pete mcgovern

'These days, an ageing Daido Moriyama does not walk around as fast as he used to, but he still keeps himself as busy as ever. One day, his daughter Yuko drove him to Yokohama, where he walked around the Motomachi shopping district, but before that he had already spent a rainy day wandering around Komachi Street in Kamakura. After visiting Yokohama, the very next day he was on a bus to Fujisawa, where he lived briefly when he was young. Then he planned to make his weekly trip to Tokyo the day after, with taking snapshots in the Shimbashi-Yurakucho area as his goal. For Moriyama, even a slow and relaxed stroll with his camera still generates a wealth of images.' From the afterword by Daido Moriyama:  “Despite the fact that I usually have all kinds of things and ideas on my mind, the lifestyle that I’m leading is quite simple. I find myself swinging back and forth between worrying if I’m alright, and reassuring myself that I’m doing just fine. Today I wonder whether there’ll be th...

Abstract art  photographs of torn signage are limited in that they simply nab a language that painters had to figure out and create from nothing. But anyway. I glimpsed this decrepit billboard while on a bus ride over at the coast. It was for a fraction of a second and my instantaneous reading was wow!  largely based on shapes and scale. There was something animalistic, savage going on. I won't be more specific as I'm not sure my reading holds up very well in hindsight, but it's still there somewhat, I think. At the end of the line, having prevaricated too long whether to get off en route, I ran back (in my non-runner fashion) through unfamiliar streets, navigating by shops I could recall, until I turned a corner and was slightly amazed to find I had found it. I haven't managed to get a good picture of it, the light was behind and to one side for one thing. Whatever. And now captured it doesn't have the eye-pop surprise of seeing something for an instant and have it...

Derek Eller gallery show, review by Loring on Collectordaily here

The moment she took this photograph is actually on the  video on the Fraenkel gallery website. Not only was it taken with a medium format analogue camera (meaning she only had a few moments to get off the shot) but I doubt the timing, what with the distant birds, and the breaking of the small wave, could have been bettered if she had been shooting 25 frames per second with a digital DSLR.

I've no title on this photograph by Grannan, coming across it on eBay, the image on a show invite from 2008.