Herring-Hawker's Cry

This is mainly a commonplace book for me. Just passing the time, waiting for Godot, really. We'll see where it goes.

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buffleheadcabin: msodradek: ontheborderland: André Kertész | Landing Pigeon, New York, 1960 “This was taken around 59th Street where they had demolished the houses, and I saw a pigeon flying in and out. The original idea for this photograph dates back to my days in Paris, where I also saw some old run-down houses and wanted to photograph them with a pigeon. But the pigeon never came. Here in New York I sat and waited. Time and time again I went back to the same place, but it was never right. Then one day I saw the lonely pigeon. I took maybe two or three pictures. The moment was here. I had waited maybe thirty years for that instant.” — André Kertész, Kertész on Kertész (Courtesy of crashinglybeautiful & Chasing Light) Photographs that look like paintings are far more interesting than paintings that look like photographs.

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André Kertész | Landing Pigeon, New York, 1960

“This was taken around 59th Street where they had demolished the houses, and I saw a pigeon flying in and out. The original idea for this photograph dates back to my days in Paris, where I also saw some old run-down houses and wanted to photograph them with a pigeon. But the pigeon never came. Here in New York I sat and waited. Time and time again I went back to the same place, but it was never right. Then one day I saw the lonely pigeon. I took maybe two or three pictures. The moment was here. I had waited maybe thirty years for that instant.”

— André Kertész, Kertész on Kertész

(Courtesy of crashinglybeautiful & Chasing Light)

Photographs that look like paintings are far more interesting than paintings that look like photographs.

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