Category: Photography
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PicScout and PhotoShelter Are Partnering
Link: PicScout has pioneered a digital fingerprinting technology called PicScout ImageIRC™ (index, registry and connection platform). Image buyers and creative pros who use PicScout’s ImageExchange™ browser add-on see an (i) icon on every fingerprinted image, anywhere it resides online. Anytime a potential buyer is perusing blogs and social networks, news sites, and even search engine…
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Don Kirby's Dark (Room) Arts
Link: When fine art photographer Don Kirby realized that photographing the American prairie would force him to change his darkroom techniques, he embraced the challenge and produced his most technically difficult work to date.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Lee Friedlander – Just Look At It" (2005)
Lee Friedlander: “Just Look At It” (2005) By Rod Slemmons Lee Friedlander was born in the logging mill town of Aberdeen, Washington in 1934. He began photographing in 1948 because of a “fascination with the equipment,” in his words. His first paid job was a Christmas card photograph of a dog for a local madam…
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8 Ways To Get More Work From Existing Clients – A Picture's Worth
Link: Martin Vargas is a corporate/industrial photographer for 33Photo based out of Mexico City and Houston, Texas. His work is diverse, and includes a steady stream of industrial, architectural, editorial, product, and travel assignments. His marketing and promotion efforts tend to be based on generating more work from existing clients, and he has come up…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Modern Sublime: The World of Josef Koudelka"
Link: “I try to be a photographer. I cannot talk. I am not interested in talking. If I have anything to say, it may be found in my images. I am not interested in talking about things, explaining about the whys and the hows. I do not mind showing my images, but not so much…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Interview with Joel Meyerowitz – Creating A Sense of Place" (1990)
An Interview with Joel Meyerowitz – Creating A Sense of Place “There is a dawning awareness that you feel good in this place. Something here makes you attentive, brings you to an awakened state. But you can’t know that beforehand.” Interview by Constance Sullivan, from Creating A Sense of Place, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990 CS: Why…
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Biker Babe | PDN Photo of the Day
Link: August Sander, Forester’s Child, Westerwald, 1931. Gelatin silver print, 10-3/16 x 7-1/2 inches
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A Photo Student › Visura Magazine Issue 8
Intro Website of visual Artist James Pomerantz Link: http://www.aphotostudent.com/2010/03/08/visura-magazine-issue-8/ Lots of nice work on display in the new issue of Visura Magazine from Institute for Artist Management photographers including Joshua Lutz, Simon Norfolk, Paul Shambroom, Jodi Bieber and Rob Hornstra:
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PDNPulse: New Creditor Takes Over Leibovitz's Debt
Link: Under the terms of the debt takeover, Colony Capital will help Leibovitz market her photographs, the Financial Times reported.
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PDN: What Makes A Good Mentor?
Link: Who was your mentor? Many responded with stories of experienced photographers who had generously shared their knowledge and thoughts about photography, creativity, how to run a business or simply how to make a life as a freelance photographer. We learned that in taking the time to teach a fellow photographer, they not only helped…
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History, Rock 'N' Roll and The Many Lenses of Ethan Russell – A Picture's Worth
Link: I’m appalled by all of it. I hate the celebrity culture, and everything it implies. It’s a sickness that infects the people both behind and in front of the camera. And the audience. Talk about empty calories. I’m also aware that history is not being recorded – and after all these years – I think…
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A Closer Reading of Roman Vishniac – NYTimes.com
A Closer Reading of Roman Vishniac (Published 2010) He was the foremost photographer of prewar Eastern European Jewish life. But how real was the image he created? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04shtetl-t.html the collection is also a gold mine. Not only do the unpublished photographs offer a kaleidoscopic view of prewar Jewish life — women in modern dress…
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NYC: Easter Parade today « Mark Tucker
Link: I have no images to show, because I live in the past, and I still shoot film. I cannot instantly stream them to you, in real time. Today was intense — the Easter Parade got a little packed for me. There were people everywhere, packed in on Fifth Avenue, around 50th. Everyone and their…
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New York Times' photography blog launches social experiment – 1854
Link: The New York Times’ photography blog lens is launching a global project called A Moment in Time. The goal is for thousands of photographers – amateurs and professionals – to capture the same moment on Sunday 02 May at 15:00 UTC.