Photography

Link: PDNPulse » Blog Archive » Look3: Gregory Crewdson on Inspiration, Repetition, and Huge Productions

“It’s always [my] interest in trying to tell a story through light and color. That’s essentially what I’m attempting to do,” he explained. “Photography has a very limited capacity to tell a story. Whatever story we could manage in the end remains a mystery. I’ve always loved that about photography: its restriction, its containment.”

Link: PDNPulse » Look3: Josef Koudelka on the Measure of a Photographer, Courage, and Controlling Your Own Destiny

Koudelka also told the audience at the outset that he “never listened much to what [other] photographers say,” and recounted how Henri Cartier-Bresson had asked him to read and comment on the text of The Decisive Moment before that book was published. “I said to Bresson I’m really not interested and I’m not going to read it.” Koudelka added, “I think the best portrait of a photographer are his photographs, so please judge me on my photographs.”

Link: PDNPulse » Look3: Richard Misrach on Documentary vs. Art, the Complications of Portraiture, and Digital Photography

“I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography,” he said. “Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.”

Link: PDNPulse » Look3: Carrie Mae Weems on Race, Sexuality, History and Finding Meaningful Work

“I’m interested in photography and I’m interested in literature and I’m interested in film,” she explained near the beginning of her wide-ranging conversation with Willis. “I’m trying to figure out how to use those modes as a vehicle for expressing certain kinds of ideas…I’m just interested in whatever works.”

Link: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » On William Eggleston Meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson

“William, color is bullshit.”

Link: Ageing and creative decline in photography: a taboo subject – British Journal of Photography

“Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It’s the greatest taboo subject of all,” says Martin Parr in our special issue devoted to ageing, available now on newsstands, on the iPad and the iPhone. We spoke to photographers aged 19 to 100 about their career highs and how they keep their work fresh in the face of creative decline. Read our highlights

Link: Video Interview: How Ad Agencies Select & Hire Photographers

What are some overlooked mistakes photographers make when promoting themselves to ad agencies? How can you demonstrate that you’re a good fit for an agency? What key style elements do art producers look for? These are the questions that former Art Producer and Creative Consultant Kristina Hicks answered during her live webinar, sponsored by PhotoShelter and Agency Access.

Link: Advice for Photo Assistants: Getting in with Production Companies

I sat down with my longtime friend Josh Marianelli, a producer and studio director at the California-based Corey Rich Productions to get the lowdown on how to get hired at a major production company and what producers are looking for.

Link: How to Create an Estimate for Corporate Photography Jobs

Our latest free guide, Pricing Your Work: Corporate & Industrial Photography, takes a closer look at what rates photographers typically command for this type of photography and how usage factors into that value so you can make the most of those opportunities.

Link: The multi-camera system at the Tokyo Skytrree is powered by 12 Nikon D3S cameras | Nikon Rumors

twelve D3S DSLR cameras equipped with the Nikkor AF 35mm f/2D lens that take 360° photographs of the city 24 hours a day

Link: Spitting on the Grave — Jim Colton

Yesterday, at a press conference after an “acquisition” meeting of Tumblr, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was quoted with the following statement: “There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro today because [with so many people taking photographs] there’s really no such thing as professional photographers anymore.” 

Excuse me?

Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Video Pick: PDN’s 30 Panel at Palm Springs Photo Fest

If you didn’t get a chance to attend the PDN‘s 30 panel at this year’s Palm Springs Photo Festival, you can now watch it

Link: My Way News – NYC artist’s secret photos raise privacy issues

the residents of a glass-walled luxury residential building across the street had no idea they were being photographed and they never consented to being subjects for the works of art that are now on display – and for sale – in a Manhattan gallery

Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Photolucida: Portfolio Reviews From the Photographer’s Side of the Table

As a photographer I find that portfolio reviews are the perfect combination of exhaustion and exhilaration, community and competition, motivation and humility

Link: Reviewing Work At The New York Portfolio Review

I looked up, and noticed that one of our fellow photographers was wearing a Mexican-style lucha libre wrestling mask. Awesome, but maybe a little inappropriate. Like everyone, I was curious as to the identity of our masked man.