by Heidi Volpe Deborah Schwartz of DSReps is well known for sending out impressive promos that can’t possibly be thrown away. When I heard this years was a box of prints representing each of her photographers I had to see it and ask her a few questions ab
Deborah Schwartz of DSReps is well known for sending out impressive promos that can’t possibly be thrown away. When I heard this years was a box of prints representing each of her photographers I had to see it and ask her a few questions about it.
At this year’s LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier made her intentions as an artist and activist clear in a powerful presentation of her work that combined diaristic snippets about her relationships with her
At this year’s LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier made her intentions as an artist and activist clear in a powerful presentation of her work that combined diaristic snippets about her relationships with her grandmother and mother with stories about the community of Braddock, PA, where she was raised.
By Ctein Over the past several weeks, many readers have raised concerns about the permanence of photographs, whether film or digital. Truly, they have every reason to be concerned. It’s a problem that has bothered me ever since Henry Wilhelm…
In the real world, no modern photographic medium, analog or digital, has shown itself to be durable. It only lasts when ordinary people take measures that are, well, extraordinary.
To combat his sense of helplessness, he decided to distribute fifty disposable cameras to survivors displaced by the tsunami who had been evacuated to shelters in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture
Six photographers – Ivor Prickett, Guy Martin, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Shiho Fukada, Kacper Kowalski and Mads Nissen – have been selected to become part of the Panos Pictures agency
For Tod Seelie, who is 33 and could be called the house photographer for the Kings County art-vandal underground, something worthwhile might include: a female mud-wrestling match, a violent punk show, an illegal party in an abandoned warehouse, a guerilla theater event in the snow or a group sailing trip through New York Harbor (and beyond) on rafts made of junk
Christopher Anderson opened the morning program of Masters Talks today at LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA, in front of a packed crowd at the Paramount Theater downtown. Anderson is exhibiting his latest body of work, “Son,” at the
Christopher Anderson opened the morning program of Masters Talks today at LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA, in front of a packed crowd at the Paramount Theater downtown.
Stephen Mayes, Managing Director of VII Photo and one of my favorite photo thinkers, is presenting a lecture titled, “Restructuring the Photographic Process,” during the Flash Forward Festival today, June 3, at noon EST.
If you’d like to see what he has to say but can’t join us in Boston, please check in here, where I’ll liveblog his talk and any subsequent discussion.
I must confess that I have a soft spot for minimalist imagery. This portfolio by Kevin O’Connell is one of the best examples of minimalism in photography that we’ve ever published.
We’ve given a fresh new look to just about every facet of the purchase process for PhotoShelter websites — all in the interest of making it easier and more efficient for your website visitors to buy photos from you. Plus, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to pack a few new, highly requested feature upgrades into this release as well.
Harrington uses the analogy of “the corner store.” When a new store opens up, they don’t sell their inventory at a loss and hope to make up for it over time just because they’re new to the neighborhood. Instead, they know what their cost of doing business is, and they they start out with a rate that’s profitable for them.
Doug Rickard, Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2008 The drum machine arrived in popular music in the late 1970’s. By 1983, only a few years later, after 50,000 years of live human drumming, mainstream…
Looking at projects based on Google Maps Street View (GSV), particularly large photographs in physical galleries, makes me wonder: Is Street View a camera? Or a repository of source images? Or both?
Alan Sailer is a photographer. He fires things very fast at other things, and then uses a homemade high-speed flash to capture some quite stunning images. Here’s how he got famous: Was a very, very obscure photographer working in his garage shooting stuff
Alan Sailer is a photographer. He fires things very fast at other things, and then uses a homemade high-speed flash to capture some quite stunning images. Here’s how he got famous
He earned millions and spent much of that on a self-financed film about an urban dance form created in the rough neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles. When the film, “Rize,” failed to find a large audience, and with David LaChapelle weary after 20 years of 14-hour days, he packed up a career that any commercial photographer might envy, and he disappeared.
According to a recent study, photos with people in them are more likely to stay in the viewer’s memory after scanning a series of photos. Researchers at MIT have created a computer algorithm to track which photos people actually remembered most, and they’
According to a recent study, photos with people in them are more likely to stick in the viewer’s memory after seeing a series of photos. Researchers at MIT have created a computer algorithm to track which photos people remembered most, and they’ve found that portraits tend to trump landscapes in memorability.
Ten photojournalists have been awarded $1,000 each for the Yunghi Kim grant—a grant meant to bring awareness of the importance of copyright registration.
