March 2007 Archives

Gretchen Ludwig - "Dressing Rooms:" A Flickr photographer Q&A

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on March 31, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Gretchen Ludwig - "Dressing Rooms:" A Flickr photographer Q&A

From the website: I have an aversion to marketing, advertising, and any other ploy to get me to buy products that are extraneous. This anti-advertising politic has developed even further to become anti-corporation. However, even though I am able to intellectualize all of this, at the same time, it's so easy to fall prey to a good ad. Underneath it all, I have a weakness, and it's for fashion. I try to attribute it to my visual arts upbringing and tell my friends it's because I'm attracted to exciting visual stimuli (and there are some very exciting things going on in fashion, artistically) but the fact of the matter is, I just love clothes. It seemed so perfect to exploit this weakness in my own convictions, and to then turn my consumerism into something more, something that, once photographed, becomes anti-consumer.

Modern-day Monet?

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on March 30, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Modern-day Monet?

From the website: Elliot Anderson, a software engineer turned new-media artist, has taken tourist photos uploaded to the Web and turned them into works of digital art.

Making Art From Tourists' Digital Photos

From the website: First, he built a search engine to mine the Web for "tagged" photos of places like Niagara Falls, Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon. Then he used software to create a composite image for each destination in the form of a translucent film image. Finally, he placed the film in a lightbox--an encasement that highlights the negative with a fluorescent light--to show off the layered effect that comes from creating a composite image, or the "average" viewpoint, Anderson says.

Elliot Anderson: Average Landscapes - de Young Museum

Elliot Anderson

Essayist explores act, art of seeing

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on March 30, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Essayist explores act, art of seeing by Glenn C. Altschuler

From the website: Standing on a street corner in Midtown Manhattan in 1946, Jean-Paul Sartre looked for New York. But he couldn't find it. To Sartre, a Parisian, a city was a social milieu, where "streets run into other streets," and people meet, drink, eat and talk. On New York's grid, with its numbered avenues, "you never lose your way, and you are always lost."

Nichol's Intimate Portrait: Tigers Living Like Tigers

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on March 29, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Nichol's Intimate Portrait: Tigers Living Like Tigers

From the website: Setting up an unmanned camera trap at a water hole in India's Bandhavgarh National Park proved rewarding for Nichols, when Bachhi, a young adult tiger, braced herself along the rocks for a slurp of water and temporary relief from the 120°F (49°C) heat.

On Assignment with Nick Nichols by Leah Peterson

From the website: The trap works like a burglar alarm. There is an invisible beam and when the animal breaks it, the camera is set to take 1, 3 or many multiples of pictures. The animal sees the flash, which could cause him to bolt or to freeze. We had one ape take 53 images of himself by staying and triggering the flash. The cameras adjust the shutter speed throughout the day and we also set the trailmaster, the computer that triggers the camera, for certain times of the day when we know the animals will be there.

Michael Nichols

Joyce & Ed Morrill - Infinite India: An Excess of Reality

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on March 29, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Joyce & Ed Morrill - Infinite India: An Excess of Reality

From the website: One hundred vibrant images reflect the sensory bombardment, the sheer "excess of realty" this husband and wife photography team experienced in Northern India.

Show Walls Gallery at Durst Organization
1133 6th Ave. (43rd St. & 44th St.)
Closes 4/19

Garry Winogrand with Bill Moyers, 1982

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on March 28, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Garry Winogrand with Bill Moyers, 1982

From the website: When I'm photographing, I see life. That's what I deal with. I don't have pictures in my head. I frame in terms of what I want to include, and naturally, when I want to snap the shutter. And I don't worry about how the picture's gonna look - I let that take care of itself. We know too much about how pictures look and should look, and how do you get around making those pictures again and again. It's one modus operandi. To frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about how - making a nice picture. That, anybody can do.

Diane Arbus Audio Lecture

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on March 28, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Diane Arbus Audio Lecture

From the website: . . . it's rewarding to hear Arbus in her own words, even if at times she's hard to hear over her giggling admirers.

Pallalink - twisted symmetrie photographs

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on March 27, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Pallalink - twisted symmetrie photographs by Uleshka

From the website: By making it symmetrical I confront the natural with the mechanical, the artificial. Architecture in itself is made entirely by people to be used and controlled by people. It is artificial. However, when people come and gather, it becomes like a city, a living organism and the situation transforms into something more natural. My works contain both those artificial and natural components. I'm attracted by the dynamism of the change from a simple form to a complicated organism.

Katsuhiko Kimura

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on March 27, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Katsuhiko Kimura

From the website: Two things that I think are most beautiful, Nature and people when they are in their natural environments. When we are relaxed, the surrounding air becomes light and beautiful. This energy transcends to the eye of the viewer creating a calmness. I want to help preserve this beauty by photographing the harmony between nature/natural and people.

The Event and the Image, Fused by the Viewfinder

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on March 26, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

The Event and the Image, Fused by the Viewfinder by Michael Kimmelman

From the website: The other day, in an exhibition here at the Jeu de Paume called "The Event," I came across a marvelous photograph of the pioneering French aviator Hubert Latham. The picture was shot by some anonymous shutterbug in July 1909, when Latham's monoplane, the Antoinette, softly crashed just a mile or so shy of the Dover cliffs. Latham was racing from Calais to try to cross the Channel (this was his second attempt), and he had gotten far enough to hear the sirens of well-wishers and the hooting of tugs at the English shore when his engine suddenly conked out.

It's enough to make your eyeballs sweat

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on March 26, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

It's enough to make your eyeballs sweat by Lucy Davies

From the website: Gursky is candid about his use of image manipulation, spending months in his Düsseldorf studio looking through reels and reels of film, adjusting colour, light and shade, sometimes one pixel at a time. He calls it "assisted realism". The illusion is masterful, and at first sight, every picture seems a glimpse of the real world. Even when you register the seams, this impression is hard to shake off. It's a little disorienting.

White Cube, Mason's Yard

Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers

James Turrel - Light Leadings

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on March 24, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

James Turrel - Light Leadings

Holograms

More NYC Photography Exhibits

The New Color: The Return of Black-and-White

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on March 23, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

The New Color: The Return of Black-and-White by Charlotte Cotton

From the website: As my antenna for photography undergoes a now conscious shift, I've begun to hone in on contemporary bodies of work that resonate with this new understanding. I can't speak for others, but my curatorial practice often works in this way: an idea takes hold of me and, magically, I realize that its manifestations are already there and all around me, if only I had chosen to notice. It is, for me, the most enriching stage of being with photography - before the lockdown and paperwork of turning an idea into a piece of writing, an event, or an exhibition. It is a most rewarding stage, to feel one's sensibility being drawn into new experiences.

Psychiatrist uses photography to treat patients

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on March 23, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Psychiatrist uses photography to treat patients by Cassandra Szklarski

From the website: "So much of therapy is talk therapy — and in many ways, the visual is really a stronger way into the unconscious than the verbal. It's a more primitive part of the brain, the visual."

Homeless Camera Adventure

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on March 22, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Homeless Camera Adventure

From the website: While most appear trapped, others desire the lonesome independence. Regardless, all have a story to tell. Some of those stories can be found here in the photos they've taken.

Port surrenders in the battle against kitsch

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on March 22, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Port surrenders in the battle against kitsch by Robert L. Pincus

From the website: The words of Fielding Mellish from Woody Allen's movie "Bananas," reacting to his courtroom trial, come to mind while staring up at Seward's sculpture: "It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham."

Looks like a Jeff Koons.

Charles Traub's Advice for Young Photographers

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on March 21, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Charles Traub's Advice for Young Photographers

From the website: Do it big—if you can't do it big, do it red.

From Jim:
Fame, Guru-hood, Sales of Prints (How to Become a Famous Photographer)

From my free book:
PATH: Ways-of-working in Photography

Some Pearls of Wisdom from Duane Michals

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on March 21, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Some Pearls of Wisdom from Duane Michals

From the website: Diane Arbus is authentic; Cindy Sherman is inauthentic.

From Jim:
Fame, Guru-hood, Sales of Prints (How to Become a Famous Photographer)

From my free book:
PATH: Ways-of-working in Photography

Pseudo Photobooth

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on March 20, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Pseudo Photobooth by Stacie Hibino

From the website: There's something magical about a photobooth. You step into the booth by yourself, with some friends, or with that special someone... the pictures are about to be taken and all of a sudden . . .

More about photobooths

3D pictures the easy way

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on March 20, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

3D pictures the easy way by Aprille Byam

From the website: I cut the prints out and put them side-by-side on a piece of thin cardboard. This I inserted in our vintage viewer and voila! A 3D image that I can take with my digital camera and still see 2D when I want.

More about stereo photography

Look at Me, World! Self-Portraits Morph Into Internet Movies

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on March 19, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Look at Me, World! Self-Portraits Morph Into Internet Movies by Keith Schneider

From the website: "Everyday" succeeds in large part because it adheres to all three of the new principles of digital media, said Jonathan Lipkin, a professor of digital media at Ramapo College in New Jersey and the author of "Photography Reborn" (Abrams).

Midley Search on History of Photography

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on March 19, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Midley Search on History of Photography

From the website: Search 39 websites specifically concerned with the History of Photography and related subjects.

Derek Wood also has a great history of photograph website:

Midley History of Photography

More history of photography

Schoharie County Photography Club

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on March 17, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Schoharie County Photography Club

From the website: The Schoharie Photo club was started in 1999 by Jack McNerney and Cole Vickery with assistance from the Schoharie Council of Arts. Our goal was to provide a common ground for the photographers (both amateur and professional) in the region to discuss their art, learn techniques from each other, display their images, and discuss their body of work.

Join a photography club, MeetUp, or ?:

Connect with Other Photographers In-Person

Connect with Other Photographers Online

Blink-free photos, guaranteed

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on March 16, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Blink-free photos, guaranteed

From the website: Piers also came up with a rule of thumb for calculating the number of photos to take for groups of less than 20: divide the number of people by three if there's good light and two if the light's bad.

Microsoft Research Group Shot

From the website: MSR Group Shot helps you create a perfect group photo out of a series of group photos. With Group Shot you can select your favorite parts in each shot of the series and Group Shot will automatically build a composite image.

Artists look different

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on March 16, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Artists look different by Dave Munger

From the website: In both cases, non-artists spent significantly more time looking at these key areas than artists. Interestingly, even artists spent more time looking at these areas when trying to remember the pictures.

Jessie Mann 'Self-Possessed'

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on March 15, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Jessie Mann 'Self-Possessed'

From the website: Jessie Mann 'Self-Possessed' fuses conceptual astuteness and technical excellence. It is the result of a five year collaboration between a highly regarded photographer and a subject [Sally Mann's daughter] who wittingly and unwittingly has become one of the most compelling and controversial models in photography today.

Impounded - The Japanese American Interment through the Lens of Dorothea Lange

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on March 15, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Impounded - The Japanese American Interment through the Lens of Dorothea Lange

From the website: Lange's photographs make her condemnation of the policy quite clear, clear enough that the army brass did not want the pictures publicly released. After the war, they were deposited in the National Archives. A few have been used by scholars and a small selection in a publication of several different photographers' work by the Asian American Studies Center of the University of California/ Los Angeles, but Lange's images have never been published or exhibited on their own.

Control Your Focus With the ExpoAperture Depth-of-Field Guide

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on March 14, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Control Your Focus With the ExpoAperture Depth-of-Field Guide

From the website: The ExpoAperture Depth-of-Field Guide is a simple and convenient reference tool designed to enable the photographer to quickly evaluate the relative depth-of-field (what will be in focus) given a chosen aperture and lens focal length. The guide will just as easily provide the best aperture to achieve a desired depth-of-field.

This is so analog.

Sensor Scope System - Sensor Cleaning

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on March 14, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Sensor Scope System - Sensor Cleaning

From the website: SensorScope enables you to check your sensor to see if it needs cleaning-there's nothing safer than not cleaning your sensor. The SensorScope looks like a camera lens; however, it allows you to look back into your camera to inspect your sensor. The SensorScope is easily portable and provides a 5x magnification lens and 4 ultra bright LED lights, which are focused to completely illuminate the field of inspection.

$189

Demystifying Hyperfocal Focusing for Wide Angle Landscape Photos

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on March 13, 2007 6:00 AM | Permalink

Demystifying Hyperfocal Focusing for Wide Angle Landscape Photos by Rod Barbee

From the website: When you use hyperfocal focusing you're taking the greatest advantage of depth of field to achieve the greatest amount of apparent focus.

Beth Wald - Far and Wide

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