I do not have a photograph to share with you all today. Instead I will share 6,697 Polaroids, dated in sequence. The photographs are of a man named Jamie Livingston, his friends and his everyday life.
He began taking photographs on April 23, 1979 and stopped on October 25, 1997 — his 41st birthday. The day of his death.
He was an amazing artist who's project seems to have captured the hearts of tens of thousands of people on the Internet since the website was discovered by Chris Higgens from http:///www.mentalfloss.com
Livingstone's picture diary started at Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College and though some photos have gone missing from the collection, 6,697 Polaroids remain. The collection, dated in sequence, has been organised by his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid into an exhibit at Bard College called "JAMIE LIVINGSTON. PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997", which opened in 2007.
It is easy as a photographer to get cought up in all the technical aspects of the art, but photography is only truely about one thing. Telling a story. I took the time to look through each and every image posted on the following website and not once did I think about composition, lighting, sharpness, or color balance. Instead I was cought up in Mr. Livingstons life.
http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/
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I am going to have to check this out because that sounds like an awesome project!
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