Il sito Humans of New York mi ha rapito il cuore e la mente. Brendon Stanton gira per le strade di New York con la sua macchina fotografica ritraendo i suoi abitanti, si passa dalle arzille vecchiette a personaggi bizzarri e bambini buffi. Le foto sono magnifiche, ma quello che le rende veramente potenti sono le didascalie. Ne esce fuori una mappa umana di New York profonda e commovente. Ecco le mie 10 preferite...
"Yes it is," I replied. Then she leaned in and said:
"But sex is better."
"But sex is better."
He told me he was an artist.
I asked what kind of art he made.
He said: “I do my own thing.”
I said: “What’s your thing?”
He said: “Doing my thing.”
As I was walking away, his wife gave me his name. “Look him up,” she said. So I did.
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"Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950 in New York City) is an American photographer and artist who has become notorious through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist’s own urine." -Wikipedia
I asked what kind of art he made.
He said: “I do my own thing.”
I said: “What’s your thing?”
He said: “Doing my thing.”
As I was walking away, his wife gave me his name. “Look him up,” she said. So I did.
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"Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950 in New York City) is an American photographer and artist who has become notorious through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist’s own urine." -Wikipedia
"He wanted to be a princess, and I thought it was a little too early to be imposing gender."
"I lived in Poland, so we were persecuted from the first day of the war. First they took us from our home, then they put us in a ghetto, then they made us march, then they sent us to the camps. I was separated from everyone, but my brother later told me that my father froze to death. But I have children now, and grandchildren, and great grandchildren— a great big family, all of them educated. Look at everything that came from just one person who escaped. Just goes to show that you can never kill a people with hate. There will always be someone left to carry on.”
"It was easier than I thought it’d be."
"What’s the toughest thing you’ve ever survived?"
"Probably cancer."
"I love his eyes and his belly."
I actually asked her if I could photograph her feet.
She said: “Only if I can do THIS.”
"Even before he could talk, we’d have these mental conversations with our eyes."
"I’m 92 years old."
“What’s your secret?”
“Lots of sex.”
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Bello questo sito, non lo conoscevo. Una città si delinea anche attraverso i volti di chi la abita. =)
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