Category: Photography
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E-Project: Time Lapse
David Walker – PDN: Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe re-photograph old Western landscape images to create collages that break the boundaries of time and space.
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Shoptalk: Polaroid’s Quirky Films – Lens Blog
Fred R. Conrad – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Since Polaroid no longer makes either film, I often wonder about the photographers whose work was most identified with Type 55 and 665 — how are they doing and with what. Photo by Bill Burke
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Look3, PhotoShelter & "Fortune": Festival of the Photograph Wants Your Images
CLICK NOTE: So I’m guessing they’re filing Gilles Perres’ work under photography, not peace or love. A Picture’s Worth says: Every summer, a healthy chunk of the photography world descends on Charlottesville, Virginia for several days of good, wholesome, photo loving. What started as a backyard slideshow at the home of Nick Nichols has blossomed…
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A Few Things about your Photography Portfolio
Tim Gruber says: After a lot of editing, toning, retoning, printing, reprinting, reordering(repeat a few more times for good measure) my print portfolio is finally finished. The beautiful or perhaps the ugly thing with a portfolio is that it’s never truly done. Your portfolio just like your mind will continue to grow and evolve. There’s…
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‘Controversies’ in Paris – When a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Debates
MICHAEL KIMMELMAN – NYTimes.com says: All this is the familiarly messy, philosophical heart of photography, and it’s also the subject of a show that just closed here, itself a mess. “Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography” was organized by Christian Pirker and Daniel Girardin, a lawyer and a curator from Switzerland, where the…
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lenscratch: Lori Waselchuk
lenscratch says: It doesn’t matter what body of work Lori Waslchuk put forth to win the Aaron Siskind Fellowship, her numerous bodies of work all require our attention.
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Festival Review: Photomonth in Krakow May 2009
lens culture says: Photomonth in Krakow is one of the leading European photography festivals and one of the largest ongoing cultural events in Poland. In May 2009 the 7th edition presented over 30 individual and collective exhibitions throughout the charming city, in galleries, museums, cafes and post-industrial spaces. I got there late this year, and…
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The Big Picture – One Year Later…
KOKOGIAK says: Hello blog folks, it’s been a while. One year to be exact… one long crazy year. This time last year, I announced my project called The Big Picture, hoping, of course, that it would do well. It has really blown me away how well it has done. I will happily take some of…
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lenscratch: Juliana Beasley
lenscratch says: I could probably do about 1,000 blog posts on Juliana Beasley and still have more material to share. She is a person who seems to be so completely comfortable with herself, without pretention, without worry about how people with react to her unwavering stare into worlds the most of us haven’t entered. She…
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Sebastião Salgado – Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action
JORI FINKEL – NYTimes.com says: SEBASTIÃO SALGADO sounds as if he’s slightly allergic to Los Angeles. It’s not just that this celebrated Brazilian photojournalist has been sniffling since he arrived in the city, explaining: “I was born in a tropical ecosystem. I’m not used to these plants.” It’s also that he peppers his description of…
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Canon Employees Are Forbidden to Sit Down, Walk at Normal Pace
Gizmodo says: You might think your job sucks, but at least your boss wasn’t insane enough to remove all the chairs and install security so an alarm goes off if you don’t walk fast enough.
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Camilo José Vergara’s Time-Lapse Photography of Harlem
NYTimes.com says: From the time he arrived in the United States from Chile as a college student in 1965, the photographer Camilo José Vergara has been haunting, and haunted by, American cities.
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New Netpix Service Sends Unlimited Photographs For Monthly Fee
America’s Finest News Source says: “It’s so convenient. You get a photo in your mailbox, look at it for a while, and then drop it in the prepaid envelope and send it back,” Houston resident Jonathan Collins said. “I’ll never look at pictures the same way again.”
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John Wood, a Photographer Who Refused to Think Like a Photographer
NYTimes.com says: Over the next decade or so he printed negatives salvaged from trash cans, took up Kodalith and Polaroid film, experimented with the Thermofax (an early photocopier) and made montages and collages. He mounted sequential prints of landscapes on the diagonal and linked their horizon lines. (These vertiginous images, Mr. Wood has said, came…
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Christopher Lamarca
Kitsune Noir says: Mr. Lamarca has an absolutely uncanny eye for taking photos, making images that are almost magical. His Forest Defenders series is beautiful, featuring people from both sides of the issues, the loggers and the people desperate to stop them
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Fotolia Launches Free Stock Photo Service
PDN says: “There’s a lot of people out there where even $1 is too much for images,” says Patrick Lor, Fotolia’s newly hired president for North America, who oversees PhotoXpress.
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New York Photo Festival 2009 In Review
photographylot says: The New York Photo Festival occurred last weekend and I spent most of the days checking out all the exhibits and tending to my own little contribution in the form of an affiliated exhibition with myself and 25 other photographers
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Robert Frank Outtakes
Boing Boing says: There’s a great show at the SFMOMA now, showing all 84 prints from Robert Frank’s classic mid-1950s photo book The Americans, along with some outtakes, such as the image shown above—which is not in the book.
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High-Speed Cameras Reveal the World Inside Time
Wired.com says: “We’ve evolved for 5 billion years just to do what we needed to do to be alive … and we can see 30 to 50 things a second,” said Jeff Lieberman, co-host of Time Warp. “With high-speed cameras we can see a million things a second, and we’re looking at everyday things and…