http://www.paulgrahamarchive.com/a1.html#a
Did I expect more? There are few photographs accessible on his website. Somehow the photographs are empty, calm, without emotions but very close to my inner feeling that the world is still same at any time and space. Without knowing the place I hardly can say from which part of the world the picture is.
Stephen Shore's American Surfaces
http://stephenshore.net/photographs/seven/index.php?page=1&menu=photographs
The photographs are like windows into the world at a time when they were taken. I especially like the photographs of people who are looking into the camera. It is like they say "hey we were here and we looked like". All photographs have a documentary value of its Era. Looking at them is pleasant. To study what food was served. How people looked like fashion, the design of things, cars.
Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi
https://pro.magnumphotos.com/Package/2K7O3RJZOEDT#/SearchResult&ALID=2K7O3RJZOEDT&VBID=2K1HZSJ3XM164&POPUPIID=2K7O3RJZYWPC&POPUPPN=34
Extraordinary photographs, what more to say. This research reveals me that people looking straight into camera have their own state of a feeling which we put into them. It looks like it is similar to the Mosjukhin experiment in the film medium.
Robert Frank's The Americans
I love to watch the faces. It is an unusual state of feeling. Where all the people come from. Are they happy? Where they are rushing? Amazing portraits here with astonishing pictures of individuals.
Other journey documentaries:
Ruddy Roy
http://ruddyroye.com/galleries/my-american-sojourn--a-southern-journey/Radcliffe_Roye_35_2/
In this documentary are people and their reflections in photographs. The photographs are amazing but I am missing the space, the architecture, things, objects, food. It looks like it incomplete comparing it to the previous documentary.
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