Whether it was the soapbox races in Salisbury, Maryland, the parades down Fifth Avenue in NYC, or this perfectly imperfect image taken at some Fourth of July festivities a decade ago about a mile from my house in DC (above), the Library of Congress provides such a great glimpse of Americana and how this holiday has been documented. I love that while things change they still remain the same.
Here are 5 things I was looking at and loving this week:
Jeff Sharlet’s always thoughtful: Maybe this is an essay about craft, about words and pictures. Maybe it’s an essay about politics. Maybe it’s about the color of perceptions and our fears, our imaginations. Maybe it’s just a catalogue. An inventory.
Bela Borsodi’s Luminous Images of Children and Their Drawings
“…punk never dies. It gets reincarnated in music, fashion, style and attitude…” I enjoyed this Q&A with LA-punk photographer Melanie Nissen. And then I went down a punk rabbit hole and loved seeing Punk Rock: Soweto by Karabo Mooki.
Paul Kwilecki, the great Southern documentary photographer, was so enamored of his hometown that he could get homesick without even leaving.
And now for a non-photography-related link: Filter, one of the Substacks I really like, recently got a new home that makes it a little more searchable and user-friendly. Filter combines my love of both coffee and travel. It’s curated (filtered) looks at cities through a barista’s lens. I discovered it when they featured Washington, DC, and the general manager of my neighborhood cafe, Lost Sock.
I love that you always post interesting links to other creatives and their work!