Archive for August, 2008

“Los Toros” by Michael Crouser

 
© Michael Crouser
I’ve been sad in the bullring, but also exhilarated beyond what can be found in everyday life. It makes one silent and it makes one gasp and stand and cheer and hide one’s eyes. And it is beautiful, if one cares to pay attention. Form and shape, made and gone. Partnering with that which [...]

Henrik Kam

©  Henrik Kam
With a mix of both fine art personal images and commercial photography the work of Henrik Kam is quite beautiful. Looking at his work reminded me that small details can turn an image from just ordinary to extraordinary. Take for example the image of the small pier above. Well crafted, nice tonality, smooth [...]

Blog Action Day, a call to talk about poverty

Blog Action Day 2008, will take place on October 15th. If you are a reader of this blog and have your own blog, please pass the message around and let’s join forces to talk about poverty [info]
Thousands of view points, thousands of perspectives, all converging on a key topic for our generation, poverty. I will [...]

An unusual career path in photography … military photographers

©  Stacy Pearsall 
 Stacy Pearsall has one of the few jobs as a military photographer in the USA, and it is the only woman to have won twice the Military Photographer of the Year award. It is an uncommon path for a career in photography, one that has resemblance to the job that most photographers do [take [...]

Daniel Mirer

© Daniel Mirer
I like photography that doesn’t have the pretension to exaggerate the visual language of the image. Images that are not too complex, not too simple, just the right blend of subjects, light and composition to create pictures with interest, photographs that are a great pleasure to look at. This is what caught my [...]

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre: a work on contemporary ruins and urban acheology

© Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
Beautiful images and very intriguing topic. The ruins left behind in cities as they evolve and transition in time.  The two french photographers, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, have traveled across Europe and the U.S. to portray vanishing architectural icons,  concert halls where music has been forgotten, industrial buildings [...]

Alex MacLean: aerial photography has its own special charm

© Alex MacLean
Looking at things from a different perspective can lead to special photography.  Aerial photography, given its unique vantage point, is a specialty that takes advantage of this approach, but it has its own special challenges, challenges of composition, challenges of light, and challenges to create an image that is not a cliché.  Alex [...]

Vanessa Marsh

© Vanessa Marsh
Vanessa Marsh has very interesting photography [mixed with paintings in some projects]. Interesting play with soft selective focus, forms and colors. It is unfortunate that the images in the web are of low good quality [small and low res] but you can get a sense of the work looking at her website and [...]

Documenting the Face of America

It was a time when Americans saw each others faces for the first time and saw what life was like across the nation, north to south, east to west, rich and poor.
On Monday, August 18th at 10:00 pm (check local listings), PBS will present DOCUMENTING THE FACE OF AMERICA: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI [...]

The new Photo-Eye

In case you did not get the newsletter … the new photo-eye … not only about photobooks but also

Galleries
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Online magazine
Visual server to host your portfolio
USA Photoguide with a searchable list of galleries in the USA

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