oh, THAT Chris Hondros pic. Gotcha.
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NEAL : what a picture fron Hondros. BOB: You are absolutely right .Why didnt THIS photo won WPP award? DAVID: no. That’s not it. Nice picture though. EDWARD: That’s it !!. Thank you . Larry Towell. 
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Ed:
i didnt say i would stop, only that i think about the reasons of dropping everyday…but basho wrote nothing down by the way, carried it all in his head, ditto buddha…but, still we carry on, for good or ill, ...
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ruediger, i think that picture wins the prize for image i would least like to see more than once. sorry to say, but it held my attention for about 3 seconds. i just dont see the point.
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My choice will go for any of the images from the wonderfull work “As I was dying” by Paolo Pellegrin
Saverio
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@David,
it’s just a joke. About every second german news server has that stupid picture today, because Mrs. Carla Sarkozy and her husband the french president are visting the United Kingdom today.
Ruediger
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I’d go one stupid step further David, to say the image is absolutely repulsive. Feeds all the worst stereotypes of hopeless, helpless, waify, starved models, unimaginatively shot on seamless. Yucko city.
Edit: Oh, it’s a joke. Hilarious. Nothing funnier than a gag dying for an explanation.
Anyway, if I had to have studio shots of nudes on my wall, I can think of one pair of photos to fit the bill, by Helmut Newton. Well, I could live with another one as well.
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Yes, but has the First Lady of France ever ducked sniper fire in Bosnia?
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Ruediger, you want to keep making them jokes, you go right ahead and make them…especially if they’re not married and you have their phone numbers. You’ll get no complaints from me.
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okay, did not recognize her. my homework now tells me that this imperishable ‘work of art’ is to be auctioned by christies and expected to fetch e2500, so there’s your chance rudy.
we are further told “The photo, shot by photographer Michel Comte, posed her in a style reminiscent of the neo-impressionist artist Georges Seurat.”
gimme a f*cking break.
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Erica, there are so many pictures that come to my mind, and some are already mentioned here: Giacomelli, Daido Moriyama, Robert Frank, Graciela Iturbide indeed, Robert Frank, Alessandra Sanguinetti…I would need me to built a house to hang them all. But actually, I love to possess books more. To have a body of work in hand, the sequence, the choices made along the way, the editing…But there has been a post from U on that one already! So I just post the one I have always loved, by Antoine d’Agatha:
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How depressingly tedious. have you all got nothing better to do…like do some work. Erica are you really that bored to start this tedious shit.
You should all take David Sutherland’s advice and gimme a f*cking break (that includes you David :)
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Looks like somebody doesn’t have anything else better to do himself. Either that or he wants some attention. I’m betting a little bit of both.
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ooh I love the attention Ed. No actually this webforum is full of tedious shit that serves no purpose whatsoever. Instead of sitting at home doing shit, get out there with a portfolio and get some work. I presume by writing shit on here all the time you are all acting out the part of the “Real photographer” talking technique and all that jazz. ooh what a lovely print etc etc Ad nauseum.
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brother mimic: relax, take a vacation. your contempt for us showing appreciation for the highest levels of our craft and sharing it with friends here makes me chuckle. how can someone who goes by the name of ‘mimicme’ possibly have ground to stand on when accusing others of ‘acting’. i don’t think a little post here and there is keeping anyone from showing portfolios, at least not me. you have a right to your view, but your stance is preposterous.
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What I find tedious is the rantings of MimicMe. If you find Erica’s post tedious MimicMe, why don’t you just piss off and do some work yourself?
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B, no doubt basho and buddha both had stenographers or somebody taking notes.
ok, bob here’s a scenario….i’m a student of yours and it’s thesis time. “it’s all in my head and it’s bitchin’”.....
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Ed: ;)))))...I give u an A …...really…plus, im too broke to afford stenographer, assistant, and i guess by Mimicme’s logic, im totally pissing away productive time or in truth, acting like a real photographer (forget the fact that I just walked in from 3 hrs of shooting: so im a hypocrite on both levels ;))))) )...by the way, you know the story of Gertrude Stein and her final exam in William James philosophy class? if you havent read the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, here’s a snapshot (so to speak ;) )
There is a memorable story about Stein and James in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (written by Stein, pretending to be speaking as her lifelong companion): “It was a very lovely spring day [writes Stein], Gertrude Stein had been going to the opera every night and going also to the opera in the afternoon and had been otherwise engrossed and it was the period of the final examinations, and there was the examination in William James’ course. She sat down with the examination paper before her and she just could not. Dear Professor James, she wrote at the top of her paper. I am so sorry but really I do not feel a bit like an examination paper in philosophy today, and left.” The next day, Stein continues, a card from James arrived that read, “Dear Miss Stein, I understand perfectly how you feel I often feel like that myself.” Whereupon, he gave her the highest grade in the course.
(http://www.bobolinkbooks.com/BALLAST/WmJames.html)
by the way, shooting and loving pics doesnt mean i want them on the wall ;))))...
your the best :))
cheers, running away now
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Sounds like somebody needs to take his/her meds more regularly…...
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I’m not bored at all by this thread..I find it rather illuminating on many counts..in my eyes it is better to seek the good than to look for the obvious weaknesses – in any situation.
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erica: :))
i love your threads (except for the one about the trix rolls: only 2? ;)) )....then again, aparently Im not a real photographer, based on Mimicme’s standard (nothing new, have heard that before and can live with his appraisal)....
hugs
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Of all the stupid threads I’ve read here, thus far this one is my favorite.
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I’d have some of Alex Webb’s prints from his early works on my wall…...and I’d do that for two reasons:
1. obviously I love his work
2. It’s just too damn grey in Vancouver and I need some color for therapeutic purpose…....
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Gotta second Lance in response to MimicMe. As far as prints I’d like to own go, I would like any individual image or the whole trypthic from the Eugene Richards piece in the Nation. The link is here: www.thenation.com/doc/20060508/richards
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It’s a real shame that MimicMe slags off Erica and the rest of us for posting on here. It’s obvious to me that all the people who responded to this post love what they do and care about photography and making and looking at great images. We don’t all agree with each other-what one person likes, another might hate. What brings us all together on here is the shared love of good photography. Why else would we bother to look on LS ?
I looked on here after a hard and long all day shoot yesterday to be informed by MimicMe that I should get out there with my portfolio and do some work. Now I don’t know anything about MimicMe except that he or she has no details on their personal page and seems to enjoy being extremely negative whenever they post.
Come on MimicMe-are you all mouth and no trousers? Where is YOUR gallery on LS?
If you don’t have anything sensible to say, why not start your own forum and keep that for your own negative rantings about photographers and photography?
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Photo by Coskun Asar. Worth looking at his other works too.
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This one is made by Stephan Vanfleteren, brings tears to my eyes… 
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With you John! I looked in while I was batch processing a job and talking to a client on the phone so MimicMe’s comments just appeared plain stupid. This post is interesting (as was a previous one about recently bought books ) because I have discovered work I wasn’t aware of.
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Now that I’ve given the matter some thought, this is my favorite print of all:
And I want lots of them, and I dont want them on my wall, I need them in my pockets, dammit!
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