I can’t help but think about all the photographers I’ve talked to recently, especially commercial/editorial ones, who have told me about the immense business problems. A lot of people really don’t know whether their businesses will survive.
Link: Conscientious Extended | Ping Pong with Michael Itkoff, Round 6
I remember that when I first came to The New Yorker I would get very upset when people ignored that there were photographs in the magazine. I saw it as …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/03/fifteen-years-elisabeth-biondi.html
I remember that when I first came to The New Yorker I would get very upset when people ignored that there were photographs in the magazine. I saw it as part of my job to have as many pictures as possible published in each issue. After all, I always had worked for magazines where photography was an essential part to their success. Gradually I realized that the challenge at The New Yorker was not how many but what kind of pictures we published.
Boushra Almutawakel, 1969, Yemen, has been focusing on social interpretations of culture in Yemen. She studied in the United States and retu…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/03/photographer-250-boushra-almutawakel.html
One of her long term projects is the Hijab Series. In this series, which consists of various sub-series, she explores women and the veil they wear. The veil has become an icon to the west of suppression, yet Boushra wants to emphasize that under the veil, women are individual and varied, and the reasons for wearing the veil vary enormously
Toys? Novelties? Curios? Don’t tell that to the customers who line up for Randy Smith’s modified Holgas and pinhole cameras. David Gonzalez explains.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/beauty-through-pinhole-or-plastic/
Otto Kitchens is among thousands of photographers — from hobbyists to professionals — who have snapped up the various modified Holgas, pinhole cameras and plastic S.L.R. lenses made by Randy Smith, the founder of Holgamods. The contraptions can look like Frankencameras; freaky little things that, in the right hands, can take some pretty nifty pictures.
By Ctein I was catching up on some of my photonics journals last week and they reminded me that I still haven’t answered for myself the question of just how fast digital cameras can get. What is the ultimate limiting…
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Honest to God, I have no idea what you do with a speed of 1,000,000. Make handheld photographs by starlight? Just sayin’—it can be done, and we haven’t exhausted the bag of technical tricks so don’t assume that even this represents that performance brick wall.
Elisabeth Biondi has been the visuals editor at The New Yorker for fifteen years almost to the day. It is with both heavy hearts and high hopes that we say…
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/03/elisabeth-biondi.html
Elisabeth Biondi has been the visuals editor at The New Yorker for fifteen years almost to the day. It is with both heavy hearts and high hopes that we say auf Wiedersehen as she leaves the magazine and begins pursuing new curatorial endeavors. We asked several photographers with whom she worked closely to share a picture from their most memorable New Yorker shoot with Elisabeth. Here are their selections and recollections.
Shooting inordinate amounts of film, Winogrand charted a vast, freebooting odyssey through three-and-a-half decades of American culture.
Garry Winogrand: . . . ‘I forgot what year when Robert Frank’s book came out. He was working pretty much ar
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Modern photography, by reason of unceasing technical advance, is eminently capable of producing a mindless accumulation of automatic images, whose meaning at best is peripheral and uncertain, whose tenor at worst is dumbly exploitative and reactionary. Photographers all too frequently make pictures so conceptually casual and brainlessly superficial that their minimal meaning is exhausted at a glance.
Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
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So, here at Lens Culture we thought we’d take the opportunity to take a look back at just some of the inspiring photography by women that we have featured over the years.
“Street photography is the hardest thing I’ve done,” says Nick Turpin, a street photographer and founder of In-Public, at the Format International Photography Festival
Link: Nick Turpin on street photography’s challenges – British Journal of Photography
Have you ever been in a room with a whole bunch of positive people, and as a result, you walked away feeling optimistic and positive too? That was the scene at WPPI in Las Vegas last week, a trade show for wedding and portrait photographers. People were so positive, upbeat, and happy, that I needed to find out why.
Link: Positive vs. Negative Photographers – Which Are You? – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
A rumor has been floating around that images held by Corbis-Sygma will be destroyed unless the owners can be found. The British Journal of Photography spoke with Stéphane Gorrias, the lawyer charged with Corbis-Sygma’s liquidation–Corbis abandoned Sygma a
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/03/01/stock-photography-rumors-destroying-film-and-contracts/
A rumor has been floating around that images held by Corbis-Sygma will be destroyed unless the owners can be found
Rumors circulated on Twitter over the weekend that about 10 million archival images from the collection of the defunct French picture agency Sygma were about to be destroyed. The images have been under the control of a liquidation trustee since Corbis, wh
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/03/did-twitter-just-save-10-million-sygma-images.html
A rumor has been floating around that images held by Corbis-Sygma will be destroyed unless the owners can be found
Corbis has moved to dismiss claims that millions of images will be destroyed as a result of Sygma’s liquidation, arguing that it could step in to preserve the photographs “under the right terms”
Link: Fate uncertain for millions of Sygma’s images – British Journal of Photography
In an interview given to the french blog A l’Oeil, the court appointed administrator of the defunct Corbis Sygma , the french company set up by Corbis after its acquisition of Sygma, declared that he is about to destroy millions of Sygma’s photographs.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » The fire this time
like any project set on the road in America, they inevitably recall the work of photographers such as Stephen Shore or Lee Friedlander – though Robert Frank might be more apt – and that’s quite remarkable, because they were all taken from Google Street View. The US-based photographer, editor and founder of the influential website, American Suburb X, spent 10 months on a virtual road trip, touring through Google’s images of his home country to put together a new take on street photography.
Link: The View from the Streets – British Journal of Photography
Patrick Smith–
Many of us in this industry, including myself, are very competitive.
This industry is tough and we all want make a difference in others lives by having our images appear on the front page of every major publication. We work hard, long days, and this dream job of everyone who owns a camera is demanding, largely on the physical side of the spectrum. Everyday sets a new challenge and it’s easy to neglect things that are important to us – such as our health.
Facebook announced and new photo viewer that they’re rolling out for all their users in the next couple weeks that allows you to upload 2048 pixel wide images to your page. That’s an 8 time increase over the old 720 pixel limit and seems like a boon to pr
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/02/14/recent-facebook-changes-are-bad-for-professional-photographers/
Facebook announced and new photo viewer that they’re rolling out for all their users in the next couple weeks that allows you to upload 2048 pixel wide images to your page. That’s an 8 time increase over the old 720 pixel limit
I just came across his latest project “Ponte City” on his new website. He has thrown me around again, and I believe (and hope) it will for many others too. He has photographed every Door, Window and Television in an iconic and infamous 54-story apartment building in Johannesburg.
Link: Worth a Look: Mikhael Subotzky’s Ponte City Project | dvafoto
A celebrated photographer makes a passage to India—and marks the end of an era.
via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/02/last-kodachrome-slide-show-201102#intro
McCurry—most famous for his National Geographic cover of an Afghan girl in a refugee camp, shot on Kodachrome—loaded his Nikon F6 with the 36-exposure spool and headed east, intending to concentrate on visual artists like himself, relying on his typical mix of portraiture, photojournalism, and street photography.
Herewith, presented for the first time in their entirety, are the frames from that historic final roll,
There seems to be an endless stream of bad news in the US commercial photo industry these days. I read and hear about it all the time – photographers working for less, even being asked to work for free in some cases. Microstock, Flickr, CGI, you name it –
via John Early Blog: http://johnearly2.com/blog/?p=848
I formalized the questions:
#1 What is the worst moment or time in your photo career and what did you learn from it?
#2 What is the best moment or time in your photo career and what did you learn from it?