Posted in Books, Exhibits, Photography on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
This book [The photographer's eye] is an investigation of what photographs look like, and why they look that way. It is concerned with photographic style and with photographic tradition: with the sense of possibilities that a photographer today takes to his work.- The Photographer’s eye, by John Szarkowski, 1966.
The Museum of Photographic Arts in San [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
©Justin Guariglia
During a long period of 8 years, photographer Justin Guariglia (National Geographic Traveler, PDN’s best under 30 in the year 2000), was able to build trust from one of the most reserved Budist communities, the monks at the Shaolin Temple in China. Usually, tourists don’t see the real monks, they only see [...]
Posted in Books, Photography on December 18, 2007 | No Comments »
A couple of months ago I found a book that got my attention. In the cover, Pablo Picasso with a dog. The author and photographer not less than the great David Douglas Duncan, the last of the selected group that changed photojournalism shooting for LIFE magazine, at the time the “mecca” of photography. I should [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on December 10, 2007 | No Comments »
©Jessica Dimmock, from “The Ninth Floor”
Last year, Jessica Dimmock received the Inge Morath Award for her photo documentary ‘The Ninth Floor’ about several people in a New York apartment living with drug addiction. This work made it into a book that was selected by PDN as one of the best photobooks of 2007 (article in [...]
Posted in Books, Photography on December 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
PDN online has its own list of the best photo-books in 2007 …
PDN Photo Books of 2007
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War
Iraq: The Space Between
M*A*S*H/I*R*A*Q
Uncovered
Tod Papageorge: Passing Through Eden. Photographs of Central Park
Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers
Movimento: Glimpses of Italian Street Life
Creature
Photo Nomad
Rock And Roll
H2O
Mutter Museum: Historic [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on November 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Quite a project, indeed. I am looking forward to see the book. 55 top photographers, each a different assignment “illustrating every imaginable aspect of Thailand today”. Very interesting indeed.
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Thailand: 9 Days in the Kingdom, a photographic book commemorating the auspicious occasion of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 80th birthday, will be launched in December 2007.
With [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
© Ion Zupcu from “Works on Paper”
Most people take images of other people to preserve memories; I photograph objects to preserve my memories. - Ion Zupcu
Ion Zupcu was born in Romania in 1960. He began his explorations of photography working in a studio in his native city. While spending long hours in his living room [...]
Posted in Books, Photography on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What would happen if you take pictures of people walking in the street, exhibit the prints at a gallery and then sell them for prices ranging $20-30K each? Do the people portrayed have any rights to claim for financial compensation? Do they have the legal rights to preclude of exhibiting and selling the prints at [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
© Hiroshi Watanabe
Sometimes you find photographers who’s work takes your breath away. Hiroshi Watanabe is one of these artists.
His black and white and color images are exquisite in tonality, composition and depth of field but more important they have density of emotions, they captivate. Working with a medium format camera and doing his own [...]
Posted in Books, Photography on October 22, 2007 | No Comments »
I just arrived back home from a trip and my next post is to recommend you a book I purchased few weeks ago and I find fascinating. The book is “Image makers, Image Takers“.
The book, published in 2007, is a collection of interviews with leading photographers, curators and editors -with 218 images inserted to [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
by Jesse Marlow
Reading the interesting blog 5b4 I discovered the work of Australian photographer Jesse Marlow.
“Street photography is my main passion. The solitary experience of walking the streets seeking out ‘that’ moment – a rare emotion, a chance sight. And yet, it is often the most everyday things that I keep coming back to, [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on October 4, 2007 | 7 Comments »
from Desert Realty by Ed Freeman
I saw the images of Desert Realty by Ed Freeman a while ago and I found them very striking. Images that appear to show real buildings in the deserts of south California in a context that looks out of this world. After learning that most of the images were indeed [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
© Angela Strassheim
From forensic photography to fine art. Angela Strassheim has developed a style remarkably original in its obsessively careful compositions and lighting, in its uncanny sharpness . Angela Strassheim grew up in a family of ‘born-again’ Christians, who came to their present faith as the result of a conversion experience after childhood. With the [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on August 13, 2007 | No Comments »
by Takashi Yasamura
I like photography that creates art out of ordinary life by blending objects, color, shapes and light with simplicity. The work (see here, here and here) of Takashi Yasamura is a great example of that.
Born in Shiga, Japan in 1972, Yasumura explored the home of his parents for seven years, creating his quirky [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
From the Series Cubelife © Phillip Toledano
Beautiful photography by Phillip Toledano (a.k.a Mr.Toledano). Among all his great work I find particularly interesting the following series:
Cubelife - “I am fascinated with the idea of anonymity and what better place to find it than in a office”-Mr.Toledano
People - “I wanted each shot to be part [...]
