Category: Photography
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5B4: A Maysles Scrapbook by Albert Maysles
: Albert Maysles as a cinematographer and a photographer has spent his life observing and documenting the paths that his own life has taken for 51 years. A new book from Steidl and the Steven Kasher Gallery called A Maysles Scrapbook takes us through those 51 years of image making in the first comprehensive monograph…
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John Nack on Adobe: New Adobe Magazine available
: Volume 2, Issue 1 of Adobe Magazine, the company’s quarterly design and technology mag, is available for download. The new issue features Photoshop being used for concept art, architectural illustration, and scientific imaging. Check it out here.
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Thomas Boyd's Untitled Bloggage: Mt. Hood Obscured in Lenticular Cloud
: I shot this tonight after work near where I’m staying at my dad’s place in Happ Check it out here.
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Hasselblad Masters Winners 2008
: Hasselblad announces the ten winners of its Hasselblad Master Award for 2008. Whereas in previous years Hasselblad has awarded 12 separate Master Awards for overall photographic ability, the 2008 Hasselblad Master Awards are presented across ten separate categories of photography and the winners are as follows: Benjamin Antony Monn, Louis Palu, Andrej Kopac, Julia…
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Pep Ventosa (Conscientious)
: Digitally layering photos of the same subject has been explored by Idris Khan or Jason Salavon, but when looking at those images – as cool as they might look at first glance – I often ask myself: And now? Having seen all the Becher water towers or Playboy centerfolds in one image, what am…
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Gray Matters: Respect those who came before us.
: I constantly receive emails from photographers commenting on the photographs on my member page and those that run with my column. Some try to give me tips on how to improve my photos. Some tell me my snaps suck. The most recent email suggested I give up working in black & white. The writer…
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Big Sky – Real Life – Real News
: I got out of the office to clear my head and shoot another small town feature. When I find myself getting frustrated with work, and the photography stops being fun, I just wonder out and shoot something completely useless. And somehow after this type of exercise everything seems new, and holding a camera is…
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The Sartorialist's Street Style – PDN
: Scott Schuman, who otherwise goes by the name The Sartorialist, is something of a fashion phenomenon. Schumann is a 15-year-old veteran of the fashion industry with a background in sales and marketing in high-end women’s clothing. After closing his own showroom shortly after 9/11, he began to focus more on photography. As he writes…
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'Some Things Are Private' reexamines a mother's controversial photos – The Boston Globe
: It can’t be easy to have a play written about you. Then again, photographer Sally Mann has been through a few firestorms in her career – most notably the uproar around “Immediate Family,” her book of nude photos of her young children, published in 1992, which was met with cries of “Pornography!” and made…
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Go Viral with the PhotoShelter Widget (A Picture's Worth)
: Like those images you’re seeing on the PhotoShelter Collection homepage? Grab the PhotoShelter widget and insert them into your own page. Then when you see something you like, you can click on it to license it immediately! Photographers also have the ability to publish a widget of their own live PSC images. Check it…
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Vertus Fluid Mask » Our Top 40 Photoshopped Images
: Sometimes they can be funny, sometimes thought provoking, other times they just mess with your mind. They’ll always take your breath away though and make you wonder at the skills of the people that created them. The following images are our favourite Photoshopped images. If you’ve seen better we’d love to hear from you.…
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Francesca Romeo (Conscientious)
: At first, I only looked at Francesca Romeo’s portraiture (especially “Series 1”), but her work from a cemetary (“Series 3”) has grown quite a bit on me now. Check it out here.
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Lori Nix's tabletop photography – Boing Boing
: Artist Lori Nix builds incredibly detailed tabletop worlds and photographs them, from visions of disaster to glimpses of insect life. Her most recent collection, The City, depicts hyperreal decay and abandonment in an urban setting Check it out here.
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SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL » Blog Archive » Danny Wilcox Frazier: Driftless
: Driftless: Photographs from Iowa (Duke University Press, 2007) by Danny Wilcox Frazier came out with Frank’s words of praise as the forward to the book. I stumbled across a copy of it a few weeks ago in the Harvard Book Store and was drawn to the images before I read anything about Frank’s role…
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+KN | Kitsune Noir » Breaking Through by Ryan McGinley
: Continuing the pimping (not in the Chelsea kind of way) of Hollywood’s actors and Oscar nominees, NY Times Magazine has an article featuring the people they thought were the breakthrough actors of 2007. Along with it though are some wonderful photos taken by one of my faves, Ryan McGinley. Overall the photos aren’t his…
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A Conversation with Olaf Otto Becker (Conscientious)
: Olaf Otto Becker is one of my favourite landscape photographers. Given his new book Broken Line has just been released, I asked Olaf whether he would be up for a conversation, and I was very excited when he agreed to one. Check it out here.
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The Master of the "Freeze-Frame" – The Digital Journalist
: I don’t know if Douglas Kirkland has ever thought of becoming a director, but all his images contain the rich, contradictory synthesis of the stills from a successful film. If he had become a director instead of a great photographer, he would have told stories of men and women on the run from reality,…
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Freeze Frame: 50 Years of Fun and Fame – The Digital Journalist
Douglas Kirkland: My first encounter with a movie star was with Elizabeth Taylor in Las Vegas. I looked directly into her violet eyes and said, “I’m new at this magazine. Could you imagine what it would mean to me if you gave me an opportunity to photograph you?”… A beat of silence, then she said,…
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My Lover, My Life – The Digital Journalist
: We have fun, don’t we?” Douglas Kirkland calls from downstairs after a long day of working on this book, arguing and laughing. Editing thousands of images to create “Freeze Frame” was both an emotional and exhilarating process, watching our life through the work, discovering images we didn’t remember existed, seeing ourselves through the 40…
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andreas weinand photography · straight photography with a personal view · © copyright : all rights reserved
: long-term photographic documentations, reflection on social identities within the private and public spheres Check it out here.