Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com
Since our start in 2004, Lens Culture has always been an all-volunteer effort, with absolutely no commercial revenue or paid advertising. But now we need your financial help so we can continue our day-to-day activities, and to expand our educational and cultural exchange programs in 2010.
In 2010, I will be teaching one week workshops on street photography in many of the world’s most visually exciting cities and regions: Buenos Aires, Rio, Seville, Paris, Istanbul, New York, Provence, and Calcutta. These workshops should be a wonderful opportunity for anyone interested in creating a photo essay or portfolio around themes of life of an amazing city. All of my workshops embrace a philosophy of keeping one’s heart and eyes open to the potential of “decisive moments” of daily life present in the streets and culture of the world’s great cities. Much attention and discussion is offered to help students develop camera technique at the service of making spontaneous and powerful images while developing their personal vision. The workshops help students overcome anxiety and nervousness they may have photographing people.
Please take a look below at the dates and locations of each workshop. Course descriptions and registration information accompany each course title and date. Please feel free to forward this information to any of your friends, family, or associates who might be interested in knowing about these exciting workshops. Wishing you very wonderful holidays. Warm regards, Peter.
I think this must be my newspaper recovery phase. I feel over-indulgent and greedy in photographing these feature stories just cuz. Just cuz I’m intrigued. This world is so huge and so full of intrigue. I got to shoot so many things that interested me as a staff photographer but so much of it was just filler and important projects never got the space they deserved.
Lyon is a journalist, but not by the usual ’90s definition. Whether he was photographing the Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the ’60s or the guerrilla uprising in Mexico in the ’90s, his journalism is not about the surface, the sensational, the soundbite; it is imbued with his respect for the people he photographs, and with the commitment and responsibility this respect entails. Now, in his collages, Lyon has come up with an emotional kind of journalism exploring classes and cultures and the options that people are allowed. Claiming the same credibility for his personal images as for his more conventional documentary pictures, he has made some of his most political and most moving work to date.
Today marks the beginning of a new holiday in which I am sure will catch on … or not. I hereby declare that January 9 will hence forth be referred to as Tri-Xmas Day. The premise of this holiday is to photograph personal settings on black and white film throughout the year and then save it all to be developed during the days leading up to Tri-Xmas Day. And on the 9th, you present your gifts to the world.
In Spring 2008, photojournalists Stephen M. Katz and Christopher Tyree visited St. Vincent’s Home for Handicapped Children in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, as part of a documentary project for the Virginia-based nonprofit Physicians for Peace. Seeing so many children in need – so many the outside world was not even aware of – frustrated and inspired the photographers. In that moment, Wéyo, which is Haitian Kréyol for “see them,” was born. Wéyo is the administer of the Truth With A Camera Workshops.
Miroslav Tichy, a Czech who took pictures during the 1960s and ’70s in his hometown, Kyjov, now has a solo show at the International Center of Photography.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/arts/design/12photos.html
The photographs are blurry, skewed, badly printed and in terrible condition: dog-eared, scratched, spotted and encrusted with who knows what. They all show girls and young women, in streets and public parks, going about their business and mostly unaware of the camera.
PicScout has pioneered a digital fingerprinting technology called PicScout ImageIRC™ (index, registry and connection platform). Image buyers and creative pros who use PicScout’s ImageExchange™ browser add-on see an (i) icon on every fingerprinted image, anywhere it resides online. Anytime a potential buyer is perusing blogs and social networks, news sites, and even search engine results and encounters an image fingerprinted by PicScout, they see the (i), can click for more information, and click to your website to immediately license or purchase the image. Starting today, 8 million images that are priced for online sales by PhotoShelter photographers will begin the fingerprinting process through PicScout. PicScout makes image buyers happy because the search for new photography that’s ready to license is easier than ever. ImageExchange gives them a path to buy it directly from the content creator on PhotoShelter. PicScout makes photographers (and other visual artists) really happy too, because they now have a new way to attract new buyers, regardless of where their content may reside online.
By Rod Slemmons
Lee Friedlander was born in the logging mill town of Aberdeen, Washington in 1934. He began photographing in 1948 because of a “fascination with the equipment,” in his words. His first paid job was a Christmas card photograph of a dog for a local madam named Peggy Plus. He later a
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: https://americansuburbx.com/2010/02/theory-lee-friedlander-just-look-at-it.html
It has become increasingly difficult to see photographs as the visible world has been almost completely plastered over with lenticular representations of itself. Strangely, as the photograph becomes the world, it disappears — or perhaps more accurately, it loses its informative opacity
Martin Vargas is a corporate/industrial photographer for 33Photo based out of Mexico City and Houston, Texas. His work is diverse, and includes a steady stream of industrial, architectural, editorial, product, and travel assignments.
His marketing and promotion efforts tend to be based on generating more work from existing clients, and he has come up with a strategy for doing so.