Someone asked me this week how to stay fresh when making pictures of the things you’ve photographed many times. The question is a variation of how you avoid burnout, except its applied to individual settings instead of the breadth of what you photograph.
The answer to the question can apply to both contexts.
Category: Photography
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How do you keep your eye fresh? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
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mental_floss » Talking Pictures: Times of Trouble
Found photos with writing on them.Unemployment, wars, terrorism, natural disasters — times are hard, there’s no question. But times have been harder. We’ve been through worse and bounced back. If nothing else, I hope this week’s Talking Pictures helps, in some small way, to put our own problems in perspective.
Link: mental_floss Blog » Talking Pictures: Times of Trouble
via: Boing Boing
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12 Things Photo Students Need To Know/Study Before Graduation – A Picture's Worth
the newspaper industry is in crisis, and it’s unrealistic to expect that a staff photographer job is out there waiting for you — even if you’ve got the world’s best portfolio. Goals have changed – you have to take care of yourself.
You’re still expected to make incredible pictures, but you also need to market yourself and make sure the business is making money. People graduating today find themselves swimming in a vast pool of freelancers, and a good photo education is one that teaches photographers a lot more than how to shoot pictures.
Link: 12 Things Photo Students Need To Know/Study Before Graduation – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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Photographer Robert Bergman: Outsider looking in | guardian.co.uk
Photographer Robert Bergman: Outsider looking in
Sean O’Hagan: Bergman’s street portraits of unidentified Americans have been compared to the Old Masters. Yet recognition has been a long time coming
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/02/robert-bergman-photography
Bergman’s street portraits of unidentified Americans have been compared to the Old Masters. Yet recognition has been a long time coming
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The many faces of an Iranian Cindy Sherman | The Guardian
The many faces of an Iranian Cindy Sherman
Tara Inanloo has taken a series of self-portraits ‘to represent the different Iranian women inside myself’. Now she is in grave danger if she goes back to her country
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/07/tara-inanloo-iran-photography-protest
Tara Inanloo has taken a series of self-portraits ‘to represent the different Iranian women inside myself’. Now she is in grave danger if she goes back to her country
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Snap judgements: Seven great photographers talk about their craft – Features, Art – The Independent
Snap judgements: Seven great photographers talk about their craft
via The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/snap-judgements-seven-great-photographers-talk-about-their-craft-2124420.html
Anybody can take a snapshot – but what makes a truly extraordinary picture? The world’s greatest living photographers tell Anne-Celine Jaeger how they craft their genre-defining images…
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Sergei Vasiliev’s Photographs in the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia « Prison Photography
Sergei Vasiliev’s Photographs in the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia
Sergei Vasiliev’s photographs of Russian Criminal Tattoos are part of a three part encyclopaedia/archive on the subject. Vasiliev photographed between 1989 and 1993 in prisons and reform sett…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/sergei-vasilievs-photographs-in-the-russian-criminal-tattoo-encyclopaedia/
Sergei Vasiliev‘s photographs of Russian Criminal Tattoos are part of a three part encyclopaedia/archive on the subject. Vasiliev photographed between 1989 and 1993 in prisons and reform settlements across Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil, Perm and St. Petersburg.
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500 Photographers – Eric Tabuchi
Eric Tabuchi, 1959, France, is a true collector. He has released several books amongst which are Alphabet Truck and Twentysix Abandoned Gasoline Stations.
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A Photo Editor – Impressions from the PDN Photo Plus Expo 2010
Impressions from the PDN Photo Plus Expo 2010 – A Photo Editor
APE field reporter Jonathan Blaustein brings us his impressions from the PDN 2010 Photo Plus Expo. Hola. This is the first of several stories I’ll be filing for A Photo Editor about the New York Photo Scene. Rob asked me to fly in to the City to cover the
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/11/05/impressions-from-the-pdn-photo-plus-expo-2010/
PDN was kind enough to grant me a press pass so that I could sit in on the professional seminars and share my findings with you, the APE audience.
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What’s Wrong With Photography? Haiti, and more….. | 100Eyes
Just to get the easy part out of the way, there are better photographs being made today than ever before. There are better photographers at work now than in the past. But don’t be surprised if you rarely see their work, or the general audience is numb to the effect of the pictures. This much we all know: we are awash in a sea of images.
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Publisher in the Warhol Mold – NYTimes.com
For Fashion’s Bad Boy, No Secrets
Olivier Zahm has become a mascot of the fashion world with his magazine, Purple, and his blog.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/fashion/04ZAHM.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
Generally shot in highly stylized black and white, the Diary, which began in 2009, follows Olivier Zahm through a fantasyland populated by the artists, socialites, models and celebrities who regularly appear in his magazine — enthusiastically abiding by its ethos of creative and sexual freedom, as evinced by many nude portraits of female lovers.
“Even in the bedroom I have my camera, I sleep with my camera, I have lunch with my camera,” he said. “I go to dinner with my camera and I’m recording my experience.”
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Making pictures of nothing? – Blog – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
A lot of people who make pictures have said some version of this: “Nothing was happening, there was nothing to photograph’; or more specifically, “I couldn’t make an interesting picture because nothing was happening.”
That’s generally a copout
Link: Making pictures of nothing? – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
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[Through Photography] We Used Know Each Other « Prison Photography
[Through Photography] We Used To Know Each Other
Fred Ritchin’s talk from the Chautauqua Institution is a must watch. It is over an hour, but if you don’t make it through you might just prove his point! He lays out how digital univers…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/through-photography-we-used-know-each-other/
Fred Ritchin lays out how digital universe allows us to reorder content as and when we please (a contact sheet has an order; digital files can be swapped about, deleted). He posits that along with the demise of analogue technologies, analogue thinking has disappeared.
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Getty Images signs deal with legendary French agencies – British Journal of Photography
Two of France’s most prestigious agencies, Gamma and Keystone, which were in severe financial troubles a few months ago, have now signed a deal with Getty Images for the distribution of its archives
Link: Getty Images signs deal with legendary French agencies – British Journal of Photography
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A Street Photographer's Nimble Tread: Neal Boenzi Made a Tough Job Look Easy – NYTimes.com
If you asked Neal Boenzi how he took the terrific pictures he did, he would pretend to click an imaginary camera shutter with his index finger and say, “It’s not this.” Then he would tap his temple with the same finger. “It’s this.”
Link: A Street Photographer’s Nimble Tread: Neal Boenzi Made a Tough Job Look Easy – NYTimes.com
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An Open Letter To The Major Camera Manufacturers
The T stop is the F stop corrected for light losses produced by a lens. In other words, it truly represents the amount of light hitting the film or sensor plane, and setting the correct T stop for a light measurement delivers the correct exposure. Also, different lenses set to the same T stop deliver exactly the same amount of light at the film or sensor plane.
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Lola Dupre's strange photomontage portraits – Boing Boing
Lola Dupre’s strange photomontage portraits
Scotland-based artist Lola Dupre cuts up photographs and collages the snips into mind-bendingly weird and witty deformed portraits. She is a master of scissors, glue, and surrealism. Hi-Fructose po…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/26/lola-dupres-strange.html
Scotland-based artist Lola Dupre cuts up photographs and collages the snips into mind-bendingly weird and witty deformed portraits.
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The Importance of Being Present « Perfesser Kev
We work in a medium that can either engage us with a subject in an intimate way or separate us from our subjects with a big mechanical device to hide behind.
There are several ways we should come out from behind that camera to be present.
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A Photo Editor – 5 Questions For Fraction Magazine’s David Bram
5 Questions For Fraction Magazine’s David Bram – A Photo Editor
Jonathan Blaustein, our man in the field, caught up with Photographer David Bram: editor, publisher and co-founder of fraction magazine ; recipient of the 2010 Griffin Museum Rising Star award; and a curator of exhibitions for several commercial galleries
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/10/20/5-questions-for-fraction-magazines-david-bram/
Jonathan Blaustein, our man in the field, caught up with Photographer David Bram: editor, publisher and co-founder of fraction magazine ; recipient of the 2010 Griffin Museum Rising Star award; and a curator of exhibitions for several commercial galleries and non-profit photo spaces.
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7 Creative Habits + the Missing Link | Chase Jarvis
7 Creative Habits + the Missing Link
Photographer Chase Jarvis shares 7 of his creative habits, but reminds us that it’s all unproductive without taking one extra special step….
via Chase Jarvis Photography: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/10/7-creative-habits-the-missing-link/
1. Get into adventures. Instead of saying no, say yes. Whether it’s agreeing going to the South China Sea or to Sundance festival or the grocery store.