At an age when most people are retired, Elliott Erwitt keeps working as hard as ever. He has to, but not for the reason you might suspect
“I think if didn’t have the financial pressure, I would have done a lot better,” he said. “I would have made more movies. That’s easy to say now, but I probably would have spent more time doing worthy things.”
Her photographs range from the marginal to the mainstream, capturing things that are invisible to the rest of us.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/catherine-opie-all-american-subversive
Her photographs range from the marginal to the mainstream, capturing things that are invisible to the rest of us.
© Christopher Anderson Christopher Anderson “To be honest, this IG thing confuses me. Some images I am convinced will be crowd pleasers don’t generate interest, and then some that I…
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Christopher Anderson
“To be honest, this IG thing confuses me. Some images I am convinced will be crowd pleasers don’t generate interest, and then some that I almost don’t post because I think they are not good enough, will get loads of likes.
Our rising dependence on cameras is changing our language, and the company behind Snapchat is counting on the eventual dominance of visual culture.
Snap’s success or failure isn’t going to be determined this week or even this year. This is a company that’s betting on a long-term trend: the rise and eventual global dominance of visual culture
Artists and editors nominated under-the-radar, exciting black photographers
via Time: http://time.com/4673827/black-photographers/
While some artists such as Joshua Rashaad McFadden make use of archival material, others like Jasmine Murrell incorporate sculpture, while Gerald Cyrus’ work is firmly documentary in nature and Shamayim’s is clearly fashion-based.
After Bill Gates sold Corbis Images to Visual China Group (VCG) back in January 2016, the citizen journalism photo agency Demotix (which Corbis bought in
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/02/17/demotix-photographers-still-waiting-year-corbis-sold-vcg/
after over a year has passed since the Corbis sale, some Demotix contributors have finally received an email from VCG… with few happy answers
There are a multitude of thoughts a visitor could have—I wouldn’t want to try to tell people what to think. Among the conclusions I reached as a result of doing the exhibition is that photography on the Web must be considered with the same degree of seriousness as more traditional forms of photography that originally appeared only as photographic prints or as reproductions in books, newspapers, and magazines.
“It exists. As opposed to 0s and 1s.”
via Time: http://time.com/4646116/film-photography-inspiration/
Working with film requires a disciplined, considered approach. “You can make all these decisions without the camera. And then take a picture of it.” says Magnum photographer Max Pinckers. “And for me that works because I can make my decision and stick with it.”
5 trends that will dominate the visual tech space in 2017 ….
via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/5-trends-to-look-for-in-2017/
With the new year comes the predictions. However, this year, instead of trying to predict what will happen, we prefer to take aim at what we see will be the top major trends in the visual space. We limited ourselves at five in an effort to be succinct and we picked those that will affect people more broadly. In no particular order, here they are:
From high in the air, the photographer captures sweeping images of industrial projects and their effects on the environment.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/edward-burtynskys-epic-landscapes
At that time, Nigeria was one of many possible destinations. “It’s a tough one in terms of danger,” Baichwal said about the delta. “I’m not sure how we are going to get in there.” But in the coming months Burtynsky grew more interested in the country. One of his collectors had urged him to do a book on Africa, and after a visit to Kenya he agreed, believing that there would be overlap between the projects. Across the continent, he saw an epic story of industrialization and economic colonialism, hope and environmental degradation. Documenting it, he expected, would take many years. “The growth figures for Africa are staggering—frightening,” he said. “It’s the next big global play.”
“Yet to an obsessive his obsession always seems to be of the nature of things and so is not recognized by what it is.” Those words, written by art critic
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/12/08/matter-perspective-privilege-white-males-photography/
With the democratization of photography – through mediums like Instagram and Snapchat – we have slowly started to zoom out and look at the world in a more interesting way. This willingness to understand the world around us from a less traditional approach will start to bridge the gap in our understanding of the “other”. Knowing that our experiences are each as vivid and intense as the person’s next to us provides us with compassion and empathy for their realities.
A dark reality exists within photography that few photographers are willing to discuss and many refuse to even recognize. In the name of purity, we tend
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/11/16/otherness-fetishization-subject/
A dark reality exists within photography that few photographers are willing to discuss and many refuse to even recognize. In the name of purity, we tend to see photography as a medium that couldn’t — shouldn’t be able to — do harm.
“I never worry that photography will lose ground” to other media like video and VR, Ryan said during a talk in New York City.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/10/photoplus-expo-kathy-ryan-talks-nyt-magazine-future-photo-video-vr.html
She pointed out, however, that despite the excitement around VR and video, she didn’t see those media eclipsing still photography. “I never worry that photography will lose ground,” she said
It is moments like this that make me astoundingly grateful to have the job I do. Even after more than 30 years of looking at pictures, talking about them, and thinking about them, there are still moments of discovery that stop me in my tracks.
TIME asked the greatest portrait shooters to select their favorite photographs of Hillary Clinton
via TIME.com: http://time.com/hillary-clinton-photographs/
We asked some of the greatest portrait shooters who have photographed Hillary Clinton to scour their archives and select their favorite photographs from these one-on-one sessions.
TIME asked the greatest portrait shooters to select their favorite photographs of Donald Trump
via TIME.com: http://time.com/donald-trump-photographs/
We asked some of the greatest portrait shooters who have photographed Donald Trump to scour their archives and select their favorite photographs from these one-on-one sessions.
For YEARS, you have asked me: Why am I not on instagram? Here’s the long overdue story I was too ashamed to tell — until now.
via Chase Jarvis Photography: http://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/my-biggest-failure-the-story-i-was-too-ashamed-to-tell/
To share the backstory with those who cared about it way back when. There were so many people (a million) in The Best Camera community 5 years ago. They never got any answers – as in ZERO – as to why we went dark in the wake of so much early success. Y’all deserve to know the story.
Why artificial intelligence is the biggest revolution in photography today.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/10/a-revolution-in-photography.html
But O’Kane hints at something later in his article that is different, and genuinely revolutionary: the use of artificial intelligence to help curate the hundreds of frames modern cameras are generating to help us find that decisive moment.
Ross Otto mapped 140,000 photos posted on WordPress blogs using the geotags embedded within.
via Atlas Obscura: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/this-map-plots-the-geocoordinates-you-may-have-accidentally-left-behind-in-digital-photos
Ross Otto mapped 140,000 photos posted on WordPress blogs using the geotags embedded within.