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Caroline Newbern
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About “Immediate Family,” “That's the way many of these pictures evolved, their genesis in a failed image but one that had some rudiment of the eternal in it-like the hair plastered across the ribs, or the V of sky and river with Emmett.
But others came completely spontaneously…” wow, the photographic process is amazing
— Jul 31, 2026 03:19PM
But others came completely spontaneously…” wow, the photographic process is amazing
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Caroline Newbern
is on page 243 of 482
“…instead all that I remember is the rare, heart-pounding, brake-squealing lurch to the verge after glimpsing a potential image. My memories are of those euphoric moments of visual revelation, still fluorescing for me like threads in a tapestry in which most other colors have faded, leaving a few brightly, and sometimes wrongly, predominant...”
— Aug 01, 2026 09:59PM
Caroline Newbern
is on page 229 of 482
“Total strangers. The kindness of total strangers: the sweet gestures of blind trust and welcome, the common and miraculous somehow made one. It makes me weep. I weep for the great heart of the South, the flawed human heart.”
— Aug 01, 2026 02:54PM
Caroline Newbern
is on page 169 of 482
“know now.
As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it, and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures telling our brief story, but what will last, beyond all of it, is the place.”
— Jul 31, 2026 04:58PM
As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it, and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures telling our brief story, but what will last, beyond all of it, is the place.”
Caroline Newbern
is on page 145 of 482
“To be able to take my pictures I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both warm ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of both eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice.” WOW
— Jul 31, 2026 04:07PM
Caroline Newbern
is on page 87 of 482
“It’s warrior spirit… is a denial of the decision of 1865. The famous femininity of its women-not a myth… is a quality that comes from grandmothers who found a strength their men had lost, learnt to comfort, helped to forget, and never, never said the unsayable thing. Pain is a dimension of old civilizations. The South has it. The rest of the United States does not.” -British historian John Keegan
— Jul 31, 2026 11:27AM
Caroline Newbern
is on page 63 of 482
Oh, so I wasn’t exactly expecting a crazy murder suicide within the first 60 pages of a memoir but holy shit Sally Mann’s writing is laugh out loud funny
— Jul 27, 2026 07:13PM
Good photographs are gifts.... Taken for granted they don't come. I set the camera up and.. suspend myself in that familiar space about a foot above the ground where good photographs come. I wait there, breath suppressed, in that trance, that state of suspended animation, the moment before the frisson....
It has always worked before and the moment when it starts to come is unlike anything else: when it falls so perfectly into place and Jessie cocks her hip and doesn't move out of the 1 inch of focus I have: when the wind blows up just the right little tracery in the water behind the alligator. That moment possesses such a feeling of transcendence: it's the ecstatic time: better than sex. The parallels are all too obvious and can only be understood, I maintain, by a woman.”