Thoughts of a Bohemian
Andreas Gursky’s photograph called “Rhein II”( apparently his second try at this) has just be sold for $4.3 million at Christies. Yes, you read this correctly :$4.3 million, making this the most expensive photograph in the world.
In short, the idea of a sliding camera sling isn’t an amazing new invention. It’s just a really good idea that’s been around for a while and has been iteratively developed. Neither we nor our lawyers believed that the USPTO would grant a patent for the claims related to this concept. It was a surprise, then, when our competitor was granted a patent covering the concept on November 1st, 2011. To say that we’re disappointed that the USPTO couldn’t find the prior art around the idea is an understatement.
British Journal of Photography
A man accused of killing photojournalist Trent Keegan has been acquitted due to a lack of evidence
Looking at portfolios from Critical Mass 2011…Documentary photographer, Michelle Frankfurter, was born in Israel, lived in Nicaragua, worked in Haiti, and now calls Takoma Park, Maryland, home. She was worked for a number of editorial publications, has
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/11/critical-mass-michelle-frankfurter.html
Destino, meaning both “destination” and “destiny” in Spanish, portrays the perilous journey across Mexico of undocumented Central American migrants as they attempt to enter the United States in pursuit of a better life. An unprecedented wave of Central American migration to the U.S. began in the 1980’s – the consequence of bloody civil wars and relentless poverty. In a wandering odyssey, migrants travel by rail, relying on the network of freight trains inexorably lurching across Mexico.
UPDATE: One media outlet in Mexico reports that there is no proof that the man killed in Nuevo Laredo on Wednesday was a social media user. Police say they are still investigating. Unlike in previo…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/11/09/in-mexico-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
Below the man’s body was a partially obscured and blood-stained blanket. Written on the blanket in black ink: “Hi I’m ‘Rascatripas’ and this happened to me because I didn’t understand I shouldn’t post things on social networks.”
“As a student, he seems willing to push his skills to follow long-term projects, but he is not afraid to do daily assignments or simple reportage. In the last two years I have watched him take on daily ‘event’ work for the college. He does this daily work with the same energy that he brings to his personal projects. He’s a visual storyteller.”
Helen and Hula-Hoop, Seacoal Beach, Lynemouth, Tyneside, UK, 1984 by Chris Killip
His affection for the land and its people never blinded him to the toughness of ordinary existence.
By Richard Cork, Review of Another Country at Serpentine Galler
The unease is so pervasive in Killip’s work that his one scene of full-blooded enjoyment also turns out to be the most sinister in in implications. Concert, Sunderland is the terse title for an extraordinary image, where the flashlight illuminates a tangle of semi-naked figures presumably swaying to the music. One shaven-headed dancer, his ear pierced with a variety of rinp and pins, lurches to the left and bunches his hand into a fist. Another figure, stripped to the waist and baring the word ‘Angelic’ under his nipple, dives towards his neighbours like a rugby player barging into a scrum
The photographer Benjamin Lowy was recently awarded the Duke Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his book “Iraq …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/11/benjamin-lowy-iraq-perspectives.html
The photographer Benjamin Lowy was recently awarded the Duke Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his book “Iraq | Perspectives.” The book documents Lowy’s time covering the war in Iraq and reveals the U.S. soldiers’ experiences as seen through their night-vision scopes and their armored Humvee windows. Recently Lowy sat down with me to talk about both his book and his life as a conflict photographer. Here’s a selection of his photographs and what he had to say.
This is an old site that I linked to way back, but it’s still one of the greatest photo projects I’ve seen. Just had to put it up again. So amazing…
Exactitudes
Photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 16 years. Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of inspiration for Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, although since 1998 they have also worked in many cities abroad.
They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude. By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element.
Two of the most exciting things about the Canon C300 are the sharpness of the image, and also the “organic” or granular structure of the noise pattern the sensor produces.
Donna Ferrato started chronicling sexual adventurers on the edge of eroticism. But she was jolted into action when she confronted domestic violence. Thirty years later, she is still photographing — and advocating for — victims of abuse.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/helping-the-people-beyond-the-pain/
“I want to start a revolution with my pictures,” she said. “I want to wake people up, make people feel things — either suffering or incredible pleasure, or whatever I am feeling or observing.”
Suburban Dreams , Photographs by Beth Yarnelle Edwards . Published by Kehrer Verlag, 2011. Suburban Dreams Reviewed by George Sla…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/11/photo-eye-book-reviews-suburban-dreams.html
Indeed, Edwards’ suburban dreamers, named alone or in couples, are largely in a kind of trance
Feature Shoot
Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in the remote town of Tiksi on the Siberian coast of Russia. She studied Art Management at the International School of Moscow and in 2009 graduated from the ICP’s photojournalism and documentary program. She now works between Russia and New York.
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions is a book of pranking devices by New Yorker cartoonist and freelance illustrator Julia Suits. Twenty
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions is a book of pranking devices by New Yorker cartoonist and freelance illustrator Julia Suits.
Misha Erwitt, Lens:
These days, it’s completely normal to see someone totally oblivious to his or her surroundings yakking away on crowded sidewalks. Cellphones and digital cameras have become ever smaller and commonplace. Inadvertently eavesdropping on someone’s private conversation or being bumped into by someone busily texting and walking is part of the urban landscape.
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/11/08/stephen-ferry-recipient-of-first-tim-hetherington-grant/#1
The project examines the history of the guerilla war in Colombia and encompasses a decade of Ferry’s images from the conflict-torn nation
A small tweak to your iOS5-equipped iPhone can enable an Apple-designed panorama mode. By just altering a preferences file in the bowels of your device, an image stitching mode can be switched on. Discovered by hacker Conrad Kramer, the hidden feature is
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/enable-secret-panorama-feature-in-ios5/
A small tweak to your iOS5-equipped iPhone can enable an Apple-designed panorama mode. By just altering a preferences file in the bowels of your device, an image stitching mode can be switched on.
Looking at portfolios from Critical Mass 2011…I am a long time fan of Susan Worsham’s photographs. Her color palette, her ability to combine still life and portraiture, and her quiet realism of things past and present always feel genuine and true. Of th
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/11/critical-mass-susan-worsham.html
I am a long time fan of Susan Worsham’s photographs. Her color pallette, her ability to combine still life and portraiture, and her quiet realism of things past and present always feel genuine and true. Of the many artist’s statements (200) that I read for the Critical Mass jury process, hers was the one that stood out to me. A statement is a critical component to a photographer’s project, and Susan’s sets a tone, tells a story, draws us in, and makes us realize we are all here, but for the Grace of God.
Beginning today, we’re releasing all Wired.com staff-produced photos under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) license and making them available in high-res format on a newly launched public Flickr stream. To mark our new licensing policy, we’ve compiled this g
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/11/creative-commons/
Wired.com photographers have the enviable job of shooting the coolest stuff and most intriguing people in the technology world. Now we’re giving away many of those photos to you, the public, for free.