Those are great!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 10 June 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/writing-in-the-sand/exhibits/whitley-bay-sept-78
the whole series is great but this one in particular made me laff
― british sb power (dayo), Monday, 20 June 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
koudelka contact sheets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ0SkmAh7d8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHWdEyvKkKQ
― 我爱你 G. Weingarten (dayo), Saturday, 6 August 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
finally making my way through jason eskenazi's book and it's pretty staggering
dude is all time
― dayo, Monday, 8 August 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
Wow that guy has one unnavigable website. Seems the easiest way to see a bunch of his pictures is to see the Times profle/gallery: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/showcase-15/
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 12 August 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
Oh wait, looking at his website though, he does have a thing "Double Zero" which is cool. First photo on the roll. It's better than my idea of compiling my "garbage shots" of windows, feet, and desks. The ones when you've just loaded the film. And his treatment is, uh, "Wagnerian."
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 12 August 2011 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
Don McCullin & Eugene Richards from latest PDNhttp://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/features/Heroes-and-Mentors-Do-3210.shtml
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 13 August 2011 07:57 (twelve years ago) link
not famous but
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vouchey/sets/72157625828492479/
the colors here are just gorgeous. they don't make film like this anymore do they
― dayo, Saturday, 3 September 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, that's kodachrome right?
― dayo, Saturday, 3 September 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
There's a bit of a redcast to it (blues are a little purplish), so I would assume so.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 4 September 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.akaaka.com/publishing/books/eric-china.html
some samples at the bottom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K32E2qmg6tE
kind of boring but you can see some great shots interspersed with the video starting around the 9:00 mark
― dayo, Saturday, 10 September 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/focusing-on-prison-photography/
powerful stuff, #6 just kills me.
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
lotta kinda-ilxy would-style in the chicago photos from last week:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vouchey/5407316275/sizes/z/in/set-72157625828492479/http://www.flickr.com/photos/vouchey/5407315483/in/set-72157625828492479http://www.flickr.com/photos/vouchey/5407925206/in/set-72157625828492479
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
my favorite part about that set is all the people in the comments who are like "I grew up there! I know that guy!"
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.diegolevy.com/index.php?/project/sangre/
i don't know whether my response to this guy is just conditioned by having found him while looking at examples of the website he uses, rather than expecting his photos, but man they're really powerful, & so well framed. the set directly linked is fairly brutal throughout (i haven't seen the others), so, warning if anyone is of a sensitive disposition re: crime scene photos etc.
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/world-war-ii-the-american-home-front-in-color/100122/
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_8/s_w05_1a35465u.jpg
so surreal
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 10:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_8/s_w42_1a35331u.jpg
those kodachrome blacks - look at how disembodied the hand is
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
Those are all available on the Library of Congress website in v. v. large TIFFs. Not the sharpest scans and often dirty, but you can make v. good 8x10s and pretty good 16x20s out of them.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
those are great
― forced to change display name (gbx), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.gregoryhalpern.com/harvard.html
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
wow eskenazi is tremendous
― (♯`∧´) (gbx), Saturday, 24 September 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah probably favorite book I bought this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCmvIMdpoW4
aside from the lol ghost world sadsack production, a good look at his working process!
― dayo, Saturday, 24 September 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
guys what are good photo blogs
― (♯`∧´) (gbx), Sunday, 25 September 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
haven't looked at this for a while (i think the only actual blog i follow is photo booth at the ny-er, which can be great), but mexican pictures contains multitudes.
btw, not exactly relevant but kinda; i watched visions of light, the documentary about cinematographers last night, & thought it would totally be relevant to some of you-all's interests. it's about light. & framing. pros talking about their job. calling martin scorsese marty, etc. i recommend it.
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Sunday, 25 September 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to recommend the blog of a fellow ilxor, I recommend you follow from the dashboard as the default layout makes the pics small. but great stuff: kentpics.tumblr.com
this ilxor tipped me off to another tumblr who reblogs a gajillion other photoblogs but I think he's good gatekeepr: bremser.tumblr.com
other than that I look at the NYT Lens blog and not much else
― dayo, Sunday, 25 September 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
I like this guy too but he doesn't update too often
http://thegreatbookshavebeenwritten.com/
― dayo, Sunday, 25 September 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
(back to the OP for a second): think we should all appreciate this dude and his answers in this interview
― mr. vertical (schlump), Sunday, 25 September 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
not gonna lie I have come close to buying a 90mm on numerous occasions because of that interview
― dayo, Sunday, 25 September 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
I think this site is great: http://www.americansuburbx.com/Not a blog, but a good source of photographs and articles, some interviews, etc. Lotsa photographers
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 25 September 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
xp: rad b&w by leiterhttp://fmrid.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/leiter2.jpg
wanna see the book
― mr. vertical (schlump), Sunday, 25 September 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
(back to the OP for a second): think we should all appreciate this dude and his answers in this interview
that is a delightful interview
― (♯`∧´) (gbx), Sunday, 25 September 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
theonlinephotographer.com can be good - it jumps around from covering new cameras to books to just highlighting good workvisualsciencelab.blogspot.com - blog for an Austin guy who's been a commercial shooter for two or three decades, but it tends to focus more on his personal work
I've been looking for more blogs about shooting vs. tumblrs aggregating good photos but they're hard to find
ILP actually has some of the best online photo dialogue I've seen. No inane Canon v. Nikon debates, no naked ladies or gaudy HDR stuff.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 26 September 2011 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
I've been looking for more blogs about shooting
yeah that's what i'm really looking for. and i'd agree that ILP has some of the best dialogue, it's just that sometimes it gets p slow around here and i am forced to turn elsewhere
― (♯`∧´) (gbx), Monday, 26 September 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
david allen harvey's burn mag has good stuff too, a lot of it is too 'intense' for me tho
― dayo, Monday, 26 September 2011 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
also if you're looking for more substantive stuff than blogs there are some people I think are worth reading. it's really really really hard to write intelligently about photography and there are only a few people who I think do it well, with that caveat:
john szarkowski, pretty much singlehandedly shaped the stream of american photography in the last 50 years - anything he writes is gold.susan sontag - on photography (think that's the name) - I know, a bit wankerish, but there are 5 hard-fought insights on every single page, reallyrobert adams - eng. ph.d turned photographer, not sure if he writes much stuff outside of his monographs to his books but again, really excellentgerry badger - really only has one 'trick' when discussing photographs but his stuff is reasonably interesting
I've been meaning to read camera lucida for ages, think I'm gonna do it this year (finally)
― dayo, Monday, 26 September 2011 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
philip gefter, a former nyt photo critic also has a book out on aperture that has pretty good criticism, and is at least a good introduction to a lot of contemporary photographers (book is called photography after frank I think)
― dayo, Monday, 26 September 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
Re: Szarkowski, I absolutely love him, and you can in fact find quite a bit of his writing at the americansuburbx.com. I picked up his "Photography Until Now" a little while back (along with a nice Winogrand book!) and it's a pretty great history. Also regarding wankerish essays, I kind of love Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida. It's fun partly because of how much I often disagree with his opinions that he offers as certain fact.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 26 September 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
totally into more substantive stuff, just figured bløggers would be a good place to start
just read a szarkowski interview about ansel adams and this sorta blew my mind? i mean, not ~really~, but i love trivia like that
Unlike the landscape photographers who had come before him, Adams was interested in the natural world not as a solid, immutable thing but rather as an event. He was always concerned with the ephemeral. In that sense, he was as much a photographer of his time as was Cartier-Bresson and the rest of them--photographers who had been born on the line between the 19th and 20th centuries, and who were concerned with the ephemeral partly because the technical vocabulary came to allow it. For example, when Ansel started his career, he used plates. Then he switched to film, and with film, you can make many more exposures. You can afford mistakes; you can take a chance because you've got another sheet of film instantly available. Then there was the introduction of panchromatic film, which allows filtering. If you were to look at all the mountain photographs made in the 19th century and compare them with all the mountain photographs of the 20th century, you'd find the 20th-century photographs have a lower horizon. Why? Because given the color sensitivity of 19th-century photographic plates, the skies always came out white or a streaky gray, so intelligent photographers pushed the horizon up and used the sky as some kind of a shape. When panchromatic film was introduced, and blue need no longer be rendered as white; you could deal with the sky as a space. These are merely specific instances of the general proposition that the difference between Adams's photography and earlier landscape photography lies in his concern with the ephemeral. His landscapes aren't about geology; they're about weather.
― (♯`∧´) (gbx), Monday, 26 September 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of insights like that in "Photography Until Now!" I think it's pretty easy to find secondhand too.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 26 September 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
"looking at photographs" and "the photographer's eye" are really great too
see also these threads
Books on photography. s&d
26 books every photographer must own
― dayo, Monday, 26 September 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
Here, this is good: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/11/theory-eyes-wide-open-interview-with.html
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 26 September 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
you guys are the best
― (♯`∧´) (gbx), Monday, 26 September 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
essays by Robert Adams:http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Adams-Beauty-Photography/dp/0893813680
kinda interesting book by Stephen Shore:http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Photographs-Primer-Stephen-Shore/dp/0714859044/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1317049850&sr=8-2
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 26 September 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=354868915
^^^ looks v. interesting, but I don't know when I'll have time to watch them
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 26 September 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
I would like to revisit that stephen shore book - supposed to be a modern day 'update' of szarkowskis' photographer's eye. shore is not as elegant a writer tho imo
― dayo, Monday, 26 September 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Thirty years after he had written on Atget, Evans wrote, briefly but perfectly, on Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus, and died with a perfect critical average.
oh man don't think I've seen this - anybody know what szarkowski is talking about here?
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha I love szarkowski so much
It is, of course, true that an enormously larger number of photographs have been made by dumb amateurs, commercial drudges, half-sober news photographers, celebrity merchants, real-estate salesmen, etc., than by photographers with clear and clean artistic intentions; which suggests that the former groups have likely made a great many pictures that might appeal to those of us interested in what photographs can look like, and in how they may contain and convey meaning.
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
god when he's on, he's on
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
Winogrand certainly did expose a great deal of film, and until his very last years he had an astonishing percentage of successes, even by his own high standards. The proof sheet containing the famous picture of the crippled beggar at the American Legion Convention includes three or four other pictures never printed by Winogrand that most photographers would count among their prizes.
you can't just say this and leave it at that :|
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that interview was g-d delightful.
― (♯`∧´) (gbx), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
yeah for sure
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 13 August 2015 11:58 (eight years ago) link
http://exploreg✧✧✧.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Nan-Goldin-David%E2%80%99s-darkroom-New-Haven-1997-at-MatthewMarks-at-FriezeNewYo✧✧✧@matthewmarksgall✧✧✧.j✧✧
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 23 August 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
https://igcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.2885-15/11260788_1675257606041009_528619360_n.jpg
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 23 August 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
http://flashbak.com/love-boat-rejects-unforgettable-photos-of-people-on-cruise-ships-in-the-1990s-38273/
http://i.imgur.com/e1uhCG4.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/ffJ0VkH.jpg
― gr8080, Monday, 31 August 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
ha those are great (martin-parr-esque)actually tbh cruise ship photographer sounds like best worst job ever
― drash, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:56 (eight years ago) link
i work with a guy who was a cruise ship videographer a few years back and he def has some best/worst stories
― gr8080, Thursday, 3 September 2015 12:07 (eight years ago) link
ha i can imagine (wd love to hear some but realize they may not be yours to tell)
― drash, Friday, 4 September 2015 02:51 (eight years ago) link
these are great: http://www.janetdelaney.com/south-of-market/
― chinavision!, Thursday, 5 November 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
these are also great! http://www.zevschmitz.com/islandofmanhattan#0
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
i like those, (but) they remind me of the work of asako narahashi, from series 'half awake and half asleep in the water'
http://www.designboom.com/tools/WPro/images/11o/an1.jpg
― drash, Sunday, 15 November 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
oh, nice. I never saw that before.
― chinavision!, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 20 November 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
Darcy Padilla took down The Julie Project gallery on her website when her book got published in France, but I found a big part on the World Press site.http://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2015/long-term-projects/darcy-padillaread the captions
this one in particular is something elsehttp://www.worldpressphoto.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_main_image/public/archive/2015/stories/LTP/4/nqnk7qdwsh4eu1qlqt5b.jpg?itok=vPllJ0dg
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 20 November 2015 07:38 (eight years ago) link
alsohttps://dd978y4vwod92.cloudfront.net/uploads/photos/images/371210/7683238d0442978f5e26db20625cdb58-large.jpg?1418642972
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 20 November 2015 07:54 (eight years ago) link
er, thishttp://www.worldpressphoto.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_main_image/public/archive/2015/stories/LTP/4/myi8zodlj9jx87kx2avi.jpg?itok=EOMpamp3
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 20 November 2015 07:55 (eight years ago) link
http://www.yanming.im/country-of-ambition/
― 龜, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
any guesses where http://www.yanming.im/files/gimgs/3_35_v2.jpg is
― Capybara (big rat) @ Sea World, San Diego, California, USA (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
some of those are really exquisite
― Capybara (big rat) @ Sea World, San Diego, California, USA (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
my guess would be southern china
― 龜, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
http://dynamicafrica.tumblr.com/post/137680431998/the-power-of-love-an-interview-with
― 龜, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 12:40 (eight years ago) link