Posted in Photographers, Photography on January 30, 2007 | No Comments »
from “A System of Edges” © Mark Power/Magnum Photos
“Now that everyone in the developed world seems to own some form of camera, a different space has opened for documentary photographers. It’s a space free from specific events, where there are different expectations, where it is first and foremost about ideas. Now we can all [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on January 28, 2007 | No Comments »
from the series “Approaching Nowhere” by Jeff Brouws
Following the style set by his previous series “American Typologies“, “Highways“, “Inside the Live Reptile Tent” - all published in books - photographer Jeff Brouws latest series “Approaching Nowhere” is a fabulous book with 98 images printed in large format and high quality. Jeff Brouws has been [...]
Posted in Photoblogs, Photography on January 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“Luna-Sea” by Tyler Nixon
Browsing the net I found the photography of Tyler Nixon, a communications designer and photographer that is creating an outstanding body of work as shown in his [exquisitely designed] photoblog “wink”. His images are charming and creative but what it caught my attention is the consistency of the style of his [...]
Posted in Photography on January 24, 2007 | No Comments »
#1 Rolling Stone (January 22, 1981)
Rolling Stone’s cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was named the top magazine cover to appear since 1965. The image was photographed by renowned celebrity portraitist Annie Leibovitz mere hours before Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980. The photo was eventually used on the cover of Rolling Stone’s [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on January 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The most personal work of Anne Leibovitz, A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005 (book here), mixing assignment portraits of celebrities with images of her personal life, including images of her family and her partner Susan Sontag, will be exhibited in the “San Diego Museum of Art” in Balboa Park, from February 10th to April 22nd, 2007.
“This show [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on January 21, 2007 | No Comments »
by David Levinthal, from the series Hitler Moves East and XXX.
“Ever since I began working with toys, I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on such incredible power and personality simply by the way they were photographed”
“I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of [...]
Posted in Photography, Photography sites on January 19, 2007 | No Comments »
by lets_explore, as seen in polaroid.net
Who cares about megapixels, sharp lenses and in focus pictures? If you don’t and you love defocused images, unsharp pictures, unrealistic colors, but like “character” and uniqueness you will love polarpoid.net. Get lost in the world of Polaroid images, look at all kinds of Polaroid film types, a broad range [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on January 18, 2007 | No Comments »
by Steve Vaccariello, from the series nudes.
Mastering the art and emotion of the portrait. Following the tradition and style of Penn and Avedon, commercial photographer Steve Vaccariello produces images with strong emotions. He puts his hear and soul into the image. Portraits, beauty and fashion photography mixed with fine art nudes and experimentation with toy [...]
Posted in Exhibits, Photographers, Photography on January 15, 2007 | No Comments »
by Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Philipp Scholz Rittermann, a photographer located in San Diego (California), will be giving a talk entitled “A Personal Perspective of Landscape” on Saturday, March 17, 9a - 10:45a in the San Diego Natural History Museum. I had the pleasure to attend one of his classes in the past so I am certain [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on January 13, 2007 | No Comments »
by Pierre Gonnord
Beautiful portraits by Pierre Gonnord, a french photographer living in Madrid, Spain.
“I started on my project in 1999. For me, photography was a kind of lifeline, an opportunity to reach out to others, to approach them. I never once asked myself what I should be doing; I began with a portrait. It was [...]
Posted in Humanitarian Causes, Photographers, Photography on January 10, 2007 | No Comments »
(Iraq, Brooklyn) by Danni Goldfield
First project, new photographer. Danny decided on the project before even having a camera. He purchased a camera to take a picture of children from every-country on earth living in New York City. This project, his first picture project, his first set of images, landed-on the cover of Life magazine [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on January 8, 2007 | No Comments »
“99 Cent”, by Andreas Gursky [6 ' 9 1/2" x 11' (207 x 337 cm)]
For the German photographer Andreas Gursky (born 1955) everything is about big and small. Big pictures of large structures and spaces depicting people that appear to be no more than small ants. I have never seen his prints in a gallery [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on January 5, 2007 | No Comments »
by Andrew Hughes
Very original and interesting work by Andrew Hughes published recently in a book entitled Dominant Wave Theory. For the last ten years he has been making pictures along the coastline including details of objects found on the sand as a testament of human pollution (this picture is of an artifical rose, indeed). This [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on January 4, 2007 | No Comments »
by Laurence Ward, from the series “Piles“
See the images here.
One of the most basic signs of man’s interference with his environment, piles comprise both waste as collected remnants of former structures and objects, and the raw materials that signal the process of redevelopment. Constantly appearing and transforming, these simple structures can suggest a fantastical temporary [...]
Posted in Books, Humanitarian Causes, Photographers, Photography on January 1, 2007 | No Comments »
“Bound to El Norte”, Enrique’s Journey, by Don Bartletti (Los Angeles Times)
If you are living in San Diego (California, USA) or will be visiting the city before January 14th, you must do yourself a favour. Go and see the photographic exhibition, The Roads Most Travelled, by award winning photographer Don Bartletti (Los Angeles Times) at [...]
