Category: Photography

Must See: Web Sites Worth Visiting – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com

Photojojo Blog » The Most Popular Camera is now… a phone?!via APAD

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 99% of the stuff I shoot with my iPhone.

Thoughts of a Bohemian » Wall of Shame:

Running a photo agency used to be a gentleman sport. You represented photographers and if, for some reason, the relationship did not work out, regardless the contract, everyone would gently part their own way .  These days, contracts are like hammers, mostly used to crush a photographer into the ground.

OK! Paid $500,000 For Michael Jackson Death Photo – PDN:

Sarah Ivens, OK!’s editorial director, said she thought the photo of the dying Jackson would differentiate the title from the rash of tribute-style covers that have begun hitting newsstands this week.

PDN: The Five Biggest Photographers on the Internet:

For our highly subjective list of the five biggest photographers on the Internet, PDN focused on the ones who dominate each of five popular platforms: blogging, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. For this exercise, we considered only photographers who are primarily known for their online work. We also avoided those who are best known for writing gear reviews.

Cradoc Bagshaw – A Picture’s Worth:

It’s possible that you might have to battle with one client to get paid $150 for the use of a photograph yet you might get $15,000 from another client for the use of the same photo. What makes the difference?

The answer is image uniqueness, but this may not be what you think it is.

Doug Menuez:

When most photographers set up shop, they focus on becoming better photographers, naturally. Few photographers, however, develop even the most basic skills they need to run their own business. They hope to hang on long enough to be discovered before they sink under their own lack of knowledge. That’s like building an intricate jeweled house atop quicksand.

dvafoto:

There are a lot of white faces at all levels in the photography industry: in the editorial offices, in the business offices, behind the cameras, and in front of the cameras (well, in photojournalism it’s often dark suffering faces in front of the cameras, but that’s another conversation; rarely do black models feature prominently in fashion magazines, for instance.). What started as an observation at Reciprocity Failure turned into an incendiary accusation and “contest” at Duckrabbit and then blossomed into a conversation in the photography blog echo chamber. Prison Photography, Politics, Theory & Photography, APhotoADay, Conscientious, Photo Business News & Forum, and APhotoEditor all weighed in, and I’m sure there were others. Duckrabbit’s now added more fire to the flame…. Some of the best discussion I’ve seen on the topic occurred on lightstalkers and in APhotoEditor’s comments (though APE’s discussion got a little out of hand and comments have since been closed). I was also interested to read John Edwin Mason’s perspective about the lack of diversity at the just-finished Look3 festival in Charlottesville. This is a conversation that needs to happen.

Chase Jarvis:

I’ll pick my favorite image from all those uploaded and I’ll give that person my beloved iPhone 3G. Announced Wednesday 6/24.

lens culture:

This edition is packed with wonderful new discoveries including a rare, intimate look inside the working studio of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein from American photographer Laurie Lambrecht; extraordinary glass negative portraits from 30s Poland by Stefania Gurdowa (which have provided the material for our favorite photobook of the year so far: Negatives are to be Stored); and Andrzej Kramarz’s innovative images of the eclectic collections and bizarre jumbles of objects he discovered over two-and-a-half years photographing flea markets in Krakow.

We’re also featuring some recent work from Roger Ballen, who has published a beautiful and disturbing new photobook, Boarding House (click here for an exclusive audio interview with the artist), and artful documentation of decades of car crashes by former Swiss police photographer Arnold Odermatt. There’s coverage of Czech artist Vladimir Zidlicky’s 30-year retrospective — an important survey of the artist’s surreal, experimental and abstract nude photography. And Laura Domela’s fun, personal portraits of real-life characters (misfits, pioneers, entrepreneurs, artists, troublemakers) from a small gold mining town in Alaska.