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| Thom Hogan |
What's Your Goal? by Thom Hogan
From the website: Seems like a simple question, doesn't it? What's your goal?
From the website: Amazingly, many of the photographers I talk to--both amateur and pro--don't really know the answer to that question. So let me ask it a little more specifically: what's your photographic goal?
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| Jeff Curto |
History of Photography Podcasts - Professor Jeff Curto
From the website: This podcast is recorded during class lectures for History of Photography, Photo 1105 at College of DuPage. The podcasts are intended as review for students in the class, but thousands of people around the world have found them useful to their education as photographers. Please be aware that there are many links to relevant class information on the class’ main web page, as well as a course syllabus - use the links to the right to find that information.
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| Jill Greenberg |
Jill Greenberg - Ursine by Nicole Pasulka
From the website: They are all "working bears." They're animal actors. I have to go to Calgary where there are these "close contact" bears—Kodiak bears and black bears. I set up a studio outside. I also did the same thing in Vancouver when I found a working polar bear.
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| Diane Keaton |
Diane Keaton on Photography by Larry McMurtry
From the website: My friendship with Diane Keaton began about twenty-eight years ago, when I found her, one morning, sitting in the flower bed outside the Madison Hotel, in Washington, D.C. She was rummaging in a bag big enough to hold a caribou, which contained a camera heavy enough to stun the caribou with, should that be necessary.
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| Robert Mapplethorpe |
Mapplethorpe's secret diary by Sylvia Wolf
From the website: Robert Mapplethorpe's sexually explicit, homoerotic photographs made him one of the most notorious photographers of the 1980s and a lightning rod for social and political conservatives. But before these works - and before his equally famous nudes, flower studies and celebrity portraits made between the late 1970s and his death from Aids in 1989 - Mapplethorpe was taking hundreds of Polaroids. This remarkable treasure trove of more than 1,500 photographs, the majority of them never published, reveal how instant photography provided Mapplethorpe with a mode of entry into his creative ambition, his sexual desires and the art world at large.
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| Altug Sami Icilensu | |
Students act out 1950s murder scene for photography class by Regis L. Roberts
From the website: Actors play models in murder scene photo shoot for Perceptual Design class
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| Eadweard Muybridge |
How photos became fine art by Tim Kirby
From the website: Anyone can take a photo - just point and click. But its pioneers have made photography a staple of the art world, where a single image can fetch millions.
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| Duplicate Image Finder |
Programs weed out your duplicate photos by Kim Komando
From the website: Last weekend, I received a call from a gentleman who needs help with his photo collection. He has thousands of photos stored on his computer. The problem is, many are duplicates. He needs a program that will help weed them out.
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| Jennifer Farley |
Hand Colouring A Black And White Photo In Photoshop by Jennifer Farley
From the website: You can hand colour a black and white photograph in Photoshop in a number of ways. In this tutorial, I'm looking at how to add colour by making selections and using adjustment layers. Let me preface this by saying, THIS EFFECT DOES NOT LOOK NATURAL! It will not look like a colour photograph, but is great for a retro look and can be good fun on old pictures. However, nobody will mistake it for an original colour picture.
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| Sara Frances |
Get the Lensbaby Look in Photoshop by Sara Frances
From the website: You've probably seen the Lensbaby look, even if you didn't know its name -- part of an image is sharp, but the rest of it is dramatically blurred. If you don't have the money or time for the gadget itself, mimic its effect with this software how-to.
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| Robert Glenn Ketchum |
A Conversation with Robert Glenn Ketchum by Russell Hart
From the website: Few photographers have Robert Glenn Ketchum's national political clout. His influence comes from years of using his artfully crafted images to make the case for preserving America's remaining wild lands. The subjects of that advocacy, and of Ketchum's numerous books, have ranged from New York's Hudson Highlands to the Tongass, Southeast Alaska's temperate rain forest. In recent years, though, he has focused most of his attention on Southwest Alaska, in particular Bristol Bay, which beyond its 5.6 million acres of pristine nature is the world's largest remaining Salmon fishery.
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| Cameron Davidson |
Behind the Lens with Cameron Davidson by Zach Honig
From the website: The photographic community is incredibly diverse, made up of photographers that shoot from the sky to the sea and everywhere in between. Each month we'll focus on a different segment of the industry, interviewing top professional photographers about life, their careers, and what sets their piece of the photographic industry apart from the rest.
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| Brian Skerry |
Inside the Image with Brian Skerry
From the website: National Geographic contributing photographer, Brian Skerry, shows us the underwater world.
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| Neil Creek |
The first question every photographer must answer: Why?
From the website: Friends and strangers who know I am a photographer sometimes ask me questions about photography, and how to take better photos. Almost always these are "how", "what" or "where" questions. Before you can answer any of those, first you must answer: Why?
DAVE ID responded to the above article: "no questions, there is no why, do or do not. If you start dissecting the frog, you are left with parts but the frog is gone. The same with creativity. It's gotta flow, questions only put up walls and allow self-censorship to seep in."
Perhaps the article, and the response, are the opposite ends of a spectrum that one can move back-and-forth on depending on mood, temperament, and situation.
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| John Szarkowski Succeeds Edward Steichen by Paul Huf |
John Sarkowski - Master of a Medium by Maria Morris Hambourg
From the website: IT IS RARE for a curator to reign with virtual sovereignty over an entire medium, but during his nearly three decades as director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (from 1962 until his retirement in 1991), John Szarkowski did. His outpouring of exhibitions and catalogues at the pulpit of modern art and photography placed him on a singular pedestal in a recurrent spotlight, but it was less these conditions than his penetrating mind, eloquence, and perspective that made his opinion matter so much. In a field dominated by journalism and almost devoid of serious critical thought, Szarkowski was a flare of intellect, a lone poet among jobbing professionals. One would be hard-pressed to name another instance in which one man's vision of an unrecognized art simultaneously created and educated its audience.
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| Andrew Ilachinski |
From the website: One of the special joys of photography is to discover something transcendent in what "objectively speaking" is completely ordinary; and use the medium to share your vision with others. A case in point, is a simple, humble, little tree, that I always see just outside the first level of the garage I use to park my car for work, and as I make the first turn to find a spot to park. I see a bit less of it as I continue downward to the second level, and it disappears from view completely as I weave my way to the third, and final level. I almost always choose to walk up to the entrance of my building using the outside stairs, rather than take the elevator directly from the ground level, because I want to enjoy "seeing" this little tree for a few extra seconds before beginning my work day. It has thus been a quiet companion of mine for years; and always puts a smile on my face as I embark on my workday, readying myself mentally to be immersed in my usual sea of equations and computer code.
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| Rose Lowder |
Delivery Methods: Arguing With Myself & Asking You
From the website: Coffee is a caffeine delivery system. Cigarettes deliver nicotine. Some would say that photography is best suited to deliver color. After seeing a screening of some experimental films by Rose Lowder this week, I'd say color photography has a long way to go.
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| John P. Chapnick |
Can You Blink Your Way to Better Photography? by John P. Chapnick
From the website: To spot the difference between an average picture and an excellent picture, you have to look at a lot of pictures. And to see an opportunity that others would miss, you have to take a lot of photos that miss the moment, too.
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| Unknown photographer, May 13, 1978. Collection of Robert E. Jackson. |
Say Cheese! - A history of the American snapshot by Mia Fineman
From the website: Every photography curator I know has hidden away somewhere a stash of other people's snapshots. We buy them, usually for no more than a few dollars each, at flea markets and garage sales, and lately on eBay, where they show up as anonymous artifacts, cut loose from their original meanings as keepsakes or family mementos. Their muteness and their mysterious origins make them all the more mesmerizing. For people who love photography, the awkward, unpretentious charm of old snapshots is nearly irresistible.
More found photography
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| Candida Höfer |
Candida Höfer - Architecture of Absence by Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto (PDF)
From the website: "Empty" is not a word Höfer applies to her own work. She sees her images of interior spaces as animated by light, form, and pattern, and rich in references to a human presence that is felt if it cannot be seen
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| Jay Maisel |
Jay Maisel - Warning! Paradigm Shifts Ahead! by CharMaine Beleele (PDF)
From the website: "Always carry your camera."
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| Lars Klove |
When a Greeting Card Becomes a Photo Album by Anne Eisenberg
From the website: Now online photo services are offering an upgrade to the humble photopaper card — by selling fancy, folded cards that can display as many as 10 digital snapshots on glossy, high-quality paper stock.
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| Shootsac |
From the website: Quickly realizing that traditional camera bags were not only a ball and chain to her creativity but also a serious drain on her fashion sense...she went straight to the closet. Grabbing a favorite handbag (a Prada no less) she loaded up her gear and created a situation that was workable but far from ideal. Having no protection for her lenses was definitely a drawback and replacing lenses each season was costly, but having what she needed to capture the world the instant it unfolded was critical to her style, her business and ultimately her success.
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| Fabiola del Alcazar |
An Introduction to Avian Flight Photography by Fabiola del Alcazar
From the website: Avian flight photography doesn't have to be an unreachable goal for you. As difficult as it may seem, making consistently good flight images is possible if you practice and keep a few principles in mind.
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| Eric Zimmerman |
Which Came First? (Part Two) by Errol Morris
From the website: Olga led us first to the Woronzoff Ravine, marked on contemporary maps as lying to the east of the Valley of the Shadow of Death. I was adamant. "No, no! This is the Woronzoff Ravine. This is not the Valley of the Shadow of Death." There is always difficulty when you try to tell local guides their business, but we retraced our steps back to Sebastopol and took a different road, which took us up to a ridge to the west of the Woronzoff Ravine. At last we were able to look down into the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
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| Edward Steichen |
Edward Steichen Lives in Photography
Steichen - Lives in Photography at the Jeu de Paume
From the website: Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was one of the most prolific and influential photographers of the 20th century. This is the first European retrospective of his work and features 450 vintage prints plus a selection of documents.
More Steichen
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| Ctein |
I Am The Camera...Or Is It The Other Way Around? by Ctein
From the website: I've got a photographer inside my head. That "me" isn't the same "me" who is writing this column. It's a mental faculty I can turn on and off at will, quite literally as easily as flipping a mental switch. I flip it on and I'm in "photography mode."
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| Uwe Steinmueller |
New Fiber Fine Art Papers in October 2007 by Uwe Steinmueller
From the website: In September/October 2007 we had the chance to get early or even very early samples of a new generation on fiber based fine art papers which all try to em
