Sometimes genius is simply perseverance.  The willingness to dedicate yourself to an endeavor that 99.9% of people out there would never attempt only because it requires too much time.  Too much conviction.  Too much effort to, say, document your life by taking one polaroid photo a day for 18 years.

But that is exactly what Jamie Livingston did.  Beginning on March 31, 1979 until the day he died on October 25, 1997.  One a day.  It takes about one minute of your time once you actually decide what to shoot, but the startling realization (among several) that hits you when browsing through the 6,700+ images is how you could never conceive of pulling it off yourself.  Just one minute a day is how much you or I could never spare.

Marinate on that.  Jamie Livingston’s life can be seen here.

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