I’m always admire people who show a great level of commitment and compulsiveness to do something they like, as shown by James “Jamie” Livingston through his “Photo of the Day” project.
“Photo of the Day” was the photography project and obsession of Bard College alumnus Jamie Livingston, a New York–based photographer and cinematographer. From 31 March 1979 to 25 October 1997, the day of his death, Livingston recorded his life, and the life around him, every single day, with a Polaroid SX-70 camera that was then imprinted with a stamp and date.
Livingston starts this project by snapping his then current girlfriend, Mindy Goldstein, along with other friends, they are smiling over something outside the frame. After a few weeks he realised he had taken almost an image a day, he then began to continually take one photo a day and it ended 18 years later with more than 6,697 photos and the last photos were a self-portrait of the photographer on his deathbed on his 41st birthday.
In his images, Livingston shows us how to see a daily and ordinary life into an overwhelming and wildly powerful viewing experience especially the photos towards the end of his life when he got cancer. They are intensely moving, painful, intimate and beautiful at the same time, and that’s always been the sign of the best photographers in my mind; photographers that make you feel.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY
I’m always admire people who show a great level of commitment and compulsiveness to do something they like, as shown by James “Jamie” Livingston through his “Photo of the Day” project.
“Photo of the Day” was the photography project and obsession of Bard College alumnus Jamie Livingston, a New York–based photographer and cinematographer. From 31 March 1979 to 25 October 1997, the day of his death, Livingston recorded his life, and the life around him, every single day, with a Polaroid SX-70 camera that was then imprinted with a stamp and date.
Livingston starts this project by snapping his then current girlfriend, Mindy Goldstein, along with other friends, they are smiling over something outside the frame. After a few weeks he realised he had taken almost an image a day, he then began to continually take one photo a day and it ended 18 years later with more than 6,697 photos and the last photos were a self-portrait of the photographer on his deathbed on his 41st birthday.
In his images, Livingston shows us how to see a daily and ordinary life into an overwhelming and wildly powerful viewing experience especially the photos towards the end of his life when he got cancer. They are intensely moving, painful, intimate and beautiful at the same time, and that’s always been the sign of the best photographers in my mind; photographers that make you feel.
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