I once read a review of a new Mercedes in a car magazine which described it as having been “carved from a solid block of unobtainium”. That’s how the S2 feels to me.
I don’t think that I’ve ever described a camera as sensuous, but with the S2 I’m tempted to. Though it’s a large camera, it feels “right” in ones hands. Every photographer that I handed the S2 had the same reaction – an instant smile.
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Spending time with Duane Michals recent book, 50, was essentially re-experiencing much of my own photographic life, having come of photographic age with his Somnambulistic period. His fascination with dreams, dreamlike states and dream-walking precedes our current interest with making connections to memories. He is whimsical, elusive, sensitive, cerebral, witty, caustic, introspective, challenging and seemly always on the move, pushing boundaries along a zigzag course of his own making.
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Dave LaBelle | The Lesson from Francis Gardler on Vimeo.
This video is an excerpt from Francis Gardler’s Ohio University masters project on Dave LaBelle, one of his teachers from Western Kentucky University. The video features interviews with LaBelle and several of his students. Gardler is a former Photojournalist-In-Residence at Western Kentucky.
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Canon EVIL? [CR1]
EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens) 43rumors says they have it on good authority that Canon is about to release a Canonet GIII style digital cam
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2009/11/canon-evil-cr1/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29
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First I must warn you that this exhibition includes some “graphic images”. These are images that were not composed to conceal the results of violence. I urge you not to recoil and ask you to study these images. Try to conjure them up whenever you see a newspaper headline reporting deaths or injuries. Even if it is demoted to the back pages because too small a number of people were affected, or happened too far away.
What has been concealed in this essay are the captions. They are located every dozen or so images. This is to challenge you to face the horrible reality of conflict without immediately consulting the caption to make sure it was the other side that was the perpetrator. Alongside the images appear testimonies gathered from Israeli and Palestinian survivors, which chain the images to the context of loss.
Link: 100Eyes: Beware the Consequences of War | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine
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hooks
dan had four hooks pierced into his back and suspended himself on a rope, so they could donate a grave marker for their friend who died of a…
Link: http://djamilagrossman.blogspot.com/2009/11/suspension-against-overdose.html
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Reviews Archives – Complete Digital Photography
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The People of India
The People of India is one of the most important 19th century attempts to harness photography to an ethnographic project.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/telephoto/6664061/The-People-of-India.html
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Not Pictured: African-American Customers
A Web site redesign brings up the race card; the changing nature of a poker game.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29FOB-ethicist-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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In the spirit of the spectacle, photographer John Saponara has created a new call to arms, Picture Black Friday asks photographers to get up early and head for the malls but with a camera in hand rather than wallet.
Link: Picture Black Friday 2009 – BRIAN ULRICH : NOT IF BUT WHEN
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2 Journalists Are Freed in Somalia After 15 Months as Captives
Nigel Brennan, an Australian photographer, and Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian freelance reporter, described a hellish experience, alternating between tedium and terror.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/world/africa/26somalia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Walker Evans (1903-75), whose work is currently (2000) on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, was an American photographer who produced some remarkable images, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s. He is perhaps best known, rightly or wrongly, for a series of photographs he took of tenant farm families in Hale County, Alabama in 1936. Of those probably the most famous are several 8 x 10 portraits of Allie Mae Burroughs, dark hair pulled back, tightlipped, against unpainted wooden clapboards. There are not many other photos one can think of that “stand” for a moment in history and are so widely assumed to have summed up the situation of a suffering population as these do.
Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Walker Evans and Photography (2000)”
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Bob Jarboe, Rest in Peace
Bob Jarboe was my first real boss and mentor in the world of photojournalism. He taught me things that I didn’t even know that I needed to know. I can’t say I did much in return, unless you consider having…
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Luminous Landscape | Passionate Photographic Enthusiast
A fourteen year-old company focused on photographic education and providing a comprehensive information resource for Photo Enthusiasts around the world.
via Luminous Landscape: http://luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/#458
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For this week’s interview feature, photographer Christian Brecheis offered to interview one of his biggest influences, Kevin Zacher. Kevin was an iconic photographer in the snowboard industry in the 90s and early 2000s, and has since brought his style of visceral storytelling to a wide world of editorial and commercial spheres.
Link: Interview: Kevin Zacher
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Stephanie Smith interned for photojournalist Ed Kashi during the summer of 2009. Smith, a senior at Ohio University, will graduate in June 2010.
Link: The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: Ed Kashi Studio
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Charis Wilson, Model and Muse, Dies at 95
Ms. Wilson was lover, muse, model, amanuensis and wife of the photographer Edward Weston and the subject of many of his best-known nude portraits.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/arts/design/24wilson.html?_r=1
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TWO LOOKS: Trent and Narelle
Trent Parke, a Magnum photographer from Australia, is one of the first photographers that Rebecca and I showed our Violet Isle book dummy to a couple of summers ago in Paris. There was good reason…
Link: http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/two-looks-trent-and-narelle/
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