let us now catalogue famous people

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

Yeah I think that's right

dang

http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/44457_1.jpg

http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/keld-helmer-petersen-pioneer-of-color/38030/

Waffled about posting this but this is a kind of digital color photography I like

http://edge.neocha.com/photography/some-interesting-works-from-hefei-based-photographer-liu-tao/

http://i.imgur.com/4PY6F3F.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8SMrYyZ.jpg

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/09/21827966-kim-jong-uns-uncle-dragged-away-from-meeting-erased-from-documentary?chromedomain=behindthewall&lite

Probably the most interesting photos of this year

I like the photos included here: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/12/florida-russia-cheaper/7789/

for some reason they're all high resolution, so if you open the images in a new tab you get them full-sized.

http://i.imgur.com/peB5u6A.jpg

John Divola

did we already draw a line between divola & baldessari itt? they remind me of each other. ^ that's ^ v nice.

i like this guy dale j bolender

http://25.media.tumblr.com/6bb82b7f668c9acfc0c3695a06c02883/tumblr_mw8a86316O1qhrx8po1_1280.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/6d604894dbbbe2ee622a9e1d9a474d96/tumblr_mrtbhuACjz1qhrx8po1_1280.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/23dc7891f65938931d1ce65838d1170b/tumblr_msw11mANyQ1qhrx8po1_r3_1280.jpg

http://31.media.tumblr.com/a1a647b9b93ac5b8c58f8e64eb20aac6/tumblr_mtuolwllmf1qhrx8po1_1280.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/fc9369b1efac059a2e74525f3b87c9d4/tumblr_mk16wuZ7tn1qhrx8po1_1280.jpg

portraiture but not

http://gizmodo.com/see-how-much-new-york-has-changed-or-not-since-the-19-1482014241

Can't stop looking at this pic http://collectordaily.com/guy-tillim-aperture/

http://i.imgur.com/xOiwB4Y.jpg

Hope the show stays up long I need to see this

Lol @ "Michael Jordan cologne" xp

And the DKNY ad!

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/12/the-wandering-spirit.html

The photographer Alec Soth and the writer Brad Zellar have undertaken a long-term project, born out of simple pleasure, that captures both the humanity and banality of the American continent.

photo above is p bad in a lot of different ways I think, most obviously in just being interchangeable with a post-it note saying [some old american shit &c] without any alteration in its effect

― schlump, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 03:12 (1 month ago) Permalink

so glad i made photo booth!
& that set is yeah pretty bad, portraiture is bad, pictures of motel signs or whatever are bad, burned out cars. who was the older guy who talked about trying to record what america was like now by taking pictures of stuff that wasn't there thirty years ago; big box storage stores on the outskirts of town, &c. that's plenty banal.

hey btw i liked the look of the magnum guy's pic above - & feel like i would sorta need an exhibition to appreciate that kinda thing?, i think because people get to a certain level of proficiency & then you just wipe out everything you can attribute to just talent or assignment or w/e? - but i couldn't see the michael jordan cologne/dkny ad. ??.

MJ and DKNY was in ref to my link

oh hey ty
i dug those also but in this case the thing diminishing my appreciation was just thinking New York Always Looks Nice

^ i do not have the tools to read this

Forgot to reply to this

It's by Jonas Bendiksen, Magnum photog, and it's of a fallen satellite in Russia

The villagers are collecting the pieces as scrap metal

Was reminded to reply because today these photos are showing up

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-12/22/content_17189744_3.htm

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

ah yeah thank you. i saw it pop up on lens; it is just such a jarring collection of elements, like how bright the image is & what even is happening.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/bfa97976b9cc2a7c84a2670f83e95716/tumblr_mf73j2AGYX1qztyymo1_1280.jpg

http://www.twinpalms.com/images/ADS_image_create.php?src=books/182_43EC517D68.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q87rigysoBY/URPZB_e3jKI/AAAAAAAARTA/ZBimqh8_KZo/s1600/008_JohnSchabel.jpg

http://fictionartblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/john-schabel1.jpg

http://www.photoeye.com/magazine_admin/resources/articles/395/4687/review_full.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r64xVDTbt9w/UXXow7Dx13I/AAAAAAAAA1A/U9hGWbxY0Xk/s1600/JS_4.jpg

john schnabel

returning to our regularly scheduled programming; i had never read this before

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTkxODcwNTEy.html

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/12/a-reluctant-subject-portraits-of-samuel-beckett.html

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

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/12/easter-and-oak-trees.html

Early Bertien van Manen

those beckett photos are terrific. did you ever hear the story about jane bown's? she said she'd intended to photograph him, had been trying to, & bumped into him as he was leaving a stage door at the theatre, him only slowing for a moment so she could shoot a couple of frames. & she was talking about why she liked the picture & how, when she was at school, she'd been taught photography during a still life class, a bunch of kids in a classroom & fruit piled on a table, the teacher saying everybody go pickup a melon to photograph & young jane bown tumbling over to pick one up. & she got there & grabbed a melon & turned to go back to her desk & the teacher stopped her & said jane ... make sure you get a good melon. so she picked her melon more closely. & the beckett photo is just ... the ultimate melon.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/B10.jpg

Ended up looking at a whole bunch of Bown's photos from the jump-off of the Becket article a little above, some brilliant work. Great use of natural light, like the one just there.

http://internetkhole.blogspot.com/

Internet k-hole updated

*visits internet k-hole*
*contacts google because i consider its content objectionable*

ps, 龜, cruise this site, http://www.foundfootage.be/9/

That's dope

internet k-hole is good but should get way more latepasses and way less shine

also that b+w photo of the guy eating out the upsidedown girl w/ the antlers in the foreground is from this absolutely incredible erotic photography book i have called Rapture: 13 Erotic Fantasies

http://www.amazon.com/Rapture-erotic-fantasies-Ron-Raffaelli/dp/B0006WMWNA

some NSFW shots:

http://arkitipintel.com/2009/05/02/recent-book-finds-2/

its right in that sweet spot of 70's kitch/beauty/sincere/playful

has some really cool pre-photoshop darkroom trickery too-- highly recommended for anyone who's interested in pervy artsy b+w

maybe i'll post some of my own when i get home

i invite you to judge by its cover:

http://i.imgur.com/8W7Q5EU.jpg

part of the thrill of internet k hole is the connoisseurial gaze you can cast picking out its occasional actual stephen shore pics &c though, right

lol i would probably not agree with that, but that is an interesting take

Man, the 70s

ha for real

http://i.imgur.com/g3Yrngf.jpg

Actually just a picture of a diorama

Saw this, liked it: http://tatumshaw.com/wonderland-trail/

http://i.imgur.com/pgYkJD2.jpg

Internet History

subcategory of internet history

http://craigslistmirrors.tumblr.com/

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

http://i.imgur.com/I1wDrrh.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/wTOTrF7.jpg