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Jeff Mermelstein docu Media Matters.

Quality of video not great, docu and photographer for sure are.

Three parts

Not sure what’s wrong with his website:

https://jeffmermelstein.com/home.html

But Instagram is here

https://www.instagram.com/jeffmermelstein/

I am a little bit into gardening these days. The guy helping us is also a photographer (and he likes The Velvet Underground).

We talked about how we liked wild flowers in the garden. He referred to Piet Oudolf, who I found out is a very famous Dutch garden designer. I had never heard of him.

We talked more. The gardener told me to look at Oudolf's High Line project in New York. For the abandoned High Line, Oudolf designed a " wild" garden with a natural look.

This reminded me again of the photographer Joel Sternfeld, who in 2000 made wonderful pictures of the High Line. His pictures were influential in the decision to repurpose the High Line after it was abandoned and turn it into a park. The park for which Oudolf was a co-designer.

Here's Sternfeld talking about his work in 2000.

The Alec Soth / Little Brown Mushroom Youtube series on photography are so great. The series might very well end up being classic documentaries on photography.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHIxfgu7HE9_Tok9OGNrQ_g

Alec Soth handles a wide variety of topics in a very illustrative and entertaining manner. He takes photography from various angles, and takes us on a thematic guide through his photo book library.

"My feeling is that we're all wiped out by digital technology streaming zooming and I want to bring more physicality and more serendipity to this medium.