I happen to think there was a wide-range of photography represented and far more surprises than one would find in most publications. There are photo festivals that focus on much more traditional documentary work but that’s not what the New York Photo Festival is trying to do.
Category: Photography
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A Photo Student › Quick Thoughts on NY Photo Festival
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Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera | Photography review
The thin dividing line between photographic observation and intrusion is examined in a challenging and disturbing exhibition at Tate Modern, writes Sean O’Hagan
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/16/exposed-voyeurism-surveillance-camera-review
“Photography,” Diane Arbus once said, “was a licence to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.” Arbus, who famously photographed American outsiders and eccentrics, including so-called freaks from carnival shows, also described the lure of the camera thus: “I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do… when I first did it I felt very perverse.”
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1854, the blog of the British Journal of Photography
There are 200 images, taken out of the 2000 Marc Garanger shot over ten days in 1960. Garanger, at the time a soldier and a photographer for the French army, would install a stool in the shadow cast by the mud houses of Algeria. One by one, villagers, predominantly women, were forced to pose for Garanger, whose task was to produce the images needed for new mandatory ID cards. Less than a year later, Garanger’s images of shamed and angry Algerian women would become a symbol of French oppression over its Northern African colony.
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Possible Victims: The Portraits of a Serial Killer « Prison Photography
Possible Victims: The Portraits of a Serial Killer
The NYPD has released 215 photographs taken by convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala in an attempt to secure identifications and restart cold case inquiries. Alcala was recently sentenced to death …
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/possible-victims-the-portraits-of-a-serial-killer/
The NYPD has released 215 photographs taken by convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala in an attempt to secure identifications and restart cold case inquiries.
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of trees and dreams… | burn magazine
of trees and dreams…
is there anything better than a childhood dream? 9 year old Gracie Johnson dreams of becoming a photographer….she lives now in the Virginia town where i also dreamed of being a photographer …
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2010/05/of-trees-and-dreams/
so here at Burn we are creating Circus Magazine for photographers under 18 and young Gracie will of course be a candidate photographer, and we are also working in the kindred spirit of her physician father Capt. Johnson and will be using the fee many of you contributed as part of the EPF grant award for Burn to send approximately $6,000. to Doctors Without Borders specifically to be used for Haitian relief efforts….
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Saverio’s Guest Bloggin’ For Hasselblad / Wonderful Machine Photography Blog
Hasselblad just chose Chicago photographer Saverio Truglia to test out their new H4D-40 camera, post the images and blog about it on their site for the month of May.
Link: Saverio’s Guest Bloggin’ For Hasselblad / Wonderful Machine Photography Blog
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Conscientious Extended | What Makes A Great Portrait? (cont'ed)
I am infinitely fascinated by portraiture, and I decided to continue my little quest, trying to find out what made some portraits great, so I asked a different group of people the same question: “What makes a good portrait? Could you provide us with an example of a portrait that you really like – either from your or someone else’s work – and say why the portrait works so well for you?” Here is what I got back.
Link: Conscientious Extended | What Makes A Great Portrait? (cont’ed)
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Mostly True: First, Get a Million Dollars…
First, Get a Million Dollars…
Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images If you were a high school basketball player, the absolute star of the team, and told your guidance counselor that your recipe for future success included playing in the NBA, that counselor would probably…
The number of successful people working as freelance photographers in America today, is less than the number of guys playing in the NBA.
… and there isn’t any pension.
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Photography Business: Working With NGOs – A Picture's Worth
Photographers have always worked with non-profit groups on social issues, but in the last few years shooting for NGOs seems to be on more photographers’ radar due to the high profile work being created at Media Storm, VII, and by members of the International League of Conservation Photographers. Many of these projects require daunting budgets and travel plans, but there is plenty of important work that can be done close to home, and I regularly encourage other photographers to reach out to local and regional NGOs as a way to make a difference, grow creatively, and make a little money as well.
Link: Photography Business: Working With NGOs – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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World’s Largest Panoramic Photo Is the Size of 1,200 Billboards | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
World’s Largest Panoramic Photo Is the Size of 1,200 Billboards
GigaPan’s robotic camera mounts can help spit out pictures to create fantastically detailed panoramic photos. That’s what photographer Gerald Donovan has used to create what is being billed as the world’s largest photo. Donovan has created a 45-gigapixel
Donovan has created a 45-gigapixel image of Dubai
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War Zone Traumas, Restaged at Home by Jennifer Karady – NYTimes.com
War Zone Traumas Restaged at Home
Jennifer Karady’s photographs of veterans, on view in San Francisco, put a surreal twist on their war memories.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/arts/design/06veterans.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The portraits are striking. In one of the large-format color prints, which measure four feet square, a soldier ascends a dark flight of stairs, armed with nothing more than a pair of textbooks held like a rifle. In another, a smiling ranger sits on the edge of a placid lake, camping, as two buddies — each wearing googly-eyed glasses and bloody fatigues — smile back. In a third, a sergeant sits bolt upright in a burned-out house with no other company other than a giant pink bunny.
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The Online Photographer: MIT Museum Acquires Polaroid Artifacts
MIT Museum Acquires Polaroid Artifacts
MIT Museum Curator Deborah Douglas with the Polaroid Model 95A, one of the earliest of the “Picture-in-a-Minute” cameras and part of the nearly 10,000 Polaroid Company artifacts donated to the MIT Museum by PLR IP Holding, LLC. Photo: Mark Ostow,…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/05/mit-museum-acquires-polaroid-artifacts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
The collection contains more than 9,000 artifacts altogether.
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Peter Turnley – New York Street Photography: May 30th – June 5th, 2010
There are still a few spots open in the upcoming New York Street Photography Workshop from May 30-June 5th. This will be the third time it has been held. New York City in late spring and early summer is an amazing venue for street photography and a great place to create a photo essay/portfolio during this one week workshop. The daily workshop sessions are held at Peter Turnley’s apartment in Harlem, which also serves as a wonderful backdrop for this experience. The workshop embraces a “decisive moment” spirit of appreciating the reality of daily life in an urban setting. Turnley works with students to help them become comfortable with a sense of purpose in photographing people, and creating a photo story/essay.
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Top 10 Ways to Make a Photo Editor Fall In Love With You – A Picture's Worth
I gathered a different kind of information from that same panel of photo editors in an attempt to find the quickest paths to their heart.
Link: Top 10 Ways to Make a Photo Editor Fall In Love With You – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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Legal Left, Meet Creative Right –Collections 1 | Luceo Images
I have the same conversation with different photographers every week or so. The names are interchangeable, but the underlying facts tend to go something like this: photographer shoots a gig for a client and sends along the bill. The bill comes due in 30 days but (somehow) doesn’t get paid on time. The photographer, afraid to offend their client, waits in quiet frustration for the envelope to arrive. 30 more days pass. Then 30 more.
Link: Legal Left, Meet Creative Right –Collections 1 | Luceo Images
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Top 13 Ways to Piss Off a Photo Editor – A Picture's Worth
When photographers get together, they tend to talk about two things: camera gear, and working with photo editors. But what many photographers don’t realize, is that when photo editors get together, they talk about YOU.
There are only two proven methods that you can use to ensure that your name comes up in a conversation. Do something really amazing, or do something that pisses them off. You really don’t want to find yourself part of their conversation for the latter.
What are the things that will piss off a photo editor? I decided to ask a panel of really talented photo editors. They were kind enough to share what really gets under their skin.
Link: Top 13 Ways to Piss Off a Photo Editor – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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adjustment layer: Susan Barnett
Susan Barnett
Here’s another fotofest find. Susan Barnet t She has spends here days trolling the streets of NYC looking for interesting t-shirts to…
Link: http://adjustmentlayer.blogspot.com/2010/05/susan-barnett.html
Here’s another fotofest find. Susan Barnett She has spends here days trolling the streets of NYC looking for interesting t-shirts to photograph. She’s kind of OCD about the project but in a good way she told me she has thousands of these images.
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A Moment in Time (or, F.A.Q. on U.T.C.) – Lens
A Moment in Time (or, F.A.Q. on U.T.C.)
How to join our worldwide photo community on Sunday.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/readers-11/
Attention: everyone with a camera, amateur or pro. Please join us on Sunday, May 2, at 15:00 (U.T.C./G.M.T.), as thousands of photographers simultaneously record “A Moment in Time.” The idea is to create an international mosaic, an astonishingly varied gallery of images that are cemented together by the common element of time.
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From the Archive | Luceo Images
When I got to her apartment she told me that she did not like having her picture taken. Being able to relate, I decided to keep my camera in my bag and hanging our for a while to talk about her amazing book collection. We talked a lot – about Duchamp, Hockney and Kant, then I photographed things in her living room. Her plants, her music, her lying on the floor laughing uncontrollably.
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Eadweard Muybridge's motion towards Tate Britain
Eadweard Muybridge’s motion towards Tate Britain
The Tate hosts the biggest ever exhibition of the photography pioneer, whose life was as intriguing as his moving images
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/27/eadweard-muybridge-tate-britain-motion-studies
Less well known are details of his colourful life – including that he shot dead his wife’s lover and abandoned his child to an orphanage – and his artistic career, which encompassed spectacular landscape photography using pioneering techniques.