Category: Photography
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The Green Helicopter | Conscientious Photography Magazine
The Green Helicopter via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/green-helicopter/ In fact, I had expressed my surprise about the Trump team being so inept at visuals many times on Twitter. Having thought about this for a few days, though, I now think I had had it all wrong. Or rather, what I had commented on was not…
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Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves | The New Yorker
Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves His simple passion to document took him everywhere. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/corky-lees-photographs-helped-generations-of-asian-americans-see-themselves Corky Lee often described his life’s work as “photographing Asian Pacific Americans.” It was a simple passion that could take him anywhere. For nearly fifty years, New Yorkers never knew where they might…
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New Yorker Photography in a Year of Crisis | The New Yorker
New Yorker Photography in a Year of Crisis Photographers for the magazine in 2020 located surprising forms of artistry within the pandemic’s constraints. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2020-in-review/new-yorker-photography-in-a-year-of-crisis Among the many extraordinary challenges posed by 2020 were a few that were peculiar to photographers. When the pandemic hit, journalists who write for a living could…
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New Guide! The Photographer’s Outlook on 2021 – PhotoShelter Blog
New Guide! The Photographer’s Outlook on 2021 – PhotoShelter Blog In 2020, the photography industry was plagued with widespread job cancellations due to COVID-19, plus trips and workshops postponed courtesy of travel bans. But despite all of the challenges and unknowns, you adapted. We recently asked more than a thousa via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/12/2021-photographers-outlook/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 Today,…
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Cameras and Lenses – Bartosz Ciechanowski
https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/ Over the course of this article we’ll build a simple camera from first principles. Our first steps will be very modest – we’ll simply try to take any picture. To do that we need to have a sensor capable of detecting and measuring light that shines onto it.
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Even From the Desert, Danny Lyon Still Speaks to the Streets – The New York Times
Even From the Desert, Danny Lyon Still Speaks to the Streets The indefatigable photographer on the struggles of getting his new film to the next generation of activists. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/arts/design/danny-lyon-sncc-photography.html The indefatigable photographer on the struggles of getting his new film to the next generation of activists.
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There is a false sense of solidarity in the creative industry and it’s down to unpaid work
There is a false sense of solidarity in the creative industry and it’s down to unpaid work Low or unpaid work has become a seemingly unavoidable factor in entering the creative industries. But to stop further social inequality, it’s time we rethink the value of cultural work itself. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/dave-obrien-social-solidarity-in-the-creative-industry-conscious-creativity-031220?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Low or unpaid work has…
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Dafna Talmor, László Moholy-Nagy & Josh Kern- The Photographic Notebook – AMERICAN SUBURB X
Dafna Talmor, László Moholy-Nagy & Josh Kern- The Photographic Notebook “For artists who do stage their work and find it in situ, the photographic sketchbook is virtually unnecessary as a pre-game facilitator. I would suggest though, that the photographic notebook is an indispensable tool after cheap prints have been made available” One technical tool that…
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Blind – Picto and Magnum Photos: 70 Years of Correspondences
Picto and Magnum Photos: 70 Years of Correspondences Magnum Photos’ Gilles Peress in a conversation with Raymond Depardon offered an interpretation of this evolution of the print through history that could be applied to many other Magnum photographers: “When you look at Henri’s prints all through the years, you see an evolution between these “blond”…
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What Can it Mean to Truly Collaborate as a Photography Collective?
What Can it Mean to Truly Collaborate as a Photography Collective? The ability for individual photographers to have any kind of cultural impact feels diminished and diluted when you consider just how many are working via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/11/21/what-can-it-mean-to-truly-collaborate-as-a-photography-collective/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The ability for individual photographers to have any kind of cultural impact feels diminished and diluted when…
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What “Greater New York” Got Right about Photography in the Age of Instagram – Aperture
What “Greater New York” Got Right about Photography in the Age of Instagram In 2010, photography was at a turning point. How did an ambitious survey at MoMA PS1 anticipate a generation of artists who define the field today? via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/what-greater-new-york-got-right-about-photography-in-the-age-of-instagram/ In 2010, photography was at a turning point. How did an ambitious survey…
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WATCH: Essdras M. Suarez Reviews Your Photo Submissions – PhotoShelter Blog
WATCH: Essdras M. Suarez Reviews Your Photo Submissions – PhotoShelter Blog Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Essdras M. Suarez reviews 30 anonymous photos and shares compositional tips in this free PhotoShelter webinar. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/10/essdras-suarez-portfio-review-webinar-recording/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Essdras M. Suarez knows a thing or two about the power of a strong portfolio. For years,…
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15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work – Aperture
15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence social and artistic images. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/15-photographers-on-how-imagination-shapes-their-work/ From the Magnum Square Print Sale in Partnership with Aperture, Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence…
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Virtual Auction Will Benefit the Bronx Documentary Center and Bronx Photographers
Virtual Auction Will Benefit the Bronx Documentary Center and Bronx Photographers The BDC’s 6th annual photo auction benefit, open through October 22, features a diverse set of images that engage with issues of social justice and themes of social change. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/592872/bronx-documentary-section-annual-auction/ The BDC’s 6th annual photo auction benefit, open through October 22, features…
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Can Photographs Provide Information When Truth Is Disrupted? – Aperture
Can Photographs Provide Information When Truth Is Disrupted? Meet the photographers who are examining globalization, technology, politics, and the dynamic changes to social identity today. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/2020-aperture-summer-open-artists/ Meet the photographers who are examining globalization, technology, politics, and the dynamic changes to social identity today.
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In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings – The New York Times
In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings The work the artist made near the end of his life changed my understanding of both beauty and suffering. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/magazine/caravaggio.html The work the artist made near the end of his life changed my understanding of both beauty and suffering.
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Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos using Newspaper Navigator!
https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos using Newspaper Navigator!
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How to Add Words to Pictures | Conscientious Photography Magazine
How to Add Words to Pictures via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/add-words-to-pictures/ How do you go tackle writing about your photographs? This question poses possibly the most vexing challenge for most photographers. I keep coming back to it because I write about other people’s pictures, and I listen to or read what photographers say or write…
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“I’m Always on Their Side”: Mary Ellen Mark’s Top Quotes on Photography | AnOther
“I’m Always on Their Side”: Mary Ellen Mark’s Top Quotes on Photography via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12804/mary-ellen-mark-quotes-book-of-everything-steidl-ward-81-streetwise As Steidl publishes an extensive tome on Mary Ellen Mark’s incomparable photographic career, a selection of the late photographer’s own thoughts on her chosen medium
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The Return of Live Sports: Celebrating the Women Who Capture the Moment – PhotoShelter Blog
The Return of Live Sports: Celebrating the Women Who Capture the Moment – PhotoShelter Blog Find out which women in sports photography inspire PhotoShelter members Sarah Sachs, Jennifer Stewart, Abbie Parr and Casey Brooke. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/09/women-in-sports-photography-celebration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 As live sports begin to make a comeback, we want to take this opportunity to talk about…