Category: Photography
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The Peddecord Show: My First Rule of Photography
Why’s that you ask? To distance myself from my work and constantly ask myself, “What is art?” Is dance an art? Is the dancer or choreographer the artist? Is a landscape painting an art? Is photojournalism an art? Is portrait photography an art? I struggle with these questions constantly and the answers are usually, “No.”…
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What Ansel Adams Saw Through His Lens – New York Times
WAWONA TUNNEL is a passageway from civilization to natural splendor. The tunnel, dug through a hill on the south side of Yosemite National Park in the 1930s, hides the coming view like a mile-long blindfold. And then you’re there. Pale, curvaceous granite rocks dance in the skyline. Dozens of people stand along the edge of…
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Virginia Heffernan – The Medium – Television – Internet Video – Media – Flickr – Photography – New York Times
Consider photography. As art-school photographers continue to shoot on film, embrace chiaroscuro and resist prettiness, a competing style of picture has been steadily refined online: the Flickr photograph. Flickr, the wildly popular photo-sharing site, was founded by the Canadian company Ludicorp in 2004. Four years later, amid the more than two billion images that currently…
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the fragility of it all at uncommons
The next day Dad’s stubborness crept back – a sign of recovery. He kept pushing his Nikon D70 (that he got used for a great deal from KEH he said) on me. Take it, he said. I don’t have the breath to walk around and shoot anymore. I kept refusing. Check it out here.
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Naoya Hatakeyama: Blast – SHANE LAVALETTE
Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama’s Blast series is quite remarkable. Check it out here.
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Drifting Away: a photo-based memorial for Columbia's disappeared
There is a saying that the rivers of Columbia are the world’s biggest graveyard. Columbian artist Erika Diettes is creating a light-filled memorial to the many thousands of the “disappeared” who are dead or missing as a result of armed conflicts in Columbia. Personal objects or clothing from people who have disappeared are photographed in…
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Martin Parr polarises the world of photography – Times Online
In the world of photography, if you want to start an argument, just mention the 55-year-old English photo-documentarist Martin Parr. Parr’s passion for recording everyday frailties and humdrum tawdriness – a larkily colourful social panorama, taking in the unappealing scrum of mass consumerism, the curious rituals of the middle class and the messy indulgences of…
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A photographer's fashion statement – CNET Asia
The people at Oye Modern prefer the latter, and are recycling components from old lenses and turning them into fashion accessories. Just take their cuffs: By removing the focusing or aperture rings from the lens, it instantly becomes a photographer’s fashion statement. What’s more, since it is a recycled product, expect each piece to be…
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Findings – Hiroshi Watanabe « Eat The Darkness
I recently received Hiroshi Watanabe’s new book “Findings” in the mail. It’s been a while since a body of work has moved me and inspired me so much. Enough to at least write about it here, not as a review, but as a brief ramble to celebrate Watanabe’s vision and to hopefully inspire a few of you reading this…
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Remain in Light / Photography Unbound
Remain in Light is a new print publication of photographs by contemporary photographers. The final selection of twenty photographs are printed on separate cards and presented unbound in a specially created slipcase with a small booklet of accompanying text. The final images are selected by co-editors Shane Lavalette (Boston, MA) and Karly Wildenhaus (Chicago, IL).…
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The Exposure Project: Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga
Polish photographic duo Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga’s bird’s eye view images macroscopically investigate domestic space. Check it out here.
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Soldier: troubling portraits by Suzanne Opton
These are very intimate portraits of young American soldiers who are in between tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sometimes they look like the heads of fallen statues. Photographer Suzanne Opton said, “I wanted to take a vulnerable picture of a soldier, which is quite the opposite of how we think of soldiers, usually.…
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A Photo Editor – Check Out These 297 Talented Photographers
Attention art buyers and photo editors, this is a free promo that’s meant to supplement all the other ways you find photographers to hire. I created it see if there might be an easier more efficient way to quickly look at 200-300 photographe Check it out here.
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AFP: Photographer Amy Arbus: stranger than fiction
The image is from the latest book by Amy Arbus, the daughter of celebrated late photographer Diane Arbus, who has spent years photographing actors in New York’s theater district — with some deeply intriguing results. “The Fourth Wall” explores what Arbus describes as the “bizarre disconnect” of actors, many in period costume, being photographed in…
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the life of m: The Sleeping Giant Awakes
Photo by M photography is not only a record of the moment and of the event in front of you — for me it’s also a record of myself. and there are times, when i want no paper trail, no indicator of my mood, no recollection of the destination… no memory of myself. Check it…
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SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL » Petros Efstathiadis
I found the work of Petros Efstathiadis, a photographer born in Greece, now based in England, who was recently selected as a new member of the Piece of Cake (POC) Check it out here.
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Shooting in the dark: Susan Bein's nightpark photos
Susan Bein’s painterly night-time photos are romantic and mysterious and fun. We discovered her work when she became one of the finalists in this year’s Critical Mass portfolio review competition. Check it out here.
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On Assignment: Peter Yang Shoots Admiral William Fallon
Imagine this: You have all of 25 minutes to shoot Admiral William J. “Fox” Fallon for an Esquire Magazine feature story. They need a portrait that conveys intensity, but you will be shooting in a typical office setting. Check it out here.
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John L. Rosenthal: Photographing the Ninth Ward
I drove into the Ninth Ward a year and a half after Katrina left it in ruins. Friends of mine who had already been there told me the devastation was “unbelievable.” I wondered what that meant — unbelievable. My friends were wrong. Check it out here.
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The Long Way There – Portfolio.com
photos on commuting by vincent laforet Check it out here. via photokaboom