http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/1979.htm#1979/1
The "Photo of that Day" project was founded by Jamie Livingston who took a photo every day for 18 years using a simple Polaroid camera. The site itself is pretty mysterious, there is no contact information, nothing in the way of a bibliography or even an introduction. I don't want to give too much away, the photos speak for themselves. I implore you to check it out.
His photos reflect a life bursting with activity; complete with joy and sadness. If you make it through to the end of his collection you will see that the series of photos take a dark turn. This project is an example of the power of visual rhetoric, but aside from that I also wanted to bring attention to the dynamic interplay between color and light captured within each frame, which weave together every Polaroid in order to tell the story of this man's life. Livingston had a knack for making even the most commonplace of occurrences a moment of art and beauty.
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