“The director confided that Winogrand doesn’t make learning easy; be patient, he urged, it’s worth it. If we weren’t satisfied by the weekend, he’d give us a refund.”
Coffee and Workprints: A Workshop With Garry Winogrand – Two Weeks with a Master o
We quickly learned Winogrand’s technique–he walked slowly or stood in the middle of pedestrian traffic as people went by. He shot prolifically. I watched him walk a short block and shoot an entire roll without breaking stride. As he reloaded, I asked him if he felt bad about missing pictures when he reloaded. “No,” he replied, “there are no pictures when I reload.” He was constantly looking around, and often would see a situation on the other side of a busy intersection. Ignoring traffic, he would run across the street to get the picture.
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concern…
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad.
Really interesting interview today with Nelson Chan, folks. Chan has been steadily making personal projects that deal with his heritage and relationships. Don’t miss the part where he talks about the confluence of shyness and regret when making a portrait- I found that highly relatable, and a little poetic, too.
In the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, where images have largely been sanitized, Peter van Agtmael’s photographs offer an up-close look at wars that, to most, seem emotionally blurred and distant. His recently released book, “2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die,” is a young photojournalist’s firsthand experience: the wars’ effects on him, on the soldiers and on the countries involved.
In talking to friends and peers who are photographers and have been photographers for many, many years, the undercurrent that permeates conversations these days is the overwhelming sense of isolation many of us feel.
Baltic, GatesheadKitsch, bling and deadpan satire are all on show in Martin Parr’s terrific new collection of photographs and memorabilia, writes Alfred Hickling
Martin Parr has said that he doesn’t take photographs, he collects them. This terrific show, spread over two floors at Baltic, takes the unusual but inspired approach of combining new work Parr has collected on film alongside the bits of bric-a-brac he collects on impulse.
Several Web sites repeated Monday erroneous allegations that The New York Times had paid a ransom for the release of its reporter David Rohde, held by the Taliban for seven months.
He is one of the most influential British artists of the past half-century and, at 72, finds he is busier than ever. On the eve of a major new retrospective, David Hockney talks about the romance of nature, the benefits of going deaf and his part in the 2
He is one of the most influential British artists of the past half-century and, at 72, finds he is busier than ever. On the eve of a major new retrospective, David Hockney talks about the romance of nature, the benefits of going deaf and his part in the 2012 Olympics
We’re very excited to announce this all-new issue of Lens Culture. It’s online now, and filled with an eclectic, global hit of some of the best photography that is happening around the world.
Fred R. Conrad likes to come up with a different theme and photographic technique for each marathon. This year, on the 40th anniversary of the race, he wanted to focus on individual runners, separating them from the sea of more than 40,000 participants. “The marathon is such a visual jumble,” said Mr. Conrad. “I wanted to isolate moments and individuals. To crystallize and distill the scene.”
The only good thing (other than chicken fried steak) to come out of my IRS trip to Portland (more on that later) was that I was able to pick up one of the new Panasonic GF1 micro 4/3rds cameras. I’ve been messing around with it for the last week or so and I’m pretty happy with it so far
The just released Canon S90 presses all of the right buttons, (so to speak). It is currently the world’s smallest and lightest shirt-pocket-sized (SPS) camera that shoots raw. It has an almost 4X zoom (28–105mm equivalent) and has a remarkable f/2 as its widest aperture at the wide end of its range. There is, of course, optical image stabilization, a full 3″ LCD screen, as well as a built-in pop-up flash. As I first wrote, all the right buttons have been pressed, and this is more than a pun, as we’ll soon see. anything
Jim Goldberg is best known for his book, Raised By Wolves, published in 1995, an impressionistic and often graphic document of the 10 years he spent photographing the young homeless of San Francisco. Now comes Open See, the book and accompanying exhibition, both part of a still-ongoing project about what Goldberg calls the “new Europeans” – illegal immigrants, refugees, displaced people and asylum seekers from Africa, the Middle East and eastern Europe.
[slidepress gallery=’michaelmullady-childrenoflead’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Michael Mullady Children of Lead play this essay At an altitude …
At an altitude slightly above twelve thousand feet, in the Central Andean region of Peru, pollution is a fact of life for the inhabitants of La Oroya. Since 1922, the city of La Oroya has been exposed to toxic emissions released from the Doe Run Peru metal smelting plant.
The french site Summilux has a petition for Leica to produce a R10 camera. Currently 204 people have signed the petition. Leica S2 test and sample images from PDN. Sample file #1 | Sample file #2 (warning: large files – Leica S2’s DNG files were opened in
I have always been under the impression that America has not given its female photographers the credit they deserve(d), and that it is maybe a bit too generous with its male ones.
“The Animals,” a book I was moved to reexamine after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is the deliberately literal-sounding title of photographer Garry Winogrand’s first book of photographs, which was published in 1969, some 20 years after the artist embarked on his life’s work that of becoming the Theodore Dreiser of the lens. Winogrand was New York’s, not Chicago’s, most brilliant modern reporter, a journalist not unaware of the issues implicit in what he chose to photograph: the women and blacks who defined the city’s “outsiderness.”
HELLO KIDDIEZZZ… If you’re looking for a frights of passage photographer, look no further… I specialize in… DEATH! Yeaakekekekekekeeaah….. Tonight’s horror tale …
Just in time for Halloween, they’ve unleashed a new feature on the EOS 7D that is causing ghosting in images taken in burst mode. And you thought the noise in 7D images was a problem! Now you can add ghosts to your images on Halloween on the fly without the need for using Photoshop!
