Artists in “Take Ten” by The International Center of Photography (ICP) are female alumnae of ICP, and explore topics like sex trafficking, identity, beauty, and religion.
via PDN Photo of the Day: http://www.pdnphotooftheday.com/2010/10/6946
New Photography in Korea, the upcoming exhibition at Galerie Paris-Beijing, showcases a dozen photographers based in Korea, who are now on the cusp of international recognition.
TrustoCorp (known for making signs and bolting them to urban signposts — see here and here) has a show at 1988 Gallery in Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. 23 and Sunday Oct. 24. TrustoCorp exhib…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/18/trustocorp-exhibitio.html
TrustoCorp (known for making signs and bolting them to urban signposts
Thinking about 9/11:
Would Americans have reacted less violently to our most disturbing day if we’d been allowed to see photographs of its most disturbing aspects?
The miners rescued in Chile have asked for as little as $40 and upward of $25,000 for an interview.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/world/americas/18chile.html?_r=1
“I’ve had nightmares these days,” Mr. Reygadas said from the cramped tent, as reporters jostled for space. “But the worst nightmare is all of you.”
Private security guards handcuffed and detained a journalist who tried to ask U.S. Senate Republican candidate Joe Miller questions at a campaign event in Alaska. The guards claim that he was tresp…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/18/senate-candidates-pr.html
“I’ve had nightmares these days,” Mr. Reygadas said from the cramped tent, as reporters jostled for space. “But the worst nightmare is all of you.”
My first visit to Pyongyang in 18 years.
Between 1978 and 1992 I had the opportunity to visit and stay in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), so called North Korea, 13 times, for a total of 9 months, traveling to all the provinces, covering all four seasons, all of which resulted in a great diversity of coverage. For this recent trip, my first to the DPRK in 18 years, I was given a permit to stay for 11 days, so I decided to concentrate on the capital city of Pyongyang
Link: North Korea, 2010
Now in his 80s, the Magnum photographer is exhibiting ‘Platinum prints and Classic Snaps at the Magnum Print Room.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8056389/Elliott-Erwitt.html
Now in his 80s, the Magnum photographer is exhibiting ‘Platinum prints and Classic Snaps at the Magnum Print Room.
In this interview with VII The Magazine Ed Kashi talks about his years covering the explosive situation in the Niger Delta. This story has everything, big oil companies, a corrupt political situation, great wealth and extreme poverty, war and the 50th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence.
Link: VII The Magazine
Creative Commons has unveiled it’s Public Domain Mark, a tool to clearly label images that are free of known copyright restrictions.
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | Public Domain Mark Launches
A blog paid for a lewd story about Brett Favre, and then mainstream outlets followed.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/business/media/18carr.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
In the last week, I’ve gotten a very clear view of two things — the male physique purported to belong to Brett Favre and the inner workings of modern media. I wish I could un-see both.
This project is proving to be a solid challenge, a welcome one, but a challenge in ways that are uncomfortable for me admit to as an artist. My challenge = to overcome my boredom with photography t…
via Hot Air…from the southwest: http://kristaniles.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/variety-is-the-spice-of-life-or-something-like-that/
My challenge = to overcome my boredom with photography that is a result of working in the medium for so very long and having taken so many different photos.
Iggy Pop More than 60 images of L.A.’s early punk scene shot by photographer Ann Summa between 1978 and 1984 make up “The Beautiful and the Damned”, a show on display at Track 16 …
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/15/the-beautiful-and-th.html
More than 60 images of L.A.’s early punk scene shot by photographer Ann Summa between 1978 and 1984 make up “The Beautiful and the Damned”, a show on display at Track 16 Gallery at the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica. Following, in this post: a photo gallery of selected shots featured in the show.
October 2 Spent the day with Elyse and my friend Denny doing one of my favorite things in Iowa, exploring gravel roads. …
Link: http://mattmallams.blogspot.com/2010/10/day-19-gravel-roads.html
More than 60 images of L.A.’s early punk scene shot by photographer Ann Summa between 1978 and 1984 make up “The Beautiful and the Damned”, a show on display at Track 16 Gallery at the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica. Following, in this post: a photo gallery of selected shots featured in the show.
A TOP reader named Scott had this to say the other day when the Pentax 645D announcement came out: I shot medium-format film until I got a shift lens for my 24×36 digital. Now a Canon 21mp “full frame” can…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/10/the-poor-persons-mf.html
making multiple-shot stitched images isn’t quite the same as having a single-shot large-sensor camera—but then, it’s a lot cheaper.
by Matt Eich
September 23: A few minutes shy of 9PM I arrive in Greenwood and check into the Best Western. After dropping my stuff I jump in the car and roll over to the Burger King, one of the few places still serving food, and get two cheeseburgers, which I eat while driving to Baptist Town. I don’t need the GPS anymore to find my way around. Turns are made from memory, the pattern has solidified and it makes me feel more connected to the place.
Link: In My Back Yard: Dispatches from Baptist Town | Luceo Images
“All the photographers at VII have been working with Canon gear for many years,” VII Photo’s managing director Stephen Mayes tells BJP. “In the past, we’ve always focussed on the EOS gear because that’s the stuff they mainly used. But then these smaller cameras started emerging – cameras with new extended capabilities. We started asking Canon if they were available and could be used. Canon said: ‘Sure. What does the photographers want to use them for?’ and that’s how it blossomed. The photographers say they use the cameras in different ways.”
Link: VII Photo and Canon: Finding new ways of reaching new audiences – British Journal of Photography
Link: http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/104923694.html
Photographer Vernon Biever became a legend in his own right – shooting the team and the action for more than half a century – and being inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 2002.
Biever died Wednesday at age 87.
[slidepress gallery=’boccaccino_ritdiena’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Roberto Boccaccino Rītdiena play this essay In this period of my life, may…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/10/roberto-boccaccino-ritdiena/
In this period of my life, maybe because of my age, I often try to understand what will be my way and my future, and I always find myself talking with my contemporaries about the hard times for our generation. So when I heard about the strong economic crisis in the Baltic countries I immediately thought it would be very interesting to see how youngsters were dealing with the situation. In Latvia the changes happened quickly, and I wanted to know how that crisis modified the outlook and thoughts of the future for the young generation. This is also the reason why my project doesn’t focus so much on the crisis, but much more on mood and feelings. The crisis is just the context in which I attempted to know and show the people.
Having met with success online, David Alan Harvey was ready to gamble on a really risky medium: books.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/titled-burn-but-printed-on-paper/
When David Alan Harvey started his online Web journal Burn in 2008, there were few opportunities for emerging photographers to display their work to a broad audience. Today, thanks partly to Burn, they have numerous showcases on the Web.
Now, building upon his online success, Mr. Harvey has embarked on a truly innovative enterprise: publishing on paper.
Un-possible retour is a project in which I am reconstructing and re-photographing selected family photographs in the attempt to reconnect with the past. Drawing from a collection of family snapshots, I focus the attention sharply on the concept of aging while ensuring a consistency of location and use time as a collaborative partner, accepting its discrepancies and playing with the results.
Link: Un-possible retour: the dialogues of time, by Clarisse d’Arcimoles