Posted in Photographers on November 26, 2006 | No Comments »
“Etnic group in Sosa” by Brent Stirton. World Press Photo Award, 2nd, Portraits.
“Photography does a lot to transcend boundaries. A great picture transcends literary boundaries, language boundaries, and cultural boundaries. There are certain things that are common to the human experience: we love our children, we hope for a good life, we understand that [...]
Posted in Photographers on November 25, 2006 | No Comments »
by James Nachtwey
“Even in the age of television, still photography maintains a unique ability to grasp a moment out of the chaos of history and to preserve it and hold it up to the light. It puts a human face on events that might otherwise become clouded in political abstractions and statistics. It gives [...]
Posted in Photographers on November 23, 2006 | No Comments »
by Gerad Rancinan (Polaris)
“My photographs are mere details, fragments of humanity. My work has no other goal but to recount the world I hazard upon, to accompany my contemporaries on a journey, to fix memory in place, to fight incessantly against forgetting”-Gerard Rancinan
Kinuyo Watanabe, age 82, was 23 at the time and 2 km away [...]
Posted in Photographers on November 19, 2006 | No Comments »
by Douglas Kirkland
“It’s interesting how I got started photographing celebrities. It was almost an accident. I was on a fashion shoot for Look magazine in California, and the editors asked me to see Elizabeth Taylor with a writer who was interviewing her in Las Vegas. They had said, “No pictures.” I went along and at [...]
Posted in Photographers on November 18, 2006 | No Comments »
by Juliane Eirich
Juliane Eirich is a German photographer working a freelancer in Munich. Her work is simple, bold and beautiful. I particularly like her nice (but short) series of Trees and Night in Bavaria (Landscapes) and schools (Architecture).
Posted in Photographers on November 11, 2006 | Comments Off
by Art Wolfe
“I prefer to be stylistic when shooting an animal. It is almost like a shot in a studio and similar to a commercial photographer’s work, with clean lines.”- Art Wolfe
Art Wolfe is one of the most recognized travel and environmental photographers. His recent work, Edge of the Earth-Corner of the Sky, is an [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers on November 9, 2006 | No Comments »
by Joel Meyerowitz
“I have always been a photographer less interested in the academic and formal side of photography than for the feeling full side. I always opt for feeling. I think my pictures have feel in them, at the risk of sentimentality, which I try to avoid.”
“In the moments after the collapse of the [...]
Posted in Exhibits on November 8, 2006 | No Comments »
The second annual Photo Expo in San Diego (Del Mar fairgrounds, November 18-29th) will have several known photographers on site giving seminars. I don’t want to miss fine art photographer Vincent Versace and the iconic celebrity photographer Douglas Kirkland. Others also of interest include Eddie Tapp, photographer and Photoshop guru -Eddie was inducted to the [...]
Posted in Photographers on November 6, 2006 | Comments Off
“Truck farmers: the last harvest”- Perry Dilbeck
“During a recent visit to my hometown of McDonough, Georgia, I noticed an alarming trend. Much of the farmland around my home is vanishing rapidly due to a sharp growth in population, not only in my immediate neighborhood but also in the surrounding areas and for many miles [...]
Posted in Photographers on November 6, 2006 | No Comments »
“Blackboard”
“I happened to walk past the door to this room at the right time with a camera.”- Sean Kernan
“So is here my big insight: Making your art is making your life. It is identical to the process through which you continually become yourself. When your Art emerges from your consciousness, its bigger than your [...]
