Those are some addition images to my previous post from 10 days ago about the “60th Anniversary of People’s Republic of China” limited edition Leica MP camera. The model will be available only in China. 161 pieces are produced with a price tag of 199,900
Penny Martin, Editor, SHOWstudio: There is an image in your current exhibition at Modern Art where you and your wife are pictured standing either side of an estate car, much in the way that Mrs and Mrs Andrews stand in front of their country estate in the Gainsborough painting. Are you asserting yourself as the new society painter?
Juergen Teller: First of all, it’s not an estate car. It’s a Mercedes 500CL. It’s for me the perfect family portrait where I’ve put everything: the car, the wife and the kid. It’s a happy photograph. It’s my state of mind.
Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “In Camera: Juergen Teller”
Canon 1D Mark IV. It just sounds great, doesn’t it? We’re very fortunate here at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to receive these new cameras following a recent slew of new lenses and gear. Most of us in the photo department have now had the opportunity to use these new technological wonders on assignment, and here’s a bit of a first impression and review if you’re looking to land one soon.
Link: Canon 1D Mark IV first impressions and review | PICTURES | STLtoday
I don’t know where to start. Haiti, even on a good day, is an exhaustive assault on the senses. Even on its worst, you know it’s not the people of Haiti that are the problem.
Link: the life of m: Ayiti!
As always, we’ve been busy trying to keep up to date with all of the fantastic multimedia being produced out there. Here are a few more projects we’ve been watching that we wanted to share with you.
Link: MediaStorm » Blog Archive » Things We Love: Projects Worth Watching
Cory Doctorow: Copyright may not be perfect, but when applied with common sense, it’s the best system we’ve got
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/26/copyright-cory-doctorow
My latest Guardian column, “Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road,” is a start on a coherent framework for a copyright system that recognizes the difference between commercial use and non-commercial use, incidental copying and unfair copying, and many of the other exceptions that copyright needs to keep from devolving into a stupid caricature of itself
A Canon EVIL? A new rumor has appeared the web about Canon announcing an EVIL camera. From DPR Apparently Canon will unveil soon an EVIL system smaller tha
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2010/01/canon-x1-evil-cr/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29
A new rumor has appeared the web about Canon announcing an EVIL camera.
In 1957, Davidson starting working for Life Magazine and became a full-time member of Magnum in 1958.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7071459/Bruce-Davidson.html
What’s the greatest picture you didn’t take?
The birth of our first child, Jenny. I was too involved with new life to cheapen it with a camera click.
Photo by Umida Akhmedova Uzbek photographer Umida Akhmedova is awaiting trial and is facing a potential sentence of six months in prison or three years forced labor. At issue is a 2007 work called Men and Women from Dawn to…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/umida-akhmedova.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
Uzbek photographer Umida Akhmedova is awaiting trial and is facing a potential sentence of six months in prison or three years forced labor. At issue is a 2007 work called Men and Women from Dawn to Dusk that contains approximately 100 of her photographs of life and customs in Uzbekistan.
“The Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2.6.1 update includes one important correction that is only relevant for Leica M9 users. This release of Lightroom fixes a bug that caused Lightroom 2.6 to crash when processing certain M9 images. The bug was introduced i
An automatic camera with a date-imprinting function, a flood of words, silence and solitude – Araki manipulates all of these in every possible combination. Photography has never been a tool or medium for him. For twenty-five years he has been trying to confirm something within photography. Photography, for him, was neither a mere instrument nor a means towards an end; he has always only wanted to know if photography can depict substantial beings at all.
Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Nobuyoshi Araki – Photographs to be Read”
In a recent survey leading up to the release of the 30th anniversary issue of PDN, readers voted Josef Koudelka’s Invasion 68: Prague (Aperture, 2008) one of the most influential books of the decade.
Link: Visions of the Decade: Koudelka’s Invasion 68: Prague | PDN Photo of the Day
What I do intend to do is to lay out a single principle around which a good negotiation should center and work backwards to describe how photographers can use their own creativity along with all the moving parts of a contract so that the final agreement isn’t disproportionately slanted in favor of the stronger party.
Link: Legal Left, Meet Creative Right -Beyond Price | Luceo Images
Just before the holidays, I managed to get my hands on a new Leica M9. Over the past several weeks I have been putting it through the paces around Paris. Since late 2005, the only cameras that I ha…
via Tomas van Houtryve | Journal: http://tomasvanhoutryve.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/testing-the-leica-m9-in-paris/
Just before the holidays, I managed to get my hands on a new Leica M9. Over the past several weeks I have been putting it through the paces around Paris.
Roger Ballen talks about photobooks from Jim Casper on Vimeo.
via: Short video: Roger Ballen talks about photobooks – lens culture photography weblog
Darren Holliday: New technologies do not make better art: a new generation of artists has turned to equipment older than themselves
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/24/retro-creative-artists-equipment
Berlin-based artist Céline Pirard is not surprised. She feels the results from film “offer more depth” (not depth-of-field, rather a sense of depth), and fears that using digital cameras result in “too many pictures, so that we stop to see them properly”. Likewise, globetrotting photographer Nishant Shukla values the “slow process” of film photography.
When people steal my content on the internet, I get very angry. At some point, I decided to fight back. This post explains why and how.
Link: Protecting your copyright in a digital world :: Photocritic photography blog
The Tulip Revolution of 2005 infused Kyrgyzstan with hope. William Daniels has found the optimism badly tarnished and dulled, Celina Fang reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/showcase-114/
Jenish’s home in Kyrgyzstan is underground, near pipes that deliver hot water to the city overhead. The photographer William Daniels portrayed him tossing back a glass of vodka, as starkly lit as a figure by Caravaggio. The realities faced by a day laborer could not be plainer than in this picture (Slide 5). And its grim atmosphere sets the mood for Mr. Daniels’s depiction of contemporary Kyrgyzstan, a destitute former Soviet republic in central Asia.
You know how Leica marks itself out with its typically subdued matte black finishes and old school designs? Well, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of t…
Limited to a run of 60, each hallmarked with a year between 1949 and 2009, the Golden Camera is encased in red calfskin, bears an inscription of Mao Zedong’s favorite slogan, and sports a Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 lens
Austin, Texas Portrait Photographer’s Blog about Photography, Art and Writing by Kirk Tuck.
Not all prints fall into this category. It’s not that prints are magic just because they were printed in a darkroom. But prints that required work; required burning and dodging and blurring and diffusing (just in parts and just for short segments of the total time) were done with human hands and the inconsiderately inacccurate metronome of our minds and the swish of our hands. And no matter how hard we might try those prints are unique. And unique is what appeals to minds that are inundated with perfectly manufactured everything.