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Category: Photography
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The Visual Science Lab: Combatting the Oppressive Sense of Isolation Many Freelance Photographers Feel
Combatting the Oppressive Sense of Isolation Many Freelance Photographers Feel
Austin, Texas Portrait Photographer’s Blog about Photography, Art and Writing by Kirk Tuck.
Link: http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2009/11/combatting-oppressive-sense-of.html
In talking to friends and peers who are photographers and have been photographers for many, many years, the undercurrent that permeates conversations these days is the overwhelming sense of isolation many of us feel.
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Parrworld – The Guardian
Parrworld | Visual art review
Baltic, GatesheadKitsch, bling and deadpan satire are all on show in Martin Parr’s terrific new collection of photographs and memorabilia, writes Alfred Hickling
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/02/parrworld-review
Martin Parr has said that he doesn’t take photographs, he collects them. This terrific show, spread over two floors at Baltic, takes the unusual but inspired approach of combining new work Parr has collected on film alongside the bits of bric-a-brac he collects on impulse.
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Very special all-new issue of Lens Culture online now
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography
Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2009/11/lensculture-issue-23.html
We’re very excited to announce this all-new issue of Lens Culture. It’s online now, and filled with an eclectic, global hit of some of the best photography that is happening around the world.
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Jim Goldberg: Open See | Photography review | The Observer
Jim Goldberg: Open See | Photography review
Jim Goldberg’s portraits of people living on the margins of European society offer a compassionate, thought-provoking insight, says Sean O’Hagan
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/01/jim-goldberg-open-see-review
Jim Goldberg is best known for his book, Raised By Wolves, published in 1995, an impressionistic and often graphic document of the 10 years he spent photographing the young homeless of San Francisco. Now comes Open See, the book and accompanying exhibition, both part of a still-ongoing project about what Goldberg calls the “new Europeans” – illegal immigrants, refugees, displaced people and asylum seekers from Africa, the Middle East and eastern Europe.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "The Animals and Their Keepers: Garry Winogrand and Photography After September 11th"
“The Animals,” a book I was moved to reexamine after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is the deliberately literal-sounding title of photographer Garry Winogrand’s first book of photographs, which was published in 1969, some 20 years after the artist embarked on his life’s work that of becoming the Theodore Dreiser of the lens. Winogrand was New York’s, not Chicago’s, most brilliant modern reporter, a journalist not unaware of the issues implicit in what he chose to photograph: the women and blacks who defined the city’s “outsiderness.”
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'Who Shot Rock and Roll' – At Brooklyn Museum, Visions of Classic Rock
Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t It?
What makes a good rock photograph is something to ponder, and the show at the Brooklyn Museum offers an excellent opportunity to do so.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/arts/design/30rock.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Rock ’n’ roll and photography need each other — or, at least, rock musicians need photographers. You can’t be a star if you don’t have an image. But what makes a good rock photograph is something to ponder, and “Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present” at the Brooklyn Museum offers an excellent opportunity to do so.
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A Tokyo photographer offers tips on taking pro shots with an iPhone 3GS – Boing Boing
A Tokyo photographer offers tips on taking pro shots with an iPhone 3GS
All images by Koichi Mitsui Koichi Mitsui is a professional photographer in Japan. When he’s not on the job shooting for magazines and ads, he wanders around Tokyo taking pictures with his iP…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/29/photographer-takes-p-1.html
Koichi Mitsui is a professional photographer in Japan. When he’s not on the job shooting for magazines and ads, he wanders around Tokyo taking pictures with his iPhone 3GS. “The iPhone has a single-focus lens with no zoom, and this simplicity keeps me devoted to only composition and the perfect photo opp,” Mitsui says. Keep reading for a selection of his work with tips on how you can take amazing photos with your iPhone, too.
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Nutopian Woodstock – WTJ
The Forum meets informally. The gatherings are a mix of activities; between visits by photo luminaries and live presentation and critique of members work in open forum. These presentations have been quite revealing, as members show new projects in various stages of completion and open themselves up for review by their peers. I have seen some really interesting work, one of the standouts for me being that of emerging photographer Pari Dukovic who has a unique approach to his work and his process. At the last salon Pari debuted prints from his fab ‘Tasting Canvas‘ project. The web doesnt really do the prints justice. So in honor of the exhibits opening and curious to know more about the how I posed Pari few questions.
Link: Nutopian Woodstock – WTJ
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Richard Renaldi's Photography Blog: George R Lawrence
George R Lawrence
Birdseye View of Indiana Steel Co.’s Plant, Gary, Ind. 1910 I recently discovered the photographs of George R Lawrence , probably an unfa…
Link: http://richardrenaldi.blogspot.com/2009/10/george-r-lawrence.html
I recently discovered the photographs of George R Lawrence, probably an unfamiliar name to most but quite relevant in the annuals of photo history.
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PDNPulse: 39.9 Things That Can Change Your Business and Your Life
Wedding photographer Kevin Kubota, who earns a good part of his living by teaching and inspiring other photographers, served up many useful ideas at his seminar on Friday afternoon. Here are 10.9 of them:
Link: PDNPulse: 39.9 Things That Can Change Your Business and Your Life
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PDNPulse: White House Photographer Talks About Covering Obama Kids
White House photographer Pete Souza and his staff are taking plenty of pictures of the Obama daughters. You’re just not going to see them for a decade or so.
Link: PDNPulse: White House Photographer Talks About Covering Obama Kids
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Stock Photography is like the Gold Rush. And that didn't end well. – A Picture's Worth
Link: Stock Photography is like the Gold Rush. And that didn’t end well. – A Picture’s WorthIt’s been just over a year since we shut down the PhotoShelter Collection – our ill-fated attempt to bring diversity into the stock photography market while giving the photographer the majority of sales. At the time (and probably still), many photographers felt duped, and hurt that we didn’t give it more time to mature. But now that we’re many months away from that traumatic event, I can restate the following: Stock photography sucks. I’m not talking about the people who shoot it. I’m talking about the state of the industry. But let’s digress for a moment.
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Punk Rock, DIY Access and Secret Success: Michael Jang – Raw File
Punk Rock, DIY Access and Secret Success: The Photography of Michael Jang
NSFW: Some images in this gallery contain explicit content. Michael Jang’s portfolio is an eclectic mixture of gripping moments, shot with skill and attitude. Luminaries such as David Bowie, Johnny Rotten and Richard Pryor are caught with their guard down
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/10/michael-jang/
Michael Jang’s portfolio is an eclectic mixture of gripping moments, shot with skill and attitude. Luminaries such as David Bowie, Johnny Rotten and Richard Pryor are caught with their guard down. Frenetic explosions are fixed in time: Penelope Houston of the Avengers whipping her hair; Fritz Fox of The Mutants collapsed on stage (above); the body of San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk being wheeled out of City Hall.
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Race, Diversity, Photography: Online Symposium « Prison Photography
Race, Diversity, Photography: Online Symposium
Source Why? There have been two prevailing attitudes toward the proposed conference/symposium dealing with issues of race and diversity in photography: a) That it is absolutely necessary & b) I…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/race-diversity-photography-online-symposium/
There have been two prevailing attitudes toward the proposed conference/symposium dealing with issues of race and diversity in photography:
a) That it is absolutely necessary & b) It is a terrifying prospect.
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: POV: WTF! This Is My Photo Shoot!
POV: WTF! This Is My Photo Shoot!
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2009/10/pov-wtf-this-is-my-photo-shoot.html
Having arrived at the Chimi Lakhang monastery in Bumthang, I was glad to find two young novices lighting candle lamps, and asked them to pose in a certain way to take advantage of the light coming through the rather grimy window. It took quite a while to have them just right where I wanted, but as I was giving hand signals for minor adjustments in the novices’ stance, a bunch of European tourists had entered the room. Without a glance at my direction, or asking for permission, or even a smile of acknowledgment, out came a motley collection of cameras, ranging from DSLRs to compacts, and a paparazzi frenzy ensued with hundreds of flashes bathing the room in an ethereal light.
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Jane Bown: The Eyes Have It – The Observer
Jane Bown: The Eyes Have It
From Nixon to the Beatles, Bette Davis to U2… Over the past 60 years, The Observer’s Jane Bown has photographed many of the world’s greatest personalities. On the eve of her retrospective, she talks to Robin McKie about her life’s work
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/18/jane-bown-photographer-retrospective-exposures
But evidence that you are in the presence of one of the greats of 20th-century photography is notably missing – until you are directed down a hallway to the furthest part of the house, where Jane has ferreted away some of her favourite images. This is the Bown hall of fame: a laughing Mick Jagger, a mini-skirted Cilla Black drinking tea, a happy-looking Gordon Brown and a group of photographs of everyday life in 20th-century Britain. These pictures have their place in her life but it is clear, from their position, that they do not rule it. Friends and family matter above all to Jane, to the extent that most of my day with her last month was dominated by gossip about old colleagues. Her observations were typically sharp and to the point.
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welcome to Caliber: a group of four San Francisco/Bay Area photographers: Troy Holden, Stuart Dixon, Julie Michelle, and Brad Evans.
Our subject matter will focus on The City and its surrounding cities, with the occasional trek across state and international borders.