This is the main dude. A film camera. A range-finder. I only really shoot film, though I do use a digital camera just to record moments, to take snapshots. This Leica is handmade in Germany. It is encased in painted brass and has all mechanical parts. It has no automatic settings. There is a light meter but the battery was dead when I brought it on this trip so I shot the entire trip manually with a hand light meter. The Leica MP is made exactly the same way Leica made Rangefinders in the 60s. It’s not even an SLR. you have to line up images in the rangefinder and hope for the best.
New Photography in Korea II is now on view in Paris at Galerie Paris Beijing. The exhibition features works by a dozen young Koreans “on the cusp of international recognition,” according to the curators. “[Their work] represents principal currents in contemporary Korean photography: Urbanisation, globalisation, consumption, identity, culture, memory, family, sexuality, the fabric of society…” The exhibition closes October 29.
From the earliest hand-tinted postcards to kinetic, digital images, the sidewalks of New York have been muse and model to countless color photographers.
“New York in Color” is just that – a hefty tome spanning a century of Gotham in photographs, from hand-tinted postcards to tack-sharp and super-saturated digital shots. Many of the names are familiar — Danny Lyon, Burt Glinn, Helen Levitt and Joel Meyerowitz. But the thrill for Bob Shamis, the photographer, historian and curator who is the book’s author, was rooting dozens of images that had not been seen before.
This photographic Ikea Hack is notable both for its simplicity and for the stunning results it produces. And it only gets better when you find out that it can be done for less than $5. The hack uses Ikea kitchen timers to make timelapse panning stands. Al
The hack uses Ikea kitchen timers to make timelapse panning stands. All you need to do is drill a hole in the top of the timer, add a bushing and screw a tripod-mount-sized machine screw into the top. Congratulations: You’re done.
After talking to some current students and PJ grads, I wanted to put together some advice about starting out for a young PJ. Here are some of those thoughts – some brief, some long, but ultimately useful to anyone interested about this opportunity to learn with some amazing people. While many of the comments here are from Missouri and Ohio University students, good advice is good advice – pretty much applicable to any one, anywhere
I know of few photographers knowledgeable of the work of Josef Koudelka who do not look upon his life as an artist with a certain level of romanticism. It holds true to a young photographer’s dream to have little by way of possessions beyond cameras, some film and the freedom to obsessively focus on the immediacy of the world through the lens
Jörn Vanhöfen’s Aftermath is a book filled with photographic evidence of how we’re screwing up everything from the economy to the ecosystem. There are giant trash piles, recycle yards, abandoned ocean liners, dumped tires, the Chicago stock exchange, mega-malls, and roads to nowhere
In Mexico, where violence seems to be escalating daily, the nation’s National Defense Secretary today warned citizens of fake flyers distributed in narco-plagued Monterrey that invite concern…
In Mexico, where violence seems to be escalating daily, the nation’s National Defense Secretary today warned citizens of fake flyers distributed in narco-plagued Monterrey that invite concerned locals to “denounce” cartel activity by phoning or emailing in complaints.
Three months after VII Pboto announced a shakeup to its structure, the changes at the photographers’ cooperative have finally played out with the announcement today of its new members. They are Davide Monteleone, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Lynsey Addario, Joc
They are Davide Monteleone, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Lynsey Addario, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Stefano de Luigi, Venetia Dearden, Jessica Dimmock, Adam Ferguson, Ashley Gilbertson, Seamus Murphy, Maciek Nabrdalik, Tomas Van Houtryve and Donald Weber.
Seems that the Gagosian Gallery of Cariou v. Prince fame can’t stay away from artists using photography to make their art. This time it’s Bob Dylan who takes photographs, repaints them and then claims they are “firsthand depictions of people, street scene
Seems that the Gagosian Gallery of Cariou v. Prince fame can’t stay away from artists using photography to make their art. This time it’s Bob Dylan who takes photographs, repaints them and then claims they are “firsthand depictions of people, street scenes, architecture and landscape.”
American Juggalo is a look at the often mocked and misunderstood subculture of Juggalos, hardcore Insane Clown Posse fans who meet once a year for four days at The Gathering of the Juggalos.
We went to The Gathering of the Juggalos and let the Juggalos speak their minds.
Harry lived to make photographs. Nobody took greater delight in seeing what things looked like when photographed than Harry Callahan. He would use his particular vision to transform simple things into really compelling photographs that intensified the subject matter. He had three areas he photographed: His wife Eleanor and daughter Barbara, nature, and the city—his three loves. What made Harry really special was that he could stick to those few subjects and create an enormous body of work. He worked every day.
Now, In The Loupe is three episodes in and shows great potential. Kramer and Julie Grahame and Allegra Wilde host the show and offer commentary. They know what they’re talking about; between the three, they have 75 years of experience as editors, creative directors, consultants, and all the other business that makes photography reach audiences
Almost immediately upon his arrival in Cuba for the first time, American photographer Michael Dweck was swept up in a cultural bohemia reminiscent of 1930’s Paris salons. His unprecedented (and unrestricted) access to this hidden society of keenly observant artists, writers, musicians and glamorous models had never before been experienced by anyone in the West and is still not acknowledged within Cuba itself.
With the news Sunday that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia will grant women the right to vote and to run for political office, we looked to the work of the …
Addario made her first trip to Saudi Arabia in 2004. “My only image of the women was in the all-encompassing abayas,” she said. “I never could have anticipated the intelligent, educated, and fashionable women I met over the course of that year.”
Ever since Instagram’s 2.0 update, I have had a feeling that something wasn’t quite right. While the viewing section has been left well alone, the picture-taking and processing section has been dickered with and — frankly — ruined. The headline features f
Ever since Instagram’s 2.0 update, I have had a feeling that something wasn’t quite right. While the viewing section has been left well alone, the picture-taking and processing section has been dickered with and — frankly — ruined.
I have made mistakes a long the way of course, my biggest lesson was when I started to get Advertising work in New York and allowed myself to be bullied into working in a different way to my usual approach, the pictures where not good so the next time I shot for a big US Agency I behaved like a Prima Dona, ignored the client, demanded to use my usual little cameras with no tripod making spontaneous observations like I do on the street…..it was the best commercial Ad campaign I’ve ever shot.
Today we released free guide #15 in PhotoShelter’s library of photography business guides: Selling Fine Art Photography. Turns out, the perfect “recipe” to finding success in selling fine art photography, let alone defining fine art photography, proved to be a bit elusive. So we talked at length with 12 pros – fine art photographers, curators and gallerists (online and offline galleries), and one fine art printer to get their best tips and tricks, find out what’s working and what’s not.
