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Fine Art Cookbook - pt 1, The Italian landscape
From the website: Replicate traditional artistic landscape styles using step-by-step walkthroughs. Turn your photos into realistic looking paintings in the style of Turner, Canaletto and the Impressionists. Part one - the Italian Landscape.
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Labor Photos Shed Light on Family History by Charlene Scott
From the website: In the early 1900s, photographer Lewis Hine took hundreds of pictures of children forced to work in the nation's mines and factories. A historian is tracking down the descendents of these laborers to tell them of their family history.
More Hine
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Portraits Capture U.S. Troops, Off-Duty
From the website: Opton took the photos at Fort Drum shortly after each soldier's return from Iraq or Afghanistan. She also used other formats for the series: head-and-shoulder portraits in black and white, and shots of soldiers with their heads cradled in the hands of loved ones.
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Eyes Wide Open, With Stories to Tell by Roberta Smith
From the website: Moreover, they combine the stillness and artifice of painting with the light and heat of film; the awkward immediacy of theater with the slick impersonality of advertising. The people are often nearly life-size, so at times it seems that we might almost step into the unnaturally radiant landscapes and interiors they inhabit.
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So They All Get Naked and Play, Like Mom Did by Carol Kino
From the website: "There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist," she said. And in a sense these new works also relate to the aesthetic of late 19th-century landscape photography, which "was really about this idea of projecting an idealism onto a landscape," she said. "It was a way of settling the West."
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The New Portrait: A Study in Three Parts by David Schonauer
From the website: It's always been much easier for me to understand why photographers want to take pictures of people than why people want to have their pictures taken. For most of us, even the famous, it can be profoundly discomfiting to forfeit our power of self-deception, to put ourselves into the hands of a portraitist who has his or her own agenda. Richard Avedon once recalled that Henry Kissinger, a man used to authority as Richard Nixon's secretary of state, pleaded with him to "be kind to me" when he sat for a portrait. A master of realpolitik, Kissinger recognized an imbalance of power when he saw it.
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Blood Unsimple: The Ties That Bind, in All Their Complexity by Martha Schwendener
From the website: One of the great things about "Family Pictures" is the presence of a large number of female creators, an antidote to the recent spate of gallery and museum shows that have regressed to exhibiting predominantly men. The downside is that women have always been viewed as keepers of hearth and home, even in their art. In the 19th century artists like Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot painted their families because they didn't have access to racy cafes, absinthe drinkers and prostitutes. With this in mind, "Family Pictures" is one show in which a few more men and their perspectives would be welcome.
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Refract, Reflect, Project: Light Works from the Collection
From the website: Throughout the history of art, light has been linked to fundamental questions of vision and perception. Refract, Reflect, Project: Light Works from the Collection explores objects in which light—as substance and subject—is central. Encompassing important practices and movements from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, these works include examples of Minimalism, kinetic art, immersive environments, experimental film, and conceptual art.
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10 Creative Winter Jumpstarts by Sparky Stensaas
From the website: The old saying in Minnesota is that we have nine months of winter and three months of tough sledding. While this is a bit of an exaggeration, it often starts to seem that way to photographers waiting for spring wildflowers and lush green scenics.
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From the website: At first glance a pleasant coffee-table picture book, it's actually something a bit more intellectually compelling and culturally subversive -- a dialectic pingpong match between the forces of sacred nature and pell-mell capitalism.
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Making Every Pixel Count by Vivian S. Toy
From the website: "When you look at the difference between professional photos and ones taken by brokers with digital cameras, it's not hard to see that you get what you pay for," said Lauren Cangiano, a senior vice president of Halstead Property in New York.
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Behind the Faces of Fashion - Panel Discussion From the website: Preeminent members of the fashion industry will discuss fashion photography today, with particular attention to the ways that fashion photography and art collide. This lively panel coincides with the exhibition Face of Fashion, currently on view at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the accompanying book copublished by Aperture. Wednesday, 2/21
7:00 P.M.
New School
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It's one way to lose 10 pounds at the click of a button by Cristina Rouvalis
From the website: But Lucy Fischer, director of film studies at the University of Pittsburgh, said, "I don't think it reflects positively on the state of humanity. It is one more tool of self-deception."
From the website: "But on the other hand," she says, letting out a laugh, "Can you get one for my Web site photo?"
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From the website: From Tuesday, British audiences can see Greenfield in action when she starts a nationwide tour of Held, a performance piece she created with the Australian Dance Theatre. Artistic director Garry Stewart's quick-fire, ballistic choreography is captured live on stage by Greenfield and flashed instantaneously on to giant screens. As ADT dancers are also trained in the martial arts and gymnastics, they execute extraordinary manoeuvres mid-air, giving Greenfield the opportunity to create some stunning images.
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Suntek Chung - ??? Cho Ung Soo
From the website: Chung's large-scale photographs are painstakingly constructed and staged in the studio. They are large because they have to be. The artist inserts himself. The artist's complex sets juxtapose the classic and the contemporary, blurring the distinction between written legend and pop culture.
Samson Projects
Boston
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Interview with Vernacular Photograph Collector Ron Radue
From the website: The collecting of vernacular photography has gone from a little-known hobby to mainstream in a very short time. Most antique and hobby magazines usually have an article about vintage photographs. Smithsonian Magazine has a monthly feature called Indelible Images. In the January, 2007, issue there is an article, Interesting Faces, that deals with a collection of vintage mug shots. Many books have been published on vernacular photography and you can check these out at your local library for free.
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From the website: Photographs, drawings, computer generated images or prints can be reproduced in ceramic tile media as single tiles or large panels. The process is so adaptable that suitable quantities start at one tile. H & R Johnson can work from supplied artwork or create proposal artworks for client approval.
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Sunil Gupta - Homelands and Tales of a City
From the website: Born in New Delhi in 1953, photographer Sunil Gupta grew up in Montreal, before studying photography in New York and establishing himself as an artist working between London and Delhi. His work represents a form of autobiographical photography that is both political and intimate, examining issues of race and homosexuality. It addresses being a gay Indian man in Europe living within and between very different cultures, in a form of 'exile'. Continuing its interest in the theme of migration and subjective migrant narratives, Belfast Exposed is pleased to present work from 2 significant bodies of work by Sunil Gupta: Homelands and Tales of a City.
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Wedding Photography - Hanson Fong by Linda L. May
From the website: "When I first opened my studio in 1979, traditional photography was the norm," he recalls. "Everybody carried medium format cameras and tripods. Great talents like Rocky Gunn, Bill Stockwell and Monte Zucker were the teachers of the day. Then, in the 1980s, Denis Reggie came along with his candid, photojournalistic approach to weddings and turned the industry on its ear. For about eight years, traditional photography and photojournalism battled heatedly. By the 1990s, photojournalism won out over the traditional. Now, photojournalism, or documentary photography, is the norm. With the arrival of digital imaging, photographers can travel much lighter. In the past two years, I have seen the wedding industry begin to shift again, toward a more fashion-oriented style."
More wedding photography
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Contemporary Photography and the Garden - Deceits and Fantasies
From the website: Contemporary Photography and the Garden brings together the work of sixteen American and European artists. Ranging from depictions of gardens as tranquil havens to places of tension where exquisite beauty seems to coexist uneasily with inexorable forces of nature, these photographs present the artists' varied responses to the physical structure, atmosphere, and symbolism of the garden. Sixty-seven works depicting gardens in Japan, Indonesia, India, France, Great Britain, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States evidence an astonishing diversity of design and scale.
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers
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Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition
From the website: Gilbert & George have created art together since meeting at St Martin's School of Art in 1967. Their impact on the international art world was immediate, radical and subversive with the declaration that sculpture need not be confined to the production of three-dimensional objects and that their own lives could be classed as 'living sculptures'. Since then, their joint existence has been one long art journey which has led to major exhibitions in five continents, including pioneering shows in Russia and China.
Just the two of us by Rachel Cooke
From the website: To say that Gilbert and George are delighted at the prospect of their retrospective is something of an understatement; they're in a frenzy of excitement. They like to see themselves as the great anti-establishment outsiders, spurned by critics, galleries and collectors, and yet loved by the British public - and, naturally, Nicholas Serota's previous refusal to give them their longed-for blockbuster was simply more evidence of this. (Of course, this pose of theirs - poor us! cold-shouldered! - is a bit silly, really: their dealer is Jay Jopling, of the White Cube, London's most chi-chi gallery and prices for their work start at £40,000 and rise to five times that) So now that they've bagged the Tate, do they accept that, in reality, they're just as established as, say, Hockney? Not really.
More Gilbert & George
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Craig J. Barber - Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited
At George Eastman House
Opens 2/17
From the website: Beginning in 1995 and visiting three times over a four-year period, Barber returned to Vietnam to traverse many of his former military routes with an 8 x 10 pinhole camera, making a series of images that became Ghosts in the Landscape. These quiet, dreamlike photographs are far from the horrific images we carry inside us that reduce Vietnam to a place of perpetual guerilla war. Barber created diptych and triptych panorama images that capture serene beauty and, at times for him, the all-too memorable landscapes.
Pinhole camera is lens on Vietnam for vet by Stuart Low
From the website: "When I came back, I was a classic pissed-off human being. ... But I knew I didn't want to spend the rest of my life angry at the world, and photography was how I dealt with it."
More about pinhole photography
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Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art
From the website: Drawing upon the significant holdings of the National Gallery of Art in 19th- and early 20th-century photographs of Paris, Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art celebrates the visual riches of the city and the tensions of its portrayal as both a modern capital and a nostalgic, perhaps even magical place.
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Tom Sandberg - Photographs 1989 - 2006
From the website: Working for almost thirty years, exclusively with large format, black-and-white film, Sandberg has produced a remarkable body of work that is consistent in its vision and imbued with a sense of mystery and great depth of feeling. Whether he depicts sublime snow-covered mountains, a car parked in the street, the head of an infant, or a spectral house shrouded in fog, his pictures are about what it means to be alive.
From the website: Since the mid 1990s, Muniz has been incorporating everyday objects into his photographic process to create witty, bold, and often deceiving images based on photojournalism and art history. The Brazilian-born, New York-based artist makes pictures from dirt, diamonds, sugar, wire, string, chocolate syrup, peanut butter, dust, ketchup, the circular paper remnants made by hole punches, junk, pigment, and other materials. Though Muniz's images are often familiar - borrowing from popular culture and Old Master artists - it is quickly evident that they are not what they seem. Using an approach that the artist calls "the worst possible illusion," the works are formed from materials gathered from everyday life, which Muniz arranges and photographs, rather than traditional artistic materials.
Both at P.S.1
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From the website: Wherever you are in the world, participate in our exhibition! Upload your images here they will be displayed in our galleries.
At the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
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Can Photographers Be Plagiarists? by David Segal
More about photographer's rights
More about copyright
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Drex Brooks - Sweet Medicine by Nicole Pasulka
From the website: I grew up around Indian reservations and was aware of conditions on the rez and of the prevailing white attitudes at the time. I also read all the books I could find about Indians—Cochise, Sitting Bull, etc.—and was enamored of the beauty of the life and people portrayed in those books. I couldn't quite put those histories together with what I was taught in school and what I was seeing and hearing about Indians on the reservation. I wasn't aware of all that happened between the cultures, so I guess the photographic work I did was my way of learning more.
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Creating a 3D effect with image editing software (GIMP or Photoshop)
From the website: Here's how to make a neat effect to make it look like the subject of a photo is popping out of the background. This can be done
