Category: Photography
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Four new American Photographs for sale at Lens Culture
We are pleased to announce special limited edition offerings of four great contemporary photographs. American photographers Dan Nelken and Juliana Beasley have both agreed to offer editions of their original photos at very affordable prices, exclusively available for Lens Culture readers. Check it out here.
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enlightened by Chiara Tocci | burn magazine
In the Sunna, the other major holy Muslim book together with the Quran, the pictures of living beings are condemned. “Whoever makes a picture will be punished by Allah. He (the picture maker) will be ordered to breathe life into the picture, but he will not be able to do so”. This is a piece…
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Photographer Paul Graham: fragments of life | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Paul Graham was one of the very first British documentary photographers to work in colour. His first major series of pictures, made in 1981-2 along the A1 motorway in England, later published as A1 – the Great North Road, caught the country on the cusp of a new mood. In the motorway cafes of the…
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PDN's 30 2009 Gallery
From its inception, our editors and creative director have seen PDN’s 30 as an opportunity to get to know the work of photographers we look forward to writing for and about for many years to come—and this certainly isn’t limited to the 30 photographers we select for each issue. This year, for example, we made…
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Provo Utah on Saturday : justinhackworth.com
Saturday night, as the sun dipped below the horizon, I took these pictures. Check it out here.
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PASSIONATE PHOTOGRAPHER: Latest editions to the 1:1 project
This is an ongoing project I have been working on. The project involves taking upwards of 150 to 200 images with a macro lens and then putting them back together again. Check it out here.
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Landscape Blurs
In the fall of 2008 Alain Briot started working on a series of images whose main characteristic involved moving the camera while taking the photograph Check it out here.
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Vanessa Winship's best shot | Art and design | The Guardian
Photograph: Vanessa Winship These two girls touched me, and I can’t say why. The image was made last spring in a school playground in Kars, near the Armenian border in eastern Turkey. I had been based in Istanbul for five years, so knew the country quite well, but I began this piece when I decided…
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SUPERFICIALsnapshots
Shot with my 5D as a mental note to return someday with my Hasselblad. Check it out here.
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That Old Master? It’s at the Pawnshop
Last fall, Annie Leibovitz, the photographer, borrowed $5 million from a company called Art Capital Group. In December, she borrowed $10.5 million more from the same firm. As collateral, among other items, she used town houses she owns in Greenwich Village, a country house, and something else: the rights to all of her photographs. Check…
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A Photo Editor – Getty Bullies Photographers After Buying Agency
Getty buys Mediavast (Wireimage) where photographers have a 50/50 royalty split more or less and after several months realizes that’s not their standard split and that they’ve been “overpaying” all this time. Check it out here.
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Anniversary Print Sale « Luceo Images
Luceo Images is celebrating our one year anniversary by teaming up with AdoramaPix and Photoshelter to make collector’s prints available for a limited time. Check it out here.
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The Year in Pictures: Ruud van Empel
The show is of recent work by Ruud van Empel – the 51 year old Dutch photographer who has been working in the collage/photoshop medium since the late 1990s. Check it out here.
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Transitioning from advertising to fine art photography 2
In Brian Kosoff last post he talks about the value of advertising photographers’ time and images dropping during the last decade. For a while he stuck it out with cost saving measures like those outlined below. But when an opportunity arose to move to a new model — fine art photography — Brian was smart…
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On the Set with Mary Ellen Mark
“When you’re working on a film, it’s almost like photographing paintings at a museum,” says Mary Ellen Mark, now 68 and dressed entirely in black, with twin braids over her shoulders. “You’re photographing somebody else’s world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what…
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Transitioning from advertising to fine art photography 1
Brian Kosoff was a top advertising photographer for 25 years, up until the beginning of the end of advertising photography’s golden age. As he watched photographers’ incomes drop and overhead costs rise, he found a way to transition to the world of fine-art landscape photography. Here he talks about the roots of the challenges advertising…