“Hemingway was the kind of man that just had it figured out. Likely, Big Ern probably didn’t even realize he had it figured out. But I know he did, and Ive learned a lot from him.”
Just finished reading The sun also rises this morning, and I agree; Hemmingway must have been the type of man who had seen through it all….
“Life is essentially a cheat… and the redeeming things are not ‘happiness and pleasure’ but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (image: bettmann archives)
Hans Aarsman is a former photographer, who worked as a photo journalist at a Dutch newspaper and published a series of books. In 1989 he published the book “Hollandse Taferelen” (Dutch scenes). He published three more photo books before he left photography. He now writes about photography, a.o. for the Dutch daily newspaper the Volkskrant.
His talk at TEDxAmsterdam was titled “From pretty to ugly and back again; mysterious ways of beauty in photography” and the audience judged it one of the highlights of the day. Surprising, insightful and at times hilarious, Aarsman shows different concepts of beauty in photography, and suggests that the only real photographic beauty is to be found in pictures that were made without such a goal in mind.

Platon in next week’s New Yorker. Online as an audiovisual slideshow.
everybody but this one

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Mos def got style….
and lets add some proper credits this time: photo by peggy sirota