Category: Photography
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How I Got to The Why.
From PixelatedImage: First. I look at my career as a passion-driven, vision-driven process. I believe strongly in the notion of calling, that this is a vocation (from the Latin, vocatus, meaning to call or invite) for which I was created. That drives me, gives me purpose. But I also believe the line between so-called professional…
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LA Weekly's LA People 2009
Some of my faves: Ellei Johndro . From LA Weekly: Her Web site and moniker have become synonymous with the sloshed and sweaty shenanigans of L.A.’s cool kids and the underground ragers they frequent, but Shadowscene’s Ellei Johndro is far from just another “club photographer.” Unlike some novice shutterbugs who hopped the snapwagon when lens-toting…
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Photographers have to be a little cocky sometimes – not always
From RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog: During my career I have been accused of being cocky, self assured, and overly confident. To which I respond; yes I am, I’m a photographer. Check it out here.
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Mike Brodie, Pensacola
From Feature Shoot: Mike Brodie is a self-trained photographer from Pensacola, Florida, better known by the alter-ego, The Polaroid Kidd. At the age of eighteen, Brodie traveled the railroads of America, pending three years photographing the people he encountered along the way with his trusty Polaroid SX-70. Check it out here.
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Getting gallery representation — you can do it
From RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog: As a follow up to his recent posts about transitioning from advertising and editorial to fine-art landscape photography, Brian Kosoff wanted to share the story of his first in-person presentation to a gallery from which he was seeking representation. That first meeting can be intimidating, no matter where…
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18 USC 2257 Concerns for Photographers
From Photo Attorney: Some photographers shoot nudes, sexually explicit, and/or erotic photographs. If so, your work may come under the purview of a law known as “section 2257.” This law imposes some strict obligations that must be followed to avoid fines and penalties, including prison. Check it out here.
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Mark Tucker
From lenscratch: Mark recently shot the images featured below for the book cover repackaging of the Little House on the Prarie series for Harper-Collins Check it out here.
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A Long-Ago Bay Shore, and the Man Who Captured It
From NYTimes.com: He worked in what would now be labeled as virtual anonymity, unknown beyond his tight-knit circle of family, friends and clients. His lack of fame and fortune did not seem to inhibit him; he was a big and unusual fish in this small pond. He thrived. It was enough. Check it out here.
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Wonderful Machine » Watery Backdrops, In All Their Forms
From Wonderful Machine: Bill Cramer would probably have an MBA if he wasn’t a photographer. Check it out here.
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lenscratch: Jo Ann Callis
From lenscratch: Los Angeles photographer, Jo Ann Callis, is being celebrated in an exhibition at the Getty Center. Check it out here.
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Vision Priority Mode | PixelatedImage Blog
From PixelatedImage Blog: Somewhere along the road we lost sight of this simple, fundamental fact about photography – it’s an aesthetic craft. Check it out here.
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The Year in Pictures: Luigi Ghirri
From The Year in Pictures: Luigi Ghirri: Luigi Ghirri was born in 1943 and died in 1992, at the age of 49. During his short life he revolutionized Italian, if not European photography, but for a number of reasons he is barely known in the States. However, all this should change now that Aperture have…
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THE OXFORD PROJECT – Peter Feldstein & Stephen G. Bloom
From THE OXFORD PROJECT – Peter Feldstein & Stephen G. Bloom: In the spring and summer of 1984, Peter Feldstein used a red marker to make a sign announcing that he wanted to take free portraits of everyone in Oxford, Iowa (pop. 673). Check it out here. via Fraction.