Category: Photography
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Unshuttered Lens: Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Government Work, (1935-1945)
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Unshuttered Lens: Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Government Work, (1935-1945)”: Was Dorothea Lange a cultural interpreter? Former Lange assistant, noted photographer, and protege Rondal Partridge, said, “You ask questions of great photographs, and great photographs ask questions of you.” (1) Lange’s photographic work “begs the question.”
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Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision
Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: When a brain tumor caused professional photographer Alex Dejong to lose his eyesight three years ago, he turned to gadgets to continue making his art.
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GeekFest 2009
GeekFest 2009: It’s that time of year again for the best little underground photo conference out there – GeekFest. St. Petersburg, Fla. is the place to be September 11-13. $100 is a low price to pay for inspiration and motivation and fun.
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Showcase: Extremely Large Format
Showcase: Extremely Large Format – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Shaun Irving, 34, has always been into photography. So much so that for the past six years, he has been taking photographs from inside his cameras: old delivery trucks he’s turned into mobile cameras by tricking them out with surplus military lenses and heavy doses of…
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Michal Daniel's "In Your Face"
E-Project: Michal Daniel’s “In Your Face” – PDN: Michal Daniel’s street portraits of unsuspecting subjects add up to a compelling and provocative body of work. With spy-like stealth, he gets as close as he possibly can to his subjects and while pretending to be distracted by his digital organizer, he photographs them with an outmoded…
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Point and Shoot: How the Abu Ghraib Images Redefine Photography (2005)
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Point and Shoot: How the Abu Ghraib Images Redefine Photography (2005)”: The Abu Ghraib photographs were taken with commonplace “point and shoot” digital cameras owned by at least two of the alleged participants in the abuse. Being digital, the cameras recorded the scenes as arrays of pixels that were instantly compressed into…
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Living Things for Nylon Magazine
Zack Arias – Atlanta based editorial music photographer » Living Things for Nylon Magazine ::: These images are from my shoot with Living Things. This was an assignment for Nylon Magazine. I’ve completed four assignments for Nylon and as they hit the shelves I’ll blog about them. The assignment was to shoot the band, individuals,…
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The 25 best of urban decay
The 25 best of urban decay :: Photocritic photography blog: I’ve got a guilty pleasure which I’d like to share with you guys – I love urban decay photography; I can spend hours on end browsing Flickr galleries tagged with Urban Decay… Brilliant stuff. I was talking about this particular style/subgenre of photography with my…
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Photographer's Assistant: What I look For
Chase Jarvis Blog: Photographer’s Assistant: What I look For: 1. Great attitude
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A Photo Editor – Flashes Of Hope
A Photo Editor – Flashes Of Hope: “Flashes of Hope is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating powerful, uplifting portraits of children fighting cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.”
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Wanted in Iran: The Photographs
Wanted in Iran: The Photographs – insig.ht: Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish” has done substantial work covering the protests against the election in Iran. His post this morning “Counter-Targeting the Protestors” led to a site controlled by the Iranian government, where the regime was posting candid photographs of Mousavi supporters demonstrating in the streets, and using…
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How To Bring Documentary Images to Decision Makers
How To Bring Documentary Images to Decision Makers – PDN: After spending two years documenting the work of hospice volunteers inside the Angola Penitentiary, photographer Lori Waselchuk wanted to show administrators, doctors and guards at other prisons how much prison hospice programs can benefit inmates—both those who volunteer to provide hospice care, and the dying…
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Stories of conquering fear: Advice from Platon
Stories of conquering fear: Advice from Platon | Waitin’ On a Moment – by Tim Gruber | NYC Photographer: fear.less is an online magazine that will be launching soon that has notable people address the issue of overcoming fear. I signed up for their magazine awhile back and today I received a PDF about Platon…
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The Most Popular Camera is now… a phone?!
Photojojo Blog » The Most Popular Camera is now… a phone?!via APAD
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the life of m: Red, White & You
the life of m: Red, White & You: Have I mentioned how much I love the Camerabag iPhone app? The “helga” filter is modeled after my favorite cheap, plastic toy camera – the Holga. It crops the photo into a square, bumps the contrast a little and vignettes it. And it’s what I use for…
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Anthony Hernandez — Street life through a lens
Anthony Hernandez — Street life through a lens: As a street photographer, Anthony Hernandez learned how to become invisible. He did it by teaching himself how to take a photograph so smoothly no one realized what was going on.
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Abandoned Houses, by Kevin Bauman
Abandoned Houses, by Kevin Bauman: The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town.