A Visual Remix. Photo When he visited the Plumbe National Daguerrian Gallery in Manhattan in 1846, Walt Whitman was astonished. “What a spectacle!” He wrote. “In whichever direction you turn your peering gaze, you see nought but human faces! There they stretch, from floor to ceiling — hundreds of them.” In the seven years between the invention of the daguerreotype and Whitman’s visit to Plumbe’s, the medium had become popular enough to generate an impressive, and even hectic, stream of images. Now, toward the end of photography’s second century, that stream has become torrential. “Take lots of pictures!”
The consequences are numerous and complicated: more instantaneous pleasure, more information and a more cosmopolitan experience of life for huge numbers of people, but also constant exposure to illusion and an intimate knowledge of fakery. A decent photograph of the sun looks similar to any other decent photograph of the sun: a pale circle with a livid red or blue sky around it. Invisible Interview: Raghu Rai, India - Part 1: Trends & Styles, and News Photography | Invisible Ph t grapher Asia (IPA) | 亞洲隱形攝影師. © Photograph by Raghu Rai. All Rights Reserved. Indian Photographer Raghu Rai is one of those rare photographers who never left home, choosing to focus his lens decisively on his motherland since the early 1960′s, a decision that has seen him document the changing socialscape and history of India over 4 decades, from the Sadhus of Kumbh Mela to Mrs Gandhi and Mother Teresa to the victims of Bhopal.
In our 2012 poll, Raghu Rai was named as one of 2o Most Influential Asian Photographers. Rai is also the only Indian Photographer to join Magnum Photos Agency under the nomination of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Invisible Ph t grapher Asia: What’s your secret to Longevity in Photography? Well, you know Life and Nature, they keep changing every minute, every second. So you’re saying an endless curiosity in life. Absolutely. We know a lot of great photographers who have gone through the newsdesk, is there something about the job that molds great photographers? Yes, I’ll say yes. Yes, yes, oh yes. Yeah. A quoi pensent les photographes qui ne prennent pas de photos. Déjà Rimbaud se plaignait des ruissellements fastidieux de photographies (dans une lettre de 1871 à son ami Paul Demeny[1]). Déjà Italo Calvino se moquait en 1955 de «la folie de l’objectif», la frénésie de tout photographier qui s’emparait de centaines de milliers d’Italiens les dimanches de printemps[2].
Que dire aujourd’hui devant la prolifération du numérique, l’abondance des smartphones, la glorification des selfies? Doit-on suivre aveuglément ce mouvement culturel majeur, à l’instar de bien des sociologues et chercheurs, mais aussi de quelques artistes? Ou bien est-il possible, sans passer pour une vieille barbe réactionnaire, de le regarder avec un peu de distance, d’ironie et de questionnement? Publicité Benoît Grimalt est un photographe français né en 1975 qui, comme beaucoup de ses confrères, a une pratique assez diverse: mode, reportages, commandes et travail personnel. Et puis il se prit au jeu. Ecoutons les photographes Ce livre est aux antipodes. Une bonne résolution? A quoi pensent les photographes qui ne prennent pas de photos. ENRI CANAJ. Viralité du selfie, déplacements du portrait. Le selfie, c’est entendu, est un sujet oiseux.
Ne s’agit-il pas d’un mot anglais? Et “self” ne veut-il pas dire: “soi-même”? Traduction express: photo de soi, célébration du narcissisme, pouah! Sans compter que les selfies sont produits avec ces maudits smartphones qui nous empoisonnent la vie, et diffusés par ces réseaux sociaux qui sont le repaire des adorateurs du vaudou numérique. En un mot, un comble de technologie futile et niaise, un symbole de tout ce qui peut exciter un réactionnaire bon teint. Ces jugements agacés en disent plus sur leurs auteurs que sur les images elles-mêmes. Plusieurs articles critiques du phénomène “selfie” ne comportent pas une photographie, encore moins une analyse de contexte. 1.
La photographie “amateur”, outil de l’autoreprésentation Cela fait 175 ans qu’on porte sur la photographie un regard distrait. Pourtant, faute de la considérer, nous ne connaissons pas grand chose de cette photo ordinaire, réduite à quelques schémas expéditifs. 2. 3-5. 6-29. Au Revoir 2013 : A Photobook List. Ok, cette liste arrive tard, alors que vous n’en pouvez plus. Vous attendez plutôt de nous une liste de moins à la place d’un Top Ten de plus, et ça tombe bien : nous sommes justement de mauvaise humeur. Pourtant, nous devrions sortir dans la rue les épaules recouvertes de cotillons : il n’y en a jamais eu autant de livres de photos que cette année.
Mais ce fut avalanche de livres laids, chers, inutiles, cyniques, mal imprimés, mal séquencés, mal pensés, ou insidieusement édités à tout petits tirages pour être annoncés épuisés avant même d’avoir éclos – comme s’il suffisait qu’un livre soit épuisé pour être beau. Comme si sa rareté était le signe de son intelligence. Edmund Clark - Control Order House (Here Press, London) Ivan a déjà presque tout dit ici sur ce livre qui, à lui seul, a dominé l’année, toute catégorie confondue.
Salvatore Santoro, Saluti Da Pinetamare (Autoédité, Italie) La carte postale sur la couverture est évidemment un leurre. Deux livres sur la fin du communisme. How to convert your dslr to a pinhole camera // Behind the Shutter. How to convert your dslr to a pinhole camera So, I had a little free time yesterday, dont as me how, but it was there and like the neurotic person I am, I decided to fill it with some play time.
I wanted to do something different – so, I converted my dslr to a pinhole camera. Below is a list of items I used for this exercise, minus some tinfoil, which I will expand on later. 1) dslr camera 2) hammers 3) ruler 4) notepad 5) pencil 6) 800 grit sand paper 7) scissors 8) soda can 9) gaffers tape 10) drill and drill bit (9/64th) 11) sewing needles Now, you might be wondering why in the world I would want to do this. Converting my dslr was the way to go. Finding center: Take your body cap (and you are about to destroy it), the pencil, notepad, and the ruler.
Now, this will be just the beginning. Creating the pinhole. Ok, next up, take that soda can and cut it, use a small square, one that will fit inside the body cap. Something to understand. ***Special update*** Adhere to body cap. Start shooting. How to make a pinhole camera from your DSLR. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to make a pinhole camera using a really simple method involving nothing more than a spare body cap for you DSLR.
There’s an app for just everything these days, including a plethora of photo effects that replicate traditional darkroom and camera techniques. Among these, getting the pinhole look ranks high. However, there’s nothing quite like doing it for real, so we’re going to show you how to make a pinhole camera of your very own using your existing DSLR. Using nothing more than a spare body cap for your camera, a small square piece of aluminium drinks can, a pin or needle (about size 7), scissors, some black electrical tape, fine sandpaper and a drill, you’ll have all you need to transform your DSLR. The results won’t be perfect: the distance between the body cap and the sensor on most digital SLRs is fixed at an inconvenient distance for pinhole photography, and it can’t be easily changed.
Through the pinhole How to make a pinhole camera step-by-step 1. Pinhole photography: how to take the perfect digital pinhole photo. Pinhole photography has been around forever, and the dawn of the digital age has given this lo-fi photography artform new life with the ability to convert your DSLR cameras into digital pinhole cameras. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to use your digital pinhole camera to take the perfect pinhole photo. From the best camera settings to the optimum pinhole size, everything you need to know to take the perfect pinhole photo is laid out below. How to shoot perfect digital pinhole photography Camera settings On a pinhole there’s no aperture to adjust, and it’s highly likely that your camera meter won’t give you anything approaching an approximately correct reading, so set your camera to Manual, ISO100, and Daylight White Balance.
On a bright sunny day try 1 sec, at pre-dawn, try 30 sec. Once the sun’s above the horizon, you’re likely to be in the 8 sec-range, as we were here. 0.1mm 0.2mm 0.3mm 0.4mm Obviously, the size of the pinhole greatly influences the correct exposure time. PinHolo - The story of how I made a Pine-Nut Pinhole Camera! When I was a student at the Fine Arts Academy in Perugia, I fell in love with stenopeic photography and started gathering every kind of document I could about it and its technical evolution. I asked for some information from my photography teacher, Antonio Todini - He suggested that I search "Pinhole Photography" on the internet and as a way of remembering things said: “Pinhole, it sounds like pinolo (pine nut, in Italian), but with the 'H' after the 'N' and the final 'E'”.
Since that moment the little nut planted itself in my mind and grew in the form of a challenge to make my very own pine nut pinhole camera! After eating the pine nut fruit, I used the sides of the shell as a “camera obscura”. I needed the inside to be black, so I painted it. Then, I made a hole in the center of one side and applied on it a plate with a pinhole in the center. I also made two little metal rings, whose function was to keep shut the nut and keep off the light. World Pinhole Day is on Sunday! The Pinhegg – My Journey To Build An Egg Pinhole Camera. Since I started pin-holing the world, I have had the strong desire to make a special camera, with the purpose of shooting just one photograph. The purpose was to sacrifice the camera in the process of photo creation – I wanted the camera to become the photograph. To let you understand, the process from the camera to the photograph is the same that ties the baby bird to the egg: the bird grows protected from the shell and when it's ready breaks it and comes out.
This is why I decided to create the Pinhegg – An Egg Pinhole Camera. On the one hand it all seemed so easy – I would create the Pinhegg without breaking the egg, using it as a camera obscura and, upon opening the egg, find the photograph impressed on the shell. Great. But, on the other hand, the project didn’t seem easy at all and I postponed it for years – Until, that is, Lomography and the Pinhole Day happening right on Easter gave me the right pretext to do it. Please activate JavaScript to see this gallery Photos by francescco.
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Dappled Things: Pinkhassov on Instagram. We are not mayflies. We have known afternoons, and we live day after day for a great many days. This long experience of how days turn—how afternoon becomes late afternoon and late afternoon becomes night—informs any photographic work we do with natural light. The time of day at which the light is at its most glorious photographers call the golden hour: you’ve seen them toting cameras on street corners and in abandoned lots, coming at 5.30 pm or 6.30 or later, depending on the latitude and time of year. They wait for a certain intensity of shadow, for the yellow sunlight to spill just so, before it dies away into the night. But Gueorgui Pinkhassov (Russian, b. 1952, based in Paris) has done something more than wait: he has detected the golden hour in unexpected hours. A low and fractured light shimmers across his ouevre. Pinkhassov’s work has come to the world in the usual way: photojournalism, print magazines, exhibitions, a book (Sightwalk, about Tokyo), and awards.