LensCulture – Contemporary Photography
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Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
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Fred R. Conrad likes to come up with a different theme and photographic technique for each marathon. This year, on the 40th anniversary of the race, he wanted to focus on individual runners, separating them from the sea of more than 40,000 participants. “The marathon is such a visual jumble,” said Mr. Conrad. “I wanted to isolate moments and individuals. To crystallize and distill the scene.”
Link: On Assignment: New York City Marathon – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
The only good thing (other than chicken fried steak) to come out of my IRS trip to Portland (more on that later) was that I was able to pick up one of the new Panasonic GF1 micro 4/3rds cameras. I’ve been messing around with it for the last week or so and I’m pretty happy with it so far
Link: alittletoofast.com » Blog Archive » Playing with the GF1
The just released Canon S90 presses all of the right buttons, (so to speak). It is currently the world’s smallest and lightest shirt-pocket-sized (SPS) camera that shoots raw. It has an almost 4X zoom (28–105mm equivalent) and has a remarkable f/2 as its widest aperture at the wide end of its range. There is, of course, optical image stabilization, a full 3″ LCD screen, as well as a built-in pop-up flash. As I first wrote, all the right buttons have been pressed, and this is more than a pun, as we’ll soon see. anything
Jim Goldberg’s portraits of people living on the margins of European society offer a compassionate, thought-provoking insight, says Sean O’Hagan
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/01/jim-goldberg-open-see-review
[slidepress gallery=’michaelmullady-childrenoflead’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Michael Mullady Children of Lead play this essay At an altitude …
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/10/michael-mullady-children-of-lead/
The french site Summilux has a petition for Leica to produce a R10 camera. Currently 204 people have signed the petition. Leica S2 test and sample images from PDN. Sample file #1 | Sample file #2 (warning: large files – Leica S2’s DNG files were opened in
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2009/10/31/leica-links-4.aspx/
I have always been under the impression that America has not given its female photographers the credit they deserve(d), and that it is maybe a bit too generous with its male ones.
Link: Review: Dorothea Lange – A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon – Conscientious
“The Animals,” a book I was moved to reexamine after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is the deliberately literal-sounding title of photographer Garry Winogrand’s first book of photographs, which was published in 1969, some 20 years after the artist embarked on his life’s work that of becoming the Theodore Dreiser of the lens. Winogrand was New York’s, not Chicago’s, most brilliant modern reporter, a journalist not unaware of the issues implicit in what he chose to photograph: the women and blacks who defined the city’s “outsiderness.”
HELLO KIDDIEZZZ… If you’re looking for a frights of passage photographer, look no further… I specialize in… DEATH! Yeaakekekekekekeeaah….. Tonight’s horror tale …
via Fake Chuck Westfall: http://fakechuckwestfall.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/aut-o-focus/
These days, as a photographer, one strives constantly to not become a data center administrator. What with endless upgrades, updates, revisions, patches, security alerts, subscription management, feed management and the like, it’s a wonder that we have an
via Luminous Landscape: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/backup.shtml
What makes a good rock photograph is something to ponder, and the show at the Brooklyn Museum offers an excellent opportunity to do so.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/arts/design/30rock.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
All images by Koichi Mitsui Koichi Mitsui is a professional photographer in Japan. When he’s not on the job shooting for magazines and ads, he wanders around Tokyo taking pictures with his iP…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/29/photographer-takes-p-1.html
Well, i am 36 years old and live in Berlin. I started to take pictures quite late when I was 18. Photography quickly became a kind of addiction for me and I spent most of the time either shooting or working in the darkroom. In the beginning the darkroom was a kind of magical place for me – the moment you start to see the first contours of a picture on what was a piece of white paper seconds before – fantastic. In todays digital world there’s nothing comparable to this.
Anastasia Photo specializes in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism. The gallery also serves as a center for discussion and portfolio review.
via Anastasia Photo: http://www.anastasia-photo.com/
If you’re thinking of buying Lomo’s latest plastic-fantastic accessory, the Diana Lens Adapter, which lets you put the company’s range of medium format lenses onto your DSLR, we have one word of advice. Don’t. The adapter was launched just over a month ag
“Eddie Adams,” writes his widow Alyssa Adams in her Author’s Note to Vietnam, “would never had let this book be published if he were alive.”