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| George A. Jardine |
Podcast #39 Posted, with Pete Turner by George A. Jardine
From the website: This podcast was recorded on Thursday August 9th, 2007 in Wainscott, NY, in the home and studio of Pete Turner. Pete sits down with George to have a conversation about how he got started in photography and his early experiments with color. Along the way this legendary pioneer of color photography talks us through the creation of dozens of his "signature" photographs.
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| Andrew Ilachinski |
A Few Basic Lessons of Fine-Art Photography by Andrew Ilachinski
From the website: A young photographer recently asked me one of those "deceptively difficult" questions one encounters from time to time. While not quite in the unanswerable category that questions such as "So, what is life all about?" fall into, I was nonetheless hard pressed to give a quick respond to this question: "What are the most important lessons you've learned on your way to becoming a fine-art photographer?"
More about being a photographer
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| Gordon Brinckle by Kendall Messick |
From the website: Its current exhibition is something more dazzling and unusual, based around a photographic project by Kendall Messick. The subject is Brinckle (pronounced Brinkley), Messick's old neighbor in Delaware. As a boy, the artist remembers visiting Brinckle's house and seeing a movie theatre in the basement. When Messick came home years later and found that his neighbor had continued to tweak, improve, and utilize the theatre, he started to photograph the elderly man.
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| The Projectionist |
The Projectionist - An Exhibition and Film by Kendall Messick
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| Tom Carter |
From the website: Backpacker photographer Thomas Carter spent two years capturing the China that few people see. He often slept on bus station floors and advises: "Close your eyes and point to a place on a Chinese map, then go there," writes Yao Minji.
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| University of California Libraries |
Letters on Landscape Photography by Henry Peach Robinson
From the website: THE following letters were written to a friend whose study of photography enabled him to produce a technically perfect negative, but who did not know how to put his knowledge to pictorial use. They were not intended to point out a royal road to art, but rather to act as a stimulus to activity in the search for subjects for the camera, and to teach how readiness of resource may help good fortune in turning them into agreeable pictures.
More Robinson
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| O. C. Garza |
Class Time with Garry Winogrand (PDF)
From the website: When you are twenty years old and the photography instructor begins lecturing on form versus content, or that a photograph cannot tell a story, or that there are no rules of composition, or that things are changed when you photograph them, or that a photographic print is an interpretation of the world by a camera, or that he didn't develop his film for months or years after he shot it; things can get philosophical and confusing pretty quickly.
More Winogrand
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| Lain Chroust Ehmann |
Are you living the moment if you're always behind a camera? by Lain Chroust Ehmann
From the website: But there's a cost that comes with viewing the world -- and my family -- solely through the lens of a camera. I've discovered that when I'm busy recording life, I'm not living it. I become so concerned about the lighting and how much film/memory card and battery life I have left that I become distanced from what's going on right in front of me. I become an observer, not a participant
Take your camera by John Enman
From the website: The famous photographer Jay Miesel was asked "What is the best way to improve your photography?" and his answer was "Take your camera with you."
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| Mike Lowe |
Skin Retouching: Masterclass: How to (part 1) by Mike Lowe
From the website: Every magazine model has been touched up - in Photoshop. It's become a regular feature of any high-end photography. So here's how the professionals do it.
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| Harry Benson |
Benson captures politics 'crisis' by Karin Goodwin
From the website: He captured the Beatles on their first trip to the States, witnessed the assassination of Robert F Kennedy - and has the pictures to prove it.
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| Henri Cartier-Bresson |
The dark side of photosharing sites? by Ed Zawadzki
From the website: There is no question that digital imaging and the internet have revolutionized the art of photography. Now everyone with a camera and a computer has the ability to take literally unlimited amounts of photographs, without any of the previous "arcane technical knowledge" required in the days of manual cameras and instantly display them to an audience of millions of people.
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| Sigma |
From the website: Sigma Corporation of America is pleased to announce its third photo contest "Summer Dreams." This contest is for U.S. residents only. All entries must be received by Sigma Corporation of America by September 30, 2007. The Winners will be announced October 31, 2007. Please follow the links on the left for contest details, eligibility information, and entry forms.
More contests
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| Scott Stulberg |
From the website: The right equipment, being creative, interacting well with your subjects, and of course being in the right place at the right time can all add up to some stunning imagery. An important part of that gear is the lenses you choose to bring along. Because varying angles and focal lengths portray the face in radically different ways, I always travel equipped with a wide variety to hopefully match every subject and scene. My basic assortment includes a 14mm, 16-35mm, 24-105mm, 70-200mm, 50mm macro, and a 1.4 extender. Of course, my carbon-fiber tripod is never far from me.
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| Karen Parker | |
Why you need a... reflector by Karen Parker
From the website: Reflectors can be used to fill in shadows, brighten features, highlight areas, bounce and diffuse. They are so good that they can be used without using flash and some of the larger sizes can reflect an awful lot of light and reduce contrast in a big way.
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| Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law |
Distorted Picture by Sherry Ricchiardi
From the website: Writing for the New York Times in 1990, acclaimed photo critic Andy Grundberg predicted, "In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will be aware that they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated." History has given weight to his prophecy as photo managers search for answers.
A picture worth a thousand lies by Robert Vamosi
From the website: When you increase brightness on a picture, you bring out all the things like wrinkles that really aren't attractive. And they'll soften the picture on Barack Obama to make it look better. Editorially, this can be taken too far. You saw that in the case of O.J. Simpson, (whose mug shot looked very different on the front covers of Newsweek and Time).
I'm not sure who's modifying the pictures--whether it's the photographer submitting it or the intern who's putting them together or someone else at USA Today--but they'll modify it to increase the brightness, for example, on Hillary.
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| Tibet Album |
From the website: The Tibet Album presents more than 6000 photographs spanning 30 years of Tibet's history. These extraordinary photographs are a unique record of people long gone and places changed beyond all recognition. They also document the ways that British visitors encountered Tibet and Tibetans.
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| Chen Changfen |
Chen Changfen Photographs The Great Wall Of China; One Subject, Ever Changing by Rosalind Smith
From the website: The photographs of Chen Changfen speak of tranquility and mysticism. Winter snow melting into the sea beneath a cold blue sky; miles of sand and rock as well as mountain landscapes have created a poetic background for the Great Wall of China over the years. For the past 30 years Changfen has trudged the steep paths to photograph the rough, hidden beauty of the Wall in a variety of magical and atmospheric surroundings.
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| XMG Image |
6 Online Photo Editors Compared by Cameron Chapman
From the website: With the launch this week of online image "pimping" tool Graphita, we thought it was a good time to look at some of the more interesting players in this market. Below: 6 good ones compared.
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| Peter Miller |
Peter Miller - Kamakura Print Collection
From the website: Photogravure etchings are printed by hand from copperplates with a variety of etching inks and papers. More than just a printmaking technique, photogravure etching is also a way of exploring the world that brings to light an incomparable variety of tone and texture: shimmering luminous highlights, deep multi-hued blacks, shadows within shadows, and the most subtle gradations of tone. They offer an opportunity to transcend, if only momentarily, this everyday existence: through the chance observation, a sudden insight, the spark of enlightenment, a glimpse of the higher reality that makes sense of myriad details.
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| The Daily Journal |
Maxwell MacKenzie - Photographer pushes limits with 'Markings' by Susan Larson
From the website: After his father's death in 1995, he decided it was time to take to the air, if only on a smaller scale. In the late '90s, MacKenzie purchased a powered parachute. Powered by an engine similar to that of a snowmobile or jet-ski, "It's the cheapest, safest way to fly," he said. Fed by ordinary gasoline, the tank holds 10 gallons; he uses two or three gallons per hour.
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| Brenda Biondo |
Brenda Biondo - Photographer chases past with old playground pieces by Bill Reed
From the website: "The old stuff seems to have so much character to it," Biondo said. "I really like looking at the sculptural aspects — curves, colors, shadows, reflections. It's not just a hunk of metal, but it is beautiful in itself."
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| Mark Thiessen |
National Geographic - Adventure Photography Tips by Mark Thiessen
From the website: Thiessen spent a windy spring day at Great Falls Park in Virginia taking photos of landscapes, athletes, and a dog named Ro. Using one camera, two lenses, and 12 rolls of film, Mark tackled many of the situations that most adventure photographers encounter out in the field.
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| Yedda Morrison |
Yedda Morrison: Rapid motion of the false stars by Robin Laurence
From the website: Ranging from monumental to intimate in scale, many of Morrison's prints are reminiscent of 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings. Luminous, lush, delicately articulated flowers and subtly coloured leaves and stems stand against–or dissolve into–a dense, dark background. With its crowd of yellow, off-white, and pale-orange flowers, Bioposy #1 (Yellows) is especially close to its historical precedents. Through Morrison's extreme formal and technical control, a 2007 photo of fake chrysanthemums, daffodils, and anemones reads remarkably like a 1665 Jan Davidsz de Heem oil rendering of actual flowers. Only a few elements in this still life–plastic berries, a plastic lemon–are conspicuously fake and unarguably contemporary.
Republic Gallery, Vancouver
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| Ruth Gruber in her War Correspondent Uniform, 1946 |
An eye for history: the photographs of Ruth Gruber by Laura Silver
From the website: Ruth Gruber has never stood idly by. At age 95, the photographer, writer and intrepid activist is being honored with a solo show in her hometown. Selections of her massive body of work are on display at Lower Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust through October 8. The exhibition, "From the Heart: The Photojournalism of Ruth Gruber," references the legendary photographer Edward Steichen’s suggestion that Gruber "take photographs from the heart."
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| Chris Seman |
From the website: "It was hard to get this photo," said Chris Seman of the shot he took just outside New Orleans' French Quarter of a homeowner outside his former home. "This man was angry. He was standing outside his house with this flag and just cursing FEMA up and down."
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| COL Nancy Hughes by Ellen Susan |
Ellen Susan - Soldier Portraits
From the website: The photographs are made using the 150 year old collodion wet plate process - the same process that was used to document much of the period (and many of the soldiers) of the Civil War. Each soldier receives a one-of-a-kind image on a glass or metal plate to take home and keep, or give to family or friends.
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| Yousuf Karsh |
Karsh photos of auto workers 'just as dramatic' as images of statesmen
From the website: He's known for his portraits of internationally prominent figures such as Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill, but an exhibition of works by famed photographer Yousuf Karsh at the Confederation Centre of the Arts presents images of decidedly humbler folk.
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| Bruce LaBruce, Pieta 2003 |
The Brotherhood by Robert MacFarlane
From the website: What feels missing, however, are memorable moments exploring why people of the same sex are drawn together. If gay iconography is marginalised, as one of the show's curators assured me, where are the persuasive, poetic moments proclaiming (and explaining) homosexuality's enduring presence?
The Brotherhood at the Australian Centre for Photography
From the website: The Brotherhood is an exhibition of works from artists featured in the Melbourne-based, international and homosexually orientated art journal They Shoot Homo's Don't They? As its title suggests, the exhibition connects gay artists across time and space including senior international figures like Kenneth Anger, one of America's first openly homosexual filmmakers, the 'reluctant pornographer' Bruce LaBruce from Canada and Australians Paul Knight and Peter Maloney.
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Save Money on Inkjet Printer Ink by Steve Bass
From the website: Two issues: First, the sleazy way inkjet printer manufacturers trick users into dumping still-good cartridges. Second, the absolutely outrageous cost of those inkjet cartridges.
Inkjet Printer Ink: Reader Rants and Hacks by Steve Bass
From the website: Ever since my Tips & Tweaks newsletter "Save Money on Inkjet Printer Ink" hit the Web, my in-box has been flooded with messages. I've received recommendations, rants, and down-and-dirty tricks.
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