Brian Beker

@brianbeker

Old school street photography. All photos ©me unless repost or noted. Film in permanent collection MoMA/NY. Signal: Dispatch.02 brianbeker.com

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Brian Beker@brianbeker· 1d

Pokey’s always ready to ride #dogs

A smiling black and white dog lies on the grass next to an open car door

Brian Beker@brianbeker· 7d

The New York Times outdoes itself yet again. The "Israeli army’s struggle to curtail settler violence?" The Israeli army is not struggling at all — they’re participating. They’re literally standing outside the Palestinian homes with the settlers. Insanity.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· 19d

Just finished this collection of essays by @edithmirante.bsky.social. It’s stunning. The title Mithuns are a friendly, white-socked cattle of south Asia, and Edith loves them. The intro essay is about meeting them, but, characteristically, Edith barely mentions her own drone-running for rebels… 1/4

Brian Beker@brianbeker· 22d

Not just a genius pianist — the greatest anti-fascist album cover ever.

The album cover of Thelonius Monk’s album Underground, on which he is playing an upright piano with a submachine gun slung over his shoulder and a Nazi SS officer bound to a chair in the background.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· 25d

Pokey Beker Jr., Jr. running through the high grass in Vermont today. M6/50SM, TMY #dogs #photography

A black and white photograph of a black and white dog happily running at full tilt through high grass.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· 29d

Bonesaw murderer slips his favorite cheap date a fifty.

A front page photo of a murderous Saudi jackal assuming a position of dominance over a weak and stupid looking befuddled old criminal in heavy orange pancake makeup who appears to have shat his diaper judging from the way the Saudi master tries not to recoil in disgust as he palms what must be a fifty to the stinking old painted whore, trying desperately to keep his fingers from touching his rotting carcass.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jul 19

Talk about a close one. On a cosmic time scale I came THIS close to getting whacked by a meteor. Whew!

A color photograph of a huge meteor crater in Arizona seen from the cockpit of a single engine Cessna 185, the wing of which is at the top of the frame.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jul 18

Horror movie here in the Vermont woods. I started the lawnmower and immediately got swarmed by a bunch of yellow and black stripey things. A few stung the bejeezus out of me. I think it’s a bald-faced hornet nest. All I can say is they started this war.

A photo of a round, greyish nest constructed by a vicious gang of aerial murderers under a lawn mower.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jul 15

Don’t make me laugh. Anyone who thinks Cornyn, after a Senate career featuring a lengthy stint as a magat whore, will go against the grain on this, despite his trump-induced retirement, is suffering from delusions. This nom goes to the floor.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jul 14

I was walking my dog in Eufala, Alabama one day about ten years ago and took this photo on an iPhone. I do not remember how I got this effect other than by just editing and then running the shot through more of the same edits after saves. Looks like it could have been on a Confederate dollar.

A photograph that looks like an engraving of a stately old home in Eufala, Alabama.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jul 14

Another one of my thousands of negatives and slides that were doomed in flooding. This is a river in Ladakh, not sure where. #filmphotography

A color landscape photograph made soft and hazy by a mild infestation on the emulsion

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jul 8

Indian movie poster in Kakarvita for “Dear” Tarzan.

A couple of cheap Indian movie posters plastered to a wall in India. On the right are three identical frames of a man pointing a gun at the camera. On the left is one titled “DEAR” TARZAN, witih the “dear in quotes, showing a tall blonde woman in hot pants being grabbed from behind by a short man wearing nothing but a loincloth.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jul 7

About 2/3 of my 40-year photo archive was destroyed in flooding a few years ago. Observation for #filmphotography folks: negatives in plastic sleeves were ruined; negs in glassine were all okay. Most of the wrecks were worse than this. Mold loves emulsion. Nikon F, 50H, Agfa slides #photography

A color photograph with blotches of green mold, of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jun 29

In the Vermont woods today with Pokey. IIIf/50 Elmar, TMX 400ASA in T-Max dev #filmphotography

A contrasty black and white photograph of a trail in the Vermont woods.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jun 27

Portrait of a Burmese anti-fascist student who, with thousands of others, escaped military government street massacres in 1988 to join Karen rebel forces to take up arms against the oppressor. Nikon F2, severely reticulated Tri-X #filmphotography #blackandwhitephotography #war #Burma

A black and white photograph of a young Burmese soldier sitting on the ground with the muzzle of a rifle leaning on his shoulder. His head is turned to look over his shoulder. In 1988, the Burmese government massacred more than 14,000 people who were protesting their totalitarian rule. Thousands of students like this one fled the cities to join rebel forces in the jungle to join the fight against the dictatorship. There they received training and heroically entered the tough battles ahead. They were too outgunned to succeed and yet they fought valiantly., true antifa in action.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jun 24

That looks great — and I just had a similar experience with an image I found from a Canon Elph point and shoot with either 3 or 6 MP and it was amazing!

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jun 17

Many years ago, this Indian civet walked out of the jungle, limped to where I stood, lay down beside me, and let me stroke her as she closed her eyes and died. It was an awful moment of strange magic. Nikon F, 50-H, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #Nepal #wildlife

A close-up black and white photograph of the head of a civet. Her ears have long ago been chewed off from fights in the jungle.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jun 10

Cellphone pic of a road in east Oklahoma, not far north of the Red River. #photo

A picture of a road with a bend in it under a cloudy sky

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jun 7

I have no clue what these chicks were doing lined up in front of someone's house 30 years ago, but it was in the Hollywood hills, so it could have been anything. M650SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #streetphotography

A black and white photograph of seven women in black short shorts, white halter tops, posing on the curb in front of a house and looking towards it for some unknown reason.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jun 2

Today is the release of the superb new novel The Fire Agent by my old buddy David Baerwald. No exaggeration: this book is a big (600+pp), original, epic masterpiece. Gorgeous writing! So delighted that my photo of Dave is in today’s NYT. MX-EVS and HP5 #TheFireAgent #photography #filmphotography

A screenshot of an article on the web site of the New York Times about the release of the book The Fire Agent by David Baerwald. The review is titled His Grandfather Was a Spy. Obviously, He Wrote a Novel About It. there are two photographs, one of a Japanese military officer from around 1917 and another of the author, David Baerwald.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· Jun 1

The last appearance of Johnny Cash M6/50SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #streetphotography

Brian Beker@brianbeker· May 31

A TIbetan meditates at the foot of Boda stupa in Kathmandu, part of a lifetime practice that involves crossing the Himalaya in an unbroken series of prostrations from standing to kneeling to face down on the ground and back. M6/50SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #Nepal #Tibet #Buddhism

A black and white close-up portrait of a Tibetan man. His eyes are closed in meditation and his face is deeply lined by a lifetime spent in meditation. On his turban-like head covering is pinned a portrait of H.H. Dalai Lama.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· May 31

A Royal Enfield Bullet on the outskirts of Dram, TIbet M6/50M, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #motorcycle

A black and white photograph of a classic British-style motorbike. It’s painted black. In the background are terraced rice paddies and houses perched in the hillsides

Brian Beker@brianbeker· May 30

Seller of cures for any ailment M6/50SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #streetphotography #Nepal

A black and white photograph of a turbanned, barefoot man on a spread blanket in a Kathmandu street. A ring of onlookers watches and listens as he extols the curative powers of the various things he has in many open tins

Brian Beker@brianbeker· May 29

Farmers and a calf on a cold dawn in south Nepal M6/50M, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #streetphotography #Nepal

Brian Beker@brianbeker· May 29

How every road in India was built. M6/50SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #streetphotography #photo

A black and white photograph. Two barefoot men with long shank hammers sit on piles of large rocks — the big rocks they are breaking by hand on the right into smaller ones on the right. A hard, miserable way to earn enough to eat.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· May 28

Tibetan mom and baby at the veggie market M6/50SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #streetphotography

A black and white photo of a young Tibetan mother in traditional dress and a baby slung to her back by a shawl. THey’re at a street produce market. The woman smiles as she talks to someone out of the frame and she has the most beautiful smile and vibe.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· May 28

Sherpa kid with cards up in the hills somewhere. M6/50SM, Tri-X #photography #filmphotography #Nepal

A close-up black and white photograph of a little boy wearing a few layers of sweaters and a thick, knitted hood, looking into the camera and holding a deck of cards

Brian Beker@brianbeker· May 27

In an Akha house, women mill rice while girl fans flames, Shan State, Burma Nikon F2, lens unremembered, Tri-X #filmphotography #photo #streetphotography #Burma #myanmar

A black and white photograph taken underneath a house typical of an Akha family in Burma. In the background, three women in the traditional black dresses and silver-decorated headdresses of the Akha. In the foreground a little girl looks into the lens while she fans the flames under a bunch of firewood.

Brian Beker@brianbeker· May 25

Sadhu bell ringer for puja M6/50SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #streetphotography #Nepal