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Dancers photographed from above with a Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972. See more photos here.
(Co Rentmeester—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn’t accurate, and there’s no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that. It’s something I aspire to in all my work — a lack of preciousness that makes things more human and honest, a willingness to receive what’s there in the moment and to let go of the result. Getting out of the way seems to be one of the main tasks for me as an artist.

— Jeff Bridges interview on lens blog
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We had a collector come in and ask about an artist we were showing,” said one art dealer who asked to remain anonymous. When the dealer told him the artist was close to 40, and had taken some time off before getting her MFA, the collector lost interest. “He thought she couldn’t be a true artist if she was starting so late in life.

— Second Acts: Why “Rediscovered Artists” Are the Art Market’s New Darlings | Artinfo (via photographsonthebrain)
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