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Four months and 42 boys, a photographic series in a youth detention centre. Photography Imitates Painting - CLA Photography. Why I’ve Gone Back To Shooting Film...And Why You Should Too. Our DSLRs have confused us. We obssess over the wrong things. Sharpness at 400%; bokeh characteristics of lenses produced from what-must-surely-be prancing magical unicorns; high speed burst frame rates that make cameras sound like gatling guns; 4k resolution to shoot better cat videos; 100 auto focus points that still won’t focus on what we need them to; and noise performance at 400,000 ISO.

Absolutely none of these will make your photographs better. Shooting film will though, here's why. Last month, I bought my first film camera in a decade. I grew up shooting film as a kid and we actually had an attic darkroom, thanks to my dad’s hobbyist photographer leanings. What on earth am I actually talking about here? Photography Student Buying Guide. So you’ve been accepted to art school, or you’re complementing your general studies with some photography classes, or maybe you’re just taking a continuing education class to learn more about film photography—regardless of the reason, you’re taking a class on film photography and need to prepare with some basic equipment and maybe a few other items to help your studies.

Photography Student Buying Guide

While film photography tends to take a backseat to digital photography nowadays, many photography programs still teach film photography to help you gain a better understanding of how the basic photographic process works. Without computers and an LCD screen to fall back on, shooting with film helps to reinforce technique and make you learn, understand, and trust yourself while shooting. 15 Maps Showing Where Tourists Take Photos Vs. Where Locals Take Photos. Trippy photographs of the american west by spanish artists. Random Trip is a project created by photographer and art director Pol Agusti that sends a small group of artists off on a journey, to see what and how they create work, and to document their activities.

trippy photographs of the american west by spanish artists

It's Pol's attempt to create new projects, relationships and personal experiences through a photo diary of all they see and do. Random Trip: Magic Landscape is the first edition of these diaries. Alongside the Spanish artists Maria Pratts and Regina San Martino, Pol embarked on an odyssey through the washed out landscapes of the American West, from Native American reservations, to deserts and snow capped mountains. We caught up with Pol, Regina, and Maria to talk about their random trip through a magic landscape. How did you come up with the idea for Random Trip? Why did you pick LA and that route for the first trip? Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Art Gallery, review. The common thread, we are told, is that these artists offer ’a history of photography through the photography of history’.

Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Art Gallery, review

Elsewhere we learn that they are purveyors of ’personal landscape’. But the great word that hangs over this exhibition - which it bend over backwards to avoid using - is photojournalism. All the photographers here relate, in one way or another, to that great tradition in which the photographer goes out to capture a slice of social reality in a stream of images that renders words superfluous. What this exhibition gives us, by and large - and without ever spelling it out - is photojournalists’ personal work: not punchy stories grabbed in two or three day assignments, but projects that absorbed them over years, even decades, and pushed them to develop highly personal means of expression. Whatever the oddities of the show’s conception, the cumulative effect of its artfully arranged, chapter-like sections is completely absorbing and often very moving. Until 13 January. Review: At Jackson Fine Art, two photographers’ strikingly different views of public space. How To Pick a Name For Your Photography Business.

Photography Themes and Issues. Photography Themes and Issues Essay.

Photography Themes and Issues

What is Dye Transfer? Dye transfer prints are simply without peer.

What is Dye Transfer?

They have a richness, depth, and fidelity unmatched by any other kind of photographic print. 6 Tips for Budding Live Concert Photographers. Being a concert photographer can be very exciting.

6 Tips for Budding Live Concert Photographers

Imagine yourself standing 6 feet away in front of your beloved idol and taking portraits of them. Not only do you have the ability to shoot one image but can take hundreds of pictures that you can carry home. How to Gain Experience in Photography: 7 Steps. How do you get your first job as a photographer? How to get Work Experience in Photography. Interested in working your way up from the bottom in photography?

How to get Work Experience in Photography

Good for you, this is the best way to create your own inroad into a very competitive industry. I did some talks for Hasselblad a while back and after one of them, I was approached by a brand new photographer with the question 'How do I go straight to the high end of the market? ' With no portfolio or experience, this photographer wanted to know how to fast track to the top.

Well my answer was that I have no idea but I wouldn't recommend it. Clients who pay top dollar would expect that you have earned your stripes and cut your teeth on other weddings. So I'm guessing that you are not that photographer and that you are reading this because you already know that getting experience is the most practical route to go down.

Magnum Photos. Sorry, your search for "Lise Sarfati has over a 10 years period documented the dramatic situation of children in Russia.

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She has lived with the Yakovlev family and their tragedies: murder , psychiatric hospital, powerty still within the frame of a dramatic but existing family structure. Her access to the institutions handling millions of under aged children is exceptional. This machinery has its own, scary logic: Early Photography: Niépce, Talbot and Muybridge. By modern standards, nineteenth-century photography can appear rather primitive.

Early Photography: Niépce, Talbot and Muybridge

While the stark black and white landscapes and unsmiling people have their own austere beauty, these images also challenge our notions of what defines a work of art. Photography is a controversial fine art medium, simply because it is difficult to classify—is it an art or a science? Nineteenth century photographers struggled with this distinction, trying to reconcile aesthetics with improvements in technology. The Birth of Photography Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Gras (1826)Although the principle of the camera was known in antiquity, the actual chemistry needed to register an image was not available until the nineteenth century. Artists from the Renaissance onwards used a camera obscura (Latin for dark chamber), or a small hole in the wall of a darkened box that would pass light through the hole and project an upside down image of whatever was outside the box.

The Photography Program. LECTURE: Leigh Ledare Monday, November 166pmWeis Cinema, Bard College Working with photography, archives, film and text, the focus of Ledare’s practice lies in an investigation of how we are formed as subjects, not merely at the level of identity but at the level of our projected desires, motivations and aspirations.

The Photography Program

These inter-relational drives often impose irreconcilable demands on the individual. His work explores this position of ambivalence as it relates to agency, representation, self-presentation, and issues produced by the enactment of this work in the context of the real world. Born in Seattle, Washington in 1976, Leigh Ledare received his MFA from Columbia University in 2008. LECTURE: Lucas Blalock '02 Tuesday, November 106:30pmRoom 125, Woods Studio Lucas Blalock is a photographer living in Brooklyn, NY. LECTURE: Mame-Diarra Niang & François-Xavier Gbré Monday, September 76pmPreston Theater, Bard College Mame-Diarra Niang was born in Lyon, France and currently lives in Paris.

Photography Page 1 - T-Bone Fletcher. Portfolio » News. Magnum Photos Photographers. Henri Cartier-Bresson. OUR NOT SO DEFINED IDENTITIES. Pinhole on 120mm color film. Hand printed. - Stella Asia Consonni Photography. OUR NOT SO DEFINED IDENTITIES. Pinhole on 120mm color film. Hand printed. Exploring the progressive loss of real self-identity caused by the creation of web alter ego. The physicality of the images is to express the psychical connotations of the subjects. Part 1 Masters of Photography Diane Arbus. Bernard Descamps, site de l'artiste. Le mur. SITE DU PHOTOGRAPHE MARC RIBOUD.

Bruce Gilden. The Glossary of Analogue Photography. Film photography can be complex and the various terms can be difficult to understand. Here's a glossary contains an alphabetical you will find some of the common terms used in analogue photography. 120 – A popular film format for still photography used in various medium format cameras. The 120 film format is a roll film which is nominally 60 mm wide (in fact, about 61 mm). How to Become a Photojournalist: 8 Steps. Photography. Gallery.