Category: Photography
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'Americans': The Book That Changed Photography
The Americans showed a different America than the wholesome, nonconfrontational photo essays offered in some popular magazines. Robert Frank’s subjects weren’t necessarily living the American dream of the 1950s: They were factory workers in Detroit, transvestites in New York, black passengers on a segregated trolley in New Orleans. Frank didn’t even get much support from…
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Roger Cremers: Auschwitz Tourist Photography
Just a quick post here. The World Press Photo Awards were announced yesterday. One winner caught my eye. The work of Roger Cremers document the tourist behaviours at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a tricky topic to deal with, especially in a photography climate that frequently pours cynicism and scorn on global tourism (Martin Parr’s brilliantly garish…
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Using the Flickr API to Make DeleteMe Uncensored Even Better
One of my favorite places on the internet, and really the only place that I hang out regularly on Flickr is in the group DeleteMe Uncensored. DeleteMe Uncensored is a group on Flickr where users submit their photographs into a pool and then other group members vote on them along with a short comment. If…
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SuperTouch-SNEEK PEEK: KEHINDE WILEY’S FORTHCOMING “BLACK LIGHT” PHOTO BOOK
Renowned for his old master style oil paintings of modern black males in renaissance poses, NYC based artist KEHINDE WILEY makes his first foray into photography just as memorable with a new series of stills replicating his instantly recognizable fine art aesthetic. Created for “Black Light,” a forthcoming book by Brooklyn-based publishers POWERHOUSE set to…
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How To Be A Portrait Photographer : justinhackworth.com
Watch this 30 second slideshow and you’ll know what it’s sometimes like to be a family portrait photographer. You’ve got to work fast. Check it out here.
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Smile! Polaroid is saved
When Polaroid announced last February that it would stop production of its instant film, it seemed the much-loved camera was gone forever. But within weeks, a group of users had started a global campaign for the format to return. And now, thanks to an unlikely saviour, their pleas have been heard. Check it out here.…
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Contemporary city photoshopped with war-scenes from history
Sergei Larenkov has photoshopped together modern images of St Petersburg with photos taken during the brutal Siege of Leningrad during WWII Check it out here. Via BoingBoing.
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Prisoners as Waste: The Photography of Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan has spent his time making larger and larger photographic constructions to communicate the scale at which American society wastes its resources, its environmental future and its grasp on logic. In his effort to catalogue the linear and thoughtless waste of the US, he has progressed from crushed automobiles, to cell phone chargers, to…
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seeing eye to eye – bookforum
BY WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN BECAUSE IT’S THE PRODUCT OF THREE INDEPENDENT PARTIES—PHOTOGRAPHER, CAMERA, SUBJECT—THE PHOTOGRAPH CANNOT BE OWNED. INDEED, IT CAN AFFECT US IN WAYS THE PHOTOGRAPHER MIGHT NEVER HAVE FORESEEN OR DESIRED. Check it out here. Via Conscientious.
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Revisiting Robert Frank's The Americans. – By Fred Kaplan – Slate Magazine
How a Swiss émigré’s cross-country road trip changed photography. Check it out here.
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Canon Professional Network – Steve Winter
When Steve Winter’s name was read out as the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 at a gala at London’s Natural History Museum in November 2008 it was the culmination of a dream that began when he was a boy in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “From the time I was eight years old,” Steve reveals, “all…
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The Great Wall | PDN Photo of the Day
65#06 Beijing, Great Wall of Mutianyu, 2006, photographed by Thomas Kellner. Kellner explains his process Check it out here.
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The Mystery Deepens
Oh dear. After my scoop “identifying” the source photograph and photographer of Shepard Fairey’s iconic HOPE poster, Purchase College digital photography teacher Nathan Lunstrum came up with a different image that appears to be a better and less convoluted match. Check it out here.
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Scrumtralescent – You've Got To Be Kidding
I didn’t think the danger of slipping and falling in a parking lot could get any more severe. Then I saw this. Check it out here.
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Editor's Note – National Geographic
Sometimes it takes the worst to see people at their best. For Bobby Model, a photographer who has worked for this magazine and a world-class climber, the worst happened two years ago while traveling in Cape Town, South Africa, with his sister, Faith. A concrete block crashed through the windshield and struck his head, causing…
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An Artist You Should Know: Santiago Mostyn
One of our favorite books of last year was a small self-published paperback called All Most Heaven. The book documents two years of Santiago Mostyn’s life as has he traveled across America. Check it out here.
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A Family Portrait | PDN Photo of the Day
Duncan Family Portrait, Tennessee 2008, photographed by Lucas Foglia from his Re-Wilding project. [Re-wilding: the process of creating a lifestyle that is independent of the domestication of civilization.] Check it out here.
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Richard Avedon, Master of Cruel
The question was always a problem for Richard Avedon. Even in the final decade of his life and career as the most celebrated, ridiculed, honored, debated portrait and fashion photographer of his time, journalists and critics would posit the same intolerable, unbelievable notion: Is photography really art? And it didn’t sound much kinder coming from…
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Grover's Photographer Recession Survival Tactics – A Picture's Worth
Remain calm. This whole recession thing just may be a great opportunity in disguise. Here are 10 things you can do to help power your photography business through these stormy economic seas: Check it out here.
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Christopher Anderson and the Delicious Foods
Seeing as four out of eight of my my favorite things (1/2!) involve food and photography, I appoint myself an expert on food photography. And as said expert, I crown Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson’s illustrations for New York Magazine’s Where to Eat story the best I’ve seen in 2009. Check it out here.