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Kawashima Kotori 川島小鳥 (b.1980, Japan) - Mirai-chan 未来ちゃん
Mirai-chan 未来ちゃん is a photo series made by the Japanese photographer Kotori Kawashima, containing portraits of the daughter of his friend who lives in a village in Sado Island, Nigata prefecture. Originally published in a small print run by a Tokyo gallery, Mirai-chan has been republished and reportedly was one of the best-selling photobooks in Japan, being selected the number one “Book of the Year 2011” by the Japanese magazine Da Vinci.
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“No, it’s pronounced ‘eye-gor’”
One of 30-ish portraits for my new show which opens tonight at 7pm at Mondo Gallery in Austin, TX.
Extraordinary photos of young hitchhikers and freight train hoppers by Mike Brodie
Mike Brodie (tumblr | facebook) first began photographing in 2004 when he was given a Polaroid camera. Working under the moniker, The Polaroid Kidd, Brodie spent the next four years circumambulating the U.S. amassing an archive of photographs that would go on to make up one of the few, true collections of American travel photography. Having never undergone any formal training, he chose to remained untethered to the pressures and expectations of the art market.
(vía farewell-kingdom)
Ikko Narahara, Tokyo, the ‘50s, 1954-58
I have always loved this image. A show of Narahara’s work opens tomorrow at Taka Ishii’s Roppongi space in Tokyo.
(vía rikaorlanda)
The awesome Ted Lawson, more here:
UAJAJARA MADE IN BARRA DO CORDA/MA..Que a mais bela tribo das mais belas índias não seja atacada por ser inocente…
The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture”
I enjoyed these articles.
Actually, no. Stop distorting a historic photo based on one blogger’s selective interpretation.
The fact is that the quotes taken from the woman in the photo were from an interview in 2005. Let’s run through some bullet points to lay this to rest, in case you don’t care to read the whole transcript:
- She and George were complete strangers and she did not want or expect the kiss, however she states that it “was just somebody celebrating. It wasn’t a romantic event. It was just an event of ‘thank god the war is over’”
- She states that he kissed her because she was dressed as a nurse, and George felt indebted to the nurses for their work during the war
- She met with George in 1980 for a reenactment
- She didn’t think about the kiss after it happened
- She is in occasional contact with him, exchanging Christmas cards
- She mentions nowhere that he was drunk
The point is that the culture and standards of the day were vastly different then. Today, anything that can be labeled as sexual IS duly labeled as such. That was not the case then, nor was his kiss interpreted as such. He kissed her in jubilation that he didn’t have to leave his home to go back to war. As Friedman herself says, sailors all over the plaza were celebrating and kissing everyone.
We’re talking about the end of the second World War. As devastating and heartbreaking as we view our current “War on Terror”, it’s impossible for our generation to imagine the relief of knowing a war 50 times as deadly (by approximate casualties) had ended.
Let iconic photos be.
Also, be wary of jumping on social justice bandwagons. It seems anything can be appropriated to serve a cause, any means adopted to justify righteous ends.
I’m all for the reduction of douchebaggery on the part of men everywhere, particularly when it comes to their (our) horrid tendency of overstepping physical boundaries. But let’s tackle the problem where it actually exists, instead of rewriting history to suit our arguments, shall we?
(Fuente: m0dizzle, vía evolutionists)
I had all those ideas in my head all day… And now that I’ve finally got some time to deal with them, they’re gone.
So I made this gif.
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You’re welcome to check out my other stuff: http://marijatiurina.tumblr.com/
