New photographers to check out
Posted on | October 9, 2008 | No Comments
Danielle Scruggs, Mission District, San Francisco 2007
who also writes about photography on her blog, http://www.daniellescruggs.blogspot.com/
Ayana Vellissia Jackson, from the South Africa series
whose site opens with this great quote:
“Photography and sociology have approximately the same birth date, if you count sociology’s birth as the publication of Comte’s work which gave it its name, and photography’s birth as the date in 1839 when Daguerre made public his method for fixing an image on a metal plate. Like sociologists, photographers have been concerned, in their professional lives, with contemporary social problems: immigration, poverty, racism, social unrest. Both have studied occupations and related institutions of work social classes, communities, cities, societies, and cultures. From its beginnings, photography has been used as a tool for the exploration of society, and photographers have taken that as one of their tasks. Among its several uses, photography has been a tool to explore society, thereby entering upon common ground with sociology.”
- Howard Becker, Northwestern University
I’ve had this site now for nearly 10 years; this blog for 3½. I’ve had my ups and downs with continuing this work–art has probably been my greatest pleasure, but also my worst pain–but this kind of thing is my real joy–discovering a new artist, either because she contacted me directly or a friend sent a link, and sharing that information with whomever is reading. So simple, yet so powerful and meaningful.
I haven’t looked at this site’s stats in a long time (even though I added a site meter when I switched over its format I delete the E-mail they send without reading it), so I don’t even know how many folks are looking at it in the course of a day/week/month. I hope and trust it’s still serving its purpose.
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