Category: Photography
-
Soldiers as patriotic pixelboards
Soldiers as patriotic pixelboards – Boing Boing: Here’s a small gallery of Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas’s photos of thousands of soldiers creating giant, patriotic pixelart images of patriotic scenes.
-
Sol Neelman, diversifying to support a 'weird sports' personal project
AFTER STAFF – Sol Neelman, diversifying to support a ‘weird sports’ personal project | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog: Photographer Sol Neelman left a staff job at The Oregonian in 2007 after ten years as a newspaper photojournalist. Although he’s won a Pulitzer and been honored twice by POYi, Sol does not claim to…
-
Mary Ellen Mark – 25 Years (1990)
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Mary Ellen Mark – 25 Years (1990)”: Mary Ellen Mark is a photographer who believes that her strongest essay will be her next one. In a sense, all her work is one journey to that “best” story, which she may never reach or let herself acknowledge. She works with an edge, a…
-
Vojtěch Sláma chronicles the poetry of ordinary moments
The Prague Post – Vojtěch Sláma chronicles the poetry of ordinary moments: At a time when even traditionally minded photographers have moved to digital equipment for much of their work, Vojtěch Sláma remains resolutely committed to analog technology – in particular, using old-fashioned equipment like the 6×6 cm twin-lens reflex camera, and continuing to make…
-
The End of the Age of Photography by Danny Lyon
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “The End of the Age of Photography by Danny Lyon (2007)”: Many years ago I was being driven along central park west in a NYC Taxi and talking with Robert Frank whom I sat beside. When I spoke of using words with photography, texts, as part of what were then called “photography…
-
31 for 31
31 for 31. – A Photography Blog.: Ohh it’s my birthday, woot woot woot. I had this idea that I was going to post the top 31 things I love about photography, but my head got confused and too peppy after my grande toffee latte and I sort of just found a vaguely chronological visual…
-
Those who are about to die salute you, Getty
Thoughts of a Bohemian – Those who are about to die salute you, Getty: The truth needs to be told that Getty Images is ruining the market for pro photographers with prices like these. They license editorial images as low as $3.63 to major outlets like Yahoo.
-
Getty Images Introduces Tiny Files Starting at $5
Getty Images Introduces Tiny Files Starting at $5 – PDN: Getty Images, which angered some photographers in 2007 when it introduced $49 licenses for low-resolution stock images, has started offering tiny image files at even lower prices.
-
Impossible but real scanner images of busy urban environments
Impossible but real scanner images of busy urban environments – lens culture photography weblog: Hungarian-born artist Adam Magyar (now living in Berlin) creates magical, long, thin, stretchy images that look like parades of people all moving in the same direction.
-
Alec Soth, Trolling for Strangers to Befriend
Alec Soth, Trolling for Strangers to Befriend – NYTimes.com: ALEC SOTH has created a photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers. On his frequent road trips through America, he’s drawn to loners and dreamers he spots from his car; sometimes he will do several pass-bys before striking up a conversation. Often that will lead…
-
Photos By Formula
Photos By Formula | Matt Slaby: You know before you even touch the shutter that they’re going to hate the picture. All the tricks that photographers use to make a photograph flattering are kinda pulled out from under you by the procedures set forth by the United States Department of State ‘Composition Checklist’ for making what they…
-
So, you want to be a wedding photographer?
So, you want to be a wedding photographer? – SportsShooter: A couple months later, I shot a wedding and had a thought: “I should just shoot this like a newspaper story.” All of a sudden, shooting a wedding was fun. I could be creative, I could tell the story, and I could make pictures that…
-
Stock Photography: It's all gone a bit Pete Tong
Stock Photography: It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong | Verbal Hmmm.: In the case of Time Magazine, they decided to use a stock photograph for the cover of their latest issue. Well as I said, nothing new there, but this time we discovered who the photographer was and how much they paid. A rather…
-
Amusing Flickr Account Dedicated to Inexplicable Photos
Dangerous Minds | Amusing Flickr Account Dedicated to Inexplicable Photos
-
Friday Round-Up! With Kate Steciw!
Friday Round-Up! With Kate Steciw! – A Photography Blog.: inexplicable
-
Charles Harbutt – I Don’t Take Pictures; Pictures Take Me (1972)
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Charles Harbutt – I Don’t Take Pictures; Pictures Take Me (1972)”: How is this continuum of photographer, world, and camera achieved? Each person must find it individually, but for me it has flowed from the realization that I don’t take pictures, pictures take me. I can do nothing except have film in…
-
Phil Borges: Women Empowered
::: The Travel Photographer :::: Phil Borges: Women Empowered: Phil Borges, the acclaimed documentary photographer and CARE, the humanitarian organization that fights global poverty by empowering women and girls, are continuing a successful multi-year collaboration with the launch of the Women Empowered Project.