"Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism."

Alec Soth (here is the rest of the interview)

"Every woman is a volume of stories, a catalogue of movements, a spectacular array of images." - Chabon The Mysteries of Pittsburg

Hocking Hills, OH

Maine, Sept 2010

Alexander Gronsky

These are so beautiful to me...

Less Than 1 - "Less than 1 person per square kilometer is an average population of Russia's outmost regions in which this project was made" (from his website)

Gronsky's other project The Edge was recognized by Aperture with the 2009 portfolio prize.

"We are so distracted by and engulfed by the technologies we've created, and by the constant barrage of so-called information that comes our way, that more than ever to immerse yourself in an involving book seems socially useful... The place of stillness that you have to go to write, but also read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world"

Jonathan Franzen, TIME

Jonathan Williams

Montauk, NY

Photos © friends

Chromolithography

The November Meteors - As observed between midnight and 5 o'clock A.M. on the night of November 13-14 1868 -

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