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Residency program offers artists immersion in work
From the website: Scarville, a 30-year-old Harlem-based artist, first got the idea for her ongoing bride series while at Woodstock, she said.
Made in Woodstock III - A Biannual Exhibition of Works Created by Artists-in-Residence
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Photosynthesis - Scott Aitken Streaks the Darkness with Light
Artswest - West Seattle's Arts Center
From the website: He turns off the lights. Grabbing a 25-watt light bulb with a cone duct-taped to it—a kind of torch megaphone—he approaches his frozen subject and begins to spray him with light. On those posing (usually naked) in the dark, Aitken performs a series of glancing caresses. The camera only picks up what the light hits. Everything else is invisible in the photograph, including Aitken.
More about painting with light
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Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain
From the website: This exhibition explores some of the key debates concerning the depiction of suffering in photography. Through 40 works by internationally renowned photographers such as Alfredo Jaar, An-My Lê, Susan Meiselas, Andres Serrano, James Nachtwey, Sally Mann, and Sebastião Salgado, amongst others, images in Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain are drawn from the last two decades of art, advertising, and photojournalism.
College museum to open 'Beautiful Suffering'
From the website: "Our intention is not to illustrate that these pictures illustrate suffering in some way," said curator Erina Duganne, "but to use them to consider some of the debates that have been made around the aestheticization of suffering in photography."
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[Overview:] Take a First Look at Adobe's Lightroom
From the website: For a first beta, Lightroom shows a lot of promise. If you're frustrated with a Photoshop/Bridge workflow, Lightroom is definitely worth taking a look at. The current beta, though, isn't ready for real-world production work.
From the website: You'll most likely develop a love/hate relationship with Aperture. The fact is, it's really fun to use. Or at least, it is unless an image doesn't convert well. And it's not so fun when too many edits bring your Mac to its knees. Nevertheless, for a version 1.0 product, the program has a stunning array of features, a very well-designed interface, and some breakthrough comparing and sorting tools. I recommend that you wait until the next version and see whether Apple addresses Aperture's major shortcomings.
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The Better Print - Learn how to get the best results from a photo lab
From the website: Smith recommends that photographers leave their digital files unsharpened when submitting them to a lab. "Often, when sharpening has been applied by the photographers, it's too much," he says. Since the degree of sharpening is directly related to the print size, resolution and viewing distance, it's often best to make judgments of sharpness by evaluating the print rather than the computer screen. "What you see on the monitor doesn't translate to what's happening on the paper," he adds. "We've come up with our own sharpening curves that really work."
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Dai Sugano - Hmong Refugees Starting Over in U.S.: Photographs & Article
From the website: For the past 18 months, the Mercury News has chronicled the Yangs, from their arrival in Fresno, to their first time inside a Wal-Mart store, to the birth last year of Joe Yang, the family's first American-born child.
From the website: Yang and his brothers are the children of Hmong tribal warriors who fought alongside U.S. soldiers and CIA agents in the northern mountains of Laos during the Vietnam War.
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It May Look Authentic; Here's How to Tell It Isn't
From the website: Among the many temptations of the digital age, photo-manipulation has proved particularly troublesome for science, and scientific journals are beginning to respond.
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Vast Collection of Photo Memorabilia For Sale
From the website: "I realize that because of my age I just have to part with it," Naylor says. "My wife and children have no interest in it. I'm sure they'll use the 5,000 square feet I've taken over in the house for something else."
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Barbieri uses a perspective control lens to create shaloow depth-of-field, making his aerial photographs look like model photography.
From the website: He achieves the distinctive look by photographing from a helicopter using a tilt-shift lens--a method, he says, that "allows me to choose what I really like in focus: like in a written page, we don't read [it as an] image but one line at a time."
More aerial photography
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Sally Mann documentary @ Sundance
From the website: The relationship between Sally, her husband, and the "What Remains" photographs is at the crux of the documentary. Mann's series is about death -- that is, not the process of dying, but about things that are dead. Each part of Mann's series is presented in the film, just as they were in the Corcoran show: photographs of the bones and skin of Mann's dead dog Eva, wet collodion-made images of Civil War battlefields (are those mounds of earth hills - or graves?), snapshots of a place on her farm where an escaped prisoner shot himself, decomposing corpses, and close-ups of her children's faces.
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From the website: My photographic projects are devoted to the welfare of indigenous and tribal people. My intention is to help bring attention to the value these cultures represent and the challenges they face.
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From the website: Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative. The goal of Woophy's founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world.
From the website: With the help of (amateur) photographers across the world we strive to ultimately cover every inch of our world map with images that represent the world's beauty and peculiarity from all different cultural perspectives. Users upload their photos for free into a personal account protected by a password, or download pictures in high quality for personal use. User email addresses and passwords are not shared with any third parties whatsoever.
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From the website: The photographers of the Portland Grid Project spent nine years (1996-2005) systematically documenting this city we live in. Now, with some new faces and perspectives, we continue looking at our ever-changing city in Round Two. We are using a map of Portland divided into grid squares a mile and a half on a side. Each month all of us photograph the same randomly picked square, using a variety of films and formats. At the end of the month, we meet to look at everyone's photos. We estimate that as of this date we have created a complex, detailed urban portrait, consisting of about 20,000 images of Portland, its land forms, architecture, people, residential neighborhoods, industrial sites, waterways, parks, and sometimes just a shadow or the look of fallen leaves on a newly mowed lawn.
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Satellites on a Budget - High Altitude Balloons
From the website: Verhage is one of about 200 people across the United States who launch and recover what have been called a "poor man's satellite." Amateur Radio High Altitude Ballooning (ARHAB) allows individuals to launch functioning satellites to "near space," at a fraction of the cost of traditional rocket launch vehicles.
More aerial photography
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New York Through a Lens Brightly
From the website: But no other lensman of his era projected a vision of Manhattan's style and sophistication with the same panache. Photogenic as it already was, the elegant new Rockefeller Center took on added glow with his nighttime shot of 30 Rock, the complex's main tower, as it zoomed into the stratosphere framed by two lower buildings, and in his views of suave Art Deco interiors, curves played off against crisp geometric forms to dazzling effect.
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Book Review : Black and White Photography Techniques with Adobe Photoshop
From the website: Maurice definitely knows his way around photoshop and with an abundance of examples, side notes, and screenshots, will have the intermediate photoshop user making gorgeous looking black & whites in no time.
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It's a kind of magic: What separates art from the world of magicianship?
From the website: Art now is often a matter of faith. It demands, like theatre, a certain suspension of disbelief, or at least a willingness to engage in its language games and twisted semantics.
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Gilbert & George: We'd hate to offend
From the website: They were the terrible-twin outsiders in the Sixties, but now Gilbert & George are a national treasure. With a new dealer and a typically perverse new show, they're as rude and witty as ever. But does their work still have the power to shock, now that it's popular with old ladies and vicars? Well, it still makes them giggle ...
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
From the website: In the small but stately film - completed a year before Cartier-Bresson's death at 95 in August 2004, shown in Europe and now opening in New York - he slowly leafs through volumes of his black-and-white photographs, shows some of his later drawings and muses on his art.
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Artist taps into scenes of Japan
From the website: I could blame it all on the karaoke bars, but that wouldn't be the whole story, although a part. I love the Japanese landscape. I am drawn to the omnipresent interactions between water and earth, the changing seasons and skies, the sense of history contained in the Japanese earth, and the engaging intimacy of scale in its terrain. Physically, Japan has similarities to my home county of England; small, reserved, lived in for centuries, surrounded by water, every patch of land or piece of waterfront seems to have a history, a story, an intimacy. Remains of the past are everywhere, resulting in an atmosphere that is palpable and, for me at least, highly photographic. There is a reverence for the land, symbolized by the torii gates, denoting entrances to a shrine. The shrine is often the landscape itself. The love story is long and I just skim the surface.
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Stamp of approval for disposable camera
From the website: Calvey's Snap+Send Postcard, a disposable digital camera, is so light and inexpensive it can be sent in the mail. All it needs is a stamp. "You would buy it at a newsagent or photo developer, take a few shots and, once it's full, you stick a stamp on it, address it and put it in the postbox," Calvey says.
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From the website: When I first saw the Dakota disposable cameras at a locals camera store I knew I’d be buying a few so I could make a camera that only exists in my dreams, a digital stereo camera.
More about stereo photography
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The Social Construction of the American Daguerreotype Portrait
From the website: The social construction of the daguerreotype was fueled by a widespread belief in its accuracy; it was this belief, I propose, that allowed, or even propelled, the movement of beliefs, prejudices, and conventions from the culture onto the photographic plate. From its earliest American reception, the daguerreotype was seen as the truest possible reflection of reality. As time went on, it also developed a reputation as a flawless judge of human nature, a perception closely linked to contemporary ideas of physical determinism.
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Martin Parr on the Street in Cambridge
From the website: ... the developers have launched an interesting project by commissioning native Brit and Magnum photographer Martin Parr to take "portraits" of the city during the three years that this site will be under development. Over that period they will continually post Parr's work on the fence surrounding the job site.
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Brendan Corr - End of the Line
From the website: When the tide is high, vessels are driven at full speed toward the shore. Once the water recedes and the ships rest along the muddy beach, the salvage crews move in, emptying the vessels of everything on board.
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