For those of you who didn’t hear, Helen Levitt passed away last week.  She was a slightly lesser known but no less wonderful NYC street photographer who did a lot of work circa 1950s.  Her person and career gives me a heartfelt grin, since photography, and especially street photography, is so much a boy’s club, that I love that a women came and conquered her own place in it.  There’s a NPR interview with Levitt, here.

That last picture made me think of this phenomenal film I saw while away, Killer of Sheep.  Really really turned my mind around in a way that I didn’t expect, and it was so remarkably shot that I went back and watched a lot of it again w/o sound.  The phrase, far out, describes that quite perfectly.  Try it…if you want.

It makes me want to begin to shoot motion.

BTW, I’m back, and while I don’t expect you to be excited, after having been traveling the last 6 of 7 weeks for work I’m glowing to be home and to get back to life here.  I’ve been shooting for Adidas, Interview, Dazed.  I can’t share anything ’til stuff goes to print.   Mostly I’m excited to be back to get personal projects going and some fashion stories.

Oh, and on the topic of fashion, I want to point to the story Sebastian Kim did for Numero in this month’s architecture issue.  Excellent.  I enjoy his work b/c it’s rare to see heavily conceptual work done so, well, uh, well…or with such taste.  (There’s actually an older interview with him, here, which is worth reading if you’re starting as a photographer b/c he had a rather unique start to his career having assisted both Avedon and Meisel for extended periods.)