Category: Photography
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Observations, Textures, and Trash: Day 26 – Eddie Adams Workshop
Day 26 – Eddie Adams Workshop
October 9 I spent my day with 4 of my purple team students and dropped them off at the stories I researched a couple days back in Port Jerv…
Link: http://mattmallams.blogspot.com/2010/10/day-26-eddie-adams-workshop.html
I really enjoyed Bill’s talk at the workshop, he spoke about caring a camera on you at all times, and how everyday we need to “practice seeing”
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Variety is the spice of life….or something like that. « Hot Air…from the southwest
Variety is the spice of life….or something like that.
This project is proving to be a solid challenge, a welcome one, but a challenge in ways that are uncomfortable for me admit to as an artist. My challenge = to overcome my boredom with photography t…
via Hot Air…from the southwest: http://kristaniles.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/variety-is-the-spice-of-life-or-something-like-that/
My challenge = to overcome my boredom with photography that is a result of working in the medium for so very long and having taken so many different photos.
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The Online Photographer: The Poor Person's Medium-Format Digital
The Poor Person’s Medium-Format Digital
A TOP reader named Scott had this to say the other day when the Pentax 645D announcement came out: I shot medium-format film until I got a shift lens for my 24×36 digital. Now a Canon 21mp “full frame” can…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/10/the-poor-persons-mf.html
making multiple-shot stitched images isn’t quite the same as having a single-shot large-sensor camera—but then, it’s a lot cheaper.
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VII Photo and Canon: Finding new ways of reaching new audiences – British Journal of Photography
“All the photographers at VII have been working with Canon gear for many years,” VII Photo’s managing director Stephen Mayes tells BJP. “In the past, we’ve always focussed on the EOS gear because that’s the stuff they mainly used. But then these smaller cameras started emerging – cameras with new extended capabilities. We started asking Canon if they were available and could be used. Canon said: ‘Sure. What does the photographers want to use them for?’ and that’s how it blossomed. The photographers say they use the cameras in different ways.”
Link: VII Photo and Canon: Finding new ways of reaching new audiences – British Journal of Photography
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Serendipity, please – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
I love images that elicit this reaction: “How did you ever get that picture?”
Link: Serendipity, please – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
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The Warsaw Ghetto, the Nazis and One Small Boy – NYTimes.com
The Ghetto, the Nazis and One Small Boy
As Joseph Berger reports, it is possible to know a lot about this photograph without ever answering the question: who was this boy?
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/the-ghetto-the-nazis-and-one-small-boy/
“This photograph of the most dramatic event of the Holocaust requires a greater level of responsibility from historians than almost any other,” Dr. Dobroszycki said, “It is too holy to let people do with it what they want.”
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iStockphotos “Unsustainable” Business Model: From Crowd-Sourcing To Crowd-Shafting? » The Russian Photos Blog
Relations between photo agencies and contributors can be a tricky matter, especially when it comes to royalty percentages. When the agency is a microstock distributor with a crowd-sourcing base it doesn’t take many false steps to turn that cuddly community into a howling mob. And when those steps come from a Chief Operating Officer whose PR skills elicit comparisons with Tony Hayward and Gerald Ratner the results can be, well, explosive.
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Street photographers gear up for year-long project – British Journal of Photography
The authors of Street Photography Now, in association with the Photographers’ Gallery, have launched a year-long project calling on all street photographers to “record the world we live in”
Link: Street photographers gear up for year-long project – British Journal of Photography
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BILL OWENS: "Leisure – A Particular Kind of Strangeness" (2005)
BILL OWENS: “Leisure – A Particular Kind of Strangeness” (2005)
From the Working series
By Gregory Crewdson
A family of three carefully unfolds rolls of sod onto their barren front yard transforming it into a small domestic oasis. A man ascends a bare, undersized tree in an absurd attempt to prune its dead leave
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/09/bill-owens-leisure-particular-kind-of.html
Bill Owens made these photographs, and many others, in various suburban communities in Northern California throughout the early 1970s. In 1973 they were compiled in the classic book, Suburbia. These photographs are as strange and compelling now as they were thirty years ago.
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step away from the holga and no one gets hurt | Redlights and Redeyes
I’m sorry, as cool as your out-of-focus, Hipstawhatever iPhone looks, it isn’t creative.
I don’t know how more bluntly to put it, but the proliferation of imagery lately is slowly sucking the creativity out of photography. In fact, it has become more formulaic than anything else. I’m just as guilty. Just scroll down and see my last post. I find a wall with some random graffiti cover-up and a splash of paint and I nearly wet myself. It’s refreshing. Therapeutic. Completely worthless and self-absorbed. I have come to a realization that I am contributing to the decline of photography with every click of my camera.
You are too.
Link: step away from the holga and no one gets hurt | Redlights and Redeyes
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pushing the box while thinking outside the envelope – Shooting from the Hip
I guess I am pondering creativity tonight because of a comment one of my favorite photographers, Chip Litherland, made recently on aphotoaday, an online community of mostly young photographers.
Link: pushing the box while thinking outside the envelope – Shooting from the Hip
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The genius behind Alec Soth's Brighton biennial success | The Guardian
The genius behind Alec Soth’s Brighton biennial success
Photographer Alec Soth was denied permission to work in the UK earlier this year. So he handed over the reins of his latest exhibition to a new collaborator: his seven-year-old daughter. By Hannah Booth
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/sep/19/alec-carmen-soth-brighton-biennial
Photographer Alec Soth was denied permission to work in the UK earlier this year. So he handed over the reins of his latest exhibition to a new collaborator: his seven-year-old daughter
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6 Real-Life Stories Where Photographers Were Expected To Work For Free – A Picture's Worth
Photography appears to be an industry like no other. It is a magical profession that defies all rules of business and logic. A job where bills do not apply, and money is useless. Or, at least that’s how it seems to a large segment of the population, who expect photographers to work for free.
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What is good? – Mike Davis
Among the conversations was one about what makes a photograph good. And I was thinking after talking that it’s relatively easy to say what makes a photo bad, how to categorize failures, lack of success. But to be able to say what makes a photograph good is much more difficult. Much in the same way it’s easy for people to be generally critical or negative and for some reason it’s more difficult to praise and recognize the positive.
Link: What is good? – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
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The Online Photographer: Fall Print Offer: Peter Turnley's Paris
Fall Print Offer: Peter Turnley’s Paris
More people visit Paris each year than any other city in the world. It has long been celebrated for its beauty, culture, history and romance—and it has long been an inspiration to photographers. For our Fall Print Offer, our last…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/09/fall-print-offer-peter-turnleys-paris.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
More people visit Paris each year than any other city in the world. It has long been celebrated for its beauty, culture, history and romance—and it has long been an inspiration to photographers. For our Fall Print Offer, our last one before Christmas, we’re pleased and proud to offer for sale three original signed prints of the most famous and popular pictures of Paris by Peter Turnley, who has made Paris his subject as much as any photographer of his generation.
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ea: Above and Below
Above and Below
Ocean Explorations at Waimea Bay, yesterday
Link: http://elysebutler.blogspot.com/2010/09/above-and-below.html
The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit British organization that is working with WikiLeaks on the documents.
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single-pixel scanner photos – lens culture
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography
Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2010/09/-berlinbased-photographer-adam.html
Berlin-based photographer Adam Magyar sees things differently that most humans, and that’s one reason his art is so completely unique and captivating.
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Mark Johnston Photo: September 2010 Print Give Away!
September 2010 Print Give Away!
Click image for larger size. Ten facebookers will receive free large prints of any one image they “like” and comment on. Just enter the g…
Link: http://marktheintern.blogspot.com/2010/09/september-2010-print-give-away.html
A BLUE woman and her red daughter smile with the hungry mouths of zombie maniacs. The hand of a Bigfoot grazes the breast of a topless unicorn mermaid. Faces decorate the pregnant belly of a pantsless man-boy.
It’s the wondrous, if not always wonderful, world of art so bad it’s good — or at least great fun to look at.
