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“The Old Masters; how well they understood/Its human position; how it takes place/While someone is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along…” — W.H. Auden
text from a poem by John Ashbery on the left and image of people walking in a city at night

For the Love of Words + Images

“It's closer to poetry than it is to essay writing...about the idea of escape. Not escape, the idea of escape. It's a little bit like baring your soul.” — Alec Soth, on photography in Somewhere To Disappear I think a good photograph has qualities of a
Bud Parr 13 Nov 2025
inside pages of a book with text on the left and an image by Gary Winogrand on the right

Looking Into Photographs

A look at books about photographs
Bud Parr 11 Nov 2025

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