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| Ryan McGinley |
From the website: They get high, get naked, and jump on trampolines. They skinny-dip in mountain lakes and stare searchingly at themselves in bathroom mirrors. They giggle and hug. They shoplift and puke and crash together on dingy mattresses on the floor. They are the cool, giddy, beautiful young things who populate the pictorial world of photographer Ryan McGinley.
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| Karl G. Lindgren |
On Reality 6: Mysteries of Photography by Karl G. Lindgren
From the website: What's mysterious about photography? The first photos were shot about 180 years ago. The conceptual process never changed: have light, see things, point camera, release shutter, make stored image visible and view results. Today's tools are different and possibly more convenient. But tools do not make good photographs. The more sophisticated the gadgets, the greater the risk of misuse and disastrous results.
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| Baron Wolman |
Baron Wolman: An Interview with Rolling Stone's First Chief Photographer by Christian Hoard
From the website: "Back then, the musicians were more willing to reveal their true selves. We had all access, all the time," Wolman says."They saw us as part of the family, not the enemy."
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| Steve Mirarchi |
Concert, Stage, and Low-Light Photography, A Tutorial by Steve Mirarchi
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| Brian C. Morrison |
FAQ: Nikonians Stage, Concert and Nightlife Photography by Brian C. Morrison
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| Stephen Gill |
From the website: The billboard can often be seen with its back to the railway tracks or car park, a construction site or an area of wasteland. The basic and most common type is a wooden hoarding structure fixed into the ground with vertical supports to resist strong winds. The range of items promoted is seemingly endless, although adverts for consumer goods far outnumber civic or community announcements. Whatever the product, we read the visual signs in a flash and absorb the meaning in spite of ourselves. As well as relaying their message, billboards naturally become a curtain for whatever lies behind.
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| Scott McFarland |
Scott McFarland - Works on Paper
From the website: Scott McFarland's work reconsiders the traditional concept of a photograph as the depiction of a single captured moment in time. Through digital means, his photographs combine multiple negatives to represent simultaneous temporalities within a single image. Several different moments are folded into what appears to be one densely packed instant. McFarland photographs the same location in the same scale and perspective over a period of time and employs digital processes to seamlessly interweave selected elements into a cohesive whole. The photographs are meticulously constructed illusions created within the formal language of documentary photography.
The gallery, Regen Projects I, is in Los Angeles.
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| bookgrl |
Teaching Photography to a 5-Year-Old by Daniela Bowker
From the website: How old were you when you took your first real photograph? You know, intentionally focusing on something to produce an image. Four? Eight? In your teens? Maybe even later? Children being inquisitive by nature, and wanting to imitate adults, the instant gratification of digital photography makes the chances of them wanting to have a go with a camera quite high. So, when a five year old is looking at you and your camera expectantly, how do you teach him or her to take a photo?
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| Dennis Dunleavy |
From the website: When we recall an image that conveys meaning for us, the picture will often hold a certain power over how we think and act in the world. In other words, pictures help shape or construct what we know of as reality.
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| PopPhoto.com |
From the website: Whether you consider them icons or eye-candy, you can probably describe these photographs without looking. Indelible artifacts of pop culture, they've become embedded in our collective unconscious. But who shot them, and what made them stick?
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| world’s famous photos |
From the website: These are indeed world's most famous photos. Every single one of them has a great story behind, we're trying to bring you the pictures that changed mankind. If the change was good or bad, that is for you to judge.
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| Anonymous |
From the website: Since the first affordable camera was made available by Kodak in 1900, snapshot photography has become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, a means of documenting and preserving our personal histories. Accidental Mysteries explores the tradition of picture-taking in a critical context, asking viewers to contemplate the role of photography beyond the keepsake, but as a body of work produced by our society at large. Recognized as a legitimate and important field of study, vernacular photography is both a form of individual artistic expression and a societal practice whose meaning defies easy interpretation.
Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA
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| Karl Baden |
Karl Baden - 20 years in the life of an obsessive artist by Mark Feeney
From the website: Baden said there are three fundamental aspects to the project in addition to obsession: mortality, incremental change (and its relationship to artistic Minimalism), and the dynamic between perfection and imperfection. "There's something heroic about it," gallery owner Howard Yezerski said of Baden's project. "You'd think it's about narcissism, but it's not."
More Baden
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| Jim Richardson |
Jim Richardson - The Last Real American Landscape by David Schonauer
From the website: The challenge to Richardson was to capture in photographs the beauty he saw in the area. "They have this lovely maternal look to them, in the grace of the curves, the rifts in the valleys and all," he says. He approached the assignment as he does all his other Geographic work. "You drive a hell of a lot of miles to find the places that have the look you want. You go out at every time of day, in every kind of weather, and if you can to hire a plane and shoot from above. You basically work the story for all it's worth."
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| Etheldreda Janet Laing (1872-1960) |
Dawn of Colour - National Media Museum
From the website: Today, we take colour photography for granted. Yet, for many years colour photographs remained an elusive dream. One hundred years ago, the dream became a reality when the first fully practical method of colour photography appeared – the Autochrome process.
More about autochromes
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| A Film by Jennifer Baichwal |
Edward Burtynsky Manufactured Landscapes
From the website: MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES begins as a portrait of acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, who specializes in large-scale images of vast industrial landscapes. It quickly develops into a meditation on the human and environmental costs of the permanent and profound changes our planet is experiencing. Focusing on Burtynsky's images of China as it undergoes an unprecedented transformation into a 21st century powerhouse, the film's surface is beautiful, its implications frightening. Largely shot by Peter Mettler, it captures a brave new world that manages to be both luscious and unutterably repellent, often simultaneously.
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| Stephen Shore | |
How Stephen Shore Helped Break Photography's Color Barrier by Daniel Kunitz
From the website: For decades, people saw color photography in black and white: It was for amateurs or crass commercialism; it was emphatically not for art. Kodacolor, considered the first true color negative film, was introduced in 1942. As late as 1997, the Oxford History of Art volume on the photograph still claimed, "Color photographs remain problematic. They are central to the snapshot, but are still invariably rejected by the professional and art photographer . . ."
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| Laurie Leber |
From the website: Come out and see us at 2 PM on June 23rd for the 25th Anniversary Mermaid Parade!
Shy about photographing people? Go to the parade!
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| Todd Hido |
From the website: I shoot sort of like a documentarian but I print like a painter.
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| Ashley Gilbertson |
Ashley Gilbertson - Last Photographs with Joanna Gilbertson
From the website: Covering the war used to make me feel like I was doing something important, but I have grown to accept that Americans will not stop dying because I take their pictures; sectarian violence won't end because I photographed one woman's death; and abuse won't stop because I witnessed the aftermath of one interrogation. I'm just recording history now, documenting the decline, in the hope that the people who don't recognize it now may one day look back at my pictures and see the war for the mistake-riddled quagmire it was—and is. In the meantime, I'll continue to struggle with how to define the conflict in Iraq without letting it define me.
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| Jen Bekman Gallery |
Jen Bekman 20X200: The Q&A by Rob Walker
From the website: Murketing noted with interest the recent announcement by Jen Bekman, founder of the jen bekman gallery, that she was planning a new project called 20X200 — "prints in limited editions of 200, for $20 each." The concept raised some interesting questions, about the value of art, the boundary between the inclusive and the exclusive, the state of cultural expertise these days, and the possibility that as products become more like art, art is becoming more like products.
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| Aaron Dana |
From the website: If you rely on the art rags or, say, The New York Times, for news about the art world, it's easy to get the impression that art is for the very few: not even scads of money can get you the art you want—you need clout, cache, or pedigree.
From the website: Could I make more money by focusing my efforts on selling bigger more expensive pieces? Sure, I imagine that I could. But I'm not doing this for purely financial reasons. (I probably would've switched to real estate or hedge funds a long time ago if I was.) I created 20×200 because I'm really driven by a passion for supporting emerging artists and collectors.
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| Joe Reifer |
Digital night photography: Exposure balance by Joe Reifer
From the website: One of the challenges of digital night photography is achieving a balance between a technically correct exposure and a night-time feel.
More about night photography
Tip: Night Photography
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| Joseph Meehan |
Joseph Meehan - Embracing the Future? With a Mindful Eye on the Past by Michelle Perkins
From the website: "The problem with today's automatic cameras is that photographers tend to use the zoom lens, for example, primarily to frame— ignoring what a wide angle effect will give or the look telephoto compression produces." In this way, modern hardware can actually place subtle restraints on achieving full creative expression; the controls are there, but the technology makes them easy to ignore.
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| Stephen Schaub |
Stephen Schaub - The Haiku Series by Lorraine A. Darconte
From the website: "Because I'm scanning a positive, the final scan is 600 megabytes. When you enlarge a Polaroid 3000%, it deconstructs and takes on a dimensional roundness. The grain of the Polaroid becomes like pointillism, and from a distance, [the prints] have an almost painterly quality."
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| Ansel Adams |
Son reflects on photographer Adams' work
From the website: Adams' son, Michael, lugged gear and hiked with his father when the legendary photographer took some of his famous works. He recently walked through a new gallery show opening at Washington University in St. Louis called "Ansel Adams: Reverence for Life" to talk about his memories of his father, who died in 1984 at age 82, and his work.
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| Craig Varjabedian |
Craig Varjabedian - Pasatiempo: Bucking the Yosemite syndrome by Paul Weideman
From the website: "I tell students to expose with their heart and edit with their head."
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| Jack Remsberg |
Photographer Recalls Years Capturing Cows on Film by Joyce Bupp
From the website: "Cattle are like people," said Remsberg. "No two are alike in personality. You need to learn their personalities if you're going to work with them."
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| Coke Wisdom O'Neal |
Coke Wisdom O'Neal - Working With Family by Nicole Pasulka
From the website: In the show of "Boxes" I utilized the box as an apparatus to remove my subjects from their environments. The absurd size of the structure isolates and miniaturizes figures inside the box for a concentrated study. With a common background, each figure is a unique specimen. In Richard Avedon's Photographs of the American West, his subjects are all shot on location on a white background. The subjects create their own narratives. The portraits are environmental without the use of an environment. I wanted to play with this idea, but in a ludicrous way.
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| Haunted When It Rains |
From the website: What a comfort it is to possess the image of those who are removed from our sight. We may raise an image of them in our minds but that has not the tangibility of one we can see with our bodily eyes.
Flora A. Windeyer, letter to Rev. John Blomfield November 1870
Possibly NSFW - The websites in this entry may be emotionally disturbing.
Photographer Specializes in Infant Bereavement by Elisabeth Wynne Johnson
From the website: Photographers are usually hired to record a happy occasion . . .
From the website: For families overcome by grief and pain, the idea of photographing their baby may not immediately occur to them. Offering gentle and beautiful photography and videography services in a compassionate and sensitive manner is the heart of this organization. The soft, gentle heirloom photographs of these beautiful babies are an important part of the healing process. They allow families to honor and cherish their babies, and share the spirits of their lives.
The American Child Photographers Charity Guild
From the website: The American Child Photographers Charity Guild is a non-profit, volunteer based organization of child photographers from all over the country who have come together to form a guild dedicated to children in need and their families.
More about post-mortem photography
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| George Ruhe |
Felice Frankel - She Calls It 'Phenomena.' Everyone Else Calls It Art. by Cornelia Dean
From the website: Phenomena like magnetism or the behavior of water molecules or how colonies of bacteria grow — phenomena of nature. "So I don’t call it art," Ms. Frankel said. "When it's art, it's more about the creator, not necessarily the concept in the image."
Gallery at the New York Academy of Sciences
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| Stockbyte |
Say Cheese, A defense of traditional wedding photography by Eliza Truitt
From the website: When you ask today's bride-to-be what she's looking for in a wedding photographer, you rarely hear that she wants someone who can take "great formal photos." She's generally seeking some combination of "photojournalistic" and "candid" shots.
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