Category: Photography
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Stefan Ruiz: Africa, Cuba, Rodeo Queens
Just recently, I discovered Stefan Ruiz’s quite powerful Africa series, photographs from the Lukole Refugee Camp in Ngara, Tanzania. Check it out here.
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The Plug – Stranger Photos Have Happened
I tied a disposable camera to a bench with a sign that read: Good afternoon, I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I’ll be back later this evening to pick it up. Love, Jay / The Plug When I retrieved the camera that night, I was…
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Keeping His Eye on the Horizon (Line) – Sze Tsung Leong
THE soft-colored photographs of Sze Tsung Leong capture contrasting landscapes: the verdant green of Germany; the mirage of shimmering towers in Dubai; the urban geometry of Amman, Jordan; the red tiles roofs of Italy. But always the eye is drawn to the distinct line where sky meets earth. In Mr. Leong’s panoramic photographs of major…
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B: Lifeblood
During my last visit a few weeks ago to the Portland Art Museum I found myself captivated by this Eugene Goldbeck photograph. Perhaps it had been there before and I’d never noticed, or maybe it had been freshly circulated out of storage. In any case it held my attention for quite a while. There are…
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Not a Moment Without Comedy – Shoot The Blog
So our person-in-the-know this week is Åsk Wäppling. She is the Art Director (in addition to main muse and CEO) of Adland the commercial archive. So she looks at ads all day. In fact, she originally suggested a totally different ad campaign for this column, but couldn’t stop talking about this photographer Arthur Mebius; she…
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SportsShooter.com – Grayson West
Here’s selection of Portraits from The Canyons Resort 11th annual pond skimming in Park City Check it out here.
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The Year in Pictures: We Love the 90s!
Andrew Bush’s “Vector Portraits” – a series of pictures taken while driving alongside his subjects on the freeways of California – was one of the signature photographic series of the 90s. Original, perceptive, and with a fresh conceptual twist, it explored the culture of Los Angeles as well as issues of privacy, danger, and the…
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Living Large – – PopPhotoMarch 2008
With his first feature, Dawn of the Dead (a remake of the classic zombie film), on the horizon, Zack Snyder was reading a 2001 story in American Photo about fashion photographer Bruce Weber’s use of the Littman 45 Single, a new camera designed for handheld 4×5 shooting. He bought one of the first Littmans off…
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New Catalogue: Tiger Afternoon
New Catalogue’s latest series, Tiger Afternoon, has been described as “a quasi-gothic narrativization of American Suburbia” and “a Jean-Luc Godard version of a John Hughes film… less homage to cinema than an attempt to question the idealization of youth as the paradigmatic protagonists of our age.” I’m not sure how I feel about it, but…
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The Quest for the Most Wanted Photo (Conscientious)
Having just started to look at Komar and Melamid’s Most Wanted Paintings – paintings created based on actual polls, where people could say what they liked – I thought finding the photographic equivalent couldn’t possibly be that hard. I went to Flickr, which I use only very occasionally (and thus don’t really know all that…
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Pablo Zuleta Zahr :: Studio La Città
Spotted in the New York Times Magazine Pablo Zuleta Zahr was born in Chile in 1978. He lives and works in Berlin Somewhere in a subway under neutral lighting Pablo Zuleta Zahr has set up his video camera in front of a monochrome wall and held out for ten hours. In such places, one can’t…
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Speartalks: Grant Hamilton – Josh Spear
You have heard by now that Polaroid film is dying. Rightfully, no, but inevitably, yes, and we have few words to appropriately state our reaction (of the few we have, the following do share company: appalled, mystified, f*cking pissed). Of course, while we are all justified in experiencing some emotion over this unnecessary loss, there…
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Travel Photography for Stock – A Primer – A Pictures Worth
Travel represents one of the most popular content submission areas for the PhotoShelter Collection, and as such, we are becoming increasingly more selective about the types of images that we accept. The following guidelines are prescriptive for travel photography, although some concepts will extend into the general realm of stock photography. Check it out here.
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Robert Frank's Unsentimental Journey: vanityfair.com
Digital photography destroys memory, he believes, with its ability to erase. Art school is another problem, teaching students to be blind. Editors are worse—they poke the artist’s eyes out. Photography: one minute it’s not art at all. Then perhaps it is. And then again it is not. That’s Robert Frank. “There are too many images,”…
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Private lives of the mob | The Australian
IN the heavy, noiseless air of desert country, an Aboriginal community is out hunting when the sound of a camera shutter cuts the air like a bullet from a gun. Heads turn, questions are asked and the — usually white — photographer is suddenly centre stage in an inquisition. The curtain of suspicion can hang…
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Mike Osborne: Press Pictures – SHANE LAVALETTE
Laurel points us to the excellent work of Texas-based photographer Mike Osborne. His Press Pictures series (made at Austin American-Statesman, San Antonio Express News, and LA Times Check it out here.