Welcome to Litsy!

from Chicago to
Santa Monica — get your kicks
on Route 66.

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Real snowflakes photographed in early 1900s! #BeautyBreak

When the name “Snowflake Bentley” is mentioned in Louise Penny‘s newest book, The Black Wolf, one must Google it. Was delighted to see that this first photographer of snowflakes was real and the amazing Maria Popova had written about him: https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/01/19/wilson-bentley-snowflakes/

Sontag‘s book of critical essays concerning photography, whether it should be considered a fine art, its historical relationship to painting, the illusory and distancing qualities of a photo, the widespread public acceptance of the photographer chronicling the private, debates as to what should be photographed, as well as the consequences of a modern world obsessed with “capturing reality” even if a definition of “reality” will never be reached.

Happy Monday! Here‘s a long exposure #beautybreak for anyone who needs it. 🤣 Also, I love it when I find plants growing from rocks.

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My awesome co-worker randomly got me a shirt!

I found this memoir fascinating. Set against the backdrop of her family story, Sally Mann reflects on how she assigns meaning to both her photographs and her life.

“Photography would seem to preserve our past and make it invulnerable to the distortions of repeated memorial superimpositions, but I think that is a fallacy: photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.“

Picture is a favorite from the book

Is anyone interested in a #NFNovember Readathon this year? Or is someone already hosting and I missed it? #NFNovember