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Category Archives: professional photography
Magnum photographers’ historic shots of New York – in pictures
Magnum has always been, and is always great photography by great photographers. Oh, there are SO MANY exhibitions I would like to see…
I found this in The Guardian.
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As part of its 70th anniversary program, Magnum Photos is holding an exhibition of photographs taken in New York City during the early years of the agency, from 1947 to 1960. The show includes classic images from their archive, as well as pictures from their New York office. Early Magnum In & On New York is at the National Arts Club Grand Gallery until 29 April, can be viewed online and prints purchased through Magnum.
Image at the top:
Photographers Elliott Erwitt and Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1959
Photograph: Marc Riboud/Magnum Photos
New York, 1955
Photograph: Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos
Sammy Davis Jr looks out a Manhattan window, 1959
Photograph: Burt Glinn/Magnum
James Dean in Times Square, 1955
Photograph: Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos
These forgotten shreds of plastic helped a photographer mourn his mom
Simple, beautiful and emotional. There are still great ideas and photographs out there just waiting to be made. 😊 Pelle
© Wes Bell, and the article was found in The Washington Post.
Wes Bell’s series “Snag,” inspired by the death of his mother, takes a beautiful and simple idea and infuses an ordinary scene with great emotional power. There is beauty, loss and poetry in every frame. After 20 years in New York working as an international fashion photographer, Bell returned to his birthplace and to fine-art photography in Alberta, Canada.
In describing this work, Bell said: “Three years ago, I was leaving for the airport after saying goodbye to my mother. She was dying of cancer. On the long drive across the Alberta prairie, I found myself distracted by flapping remnants of plastic bags, caught in barbed-wire fences that lined the ditches. Whipped violently by the wind, they were left shredded and lacerated, but trapped nonetheless in the no man’s land of boundary fences, neither here nor there. Thinking about mortality, pain and death in the context of my mother’s terminal illness, these forgotten shreds of plastic took on a deeper significance — Snag.”
Loss and remembrance are universal, and Bell makes feeling those emotions accessible and visible.
In pictures: Sacred geometries
A small group of photographers have turned their lenses on the urban landscape, seeking to capture the beauty of the architecture around us.
The images explore the idea of sacred geometries, the perfect mix of proportion and mathematical ratios that are pleasing to the eye and a reflection of those found in nature.
The pictures can be seen at the Anise Gallery in London until 15 April 2017.
I saw this in BBC, In Pictures.
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Was Diane Arbus the Most Radical Photographer of the 20th Century?
If you have ever seen a Diane Arbus photograph you will remember it, and her very personal style. That can only be said about few photographers. Thank you Leif Skoogfors for sharing this interesting article.
© Diane Arbus
A new biography and Met exhibit show how she sacrificed her marriage, her friendships, and eventually her life for her career as an artist living on the edge.
Diane Arbus’s last known negative is labeled “#7459.” She found herself unable to imagine past that number.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/diane-arbus-c-v-r.html
For the love of a good camera – in pictures
From Lily Cole posing with a supersized Pentax to Bill Brandt hiding behind his Kodak wide-angle, cameras are the stars of this collection of snaps and selfies.
Featured image at the top:
Bill Brandt With His Kodak Wide-Angle Camera (1945) by Laelia Goehr
Goehr learned photography from Brandt, and here she captured him posing with his new wide-angle Kodak. The camera was originally used by police to photograph crime scenes, but Brandt experimented with it to produce a series of distorted nude studies
- The Camera Exposed is at the V&A, London, 23 July 2016-5 March 2017
- https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jul/22/flash-and-shutter-love-good-camera-the-camera-exposed-exhibition-in-pictures
Many photographers are posing on their selfies with a camera, this is only natural. I guess. As you can see also the top photographers have thought of the same idea for their work. I wish I could visit the exhibition to see some of my favorites. 🌞 Pelle
Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite (1974) by Judy Dater
Judy Dater met Imogen Cunningham, a prominent American photographer, in 1964. Cunningham was a mentor to Dater, and the two became close friends. This image is from Dater’s larger series addressing the theme of voyeurism
Photograph: Courtesy V&A
John French and Daphne Abrams in a tailored suit (TV Times, 1957) by John French
Fashion photographer John French often left the actual release of the shutter to his assistants. Here, he has inserted himself into the picture, kneeling behind a tripod-mounted Rolleiflex, contrasting playfully with the polished elegance of the model
Suzy Parker, Dress by Nina Ricci, Champs-Élysées, Paris (1962) by Richard Avedon
In this staged scene, US photographer Richard Avedon mocks the very industry in which he played such a major role with a model caught inside a car by a frenzied crowd of paparazzi
Photograph: Richard Avedon Foundation
Finding patterns in Australian farmland
I´d like to go to Australia! Ladies and gentlemen I give you Josh Smith. 😊 Pelle
“The end game for me is producing these series as fine art”.
© all photographs Josh Smith. Article in BBC.
Flying high above farmland, photographer Josh Smith captures colours and patterns not usually associated with rural Australia.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38888453
His often abstract images feature subjects like machinery sculpting lines into a vast frame.
His often abstract images feature subjects like machinery sculpting lines into a vast frame.
It was a hobby until 2011, when his aerial shots of floods in Queensland and New South Wales were featured in a major newspaper.
So he took to the skies, hoping to draw attention to how food and clothing is produced.
“Here in Australia, we’ve got farmers producing the highest quality produce anywhere in the world,” he said.
Please like if you like, 😉 Pelle
The last box camera in Santiago, Chile – in pictures
Everything is not digital these days. Another place, but the same time. 😊 Pelle
Luis Maldonado is the last remaining photographer in the main square of the Chilean capital still using a wooden box camera.
Back to the future
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38815948
The inventors of digital cameras have won the highest international engineering prize.
This year’s £1m Queen Elizabeth Prize recognises the development of the technologies that turn light into digital signals.
The Royal Academy of Engineering judging panel said the inventors’ work had “revolutionised” the world.
It sure did…
This story was told by BBC.
My first digital camera was a 4×5″ scanner, a Dicomed, with a file size of 129 mb.
A study of industry data by Prof Fossum suggests that 100 digital cameras are made every second and a billion photos are uploaded each day.
Asked if he was proud that his development gave rise to a technology that is so ubiquitous, Dr Tompsett told BBC News he had some mixed feelings. Yes, he felt some pride, but he “also felt the opposite”.
“I feel frustrated by all these people who have cameras, taking pictures of everything in sight – and selfies. You are walking along and a selfie stick suddenly appears.”
And he added wryly: “I sometimes think whoever invented this technology should be dealt with.”
Up up and away, again
At the time for the first moon landing I read all there was and cut it out from all magazines and newspapers. I still got it all in my files. Now some of those famous photographs, and some not known, are up for auction. That was also a historical moment for Hasselblad, the Swedish camera manufacturer. A small step for man, but a giant step for mankind…
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A set of photographic prints from Nasa’s archives – selected by Barbara Hitchcock and Peter Riva and approved by several of the astronauts – that include the first moon landing, are up for auction in New York. Originally part of a 1985 Smithsonian Institution exhibition, Sightseeing: A Space Panorama, many of the photos had never before been published by the space agency, and are the only known Cibachrome prints made from original Nasa positives
Tuesday 31 January 2017 11.55 GMT
