I just learned that Anders Petersen, the great Swedish photographer, will be conducting a rare one-week photography workshop in Barcelona, November 23-29, 2008.
Category: Photography
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Anders Petersen Photography Workshop in Barcelona – lens culture photography weblog
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Trent Parke's Family Album – Magnum Photos
Trent Parkes new exhibition “The Christmas Tree Bucket – Trent Parkes family album” will be shown at the Australian Centre for Photography from 21st November 2008 to 21 January 2009.
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A Photo Editor – Getting A Story Made at National Geographic
After talking with several National Geographic photographers about shooting for the magazine I became intrigued with the process of getting a story made. The collaboration between the photo editors and photographers and then the photographers involvement in all the steps along the way is unique and important to how they make stories
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How to Fail as a Photographer
Self-help gurus want to sell you on success. I prefer to do the opposite. I’d rather tell you how to fail because failure is more insightful. What’s more, you’re probably already on your path to failure. You’re already doing the things that increase your chance of failure. And by the end of this article, I hope you’re so livid at me that you change your trajectory. So without further ado, here’’s how to fail as a photographer.
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PDNPulse: The Dan Winters Issue of New York
Dan Winters spent 22 days in New York photographing dozens of New York power brokers, New York newsmakers of the past (wow, Frank Serpico looks nothing like Al Pacino, but Joey Buttafuoco has turned into John Belushi) , New York director Woody Allen, New York pride and joys like Deborah Harry, and 36 New York actors.
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E-project: Altered States – PDN
Like many of us, Josh Azzarella was affected by 9/11—but in a way only a visual artist could be. The constant loop of images from the day playing on TV and, later, the removal of the Twin Towers from movies and videos fired his artistic imagination. He became interested in exploring how personal and collective memory is evoked by removing imagery. This led the award-winning New York-based artist to try digitally modifying videos and stills to see whether they retained the essence of the parts that had been removed from the original.
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Photo: F*** You (What's on her mind ?) by Dian Agung Nugroho
by Dian Agung NugrohoI realize capture this moment when reviewed some photos I had capture that day on my PC.
Check it out here. Via BoingBoing.
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The Transparent City – A Photography Blog.
All this economy mayhem with layoffs and cities panicked makes me all the more poised to snatch up Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City. I love the mix of private and public. Plus, the press release invokes Edward Hopper and Blade Runner.
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Is the rich-hued Kodachrome era fading to black?
If Kodachrome should vanish, “we’d either change to a different type of film or do it digitally,” Link says, but long-term studies that hinge on image consistency might suffer.
Alarm bells have been ringing since Kodak exited the film-processing business in 1988. One by one, its Kodachrome home-movie and still-film formats have been discontinued, and only a 64-speed remains. (Film speed is a measure of its sensitivity to light; low-speed films require a longer exposure).
An even slower 25-speed version departed in 2002, an equally beloved 200-speed in 2006, a Super 8 movie stock in 2005 — all supplanted by standardized films far easier and cheaper to process. -
MARK'D – Drinking with a Dead Man
When will we band together and demand to be compensated for the last 15 years of the digital revolution? Maybe it will have to wait for the Mark X’s. In the meantime I’ll sit back and watch as the industry continues to make its largest profit directly from the photographer himself, as we sink deeper into debt, in the name of progress
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Chase Jarvis RAW: Kung Fu
Move over Ninjas. Replace those swords, smoke machines and bikini-clad women with a new, fiercer battle featuring a Kung Fu master who uses his bare knuckles to fend off fire, earth, wind and water.
This behind the scenes vid highlights my recent great fortune of collaborating with the design and live action wizards over at Superfad. I’ve written about their amazing work before… (Thanks again guys for bringing me on board for this one!)
In this Chase Jarvis RAW, I’ve attempted to detail the entire process, with an emphasis on the capture, the set building, styling, and the creative methodology for making this project come together.
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PHOTOSHELTER COLLECTION COMES TO A PREMATURE END – Vincent Laforet’s Blog
Some things you just don’t see coming – and those really tend to sting the most – and leave a mark.
The PhotoShelter Collection will leave a mark – and in more ways than one.
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Photo Issues, Pt. II | Storyboard from Wired.com
I’m the photo editor on this experiment. I guess I’ll fill you in on the juice of what happens next with the photo shoot attempts. First, I get the contact info for the subject from the editor. She gets it from the writer, and busts it back to me. My contact was Sony’s publicist—he has requested I not reveal his name, so we’ll call him The Publicist.
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THE PHOTOSHELTER COLLECTION IS CLOSING
Today, we regret to announce our plans to close The PhotoShelter Collection, our stock photography marketplace, effective October 10, 2008.
Going forward, PhotoShelter will focus our energy and resources on enhancing the PhotoShelter Personal Archive our original product that today provides thousands of photographers worldwide with bulletproof backup storage and robust ecommerce capabilities for managing image sales online. We will continue our commitment to developing new ways to use technology to advance the art and business of photography.
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'Underground' pics bring together N.Y., Mexico City
Next time you hop on a crowded subway, remember not only to keep your cool, but also your smile — Aaron Alamo Fernández might be taking a picture.
The 37-year-old Mexico City native has been taking snapshots of unsuspecting straphangers ever since he moved here two years ago, and he says people hardly notice.
“I shoot from the hip,” says Alamo Fernández, patting his rather large Leica camera holstered to his right leg. -
The Year in Pictures: Garry Winogrand – Part 1
I also came across this uncredited biography of Winogrand on the Temple University website. I thought it was worth copying whole, but if you have to skim, don’t miss out on John Szarkowki’s final quote. As always, he said it better than anyone.
Check it out here.
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Anti-War Billboards – APhotoADay News
An article published in today’s New York Times (New York Edition) reports on some last-minute censorship of anti-war billboards scheduled to be displayed in St. Paul during the GOP convention next week.
Check it out here.
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Photographer Susan Bank captures a culture living off the land in rural Cuba
Philadelphia-based photographer Susan Bank was drawn to a different side of the island nation, however. She wanted to go beyond the borders of the big city and back even farther in time. Toting an unobtrusive 35 mm Leica, Ms. Bank traveled to Cuba’s rural Pinar del Rio province and got to know the people well enough to move in with them.
Check it out here.
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Wandering Light: Belgium beer
Surrounded with some of my closest friends and wonderful photographers, we debated about what made us tick. What drives us? What makes us successful? What is the most important part about photography?
Do you want to know what the secret to photography is? I mean really want to know?
Check it out here.