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Dylan Vitone's massive 360 degree panoramas were the talk of the David Weinberg Gallery's opening in Chicago the other night, for good reason. The photos were so filled with life. I find some portrait photography to be forced and sometimes even exploitative, but Vitone's panoramas are so populated by beautiful people and the vibrant city itself that everyone was just walking around smiling. Most of the photos in the show were taken in Pittsburgh (one of my favorite American cities) and this one, in particular, made me want to try out the panorama effect in my dad's auto body shop (just for fun). Vitone's panoramas take hours to compose and sometimes contain the same subject more than once, even though they look like a 360 degree moment in time.

The show was really nice. I was the youngest and least-experienced of the three guys whose work was displayed. Jay Wolke's 1980s shots of life along the Dan Ryan expressway in Chicago , of course, were huge and beautiful and inspiring as well.

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I've made no secret of my love and admiration for the works of James Agee, Walker Evans, and Helen Levitt, all close friends. And now, at age 95, the last of those three great artists is gone. Our friend Amy in Durham, NC (who has worked with Levitt's past publications) e-mailed me first thing this morning to tell me of Ms. Levitt's death. Then Juniper and I spent the morning once again looking through In the Street and then headed out to the sidewalk with a bucket full of chalk.

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SOURCE: El Rebelde's Flickr stream

I have been enjoying the documentary photography taken by people in other post-industrial rustbelt cities that I have been able to find on flickr (obviously I feel some kinship with other people who find this sort of thing interesting). I have particularly enjoyed browsing through El Rebelde's photos of Cleveland, and when I saw this recent photo of a glove being devoured by moss I had to share it. This summer I spent so much time taking pictures of the way nature was slowly taking over the works of men, I find myself a bit stumped now that winter is here and the foliage is dormant.

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SOURCE: Daniel Shea's Flickr

Photographer Daniel Shea (recently of Baltimore, now Chicago) does an amazing job capturing life in the sorts of places most people would prefer not to see. I find it incredibly inspiring. This photo is one of the most incredible, I think I like it because unlike some of the others it wasn't obviously posed (and yet maybe it was?) Either way, the ambiguity is pretty cool---just the possibility that this scene happened just like this without provocation is enough to keep me carrying my camera everywhere I go.

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