Get A Haircut And Go Take Some Photographs!
I posted this photo today for no particular reason in the hope that it lives up to this blog's subtitle and the phrase "daily life". It's a simple image of a young boy being scalped by a masked barber in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand.
In the "olden days" artists such as Vermeer painted "little Dutch master" scenes of daily life for their own sake. I doubt if Vermeer could have ever imagined that people would trudge to the Frick Museum on 5th Avenue in New York to see his works 200 plus years after he painted them, but his renditions tell us a bit about how people lived "back in the day".
Maybe down the road some of your photographs will be somewhere and people will stop and say, "Look how people lived back then", the same as you may do when browsing through an old Life, National Geographic or Rolling Stone Magazine today.
So if you're out there, take a few photos of something we've all seen a million times. No one may be interested in those shots today except you and I, but let's give it a couple of hundred years and see what happens.
John Brown Photojournalist On LIGHTSTALKERS
My Mondo Library Photography
My Photoshelter Photography Archive Homepage
I posted this photo today for no particular reason in the hope that it lives up to this blog's subtitle and the phrase "daily life". It's a simple image of a young boy being scalped by a masked barber in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand.
In the "olden days" artists such as Vermeer painted "little Dutch master" scenes of daily life for their own sake. I doubt if Vermeer could have ever imagined that people would trudge to the Frick Museum on 5th Avenue in New York to see his works 200 plus years after he painted them, but his renditions tell us a bit about how people lived "back in the day".
Maybe down the road some of your photographs will be somewhere and people will stop and say, "Look how people lived back then", the same as you may do when browsing through an old Life, National Geographic or Rolling Stone Magazine today.
So if you're out there, take a few photos of something we've all seen a million times. No one may be interested in those shots today except you and I, but let's give it a couple of hundred years and see what happens.
John Brown Photojournalist On LIGHTSTALKERS
My Mondo Library Photography
My Photoshelter Photography Archive Homepage
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