Category: Photography
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State of the Art: James Mollison Shoots the Disciples of Rock
James Mollison has been making simple portraits of people at rock concerts, which he then stitches together into panoramic images Check it out here.
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Michael Muller, Photographic Superhero – – PopPhotoFebruary 2008
: Shooting movie posters was something Michael Muller always wanted to do. Yet even his impeccable photographic credentials — ad campaigns for Speedo and Mercedes, magazine covers of Spider-Man Tobey Maguire for Premiere and Adrien Brody for Flaunt — hadn’t won him the chance to shoot those dazzling film promos we see on billboards and…
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State of the Art: Trend Watch: House-Proud Photo Patrons
This may be a seriously good business for photographers to go into. Hot commercial/fine-art photographer Todd Eberle has taken private commissions. “We fetishize homes now, in a way we never did before,” he says. Even the famed architectural photographer Julius Schulman (seen here in a photo by Monica Almeida for the Times) takes private commissions.…
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What The Lindsay Lohan Photos Are Worth – Forbes.com
The Feb. 25 edition of the weekly magazine, with Lohan on the front cover, hit newsstands on Monday. That same morning, the magazine posted the photo portfolio on its NYmag.com Web site. For a site that’s averaged around a million page views a day lately, the results were stunning. NYmag.com recorded a total of more…
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The Year in Pictures: NOT The Sartorialist
Photos by Albrecht Tübke As I usually do when people send me a link, I took a look. My immediate reaction was that the pictures were way too close to The Sartorialist’s work to be of any interest to me, but the surprising thing was the pictures were pretty good Check it out here.
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5B4: Lee Friedlander Photographs Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes
This project in particular is interesting because it came at a time when Lee was experimenting with different camera formats and frame ratios. Within the span of the 89 images in Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes he shifts from his Leica, to a Noblex pivoting lens panoramic camera, to his Hasselblad Superwide, and the results are…
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30 Photos That Inspired Me to Learn Photography | You the Designer – Graphic Design Blog
: Being a graphic designer has made me fall in love with all things creative, including photography. In a previous article I mentioned the importance of building a strong foundation in one career first, such as graphic design and then branching out into other skills sets. One important area I have started to branch out…
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Masao Yamamoto, Japan's poet philosopher of photography – lens culture photography weblog
Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto has intrigued me since I first held several of his tiny energy-charged photos in my hands at a photography festival in California in 2003, and I could not leave without taking three of these precious objects home with me (at a price I could barely afford at the time). Six years…
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Michael Eastman – Vanishing America – photokaboom.com Blog
: Over the past thirty years, Michael Eastman has produced a body of fine-art photography on subjects ranging from European architecture to Midwestern storefronts. Check it out here.
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Larry Sultan Q&A – Art – Wallpaper.com – International Design Interiors Fashion Travel
: American photographer Larry Sultan takes time out of his hectic schedule to talk inspiration, achievement, and Charlotte Rampling with wallpaper.com… Check it out here. Via Brian Ulrich.
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Przemysław Pokrycki (Conscientious)
: Przemysław Pokrycki’s “Rites of Passage” is a wonderful series showing family gatherings for baptisms, first communions, weddings, and funerals – kind of like a social typology. Check it out here.
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The kids stay in the picture: a portrait of the photographer Larry Clark | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
Larry Clark is entertaining company, but it’s hard to know what to make of a grandfather who still puts such stock in his street cred. Likewise his new photographs, which are saturated in colour but oddly drained of meaning. They are not reportage or photojournalism, but sit somewhere between a street fashion shoot and a…
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+KN | Kitsune Noir » The New Lomo LC-A+
: Flipping through the latest issue of Vapors I came across this Lomo ad and it immediately made me smile. But as I was reading it, I noticed that this wasn’t just the regular old LC-A, this was the LC-A+, meaning they’ve made it better! Check it out here.
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Gursky Print Nets $1.375 Million For Charity – PDNPulse
A 2007 print of Andreas Gursky’s photo “Pyongyang IV” sold for $1,375,000 at Sotheby’s in New York last night. Gursky’s huge, richly detailed, distorted-perspective prints are favorites among contemporary art collectors, and several of his works have sold for seven figures in recent years. Check it out here.
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To pap or not to pap? – Reuters Photographers
: And everytime Madonna’s car stopped it would send photographers and cameramen into a frenzy – abandoning their vehicles on the roads and rushing towards her car with cameras hanging from their shoulders. It was surprising that no photographer got injured, either as a result of the crush or the baton-wielding policemen. This time too,…
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A Photo Editor – Andrew Hetherington- On The List
Andrew Hetherington is a top editorial photographer who lands commissions from magazines like GQ, ESPN and Details; and wins awards from CA, American Photography and PDN. Even though he spills his guts on his blog every week I thought you’d like to hear me ask him a few questions. Check it out here.
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The F STOP » Professional Photographers Discuss Their Craft » Article Archive » Olaf Blecker
Olaf Blecker has antennae, but don’t think that makes him special. “I think everybody has these antennas. In German you would say, menschdenken, which is the knowledge of man.” He uses his powers to take breathtaking portraits for commercial shoots for AOL and Sony, among others. His editorial work has appeared in The New York…
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All About the Moment – – PopPhotoFebruary 2008
: In addition to his versatile body of work for such magazines as National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and Newsweek, photographer Joe McNally is also a sought-after educator, sharing how-to tips and telling anecdotes at workshops and lecture series throughout each calendar year. In McNally’s new book, The Moment It…
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NOTIFBUTWHEN #2: Buy This Print (and others)
: Here in Chicago, the good folks who organize the annual Versionfest are having their annual auction tonight. With all the good goings and travels as of late I often miss all the local openings. This is another one that will be missed and too bad as there is bound to be a bounty of…
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road trip: weather report….
i am sure that all of you know that the photography licensing business as we know it, is going through dramatic changes…Getty Images, heretofore the largest photo licensing agency in the world, is up for sale..so far, no takers….even though they grossed around 800 million dollars last year, they “lost” 31 million….Corbis is losing money…