Link: Intern Diaries: Provo Daily Herald:
My first order of business after accepting the internship was to look for housing. Searching craigslist I came across a bunch of Brigham Young University housing, but I had no idea what that meant. When I found a place with $95 monthly rent, I couldn’t turn it down. I mean, I could do BYU housing right?
Via: High Definition War Footage Taken with Canon 5D Mark II – Obama’s War – Gizmodo:
I’m amazed by the cinematic qualities of this high definition footage from Frontline’s documentary Obama’s War. The color, the depth, the texture, it all screams film to me. Except it’s just a Canon 5D Mark II rigged by Danfung Dennis.
Link: Pangea Photo Blog:
Photos by Philip Scott Andrews, Noah Rabinowitz, Celia Talbot Tobin, Rush Jagoe, Danny Ghitis, Tim Hussin
In photography, chance is often the overlooked understudy of talent. New Yorker Brett Beyer embraces this philosophy with his New Amsterdam project. Shooting lower Manhattan with a Holga and a Zeiss Nettar, he invites flaws and doubles exposures and then
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/10/new-amsterdam/
In photography, chance is often the overlooked understudy of talent. New Yorker Brett Beyer embraces this philosophy with his New Amsterdam project. Shooting lower Manhattan with a Holga and a Zeiss Nettar, he invites flaws and doubles exposures and then reshapes the results.
When Sally Mann released her book At Twelve in the late-1980s the art world was rife with artists concerned with exploring the body polit…
Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2009/10/proud-flesh-by-sally-mann.html
Proud Flesh is for me an emotionally exhausting work about withering. It has elements of 19th century clinical photography done with absolute loving care for the subject. Its factual surface is quickly replaced by metaphor and the haze of imperfection from the wet-plate collodion negatives she employs
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via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2009/10/conversations-1.html
For more than 15 years now, in between other photography projects, French photographer Klavdij Sluban has worked in juvenile prisons around the world. He conducts photography workshops with the teenagers who are imprisoned in these places, and he photographs “behind the walls” of each prison himself.
Wildlife photographer Michael Nichols wanted to photograph a 300-foot-tall redwood in a dense forest with no clear lines of sight. So he built a custom camera rig to take tons of close-ups to stitch together.
via Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5372201/custom-camera-rig-allows-for-a-stunning-vertical-panorama-of-a-giant-redwood
Wildlife photographer Michael Nichols wanted to photograph a 300-foot-tall redwood in a dense forest with no clear lines of sight. So he built a custom camera rig to take tons of close-ups to stitch together.
Link: For Only $5 Per Month, You Can Help Continue Photographing This Child | America’s Finest News Source
Link: Business Reply Mail:
This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company.
via BoingBoing
Russell Brown showed off some new “from the labs” painting and warping technology during today’s Photoshop World keynote address, and now he’s posted a recording of the demo…
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/10/video_sneak_peek_of_new_photoshop_tech.html
new “from the labs” painting and warping technology
The work of a pioneering Kenyan photojournalist is rediscovered by a relative with hopes of finding a broader audience.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/showcase-finding-priya-ramrakha/
Priya Ramrakha was killed 41 years ago on a roadside while covering the Nigerian Civil War for Time-Life.
This Kenyan photojournalist was among the first African contract photographers for arguably the world’s most famous picture magazine. He chronicled the rapid decline of the independence movements in Zanzibar, Congo, Rhodesia, South Africa, Aden and Nigeria in beautiful, haunting and humanizing images.
Link: +KN | Kitsune Noir » Juan Molinet:
Juan Molinet is an illustrator and designer living in Buenos Aires, Argentina and making some sweet art.
China formally kicked off its mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing’s historic Tiananmen Square earlier today. Hundreds of thousands of participants marched past Tiananmen Square in costume or un
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/china_celebrates_60_years.html
China formally kicked off its mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing’s historic Tiananmen Square earlier today. Hundreds of thousands of participants marched past Tiananmen Square in costume or uniform, with floats and dancers mingling with soldiers and military hardware. Collected here are photographs of the once-in-a-decade National Day parade in Beijing, and of others commemorating the anniversary elsewhere.
Link: Commercial & Editorial Photographer | Southern California | Matt Mallams:
new essays, two new journals, and much much more
Link: Welcome to the World Press Photo Contest Archive:
For over fifty years the World Press Photo contest has captured images of our times. Our archive of winning photos is not only a record of more than half a century of human history, but a showcase of successive styles in photography and reportage.
The archive gallery comprises some 10,000 images. It includes photos that have become icons, by some of the leading names in the profession. World Press Photo has put them online with the aim of sharing our knowledge, resources and experience with the widest possible network.
This site was made possible with the support of the Mondriaan Foundation and VSB Foundation.
Alexandra Avakian has led a fearless life, covering uprisings, civil war, famine and genocide. What she discovered in the shower one day, however, chilled her.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/behind-18/
On Sebastian’s seventh birthday, in October, I underwent a lumpectomy, followed by four months of intensive chemotherapy and then radiation treatment. As a photojournalist, I had seen so many people suffer. Now it was my turn.
Link: An M9 In Paris – A Field Review – Luminous Landscape:
Choosing a Canon over a Nikon, an Olympus over a Pentax, or any other combination, comes down to matters of brand preference, feature comparisons, and personal whim. They all pretty much do the same thing, but of course with some differences in user interface, control placement and specific features, which may or may not appeal to any one individual. In addition there are a wide range of models (with new ones introduced every few months) to satisfy just about any budget. That’s fine. That’s the nature of the mass market and it means that we have some amazing cameras available to us at ever decreasing prices.
But for some the camera that they use is about more than being a tool for getting a certain task done – whether its a feature magazine assignment or simply recording a family vacation. For these photographers the camera becomes an extension of their ability to see and record, a tool for actualizing that process. The tool and the process become inseparable. It is for photographers that approach their work in this manner, and who have developed an appreciation for a minimalist esthetic that the M Leica appeals.
MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field? DH My father…
Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2009/09/david-hilliard.html
I think an artist knows when the work is ready. When it’s as good as it can be at THAT moment…and perhaps when it needs an audience.
Link: A Conversation with Christopher Anderson – Conscientious:
After publishing my review of Christopher Anderson’s Capitolio, I ended up exchanging emails with him about the work and its purpose and reception. Things got so interesting that I thought this would be a great opportunity to take things public and to have a conversation with him on this blog.
