I spoke with Robert Whitman to see what his thinking was.”My approach was to shoot it with old cameras. We shot mostly with an old Brownie Hawkeye, and found a lab in Colorado that still processes C22 film”.
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Damn Right Your Dad Drank It! – Shoot The Blog
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A Photo Editor – Contact Info for Every Media Company in the World
Can be found at MediaPhoneBook.com (here)… someday… maybe. For now it’s got contacts for a handful of magazines, but since it’s a wiki anybody can add and make changes so eventually it really could contain all the contact info, book drop information, submission guidelines and anything else that might be useful to photographers for every media company in the world.
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5B4: Poles by Frank Breuer
There have been many books that follow in the tradition of the Düsseldorf School of typologies that I just find boring. In fact, I even have a hard time looking through an entire book of the Bechers themselves when it is entirely made up of one of their subjects. Like many other genres of photography, their conceptual tendencies seemed to lead to a whole generation of photographers that would simply pick their typology and plug in the information. Of course one needs to make interesting photographs but the makers seem to say, “I’m going to photograph X” and then their job is to photograph “X” 200 times. Within this framework is common for these bodies of work to be a bit more interesting conceptually than visually which is why I was surprised to like Frank Breuer’s book Poles as much as I do.
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The history of the photobooth – Telegraph
Women have stripped off in them, Fred Astaire has danced in one, Andy Warhol turned them into a business. Näkki Goranin, who has spent 10 years collecting these pictures, tells the remarkable story of the photobooth and its camera-mad inventor
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A Conversation with Jerry Spagnoli (Conscientious)
The other day, I had the chance to visit Jerry Spagnoli’s studio and to talk to him about his work, and afterwards I asked him whether he would be available for a conversation, to be published on this blog. I’m very glad he agreed to it.
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B: Jesse Marlow: What Was He Thinking?
This is one of my favourite street photos from the years that I shot B+W. The shop window had always caught my eye. It’s the Nike shop and is on the corner of Melbourne’s two busiest streets. An extra wide pavement here similar to the ones on Oxford Street, London gives great depth to street photos. It was early afternoon on a summer’s day and I was out shooting with my auto-focus Hexar (hence the one handed shooting style)
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Wooster Collective: Patrick Winfield At OPEN SPACE in Beacon, NY Tomorrow Night
If you’ve been following the Wooster website, then you know we’re big fans of the wonderful Polariod mosaics of Patrick Winfield.
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R.I.P. User-Generated Content: 2005-2008? – PDNPulse
What went wrong? Could it be that audiences simply don’t enjoy sifting through heaps of un-vetted garbage? The Newsweek story declares “the expert is back,” then quotes an expert saying the following: “People are beginning to recognize that the world is too dangerous a place for faulty information.”
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PictPicture.com / Published Pictures
PictPicture.com is the place to find and share the best pictures online. Click on the up and down arrow to rank the pictures! This is your community; by uploading your content and voting on your favorites, you influence the latest trend in photography.
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PDN's 30 2008
Nearly ten years ago, towards the end of 1998, we here at Photo District News embarked on an endeavor we called PDN’s “30 Under 30.” Sitting in a small room in our then Times Square offices, Holly Stuart Hughes, Darren Ching, former photo editor Mackenzie Green and myself gathered together a large pile of promising portfolios and an even larger pile of slides (yes, slides) and began the process of choosing a list of 30 gifted photographers we felt would make an impact on the photographic industry. I can still remember the excitement we all felt at the start of this enterprise. With some assistance and advice from peers in the photo community, we were very pleased to present among that first congregation such future luminaries as Taryn Simon, Jason Fulford, Jonathan Kantor, Guy Aroch, and Norman Jean Roy. We were off to an excellent beginning
This year’s 30: Ian Baguskas, Aya Brackett, Michael Christopher Brown, Michal Chelbin, J. Bennett Fitts, Taj Forer, Emiliano Granada, Katie Kingma, Andreas Laszlo Konrath, Adam Krause, Eamon Mac Mahon, Tiffany Walling McGarity & John McGarity, Mike McGregor, Domingo Milella, Graeme Mitchell, Morgan & Owens, Ed Du, Christina Paige, Birthe Piantek, Espen Rasmussen, David Rochkind, Jennifer Racholl, Dustin Snipes, Brian Sokol, Mikhael Subotzky, Daniel Traub, Munem Wasif, Donald Weber, Shen Wei.
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First New York Photo Festival Aims To Draw 100,000 Visitors
“I think it goes without saying that a major international photo festival in New York is long overdue,” said Frank Evers, managing director of the VII Photo Agency and one of the founders of the New York Photo Festival. Evers and other show organizers spoke at the Dumbo headquarters of powerHouse books; publisher Daniel Power is the other founder of the festival. Two Trees Management, which owns most of the real estate in Dumbo, is another supporter. (PDN is one of the festival’s media partners.)
Four main curators will each oversee a pavilion: British photographer Martin Parr; Kathy Ryan, picture editor of The New York Times Magazine; Lesley A. Martin, book publisher at the Aperture Foundation; and Tim Barber, former photo editor for Vice magazine and editor of tinyvices.com.
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Army Cooks: recipes for survival and victory! – lens culture photography weblog
Photographer Martin Kollar and filmmaker Peter Kerekes have been documenting Army Cooks from all over Eastern Europe and beyond, as part of an ongoing project that started in 1991. In his brilliant introduction to the project, Kerekes begins: “They are ordinary men in aprons worn over their uniforms, whose task is to feed the army. They take care of the operation of a giant stomach, a big hungry child with its moods – the Army.”
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TrekEarth | Strangers in a train Photo
I’m not a huge gear head but the nice folks at Nikon Professional Services sent me a new toy (Nikon D3) to use for a while. So far, I think it’s the best camera I’ve ever shot with…yes…even better than the Leica M6…well..maybe.
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Richard Bram – B
Richard Bram:Like the Angel, this one was a gift from the Gods. My wife and I were heading down the escalator at Bank Station to go to dinner. She saw the couple first and elbowed me. I had just enough time to focus and shoot one frame as the escalators quickly drew us together. Only later on the contact sheet did I really see the countdown posters on the wall that make the photograph rise above being just another photo of people kissing.
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32,000 Barbies: photo-based statistical art – lens culture photography weblog
Seattle-based artist Chris Jordan has a provocative and thoughtful approach to using photo-based art to underline the excesses of human consumption and other atrocities. His series, Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait, uses cleverly designed huge images to convey the vastness of waste and other ridiculous human behavior.
Barbie Dolls, 2008, 60″x80″, depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006
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The Year in Pictures: Sandy Volz
for the student show, Sandy Volz made these unusual pictures of human interaction titled “Hearts of Darkness”. You can’t quite tell what’s going on.
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Legend Stanley Marcus' fervor for Photography Fashion news, retail news, beauty news and more from Women's Wear Daily
Retail icon Stanley Marcus was passionate about photography, but only now is that passion emerging publicly — with help from his family.
A retrospective of his images, “Reflection of a Man: The Photographs of Stanley Marcus,” is on display through March 30 at the Dallas Museum of Art, to which Marcus donated more than 300 works and was a trustee for over 60 years.
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The Year in Pictures: Wait to Walk
Today’s discovery is Florian Bohm. A 39 year old German living in New York, Bohm takes the familiar DiCorcian concept of modern color street photography, narrows it down to the single moment of people waiting to cross the street, and repeatedly nails it. He’s not breaking any new ground but the self-imposed restriction of photographing entirely on the streets of New York gives the work a consistency and an immediacy, and there’s a nice flat quality to the light that helps pull it all together. The pictures above and below all come from Bohm’s book “Wait to Walk” published last year by Hatje Cantz.
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