February 2012
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A 600-pixel jpeg is a far cry from my exhibition prints. They almost aren’t even...
– Interview with photographer Jessica Eaton by Otino Corsano on The Believer Logger.
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In Germany in 2011 the mirror-less system cameras grew with more than 60% while...
– Tao of Leica, Analysis and Insight by Erwin Puts.
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Juergen Teller: Exposed via nowness.com
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I saw Bruce Davidson lecturing about “Subway.” Someone asked him, “What do you...
– Tomasz Lazar on NYT-Lens
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It typifies the sort of seemingly arbitrary cropping that occurs when the frame...
– Stephen Shore in The Nature of Photographs about the work of David Freund.
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‘I choose people for their energy and aura’
French photographer Lise Sarfati talks to Sean O’Hagan about her latest exhibition, She, featuring images taken between 2005 and 2009 of four American women – two sisters, their mother and her sister. The photographs work with each other, she says, to form a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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No amount of poor padding with theory is going to make work look any more...
– Shannon Stratton, ThreeWalls
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My goal is to try and rescue the art form that I’ve been practicing for the past...
– Neil Young
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Inspiration can also come when a good connection is made with the subject. The...
– Martin Parr on Inspiration - New Pictures at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (via photographsonthebrain)
January 2012
27 posts
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“From a totally different planet” (Henri Cartier-Bresson on Martin Parr)
Hot Spots: Martin Parr in the American South by Neal Broffman Follow iconic Magnum photographer Martin Parr across Georgia as he creates his first commission for a major US art
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“Joe treats us to a barely born song [Without Your Oar To Row] amidst the fragrant lilies, roses and lilacs that, throughout the shoot, many purchase with smiles for Joe’s confident finger-picking and simple words.” www.joegrass.com
(Filmed on a 5D mkII with a 35 1.4)
Thank you John and Vaunda for the introduction!
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is...
– John Lennon (via claytoncubitt)
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“The illusion of knowledge is more detrimental to growth than ignorance, because once you think you know something, the questioning stops. And it’s that ongoing ability to question your own imagery. You should even question your own thinking. I find it exciting to constantly challenge myself visually.
The challenge for young people is there’s an overwhelming amount of stuff digitally, and...
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Something for your iPhone!
Robert Frank made, what, 28,000 photographs for ‘The Americans’”? says Jim...
– Robert Frank and photography: Art in the age of image overload | OregonLive.com (via photographsonthebrain)
[Now, who did he learn that from I wonder?…]
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The US Kodak operation is restructuring, it’s Chapter 11, not 7, the one...
– British Journal of Photography
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Optical/chemical monochrome film photography — highly evolved, completely...
– Mike Johnston on The Online Photographer.
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How do you balance finding the time to make new personal work?
“I use a fast...
– Elliot Erwitt
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I always encourage amateur photographers who want to get better to set time or...
– http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-10-06.shtml
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The left side of the brain ranks images on a scale of how face-like they are.The...
– “How the Brain Spots Faces” on wired.com >
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I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking.
– Interview Excerpt from, Leslie Katz with Walker Evans, 1971.
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In 2012, according to one prediction, 201,287,607,638 digital pictures will be...
– Tao of Leica, Erwin Puts
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dirkvroemen:
“Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk”. - Edward Weston
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I am more interested in the question how the relatively low amount of cameras of...
– “Leica knowledge, 22/12/11” Tao of Leica, Erwin Puts
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December 2011
16 posts
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People thought the profession of photography was threatened when autofocus was...
– Where Have All the Photojournalists Gone?