Category: Photography

  • How Getty Is Killing the Stock Photo Industry – A Picture's Worth

    So it’s a flattering to hear that Getty Images is validating our approach and recognizing our success by reaching into the flickr community.  No other competitor in their history has forced Getty to change their model. This is a great sign of encouragement for us. Getty’s CEO Jonathan Klein describes this new endeavor as “the best imagery from a fresh collection of high-quality images chosen by us from Flickr’s diverse and prolific community.” If it sounds familiar, it should be, something very similar is printed on our homepage.

    But rather than compare lexicon, let’s clarify some of the key points and differences of this announcement.

    Check it out here.

  • The Exposure Project: J Bennett Fitts' Images From The Center Of The Contiguous United States

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    J Bennett Fitts is an interesting photographer with an acute appreciation for the tradition of banality throughout photographic history. Ultimately, I think the reason his images are so successful is because he can take something that’s been approached innumerable times and breath new life into it.

    Check it out here.

  • 10 Things You Should Know About Stock Photography – Shoot The Blog

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  • Barbara Probst – Split Second – photokaboom.com blog

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    When experienced from many different perspectives, is the instant when a photograph is taken still just a single moment?
    Barbara Probst’s diptych and triptych photos, taken at the same time from different cameras and points of view, offer multiple versions of a split second.

    Check it out here.

  • Look At Me: A Collection of Found Photographs

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    Look At Me is an online archive of found photographs that attempts to preserve a legion forgotten photographic moments.

    Check it out here.

  • Domestic Vacations – APhotoADay News

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    Julie Blackmon’s new book “Domestic Vacations” is filled with conceptual images taken from her everyday life as a mother of three.

    Check it out here.

  • People Pictures

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    The Art of the Conceptual Photograph 1915 – 1920
     
    Featuring work by: Mole and Thomas, E.O. Goldbeck, and Others

    Check it out here.

  • Strobist: A Father's Day Reminder: Shoot Your Kids

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    Long-time viewers of this site will likely be familiar with San Francisco-based reader Jason Lee’s long-term project photographing his two daughters, Kristin and Kayla.

    Check it out here.

  • Long-exposure shots in St Petersburg, Russia turn people into ghosts – Boing Boing

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    Alexey Titarenko’s “City of Shadows” is a series of haunting, gorgeous long-exposure shots of street-scenes in St Petersburg, Russia

    Check it out here.

  • Last Floor Project – Josh Spear, Trendspotting

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    Voyeurism is an art. At least with Felipe Morozini’s Last Floor Project it is

    Check it out here.

  • the house is small but the welcome is big | using photography to empower lives in africa

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    Photo Stories: African Women and Kids
    Affected by AIDS Share their Lives

    Check it out here.

  • The Year in Pictures: Trouble in Paradise

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    For almost 40 years Richard Misrach has been producing photographs of the American West focusing on man’s relationship and impact on his environment. His extended series “Desert Cantos” explored many aspects of the American desert with subjects ranging from fires and floods to military-scarred terrain to luscious skyscapes.

    Check it out here.

  • B – Street Photography

    At the risk of pouring fuel on an inferno, I’d like to add my two cents about the ongoing Flickr threads questioning street photography’s legitimacy.

    Check it out here.

  • road trip: f/8 and be there…

    i always implore the photographers i mentor, to please please minimize the “who can i get to know” list and maximize the “here is what i will do” list….one thing i do know for sure, if you have the work, really  HAVE THE WORK, your Medici will materialize….it would have done me no good whatsoever to have made a “good impression” on Garrett, had i not had the work….

    Check it out here.

  • These Aren't Your Everyday Prom Polaroids – washingtonpost.com

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    On April 26, Mary Ellen Mark and her entourage of assistants set up a makeshift photo studio in a small room next to the school’s gymnasium. Mark is working on a three-year project called “Prom.” Charlottesville High was the seventh of 12 schools she is photographing.

    Next weekend, Mark will speak at the Look3 Festival of the Photograph here, where her Charlottesville photos will be on display.

    “Prom is a slice of Americana for me,” Mark said. “You learn about a culture and how different racial groups bring their own style to prom.”

    Check it out here.

  • Memo: MaryAnne Golon Out As Time DOP

    Time director of photography MaryAnne Golon, one of the most influential editors in photography, is leaving her position. Alice Gabriner has been promoted to the new position of chief picture editor.

    Check it out here.

  • The F STOP » Morgan Silk

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    Not everyone gets a second chance with a team of Navy Seals. But, for photographer Morgan Silk, inspiration is hard to shake. It wasn’t enough that he’d shot the special forces as they reenacted a hostage rescue scene. Silk wanted to get down from the director’s platform, away from the commercial constraints and create his own intense, individual portraits.

    Check it out here.

  • +KN | Kitsune Noir » Alex Prager

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    Last week my buddy Eric gave me a heads up about this photographer Alex Prager, so I checked out her site, and was totally stunned. ALex works in Los Angeles, shooting photos that are extremely retro in their styling, but modern in their execution. Imagine the set of The Birds, or an episode of The Wonder Years, but shot in this weird, almost Stepford Wives kind of way. It’s kind of like she crafted a bunch of personas from different pieces of characters in films and then photographed it. The colors are bright, but somewhat desaturated and definitely surreal.

    Check it out here.

  • Robb Kendrick, Tintype Cowboy, Rides Again – New York Times

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    Robb Kendrick fits in well not only because he is a sixth-generation Texan, raised in ranch country in the state’s panhandle, but also because of the unusual method of photography he favors, one patented and popularized at a time when the idea of the American cowboy was itself just being created.

    He doesn’t need batteries or memory cards or even film for his pictures. Mostly he just needs time, patience and lots of elbow grease. And as he labors, moving methodically from beneath the hood of his wooden box camera to a portable field darkroom, bearing wet iron plates that he has painstakingly prepared, he thinks of himself not as simply making pictures but also as taking part in the world of the cowboys who are the subjects

    Check it out here.

  • MikeSacks » photos of TV

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    Check it out here. Via Eyeteeth.