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The #Skagen artists' colony and its painters are world-famous. Now the #SkagensMuseum has finally discovered a treasure trove of photographs showing the lives of the artists and their photographic originals. This video gives a wonderful insight into this treasure.

It is also exciting to see how they emphasize that it was a mistake to have ignored the documents for so long, as they offer a unique insight into the lives of the artists.

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I loved this from Bruce Gilden in an interview playing at his Fotografiska exhibit:

“I’m angry. I’ll always be angry. If I stop being angry, I’ll lose my art. I’ll stop being Bruce Gilden.”

There was another I can only paraphrase: he knows he can't be Cartier-Bresson, but he can be the best possible version of Bruce Gilden. Words to live by.

Governess and nanny shoots over 150k photos in her lifetime, never shows them. Doesn't develop some. She ages in poverty. In 2007, her work is auctioned from a forgotten storage locker. It goes viral on Flickr. Now there are documentaries and books. Dying in 2009, she's never to know she's now seen as one of the great 20th century street photographers. That’s fake, right?

vivianmaier.com

In 1858 , Giles Wheeler Ford of Olympia, Washington Territory, posted this ad for the first time in the local Pioneer and Democrat newspaper. Just two years later, he drifted away from photography as a full-time occupation. Read more about him in chapter 2 of my book, Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900.

timgreyhavens.com/artistic-and