let us now catalogue famous people

for those interested in self publishing

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/11/lesley-martin-aperture/

http://i.imgur.com/f9qkIlK.jpg

that leiter doc looks great. i wanna housesit for saul leiter. the pic in the trailer of the cropped red umbrella in the snow - ugh.

i saw the vivian maier doc yesterday, also. it's good. a lot of people in it are pretty annoying because they are just people. like photography? watch 90 minutes of interviews with auction hounds & the grown charges of a reclusive nanny. but meyerowitz is good in it & the work is just unreal & some of the 8mm she shot is arresting & the narrative is still so crazy. it made me feel like i am shitty at taking photographs, which is a bummer.

ps michael wolf lol, that's perfect

michael wlolf

GAbriele stabile;s work is lovely

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/high-winning-bid-for-photo-by-maos-wife/

Mao was apparently so fond of the image that he wrote a poem by the same name and chose it as the inside cover photograph for the first issue of “New Photography,” a magazine that began publishing in 1968 at the height of the Cultural Revolution.

I wonder if a copy of this exists anywhere online

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/beartent.asp

http://www.sarahsoquel.com/latest/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/05_82910034.jpg

this sarah soquel morhaim photograph
its uncliched incorporation of coca-cola paraphernalia,
10000 bonus points

kneeling before this

a diner photograph
& yet not cliched

That is really nice

those flat tones

The guy's fun shirt looks like it could be frosting on the glass

Love how the paper cups catch the light too

Two part interview w/ Koudelka

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/josef-koudelka-formed-by-the-world/
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/josef-koudelka-a-restless-eye/?_r=0

Have to admit I haven't been taken much w/ his panoramas

Those seem to be much of the work he's done lately

http://24.media.tumblr.com/3b945a9cf0eb0358e7293d801dbe9814/tumblr_mg29ahGaF31qhar53o1_1280.jpg

from the same stanley booth shoot an amazing addition to the so not gonna happen canon

http://cargocollective.com/chrismaggio/Domestic-Travel

good stuff

who shot that eggleston photo? is that stephen shore?

stan boooooth
http://purple.fr/magazine/f-w-2009-issue-12/article/219

Fucking hell

Photographers never get laid it's true but billy .... you're so thirsty

http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/09/when-an-archive-is-lost-jacques-lowes-rare-and-recently-restored-look-at-jfks-camelot/#1

“There are no words to describe how attached my father was to his Kennedy negatives,” writes Thomasina Lowe, Jacques’ daughter, in the introduction to Remembering Jack, a book published in 2003 on the 40th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. “They defined who he was as a person and as a photographer. Those images were priceless, their value beyond calculation. So he stored them in a fireproof bank vault in the World Trade Center.”

Fucking hell

Just reading about that gave me the heebie jeebies

Is anywhere safe

feel like i could have been the guy at the meeting just all people love contact sheets, what's the big deal

get this
how about we

...

add some scratches

*reaches for croissant*

Have become obsessed with chang chao tang

http://invisiblephotographer.asia/2013/11/24/changchaotang-taiwan/

http://i.imgur.com/uvrGD9i.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/A2PV31c.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/f88LLP7.jpg

I know I know, photographers vmic

But gratifying to know that somebody's been shooting Taiwan since the mid-20th century in the classical B&W style

More here

http://shihlun.tumblr.com/tagged/chang+chaotang/page/2

Also in the same vein

http://i.imgur.com/CgEV0Lx.png

Vincent Yip, is a favorite of cool dude rent and I tracked down a copy of one of his books this past summer

Doesn't have much of a web presence but you can see his pics here

http://www.theupperstation.com/artists/vincentyu/vincentyu_en.html

and here

http://www.vincentyu.net/hkg.html

That's the book I bought, only very low res pics on the site but just a really graet photobook

http://i.imgur.com/4XeAHRy.png

Pretty sure he stole this from me

shades of bill brandt in the chang chao tang i think

also mad at myself for not flagging it earlier, but there was another photographer - on lens? on here? - who made an image similar to the above, also derivative of the 乒乓 style. i don't think it's an asian street photo trope. just happening secretly worldwide.

replace all modern american casey affleck wave kate winslet period piece cinema with this image

http://31.media.tumblr.com/c0c0fd4f579478f39b1e01ca2eff4a03/tumblr_mmgsaxv6Xa1qz5hcoo1_1280.jpg

http://superbomba.tumblr.com/post/49915966957

i love that!

http://31.media.tumblr.com/df0ab9598eee981940aa19eee68daefe/tumblr_mwu1joYrvn1rknqk3o1_500.jpg

^^^ so rad. I want.

did I ever post this? I think from Chromes,

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPdwbFmCMAA26Or.jpg

http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/2/76028/4964794/Picture%2011_o.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8447/7974897626_24231d92c2_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8213/8288524395_dbfb8a13d3_b.jpg

http://payload180.cargocollective.com/1/2/76028/5919331/Picture%2078.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7186/6960320183_2f4ac1af32_c.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8058/8237171352_432caffabe_b.jpg

http://www.roxanaazar.com/

http://www.thislongcentury.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/porterfield10.jpg

http://www.thislongcentury.com/?p=6172&c=230

horizon arrangement, http://www.marijastrajnic.com/heartbeats.php

i liked these,
they are in that kinda current gentle mood
i try to squint & see some of those flash shadows in ten years
but they're nice i think

http://24.media.tumblr.com/95276a3f28e6ea68997cc0214e861449/tumblr_mvg9jiJx7h1r0k4a7o1_500.jpg

http://31.media.tumblr.com/8120bdc202324ec6baafe2c428353305/tumblr_mpo6d7ePud1r0k4a7o1_500.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8432/7846256636_745533d3fe_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7260/7709884744_34649447e2_b.jpg

http://payload192.cargocollective.com/1/2/76994/6143059/12.1071.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/b47292c03f236266183cb936749f0dbd/tumblr_mpmcdmQZCk1r0k4a7o1_500.jpg

http://www.erikmowinckel.com

if anybody feels the same way about "this" "kind" "of" tonal sweetness as i do about boring & reverent medium format portraits of climbing frames then please draw swords, i do wanna hear it. i spent my afternoon skimming photography blogs & i am definitely conflicted enough to scroll back up to stare at Gross Cluttered Digital Ensemble Pics & wonder if they are unpalatably where it's really at.

Will need to give myself some time to go through those

The latest in idol worship

http://i.imgur.com/wIcAccv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/kixLlwr.png

Does plax still post here. These remind me of that one guy

http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2013/11/30/chen-po-i

http://i.imgur.com/balW2my.jpg

uncanny resemblance to john divola

Yeah exactly, that's who I was thinking of

http://i.imgur.com/a4B2CAU.jpg

More in famous people taking pictures of famous people (Barthes by HCB)

Everybody knew everybody back then

http://i.imgur.com/VAKMByG.jpg

^ i do not have the tools to read this

these john baldessari photographs really blew my mind today:

http://www.planet-mag.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/baldessarispreads5.jpg

Oh boy, two of my favorite things:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/12-years-a-slave-mother-of-george-and-the-aesthetic-politics-of-filming-black-skin/2013/10/17/282af868-35cd-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/25/racism-colour-photography-exhibition

Really good reads

I don't have much to contribute but I'll say that

I was surprised that the consensus was that film lacked the dynamic range to bring out darker skin

Because technically film still has superior dynamic range, it captures more 'stops' of light per exposure

But when you think about it, film stocks were curved too. Their responses are not uniform, rather they react to certain intensities of light differently than others. I'd be willing to bet that camera meters were calibrated to put lighter skins right in the 'sweet spot' of a film's curve. And yeah if you exposed for darker skin (maybe via an incident meter) you'd push those same lighter skin tones toward the higher part of the curve

photo.net was sort of 'instrumental' to me in learning about how film and camera and photography worked

But even as a youngish dude I thought it was super weird for the guy (Philip Greenspun) to go on and on about which films captured skin tones 'well'

Even now the common knock against Velvia is that it 'does landscapes well but doesn't do skin tones well'

And you realize now that's a racially coded statement to make

Also, jeez:

The title of the exhibition, To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light, refers to the coded phrase used by Kodak to describe a new film stock created in the early 1980s to address the inability of earlier films to accurately render dark skin.

if you used an incident meter to measure exposure then you would get the same f stop/exposure time combination regardless of the lightness or darkness of the subject. so the lighter skin tones would stay in that sweet spot right? and darker skin tones would fall in a range that is more susceptible to grain and that lacks detail right?

but reflective metering would put darker skin tones in that sweet spot then, right?

in any case

I'd be willing to bet that camera meters were calibrated to put lighter skins right in the 'sweet spot' of a film's curve

seems otm

wait actually I'm thinking not of camera meters, but specifically incident meters, so never mind