November 2005 Archives
Living camera uses bacteria to capture image
From the website: A dense bed of light-sensitive bacteria has been developed as a unique kind of photographic film. Although it takes 4 hours to take a picture and only works in red light, it also delivers extremely high resolution.
Binh Danh uses chlorphyl
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William Dunniway Wet-PlateCollodians
From the website: Dunniway says, with a sparkle in his eye, "You have to really want to do this. . . it is not easy. My tools involve a very heavy, civil war era camera with bulky lenses, and dangerous chemicals. The 'film' comes in the form of a 20 lb box of 8x10 glass."
More about the wet-plate collodian process
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John Loengard:
From the website: Loengard, a longtime LIFE magazine photographer (when it was the old weekly LIFE) and the first photo editor of People magazine), has said that he wants his photos to appear to pull the rug out from under the viewer.
From the website: For example, when he was sent to Miami in 1964 to do a story about the Beatles on their first visit to the US, he conceived the idea of photographing them as bodiless floating heads. "It was cold in Florida at the time, and we tried to find a heated swimming pool for them, but without success. Sowe settled for an unheated one. They weren't at all cooperative - they didn't want to get in - but their manager, Brian Epstein, said, 'Life is important. Get in,' and they did. It was very, very cold, and they were turning blue, so after a minute or two we let them get out."
John Loengard at Gallery M
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From the website: Well, I think the vision really came with "Born to Run". I happened to live around the corner from a place called Max's Kansas City in New York where I went to see him and he was just unbelievable, I mean I was just completely swept away by the music. A month later I decided to see him at a concert at Central Park. Then I went to see him at Red Bank, New Jersey and basically bumped into him and Clarence. And little by little, I started to take pictures. Then one day I got a call from Bruce's manager Mike Appel saying we would like you to take some pictures for his new album called "Born to Run". We only shot in the studio for a couple of hours, but came up with an iconic image. Bruce is a great guy. He's the most down to earth person you ever met, easy to know, not at all a rock star kind of a person. It goes back to following your instincts. I think that happens a lot with photographers who are passionate about the work.
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Side Photographic Collection Online
From the website: Lives & landscapes of Northern England, classics of documentary, historical northern documentary and contemporary explorations of the wider world: a documentary photography archive was started when Amber film & photography collective came to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1969.
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Good choices at Look Books
From the website: Photography anthologies make excellent holiday gifts for many different types of people. Here are our picks for the best.
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Greg Reinacker, who runs Newsgator Technologies, compared Flickr, Zoto, and SmugMug: Choosing a photo hosting site.
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The Night of the Living Photographers
From the website: Synopsis: A look into the world of night photography as told by five well-known photographers [Lance Keimig, Tom Paiva, Troy Paiva, Howie Spielman, and Larrie Thomson].
More films at http://www.studentfilms.com/
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After the gold rush: Twenty-five years ago, Richard Avedon photographed the real American west. His subjects despised him - but his images are more powerful than ever.
From the website: Very little has changed today. Flames of resentment flare when the region is portrayed as anything but down-home, clean, decent, pioneer-spirited whatever. As one elderly rancher put it a few years ago, "reality has never been much use out here". Avedon's images of the region will be powerful a century after John Wayne has become as quaint as a butter firkin.
At the Amon Carter Museum
Laura Wilson's Avedon at Work in the American West
More Avedon
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Make a Flipbook: Flipbook Printer
From the website: Flipbook Printer is a program that lets you make your own printed "Flipbooks" from avi movie files using business cards.
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National Park Foundation - Plan Your Park Trip Photo Contest
From the website: Capture your experience at America's National Parks and your next trip could be on us. Gather your most dramatic or unusual National Park pictures from 2005 (or take some more – there's still time!), and submit them to the National Parks Pass Experience Your America™ Photo Contest by December 15, 2005.
More contests
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Loving the Imperfections of Toy Cameras
From the website: Thanks to digital technology, it's become progressively easier to take perfect pictures. But not everyone strives for perfection -- a growing community of photographers is becoming attached to the simplicity and imperfections of what they call "toy cameras."
More about toy cameras
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From the website: These photographs are made with pinhole cameras. They include images photographed with single-pinhole cameras and multiple-aperture pinhole cameras. There is no lens. Exposures are made by allowing light to pass through a very small hole (aperture) on the front of the camera. There is no viewfinder. I'm never quite sure what will be revealed in the negative. Exposures are usually a half-minute or longer. As time passes, subtle details find their way in — or out — of the image.
More about pinhole cameras
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Malcolm Venville's photographs of Mexican wrestlers - Lucha Loco
From the website: Malcolm Venville photographed about 150 "Lucha Libre" wrestlers for an upcoming book. Translated literally, "lucha libre" means "free fighting." To many Latinos, it's professional wrestling, vaudeville, a venerable cinema genre and the Bushido code of the Japanese Samurai all wrapped up in one campy and crowd-pleasing spectacle.
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Photographer's 'Prairie Jews' on display at Cohen Gallery
At the Marcia Wood Gallery
From the website: Chris Verene has been documenting his birthplace - the town of Galesburg, Illinois - for the past 18 years. Although Verene has produced a number of acclaimed series (including "Camera Club" and "The Self-Esteem Salons"), it is the Galesburg work that is the most revered and historically significant. A. D. Coleman, writing for the New York Times Book Review, states, "Chris Verene is a most appealing newcomer, a diamond in the rough whose square color pictures record his family and friends in candid, unvarnished fashion. The tacky interiors, worn clothes and forlorn expressions in the pictures suggest that not all is well in Galesburg, but Verene adds a commentary that tries its best to be upbeat and compassionate. ...the larger shadow hanging over Verene's work belongs to Diane Arbus, and that is not a bad thing."
Verene's work is included in Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography at the Jewish Museum.
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From the website: It's surprising then, when he announces that he's forgotten his calculator. We're standing in front of Albuquerque's San Felipe de Neri Church, the oldest Catholic parish in America and the last stop on the last leg of his journey. I offer the one on my cellphone, but it won't do. "I need a scientific calculator, with trig functions," he says. Undaunted, Flint whips out a small notebook and begins jotting down a long series of calculations.
From the website: Flint is crunching numbers to help him focus his shot. His camera, for all its custom-built sophistication, has no viewfinder. The reason it has no viewfinder is that its magazine—which holds huge 9-by-18-inch frames of Kodak film, at $1,200 a roll—comes from a Fairchild Aviation Corporation K38 aerial camera, used in high-altitude reconnaissance flights at the height of the Cold War, in the mid-1950s and -'60s. It was never meant to take landscape photographs—until, that is, Flint decided it could.
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http://www.lightstalkers.org/why-did-you-become-a-photographer-journalist-etc#10485
From the website: I'm just curious as to why everyone here ended up becoming photographers, journalists etc What inspired you? How old were you when you started? What else have you done outside of that? This is just out of sheer curiosity and nothing more. I remember certain journalists had other careers before moving into the media game. I suppose examples like Kurt Schork who worked (if memory serves me correctly) for the New York Transport Authority or Jim Nachtwey who was a truck driver spring to mind. I'm not researching an article or anything, just sort of hijacking Rebecca McClelland's earlier thread.
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Vintage, Shmintage - Frank Van Riper On Photography
From the website: One note of caution, however. Computer-generated Iris and Epson prints, even in signed limited editions such as we produce, may always be viewed in the higher echelons of the fine art photography market as just that: computer-generated, as opposed to hand-made. I remember, for example, respected New York photography dealer John Stevenson conceding to me that, while beautifully done black and white Iris prints of our Venice work surely can approach -- or even rival at times -- one-of-a-kind platinum/palladium prints, "my clients won't touch them." Why? Largely because Iris prints are produced with the push of a button, and not by a master printer working alone in the dark.
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Shifting Gears - Finding Intimacy in Men’s Friendships: Exhibit redefines the meaning of masculinity From the website: "One of the messages that boys get growing up is that it's not OK to let out emotions, so we tend to implode," said Heasley, who left Ithaca College in 2000 and now teaches gender studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. This exhibit is in Ithaca, NY.
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You can use Photocalc to compare print prices at PhotoWorks, Snapfish, Shutterfly, Kodak Easyshare, and Ritzpix.
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The Image Culture, by Christine Rosen, is in the New Atlantis, A Journal of Technology & Culture.
From the website: First, technology has considerably undermined our ability to trust what we see, yet we have not adequately grappled with the effects of this on our notions of truth. Second, if we are indeed moving from the era of the printed word to an era dominated by the image, what impact will this have on culture, broadly speaking, and its institutions?
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Laurence Miller Gallery has an exhibit of Helen Levitt's color work from her new book, Slideshow.
From the website: Well known for her lyrical, gentle and insightful black and white photographs, this exhibition of thirty works in color by this 90 year old master reveals Levitt's uncanny eye for discovering subtle, often overlooked relationships between pedestrians and their surroundings, from store windows to broken down cars. Though color is never her subject, it is always an essential ingredient in this work.
From the website: Included in the exhibition will be several of her classics: New York , 1980 (Spider Girl), depicting a girl twisting her body next to a parked car; New York , 1972 (Boys with Bubbles), showing two boys fascinated with a huge bubble; and New York , 1972 (Kids with Laundry) in which six children each act out their own private dance. Many color works never before printed will be making their exhibition debut as well.
From the website: Helen Levitt began shooting in color in 1959, with the assistance of back to back Guggenheim Foundation grants. In 1974 the Museum of Modern Art presented a continuous slide projection, one of the earliest examples of a slide show presentation by a museum, and one of the first exhibitions of serious color photography anywhere in the world.
More Levitt
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JASC Paint Shop Pro Studio - FREE after Corel Corp. rebate
Thanks, Aranya!
Also have a look at QImage, which can convert files to printer profiles, and does interpolation (adding pixels for enlarging) and sharpening (unsharp mask) very well.
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Download the new Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP for easier color management.
From the website: Using the Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet, you can:
From the website: • Install and uninstall ICC color profiles
From the website: • Inspect, rename, and compare two different color profiles
From the website: • View a 3D graphics plot of color profile color gamuts
From the website: • Associate color profiles with devices such as printers, monitors, and scanners
From the website: • Apply custom color gamut adjustments to one or more displays on the fly
From the website: • Set up display calibration reminders at intervals you specify
It's free.
More about color management
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My student, Aranya G., passes this excellent tutorial on to you: Five Advanced Flash Techniques (PDF).
I often see photographs in magazines, by professionals, that could be improved considerably by these techniques.
The article uses the term advanced, but the techniques are not difficult.
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