Image overload

William Eggleston on FFFFOUND!

FFFFOUND.com is a site for "image bookmarking." Right now it's only open by invitation, but you can play around with the site and subscribe to the RSS feeds. There's a lot of material posted daily, but a little patience can yield excellent work.

Is it only a matter of time before an open venue like this, even more so than a hyperactive environment like Flickr, becomes the place for talent to be—found?

"100 Photographs That Changed The World"

The premise of this LIFE Magazine feature is worth questioning. Do photographs actually "change" the world? Or, as Sugimoto suggests, are they fossils from the beginning, the material afterlife of the "change"?

It is proper that in every case it's possible to give these images a historical value. Is it now possible to call an event "historical" without a photograph to commemorate it? Does history now spring from photographs?

[From Open Culture]

"I came to realize that photography is a process of making fossils out of the present."

Hiroshi Sugimoto