Link: L E N S C R A T C H: Carl Corey
We are a country of entrepreneurs, self-starters, and determined individuals that make up the core of our American dream. Long before the Fortune 500′s, there were mom and pop day-to-day desires to carve out a living, and a life on one’s own terms. Carl Corey takes a look at those self-starters who have created family businesses in Wisconsin and have managed to stay afloat for 50 years or more.
Link: John Nack on Adobe : Photosmith 2 enhances Lightroom-iPad integration
I’m delighted to see that Photosmith has released version 2, enabling multi-image tagging, bidirectional sync with Lightroom, native Eye-Fi support, and more.
Link: May 10, Part 1: The Leica M-Monochrom review – Ming Thein | Photographer
can be set to ISO 2500 with little noise penalty – at 100% magnification it appears as very, very fine grain; perhaps comparable to an ISO 400 B&W film. Better yet, there doesn’t appear to be much loss of dynamic range, either
Link: Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 3 – The Train « The Leica Camera
Even though I am a photographer, I try to avoid being a voyeur. It has always been my ambition not only to look, but also take part in life, which can be quite frustrating, especially if you have a tight deadline. If I meet someone playing soccer in the street, I immediately feel like playing with them instead of just watching. I never found it interesting to look at someone from the other side of the street, or to be “invisible” as a photographer. I hope this is the reason why people never feel like a voyeur looking at my images– because you feel that you are taking part.
Link: Sète 2012 : Christopher Anderson | La Lettre de la Photographie
Christopher Anderson arrived in Sete during a Saint Louis celebration evening. He immediately mingled amongst the jousters, became one of them, became a “Knight of the Tintaine”
Link: Sète 2012 : Gilles Caron | La Lettre de la Photographie
Born in 1939 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (France), Gilles Caron died at the age of 30 in April, 1970 on the N 1 road connecting Phnom Pen to Saigon. Just like Robert Capa, he is a legend in journalism and in photography
Link: Harlan Crichton – In The Shadow of The Burning Dog | LPV Magazine
As a twenty-two year old male I am part of a wartime generation. A minority of my generation has chosen to participate in the war; most have remained stateside. As one who chose to stay I am interested in the people who left. They have experienced the brutality of war and I have not. In this body of work I have embedded myself in the aftermath of their homecoming
And you can imagine how this translates to photography…
Link: 50,000 new visitors to cartoonist’s site results in an extra 23 books sold – Boing Boing
Cartoonist Lars Martinson submitted the first installment of the Kameoka Diaries to Reddit. As a result, his website, which gets about 100 visitors a day, had 48,342 visitors in a single day. He thought he might sell a couple hundred more ebooks than usual because of the new influx of visitors. That was a gross overestimate.
Link: An English Photographer Goes to California for Milk and Ping-Pong Balls – NYTimes.com
He put down the digital camera he had been using, picked up a 35-millimeter film camera, bought some black-and-white film, rented a darkroom and set about creating scenes to photograph as opposed to reacting to things or events as he had been doing in his documentary work. He threw a Ping-Pong ball throughout Los Angeles and spilled milk around San Francisco, taking pictures as he went. “I wanted this to be less sociological,” Robin Maddock said.