Category: Photography
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+KN | Kitsune Noir » Kim Høltermand
: For the past couple weeks I’ve had Kim Høltermand’s site bookmarked, and I’ve been checking in on it every few days. Kim is from Frederiksberg, Denmark, and takes some of the moodiest, most beautiful photos I’ve seen. He has an incredible knack for extreme lights and darks, muted colors, and an affinity for the…
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The Ones We Love
: The Ones We Love is a project highlighting young and talented photographers from around the world. Each artist contributed six photographs of the person(s) who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting. The goal of the website is to portray the people who are loved, cherished, and inspirational to these…
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Ghosts of New York: Photographer Arlene Gottfried Captures Disappearing Gotham — Vulture — Entertainment & Culture Blog — New York Magazine
: Ask photographer Arlene Gottfried if she thinks the New York characters she’s shot for 40 years from Coney Island to Times Square and Harlem are freaks, and she bristles. “I don’t think they’re freaks, because then I’d be a freak, too.” With her little-girl Coney brogue (she and her brother, manic comic Gilbert, grew…
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SUPERFICIALsnapshots: release
From Allison V. Smith: Superficial Snapshots Zine 2: An Issue With Lomos 29 pages, 34 photos limited edition. 250 signed copies. (first 20 get signed 5×7 print–sold out) $22.50 (add $3. to ship out of country) Check it out here.
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Shimmering 21st century anonymous portraits – lens culture photography weblog
: Armed with only a hand-held 35mm film camera, and using available artificial light, Russian photographer Alexei Vassiliev has created a series of stunning portraits of anonymous 21st century urban dwellers. A very slow shutter speed allows him to capture rich colors and blurred human gestures to create iconic images that evoke the essence of…
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Photographer Edward Steichen at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne and Kunsthaus in Zurich – swissinfo
: Two Swiss museums are hosting the most comprehensive retrospective ever on one of the icons of 20th-century photography. American photographer Edward Steichen, who died in 1973 two days short of his 94th birthday, had a career spanning 70 years, during which he never ceased to innovate. There certainly is a contrast between the 19-year-old…
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Leo Benedictus asks what's it like to photograph somebody famous? | Art & Architecture | Guardian Unlimited Arts
: What’s it like to photograph somebody famous? Or to be that famous person, posing for a photograph? Leo Benedictus picks three great portraits – and hears both sides of the story Check it out here.
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One Image – 17 Amazing Interpretations at CameraPorn
: Several weeks back, I posed a challenge to CameraPorn readers. Take an image I dug out of my archives in the form of three bracketed exposures and retouch it into the best final image possible. The “Revisit & Retouch” project was meant to be an exercise in compositing these bracketed exposures into one image,…
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PDN's World in Focus: The Ultimate Travel Photography Contest 2008
: The more than 80 images showcased on the following pages were submitted by photographers who found picture-worthy moments in places as diverse as Antarctica and the Libyan desert, as well as locations that hit a little closer to home. So whether it’s Faisal Almalki’s snapshot of a man and his camel in Cairo or…
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A Photo Editor – How to Manage People
I consider myself a pretty good people manager but it took me a long time to become one. I’ve always been good at working with photographers but it took quite a bit of work to become good at managing the people under me and I only really figured it out in the last year or…
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5B4: The Cows by Larry E. McPherson
: Most of the books that I have written about contain within their photographs an implied metaphor or meaning that provokes the viewer into different frames of mind. One of the pleasures in looking at work for me is to tease out these meanings that derive partly from the work and partly what my own…
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PDNPulse – Picapp, Making it Legal
: I’ve been playing around with the beta version of PicApp, a service that promises to let bloggers publish high-quality professional photos online for free. Bloggers do this anyway of course, but PicApp aims to make it legal. To start, PicApp has a deal with Getty Images to make Getty photos available through the service.…
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Photo Attorney: Tax Time for Photographers
Taxes are taxing enough, but photographers often have more challenges, such as how to depreciate equipment and account for part-time income. Advice from a CPA is the best way to address your specific needs. But if you go it alone, here are some resources for help. Check it out here.
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SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL » Blog Archive » Inagural New York Photo Festival Launches in May, Promises to be Awesome (and Probably Will Be)
: The New York Photo Festival seems to have started on the right foot with a very solid line up of curators for 2008: photographer Martin Parr, Aperture publisher Leslie A. Martin, photographer Tim Barber (aka Tiny Vices) and photo editor for the New York Times Magazine, Kathy Ryan Check it out here.
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Virginia Beach police seize photos from Abercrombie store | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
: Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges. Adam Bernstein, a police spokesman, said the seizure and the issuance of the summons came only after store management had not heeded…
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harlan erskine * photography/blog: Selections announced for Humble Arts Foundation’s “31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography”
: Hot off the mass email today Humble Arts Foundation has announced the 31 selections out of over 1000 submissions for the upcoming show “31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography.” The exhibition opening reception on Saturday, March 1st at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn and the show will stay up for the month. Check…
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Forgotten master E.O. Hoppe | The Australian
The German-born British photographer, E.O. Hoppe, was a different sort of a case. It’s true, he was probably the most famous photographer alive in the 1920s, and it’s true that after his death he fell into obscurity. But here’s the marvel: Hoppe’s photographs look as brilliant now as they did to his contemporaries. Looking at…
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Yvonne Jacquette – Rudy Burckhardt – Art – Review – New York Times
: Burckhardt, who emigrated from Switzerland in 1935, is difficult to classify within the tradition of New York street photography. He was an impatient photographer, taking few exposures even when shooting stationary subjects, and a careless printer who allowed his negatives to become scratched. Photography was not his only medium; he also painted and made…