Category: Photography
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NYPH ‘09
Horses Think says: Like most photographers living in New York, I definitely made a point of checking out what the New York Photo Festival had to offer this year. I attended the exhibits and sat through a couple of artist talks and a panel discussion. The festival this year was larger and seemed to have…
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Dumb and Dumbo: A Brief Review of the New York Photo Festival
State of the Art says: it was even worse this year
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Quo vadis, New York Photo Festival?
Conscientious says: This year’s New York Photo Festival was the second of its kind, after a maybe slightly messy, certainly not perfect, but clearly extremely promising start last year. From what I gathered before coming to New York, expectation certainly were higher than last year. From what I gathered while being in New York, there…
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Floriane de Lassée, Paris
Feature Shoot says: For several years now, photographer Floriane de Lassée has been building Night Views, a series in which vast cityscapes and the intimate lives of the people who inhabit them are brought together in a provocative fusion
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the life of m: Lauderdale by iPhone
the life of mMelissa has four really cool posts on her blog this morning.
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Photographer Banned by Blurb Books
A Photo Editor says: Photographer Jonathan Saunders found out like most people (I know we’ve covered this ground before) that Blurb Books are completely hit-or-miss in the quality of the final product.
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A Million Little Pictures: Documentary Project
Chase Jarvist says: Just stumbled on this: a really cool project pulled together by Arthouse co-op in Atlanta… You send them $18 and they send you a disposable camera with 24 shots to document your life this summer.
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Avedon – Start With Fashion, End With Art
NYTimes.com says: Five years after Richard Avedon’s death at 81 the International Center of Photography is setting the record straight. Avedon was indeed a great artist, and his fashion photographs are his greatest work.
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Acne Paper Features Fashion-Forward Photographers
State of the Art says: The Summer 09 issue of Acne Paper—a gorgeous, cultural journal published by Acne, an innovative Swedish collective—includes a wealth of stunning images from some major photography heavy-weights.
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Every Once in A While
alittletoofast.com says: He did not disappoint. Jimmy Koh and his wife (who’s name I didn’t get) are possibly the coolest camera shop owners in the world. Jim and Chris at Pro Photo Supply in Portland, I’m sorry, to the crazy Orthodox guy at B&H who always scolds me for not going to Shabbat services, YOU…
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Gregory Crewdson
Kitsune Noir says: Gregory Crewdson is a New York photographer who takes these amazingly surreal, production-heavy photos that evoke this really surreal and almost creepy feeling to them. The way he lights is photos is crazy, almost like a movie would be set up. Check under the cut for a video of him talking about…
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architectural purgatory | Redlights and Redeyes
Chip says: I know that keeping a molding, crumbling building as is really isn’t possible, so that’s whay I photograph these places in their current state – sort of an architectural purgatory.
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Descendants
Drew Gardner says: 5 years ago I embarked on an interesting project ‘The Descendants’ Where I recreate paintings or photographs of the famous historical figures using their direct descendant
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Going Green with Ami Vitale – Design for a Living World
A Picture’s Worth says: First of all, Ami Vitale might be the nicest person in the world. Secondly, she’s obviously one of the most talented photographers in the world (and the fact that she’s a PhotoShelter user makes it all the more sweet).
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Photolucida Part 2: Reviewers Discuss Their Favorite Portfolios
PDN says: This past April 23–26, reviewers and photographers gathered in Portland, Oregon, for the 2009 Photolucida Portfolio Reviews. Over the course of four days, reviewers saw work during 50 20-minute reviews with photographers, at a portfolio walk at the Portland Art Museum, and in informal reviews requested by photographers.
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White House Releases Air Force One NYC Photo-Op Picture
PDNPulse says: Today Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office and the man who authorized the low flight of one of the Air Force One planes and two F-16s over New York City, resigned.
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May 09 Email Photo Newsletter
Tim Gruber says: If you follow me on Twitter you already know I sent out my photo newsletter for the month.
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PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG – DAY 3
FRED LUM says: Before heading down, I had to decide what gear was making the trip. Went with a bare bones kit of one D3, 24-70 and a 28-200 zoomer. This was a ‘just in case crap happens down here’ kinda outfit. The D3 ended up staying in the bag for pretty well the entire…
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stephan zirwes
Alex Bartsch says: the abstractness and geometry of the man-made world in Stephan Zirwes’ photographs are worth the detour!