http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/mules/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:33:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/mules/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Tom Levy Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:46:37 +0000 http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/11/mules/#comment-121 Seeing an idea or visual accident of happenstance in the everyday requires a kind of vigilance, awareness and active passivity. Winnogrand was a master at this method. Placing himself where the light and action would open up a moment, he would work for a while to capture the unknowable. With out his image, we cannot study the world at that level of transience. He was a patient hunter, with a humorist eye. Often I think his images are misunderstood. Perhaps by people looking for something they already know, or some judgement or definition. Life in Winnogrand's frame is about chance, opportunity and, about awareness. Seeing an idea or visual accident of happenstance in the everyday requires a kind of vigilance, awareness and active passivity. Winnogrand was a master at this method. Placing himself where the light and action would open up a moment, he would work for a while to capture the unknowable. With out his image, we cannot study the world at that level of transience.
He was a patient hunter, with a humorist eye. Often I think his images are misunderstood. Perhaps by people looking for something they already know, or some judgement or definition. Life in Winnogrand’s frame is about chance, opportunity and, about awareness.

]]> http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/mules/comment-page-1/#comment-17 mary jane Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:08:07 +0000 http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/11/mules/#comment-17 amazing pictures amazing pictures

]]> http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/mules/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Tom Starkweather Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:37:06 +0000 http://pausetobegin.com/blog/2008/01/11/mules/#comment-3 Winogrand's "1964" book helped me through a tough spot. That needs to be reprinted because its not easy to find and more than I can afford used. Photographing everyday goes a long way, and sometimes I wonder when I'm walking around Manhattan if I'm in the same place that some of those incredibly beautiful and strange Winogrand moments were captured. Winogrand’s “1964″ book helped me through a tough spot. That needs to be reprinted because its not easy to find and more than I can afford used. Photographing everyday goes a long way, and sometimes I wonder when I’m walking around Manhattan if I’m in the same place that some of those incredibly beautiful and strange Winogrand moments were captured.

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