Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
- Talking photo credits
Chelsea Fuss’ primer on best way to credit photos + “If you don’t have an original source and can’t find it, then don’t use the image.” Happy to see TinEye mentioned as a photo source hunter!
- Snow finally!
Snow finally arrived in Toronto. About time. But this is not South Georgia!
The Torontoist timelapse is just awesome!
Toronto Pre-Winter Storm Timelapse, at Annette and Runnymede Streets from Torontoist on Vimeo.
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Errol Morris in conversation with Bill Ganzel in the New York Times.
Migrant mother then:
and now:
(Copyright Bill Ganzel)
- Saddam’s Palace
Richard Mosse has an incredible photo series taken in Irak in 2009.
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Wondering what comes up in an image search for “women with mustache”? Wonder no more! (via Adobe Blog)
- Lou Toman and his photography
The life and photos of a staff photographer at the Sun-Sentinel. And not just any photographer but Lou Toman. I just love his now and then shot. How times have changed!
- Queen Street Love
It is almost summer and what that means is walking to work everyday! My route takes me from Queen Street (West) and Dovercourt to Queen Street (East) and Sherbourne and it is never a boring walk. Managed to snap a few shots too!
- Twin babies are money in the bank!
In celebrity media, photography can move a lot of money around. To show what a difference a cover makes, PDN took a look at all of People‘s regular-issue covers from 2008 and how many copies each one sold. Interesting insights!
- Bumpy ride for Boeing
A great Boeing article in Condenast Portfolio with outstanding photographs by
Christopher Griffith. The 777 built by Alan Mulally was the first plane digitally designed and preassembled on a computer. The slide show does not do justice to Christopher’s photographs (in the print edition)! Not to be missed is A Photo Editor’s interview with Christopher (who by the way was born in Toronto!).I was a research biochemist in a previous life. I was in a postgrad program in London when I fell into photography. I had this split life of studying for my degree during the day and doing photography at night and on weekends. I think aspects of my process remain which are very scientifically based in that I really like to explore a variety of things in photography. It is why my career is slightly schizophrenic. I seem to get equal opportunity to shoot still life, architecture, portraits with the odd fashion shoot thrown in for old times sake. It can be really exhausting as I feel I never spend enough time on any single vocation because I am rarely doing the same thing twice. The upside is that we have traveled the world, have gone to some crazy locations and have a real cross section of clients who come to us for a real variety of projects. I guess that is the payoff in not getting pigeonholed into any singular aspect of photography.
Christopher’s latest book Blown has just been published and is an “intense graphical study of roadside blown-out tire detritus”.
- Re-photography
Too bad Condenast Portofolio is no longer, I used to enjoy the magazine. This Richard Prince article was a good read yesterday (I am catching up on my magazine reading!).Is re-photography and art form?
Famous for “re-photography”—photographing existing photos and selling them as his own—Prince, in the early part of the decade, was a well-established, if sometimes controversial, artist. His work sold in the five-figure to low-six-figure range, and he was represented by New York’s Gladstone Gallery, a top-tier venue. To the larger public, he was mainly known as the guy who re-photographed Marlboro Man ads and sold them as art, or as the artist who re-photographed a famous nude photo taken of actress Brooke Shields when she was a little girl. (The original photographer sold the image for $300; a Prince re-photograph of the image brought $151,000 at Christie’s.)
His Marboro Man photograph has a few search results in TinEye, I can’t help it, anytime I see an image I have to TinEye it!
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