Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years
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Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years
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#2See also Jamie Livingston:
> Jamie Livingston (October 25, 1956 – October 25, 1997) was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer. Between March 31, 1979, and October 25, 1997, the day of his death, he took a single picture nearly every day with a Polaroid SX-70 camera.[1][2]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Livingston
> NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,000 days, or, roughly, 18 years. The first shot was of his girlfriend at the time on March 13, 1979.
> His last photo was on his deathbed, dying of cancer on October 25, 1997.
* https://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/a-polaroid-a-day-for-6000-d...
* https://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com
A lot of people take it up as a project:
* https://photzy.com/how-to-create-a-one-photo-a-day-project/
One fellow (Sam Javanrouh) in Toronto did it for ten years:
> I started [daily dose of imagery] on July 4th, 2003. I posted a photo each day since then. When I launched ddoi, there was no Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, iPhone, iPad, Android, 500px or Instagram.
> [daily dose of imagery] will remain as is and the whole archive of it will be available as long as I can afford to keep it. The photos will still be available for purchase I’ve also uploaded the whole 10 years archive into a new flickr account which is a great way to browse with large thumbnails. Bookmark it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddoi-archive/
* http://blog.topleftpixel.com/2013/07/04/and-thats-a-wrap/
I followed him on The Socials (via RSS/Atom) and it was always top quality stuff; no real 'filler' / fluff.
Re: Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years
#3See also Jamie Livingston: > Jamie Livingston (October 25, 1956 – October 25, 1997) was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer. Between March 31, 1979, and October 25, 1997, the day of his death, he took a single picture nearly every day with a Polaroid SX-70 camera.[1][2] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Livingston > NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,…
I have seen several others, such as the girl whose father took her photos growing up from age 0 to 20. Another has a video every day on her birthdays, or was it her first day of school?
I wanted to do something but realized I could not do that for various reasons (travel, work, etc). However, I take enough photos regularly, and I think by the time my kids grow up, there will be good enough or even way better technology to parse through our photo collection and spit out the variations we like -- through the years, school days, birthdays, etc. -- a customized version of Moments.
Re: Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years
#4See also Jamie Livingston: > Jamie Livingston (October 25, 1956 – October 25, 1997) was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer. Between March 31, 1979, and October 25, 1997, the day of his death, he took a single picture nearly every day with a Polaroid SX-70 camera.[1][2] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Livingston > NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,…
Reminds me of Jonathan Mann[0], who makes a song every day.
I remember him from the song about the iPhone 4 antenna[1], the one Steve played at a keynote. Recently I've stumbled upon his YouTube channel and was shocked that he still, to this day continues with one song a day. It's very impressive to me.
What I find even more interesting, is that he's not some social media star, he usually gets 100-200 views on those videos. He does it for himself.
BTW, he also made the outro for Accidental Tech Podcasts, which has some listeners on this forum :)
Re: Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years
#5Those photos really aren’t bad at all.
Re: Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years
#6I'd say the seeing the photographs themselves is nice:
https://www.acambridgediary.co.uk/
Hug of death may take it away, however.
Re: Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years
#7I'd say the seeing the photographs themselves is nice: https://www.acambridgediary.co.uk/ Hug of death may take it away, however.
This is a great set and a fun reminder that Cambridge life doesn't revolve around the undergraduates (however much I might have thought it did at the time).
Re: Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years
#8Those photos really aren’t bad at all.
that’s quite an understatement.
Re: Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years
#9See also Jamie Livingston: > Jamie Livingston (October 25, 1956 – October 25, 1997) was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer. Between March 31, 1979, and October 25, 1997, the day of his death, he took a single picture nearly every day with a Polaroid SX-70 camera.[1][2] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Livingston > NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,…
Reminds me of Jonathan Mann[0], who makes a song every day. I remember him from the song about the iPhone 4 antenna[1], the one Steve played at a keynote. Recently I've stumbled upon his YouTube channel and was shocked that he still, to this day continues with one song a day. It's very impressive to me. What I find even more interesting, is that he's not some social media star, he usually gets 100-200 views on those…
Anecdotally, that iPhone 4 issue effected everyone I knew that got one. Hearing that song felt like gaslighting (not really). Weird. Strange times.
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#10Interesting that he chose to photograph in (1) vertical on (2) a wide lens.
(1) Sceneries in general tend to feel horizontal. But I suppose you can still find vertical perspectives with street photography given that buildings are rather vertical as well.
(2) Wide angle means more coverage, showing more people in the shot, which tends to make composition difficult. Typically a good photo focuses on a subject. However, Martin Bond manages to compose and focus on a subject.
Also, wide angles introduce distortion of subjects along the edge of the photo. That shows in his photos, but are not too distracting.