You know how one thing leads to another on the internet. A Google search takes you to a site that links to something else, and bada-boom bada-bing you’ve spent hours on YouTube or Camerapedia. Well, yesterday a Todd Hido podcast led me to the name Willy Ronis, and I wondered, “why have I never heard [...]
Tags: Belleville, Life Magazine, Paris, Photography, Willy Ronis
The other day I came across a photograph on flickr depicting a barefooded man in black suit and tie, standing like he had just ripped a cow’s throat out. The person who had posted this image was not the photographer, but was kind enough to mention the name ‘Pieter Hugo’. I immediately had to find [...]
Tags: Control, hyena, Looking Aside, Mathambo, Permanent Error, Photography, Pieter Hugo, South Africa, Spoek Mathambo
In 1983 Michael Jackson escaped the lense of a Polaroid Autofocus 660 in the video for Billie Jean. Photo by Sean Smith Surrounding the Polaroid is what appears to me as a bunch of Mamiya Z-series cameras, but what’s more important: Is that a (Dirty) Diana I see there in the upper left corner?! Your [...]
Tags: 660, autofocus, Billie Jean, Diana, Lomography, Mamiya, Michael Jackson, MJJ, Photography, Polaroid, private detective
In 1992 Sir Mix-a-Lot had a Graflex Speed Graphic in his video for “Baby Got Back”. Produced by Graflex in Rochester, New York, the Speed Graphic is commonly called the most famous press camera. Although the first Speed Graphic cameras were produced in 1912, production of later versions continued until 1973; with the most significant [...]
Tags: butt, Crown Graphic, Graflex, large format, Pacemaker, Photography, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Speed Graphic
More Richard Misrach here.
Tags: 35mm, Hurricane Katrina, Photography, point and shoot, Richard Misrach
Philippe Halsman (born Filips Halsmans) was a famed Latvian photographer who took pictures for magazines like Vogue and Life. In 1931 he came to France with the help from Nobel Prize receiver Albert Einstein after having served 3 years in Austrian prison for killing his father on a hiking trip. When World War II broke [...]
Tags: AM New York, Ben Silverstone, Filips Halsmans, Jump, Jump Book, Leonard Nimoy, Life, Life Magazine, Patrick Swayze, Philippe Halsman, Photography, Richard Nixon, Salvador Dali, Sight and Insight, Vogue, Филипп Халсман
What could be better? The other day I saw a book on Blue Note album covers and it made me wonder who took these iconic photographs. So I did what you do in these situations; I looked to Google, then Vimeo and YouTube, and so, here’s the guy: German born Francis Wolff (1907/08–1971). After a [...]
Tags: Alfred Lion, Blue Note, documentary, Francis Wolff, jazz, Photography, Reid Miles
In Shanghai–-the fastest developing city in China–Canadian photographer Greg Girard (b. 1955) is documenting the old neighborhoods. As a result he has put out the book Phantom Shanghai. Attention: Check out that super hot Mamiya 7 II!
Tags: China, documentary, Greg Girard, long exposure, Mamiya, Phantom Shanghai, Photography, Shanghai, Shanghai Gloaming, 上海
I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? Ive always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with the ambiguity of appearances. Things are what they seem to be, or maybe something else. More Richard Kalvar here.
Tags: documentary, Photography, Richard Kalvar, street