The Leonard Lopate Show: The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore
From the website: Photographer Stephen Shore explains the basics of understanding and appreciating the art of photography.
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April 2007 Archives
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Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery
From the website: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, founded in 1972 by Larry Siegel with the help of Robert Menschel, was the first nonprofit organization in New York City with a mission to provide a public space for the display of photographs, helping the careers of dozens of photographers from 1972 to 1996. Prior to the 1980s, very few galleries showed photography exclusively, and emerging photographers were faced with limited options for exhibiting their work outside museums. This exhibition offers a broader vision of the photography that was seen during the period in which photography became a mainstay of the art world, as well as an intimate portrait of one New York gallery.
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Katherine D. Crone - Open Studio
From the website: These works are visual journals. The images are transparent and ephemeral but are captured in book forms and rendered in photographs with sculptural dimension. My subject matter is quotidian--light and shadows, water, reflections, architectural details, panoramic landscapes--but like the daily life captured by a written journal it brings with it accumulated meaning and emotion.
Saturday, April 28, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 29, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
Monday, April 30, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
515 Greenwich St. (Spring St. and Van Dam St.) Room #402
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James Hill - On Top of the World (Slideshow)
From the website: In Russia, distance from the Kremlin seems to grow the imagination. Nine time zones away, in the far distant Arctic, officials and entrepreneurs dream of rail lines, pipelines, even an intercontinental tunnel to Alaska. What's there now? Some villages and a lot of snow. There are also bear hunters, like this man from the village of Nutepelmen, frosted over after traveling on his dogsled across the frozen Chukchi Sea.
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Noctilucent Clouds (Slideshow)
From the website: High-altitude wisps known as noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds, like these over Alaska last June, are visible during summer months. Although they float 50 miles above the surface, noctilucent clouds seem to be affected by changing conditions near the ground. Global warming near the surface has cooled the upper atmosphere, and noctilucent clouds have become brighter, more numerous and more widespread. Once they could be seen only in the higher latitudes like Britain and Scandanavia. Now they can be seen as far south as Colorado and Virginia.
First Mission to Explore Those Wisps in the Night Sky by Kenneth Chang
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In The Wild With Team Husar; A Cause Served With Great Images by Rosalind Smith
From the website: With compassion and empathy for our wildlife, Lisa and Mike Husar of Wisconsin are dedicated to educating us all about the importance of earth's wild creatures. Whether it is zebras at a watering hole in Kenya, a mother panda and her cub in China, or a polar bear with her triplets in Canada, photographing animals around the world has become their passion.
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Truckin' On A Tundra Buggy; Photographing Polar Bears Near The Arctic Circle by Rick Sammon
From the website: With the wind chill factor it's 35°F below zero. I've only been standing on the small, snow-covered deck of a Frontiers North Adventures Tundra Buggy (a vehicle specially designed for polar exploration) for about 5 minutes, and already my hands, face, and especially my feet feel numb. Looking through my camera's viewfinder, I am framing a mother polar bear and her two adorable cubs strolling across the ice at a leisurely pace, as if it were mid-summer.
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From the website: My life in photography changed one fall morning at the Frederick County Fair. A numbness on my right side indicated that I was joining the more than 600,000 people nationwide who suffer from strokes each year.
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Spring Photography Auctions in NYC
Phillips de Pury and Co. - April 24th & 25th
Christie's:
Modern Photographs from a European Collection - April 23rd
Horst Photographs from the Collection of Gert Elfering - April 23rd
Photographs - April 23rd & 24th
Sotheby's:
Photographs - April 26
Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston - April 25th & 26
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Rayment Kirby Cameras - Workshop
From the website: Welcome to the all new Workshop section of the site where Rayment Kirby gives practical advice on designing and building your very own large format camera. All aspects of the construction are covered, from the initial design through to the completion of the project, and the advice given caters for builders of all skill levels.
Via photostream
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Interview with Wayne Belger by Summer Block
From the website: "One of my latest and most interesting cameras is called Yama. It's a stereo camera made from a 500-year-old Tibetan skull. Yama is the Tibetan god of death. The skull was blessed by a Tibetan Lama for its current journey, and I'm working with a Tibetan legal organization that is sending me to the refugee cities in India. The photo series will be of a 500-year-old homecoming through the eyes of a Tibetan Lama."
More Berger
More about pinhole photography
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From the website: Philip Jones Griffiths is one of the world's most celebrated war photographers, known especially for his gritty shots of Vietnam. In this photo essay, his words and pictures tell the story of his own journey from being a child in love with the power of weaponry to being a pacifist war photographer.
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People Pictures, The Art of the Conceptual Photograph 1915 – 1920
From the website: " . . . these military formations serve as rallying points to support U.S. involvement in the war and to ward off any isolationist tendencies. In life during wartime, [their] patriotic images function as "nationalist propaganda" and instantiate photo cultural formations of citizenship for both the participants and the consumers of these group photographs."
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Richard Billingham - From my family ... to other animals by Tim Adams
From the website: In the end, his escape route as an artist has been the same one he took from his childhood in Cradley Heath. In those days, in rare breaks from the monotony of poverty, his mum took him by bus to Dudley Zoo. The oddness of those encounters with the exotic - gorillas and giraffes in the heart of the urban West Midlands - stayed with him. He became a tower block natural historian; David Attenborough was his hero.
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Leigh Anne Langwell - Photograms
From the website: I have always envisioned the core of the body as somehow illuminated—a self-contained lightning storm. Swirling clouds of charged ions pass through membranes and fleshy nets. The internal light of electrical fire flashes in milliseconds like the discreet pulses of stars conducted through oceans of saline and covering vast atomic distances. Similar to the simple repetition of four amino acid sequences or cells within systems and tissues, my images—often structured around an arrangement of simple elements—serve as a codes that I use to understand by metaphor and comparison, the workings of science and the culture, poetry and beauty that are literally reflected in the cells, structures and chemical memories of the body.
Artist Showcase – Leigh Anne Langwell
More photograms
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In 'Nickel's Chicago,' a Lost City's Lost Champion
From the website: Architect Louis Sullivan's buildings defined the city of Chicago at the turn of the last century, but by the 1950s, many of those buildings were being torn down. Photographer Richard Nickel raced against time to preserve them on film, but it was a race he lost — Nickel was killed when one of the buildings he was shooting collapsed on top of him.
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From the website: What started as a lark has turned into something much larger. Every day, I'm amazed, bewildered, and elated that I can, through this site, make so many people happy.
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Find the Great Images Inside Your Photos by Vincent Versace
From the website: If the words of color are lost in a cacophony of shapes, the image will be less than it could be. The better you support color and its expression, the better your images will be appreciated. And just as in a street fight, the only rule is that there are no rules. All elements are available for you to use and exploit. Everything you do is in service of the print, which will always be in service of what is ultimately the most important: your voice and vision.
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Renée C. Byer - 2007 Pulitzer, Feature Photography
A mother's journey (Reg. req.)
From the website: Reporter Cynthia Hubert and photographer Renée C. Byer met Cyndie French in May 2005, about six months after her son Derek Madsen was diagnosed with cancer. French invited the journalists to observe all aspects of the boy's care and to document its impact on him and his family. For the next year, Hubert and Byer spent countless hours with Derek and his friends and relatives at home, on family outings and during doctor visits, blood transfusions, surgeries and other treatments. All of the scenes in this story were witnessed by Hubert and Byer.
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From the website: "The street gives me an opportunity to wander and explore, to free my mind of expectation and critical thought, and allow myself to be surprised by the incongruities that are revealed," explains Peters. "I live in the moment, free to see, feel, anticipate and act with purpose and spontaneity at the same time. Each image captures people out of context, abstracted into a frozen instant. Lives that are as textured and varied as my own, forever preserved in a moment between moments, going about living, and moving along to somewhere else. Who are they, where are they going or coming from? What is their story?"
Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
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Amber Holritz - Lifestyle Baby Photography
From the website: Lifestyle Photography is (and should be!) taking over the portraiture world. Slowly but surely, we are losing the market for those stiff, "smile at the camera" portraits, as a relaxed, journalistic style of imagery moves onto the scene. I have recently fallen in love with the world of Lifestyle Baby Photography, and wanted to share some of my newfound passion with you!
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Baby on Board, and a Photography Business, Too by Hannah Farfield
From the website: "I realized that I could actually get paid doing what I loved — photographing babies and newborns," she said. So when her daughter was 18 months old, Natasha Cuevas Photography was born.
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Create Large Wall Posters from Any Photograph Using Picasa
From the website: Picasa, the versatile photo editing software from Google, can convert digital pictures into full size wall posters that you can even print at home using any photo printer.
Also go to the Rasterbator
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A War Photographer's View of Iraq
From the website: "We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history," he says. "I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond."
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Photographer Given Rare Access to North Korea
From the website: He returned to photograph North Korea several times, gathering vivid snapshots of everyday life throughout the country.
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Anthony Cava - Fashion Photography is Not All Glamour by Harvey Goldstein
From the website: "Fashion photography is filled with long, high-pressure days involving travel, traffic, lugging equipment, missing meals, eating on the run, hot weather, cold weather and getting the right look every time. At the end of the day, you are exhausted, but after more than 20 years in the business, it is still the best job in the world," Anthony says. "It is not one of those jobs that you can perfect and manufacture—you can always outdo yourself the next time. That is the biggest challenge and inspiration. In the final analysis, I am happy to have such great assignments, even though fashion photography is not all glamour!"
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Paul Eekhoff - Diversifying in a Changing Market by Michelle Perkins
From the website: Today, Eekhoff's portfolio extends into just about every conceivable genre of commercial imaging—from product photography and still lifes, to architectural images and fine art prints. Five years ago, he also added teaching to his busy schedule, spending one day per week teaching advanced lighting at a local college—a pursuit he loves. Expanding into these diverse types of jobs has been a key element in Eekhoff's success. "In a large market like New York, you might be able to get away with specializing in just one specific kind of work," he says, "but not in a smaller market like Toronto."
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From the website: A stylistic precursor of such artists as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pierre et Gilles, and David LaChapelle, James Bidgood revolutionized gar erotic imagery. Bidgood was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to sexual male fantasies. Yet, his photographs, which range from the camp to the surreal, are still scarcely known to the wider public.
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Art's Audiences Become Artworks Themselves by Michael Kimmelman
From the website: "The moments of the past do not remain still," as Proust wrote. "They retain in our memory the motion which drew them toward the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train."
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