In their first full-length interview ever, Bernd and Hilla Becher talk about the collaborative project that has occupied them for more than four decades: photographing and classifying the industrial structures that are even now vanishing from the modern landscape.
Link: AMERICAN SUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Interview with Bernd and Hilla Becher (2002)”
Huang Qingjun and Ma Hongjie decided to collaborate on this project, ‘Family Stuff’ in 2005. They have visited a number of areas in China for this project looking for typical Chinese homes to photograph by bringing the domestic objects used in everyday life outside.
I’m a struggling freelance photographer just like many out there, I’m sure. I’m not widely known, nor have I been in the industry for decades with a client list that stretches for miles, but I know the sooner I learn to value my own work and the sooner I
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I’m a struggling freelance photographer just like many out there, I’m sure. I’m not widely known, nor have I been in the industry for decades with a client list that stretches for miles, but I know the sooner I learn to value my own work and the sooner I learn to value the industry in which I work, the better my business will be, and the sooner those big jobs will start rolling in.
Ben Shahn loved his Leica. To be more precise, he loved what he could do with it, especially when outfitted with a right-angle viewfinder. In my last post, I talked about Shahn’s 1935 encounter with a traveling medicine show in a small town in Tennessee a
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Ben Shahn loved his Leica. To be more precise, he loved what he could do with it, especially when outfitted with a right-angle viewfinder.
His just-published series of photos of topless Haitian women receiving care in makeshift “emergency tents” after the earthquake is gratuitous, racist and disgusting.
Link: Gone City: Larry Towell needs an ass-kicking
via: Photography Prison
This month, the dead were Christians. Last month, when Susan Schulman was at the epicenter of violence in Nigeria, the dead were Muslims. Patrick Witty reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/assignment-30/
This month, the dead were Christians.
Last month, when Susan Schulman was in the area of Jos — the epicenter of religious violence in Nigeria — the dead were Muslims.
Central to LUCEO’s mission is our belief in the importance of long-term projects. We also understand that developing photographers need support. To advance both of these causes, LUCEO has created the Luceo Student Project Award, which will be disbursed annually to a talented student photographer in support of a significant and developing body of work.
This year’s recipient will receive $1,000 along with mentorship for the project from one Luceo member. Finalists will be announced in late May. A select panel will judge from the ten finalists and the winner will be announced in June.
The deadline for receipt of your application is 11:59pm EST May 15, 2010.
In the week’s interview feature, photographer Shawn Records takes the opportunity to dig into what led three photographers who he has admired for years- Jason Fulford, Alec Soth, and Richard Renaldi- to become publishers. We also find out what each of them has learned along the way.
a long and in-depth discussion with photographer Danny Zapalac, who recently came out with a project and self-published book called Mile Seventy Eight. Like fellow photographer and past TMC interviewee, Kevin Zacher, Danny first planted his photo roots in the snowboard industry and has since branched out into many successful editorial and commercial avenues.
Coalition of Mavens – Find your maven
The other stressor that has led to my decision to leave photojournalism is the attention I’ve received from police
Last year the Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition dealt with controversy when the winning photographer was stripped of his award for
a new rule bans entries from cameras with less than 10 megapixels:
Don McCullin speaks about his ‘accidental career’ in war photography, and how shooting landscapes has granted him a sense of peace
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2010/mar/10/don-mccullin-photography
The acclaimed frontline photojournalist speaks about the horrors of conflict, struggling with ‘this terrible name, war photographer’, and why shooting landscapes instead of battle zones has finally granted him a sense of peace.
Boing Boing partner John Battelle was on a WiFi-enabled flight last night, and wanted to say bedtime-goodnight to his kids using videochat. Lots of parents tuck their kids into bed over video when …
The flight attendant just showed me the United policy manual which prohibits “two way devices” from communicating with the ground. However, the PLANE HAS WIFI. To combat this, not unlike China, United and other airlines have blocked Skype and other known video chat offenders.
First of all, what everybody needs to realize is that many, if not all, of the photographers who record horrendous events experience them more or less the same way we would experience them, if we happened to be there. What was going through the mind of the photographer who was watching a man get stoned to death and actually photographed it happening? Well, the photographer was probably mortified and shocked and sickened just like most people would be.
If you approach the M9 as you would do with a 1Ds or a D3, you miss the point. The C/N approach is to optimize the camera software to improve the results and to use a lowpass filter to mask the defects. The Leica approach is to show the physical/optical limits of the camera and let the user decide. I find this a more sympathetic way of practicing photography.
Link: M9 final verdict
Some while back, Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape posted “An Open Letter to Leica” subtitled “A Modest Proposal for Reinventing the M Series.” Not long after, Michael published a response by Thom Hogan of ByThom.com under the title, “Thom…
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I’m neither a Leica insider nor a Leica user (well, I’ve been using an M7 lately, but it’s not mine, it’s a loaner from a friend). And I’m only basing the following on logic, which can easily lead us astray. But here’s where my logic takes me
Based on some of the articles you’ve posted, I gather that you use Lightroom extensively. Can you speak to why you’ve added it to your toolset. How has Photoshop and Bridge, for example, not been enough?
This is an official letter from Leica (I have the actual PDF file, so it is real): Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, We would like to inform you that you we will put a new Firmware-Update 1.116 for the LEICA M9 onto our homepage. The free of charge download is e
Reader Chris Lucianu points out another pertinent news item from photoscala.de. Last Friday, insolvency proceedings were initiated against the assets of JOBO AG and JOBO Labortechnik GmbH, of Gummersbach, in the North Rhine-Westphalia area of Germany. JOB
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The processors did a good job, but they weren’t fun to use. They were basically glorified tanks of temperature-controlled water, and the rooms in which they resided were typically warm, humid, and usually more than a little smelly. To use one, what you did mainly was…wait.