9.15.2019

anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination

What’s something you really want but can’t afford?

    That's an easy one. I was having a conversation on FB Messenger about this a couple of days ago, with a very dear friend.
     Somewhere (how does anyone find these things?) I came across this link to Creative Boom's article about Robert Blomfield's photography. Heard of him? Me, neither. He was a doctor who happened to also love photography--learn more about him here or here and especially here--and his photographs were on exhibition for the last year or so in Edinburgh.
     I love street photography. See, e.g., this previous post gushing about Chicago photographer Vivian Maier's discovered cache. I am lucky enough to have prints of two wonderful street photographers hanging in my own gallery (i.e. master bedroom).
    I want a Blomfield. BADLY. The prints are available here, on his website. I rather desperately want this one, called "Couples, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh (1966)." (I've snipped only part of it.)

    Other marvelous contenders would be "Man Smoking in Doorway," "Student Dance," and of course "Student Union."
     But I can't afford them.

[from a list originally found on Tumblr - this is #55; the title quotation is by Oscar Wilde, from The Happy Prince]

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