Toronto artist Robert Burley is currently documenting the fate of chemical photography, recording the abandonment and demolition of various Kodak plants. The films, papers and processing chemicals these factories produced will soon be obsolete, although Burley himself is still physically printing images from negatives, albeit ones he edits digitally. The most notable of Burley’s large, highly detailed colour photographs shows the implosion of buildings 65 and 69 at Kodak Park in Rochester, N.Y., where a crowd that includes people who worked in the plant busily snap pictures of its demise on their digital cameras. Whatever sacrifices it may demand, technology is irresistible.
Category: Photography
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The photo is dead. Long live the photo
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The Exposure Project: New Photographs By Adam Marcinek
Here are some new images the I recently shot in my family’s now closed business. Comments always welcome.
Images © Adam Marcinek
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Kimberly Brooks: Photography's Sex Change: The Art Of Tom Chambers
Over the last ten years, the art of photography has undergone a sex change. The rather masculine act of capturing or “shooting” a moment (“the hunt”) with a sound subject and composition has evolved into one where the real art comes in the editing, not the capturing. The initial “kill” gets skinned, dressed and prepared for a meal by the wonderful witchy post production tool known as Photoshop. The photographer, like a woman putting on make up at her vanity before going out for the evening, edits reality: the best features and colors are enhanced and sharpened, and a new, hyper-realistic art form, with a nod to surrealism of last century, is born.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: The Age features A Century of Pictures
Melbourne’s The Age had its team of photographers compile the best photography from the past 100 years in a Century of Pictures.
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State of the Art: Ballad of the 'Tween Angel
“You can’t just say no to Annie.” That was part of the explanation given by 15-year-old superstar Miley Cyrus after photographs were made of her “backless” and clutching a blanket by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair. (A VF behind-the-scenes shot is above.) “I think it’s really artsy,” she told the magazine at the time. “It wasn’t in a skanky way.”
But by yesterday, Cyrus was backtracking. “I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” she said in a publicist’s statement. She further criticizes the magazine in a People article, as the more financially minded press mulls over the fallout expected to hit Cyrus’s Hanna Montana phenomenon and its parent company, Disney.
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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.” Though occasionally, “Yes.”
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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 the pull-off, called Tunnel View, trying to capture the scene. Some snap two quick shots with disposable yellow cameras, and others set up their tripods for hours, watching the light strike Yosemite’s monoliths. On the left, El Capitan, a rock climbers’ mecca, appears the tallest. The Half Dome and Sentinel Dome arch upwards in the center. And the two Cathedral Spires sit on the right next to the sometimes gushing Bridalveil Fall.
Many people know these sights by name, but more know them by sight alone, as captured through the lens of the legendary American photographer Ansel Adams.
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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 circulate on the site, the most distinctive offerings, admired by the site’s members and talent scouts alike, are digital images that “pop” with the signature tulip colors of Canon digital cameras.
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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.
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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 turbulent water.
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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 the super-rich – elicits a very traditional English reaction: it is not everybody’s cup of tea. Parr is a tremendous polariser. He’s either a pin-sharp satirical genius who tells uncomfortable truths with comedic flair – a view enthusiastically endorsed by subscribers to the trendy online photography site Flickr, which carries a message board dedicated to him entitled Martin Parr We Love You. Or he’s that heartlessly cynical smartarse whose pictures were once condemned by the late great Henri Cartier-Bresson, the father of modern photojournalism, as coming “from another planet”.
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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 slightly unique from the wear-and-tear caused by the previous owner.
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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 to invest some time with his work.
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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.
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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. But they are vulnerable.”
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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
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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 modern settings — often just outside Broadway theaters between matinee and evening shows.Check it out here.
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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.
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