International Center of Photography
Easily worth a thousand words
Hello, Museum Lovers— the time has come once again where I’m just now coming up for air after having spent 2-3 weeks unable to find the time or energy to write a full post for each museum I’ve visited. I hope you’ll enjoy these next three posts which are primarily photos(ironic/fitting that we’re starting with the international museum of photography!) and with any luck we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled fully written post soon. Love you guys.
I loved the International Museum of Photography. We live in a world where it’s so easy to take photos for granted— I would estimate that I take 2-3 pictures on my iphone every day on average, and I am inundated with them constantly online, in advertisements and signage, in places that I’m not even thinking of— and it’s so cool to slow down and remember that oh, right, this is an art form. The composition and the contrast and the color and the direction the eye moves around the space and the way that one person interprets it differently from another— these things really matter! These pictures are documentation of a life that is lived and they will be here long after that life is over. That’s important.
International Center of Photography
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Nov 30: Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
Dec 7: Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture
Dec 14: Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
Dec 21: Vacation!
LOVE photography! Something I realized only in the last few years, but I love the way you can really capture an idea or person or event. Anyway read the Wikipedia of the DRUM (South African magazine) because I love the picture of the men in the newsroom/office. Great work as always Cathy :)
Gorgeous Cathy, even these ones where you claim you’re not really writing, you are still seeing and absorbing and interpreting. Thanks on behalf of our culture for keeping on with this important work