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Patrick Dougherty :: Twig Uff da Palace :: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Photo © Laurel Havir Porter. All rights reserved.

I dropped one of my daughters and her friends off at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to hike yesterday. When I came back I snapped this photo with my iPhone.

I love Patrick Dougherty's sculptures, though I imagined the scale to be larger. I could stand inside, but If I moved my brood in, I'd feel more crowded than the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.

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Hiromu Kira :: The Thinker :: Black and White Photograph of the Hollywood Dam

Photo Hiromu Kira via The Story: here

Listen to the interview with Dennis Reed on DIck Gordon's: The Story in the podcast below. 

This is a double interview podcast, which means that you'll need to listen past the Mustard Girl piece that begins the episode. It is worth it. Dennis Reed speaks about his quest to track down the Japanese photographers who were forced to relocate to internment camps during WWII. His interview starts a little past the half-way mark of the podcast.

Posted via email from Visually Fixated :: Vintage Photography :: Posterous

The Charlie Rose Interview With Henri Cartier-Bresson on July 6, 2000 Richard Avedon Opening :: video

via video.google.com

I have tried to find the words to express how a camera, no matter if it is an iPhone or loaded with film, is just a tool for me to capture a moment a feeling... and then this morning I found an interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson that I did not know existed.
Previously, I admired Cartier-Bresson for his photographic images, but did not know the inner-man. As I listened to the way this self-described anarchist viewed what he did, I was moved to tears in humble recognition of a kindred soul.

The interview is approximately one hour long, and is available on DVD via amazon: Charlie Rose with Richard Avedon; Henri Cartier-Bresson (July 6, 2000)

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Me and My Parrots :: Frida Kahlo :: 1942 Nickolas Muray photograph :: black and white :: at her easel

Circa 1942, Frida sits in front of her easel in a photograph titled: Me and My Parrots.

 

via the George Eastman House photography collection

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Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray Series :: color photograph against a turquoise wall

This is one of my favorite photographs of Frida - love the colors. 

via geh.org

via the collection of The George Eastman House

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Picasso's Citroen 2cv - An Art Car Inspired by Picasso's Portrait of Dora Maar and Created by Andy Saunders

When I think of art cars, I envision a creative project with no re-sale value. A drive it 'til it drops personal statement.

Andy Saunders looked at one of Picasso's cubist portraits of Dora Maar and saw a cubist Citroen 2cv. His creative endeavor is more likely to sit on an art collector's pedestal, than rust along the curb in a tow zone.

Picasso's 1938 portrait of Dora Mar sold at auction in 2008 for $14.6 million.

Picasso's Citroen 2cv by Andy Saunders

More photos of the Picasso Citroen: here

(Not to be confused with the modern Citroen Picasso of which Saunders says, "I named it Picasso's Citroen and I think it is much better than the Citroen Picasso, which is a boring people carrier. I think I know which one Pablo would have preferred.")

Read the original article about the Andy Saunders Citroen 2cv: here

The 1967 Citroen 2CV - an Essential Vehicle Pour Moi

I took a Citroen for an imaginary test drive over the weekend. It suits me.

   

Photos courtesy of citrobe.org. 

Nederlandse 1967 Citroen 2cv brochure. Click HERE to enjoy more images.