lewis carroll

hello all. so for those of you who know me, you know that I like photographing children. and alice in wonderland. so what could be better than lewis carroll photographing children? answer: nothing.

I present to you the photography of the legendary writer/possible pedophile, and you can decide for yourself if he was creepy or artistic. I choose to believe he was artistic.

(the last two photos are of alice liddell, on whom alice in wonderland was based. she's also in the second photo, on the right)

So I really enjoy manipulating photographs and a friend of mine (Ciara) told me to check out this very famous photographer :http://www.uelsmann.net/ . Ofcourse, I quickly recognized an image of a house with roots coming out of the bottom.Jerry Uelsmann does some of the most wonderful images through manipulations but solely in the dark room. His talent is marvelous and his imagination is inspiring!

Revisiting the scene of the crime

On a recent visit to Frank's barbershop on Thompson, below 3rd Street, my son, Keiji posed for a picture with a picture. Sal is holding a photo of Keiji's first haircut, which he's had on display in the shop for the past sixteen years. We'll give him a copy of this update and hope for another opportunity in 2027, when I'll be 80. Life is short... art is long!
Tom

Claes Källarsson

Claes Källarsson is a Sweedish photographer and designer. He takes gorgeous landscape shots. Some of his best work comes from a road trip he took across America about two years ago- there is some really incredible stuff in his Flickr and Tumblr galleries. I really love the American landscape-- some of my favorite photographers are Stephen Shore and David Graham-- and these are really gorgeous examples that show how wonderful and strange the USA is.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zerogrizzly/

http://ckck.tumblr.com/

Spooky, Scary...

Bombest photo series ever.

There's a haunted house in Canada that photographs people's overly frightened faces while walking through the crazy scary haunted house. Check out the series here.

PS- In the first photo, the guy in the green looks so much like Jim Carrey.

Nirrimi Hakanson

Check out some work from one of my favorite photographers, Nirrimi Hakanson

nirrimiphotography.carbonmade.com
weliveyoung.blogspot.com

Young photographer extraordinaire Alex Stoddard

Hey y'all! Allow me to introduce you to the absolutely amazing Alex Stoddard, he's only seventeen years old, but showcases some serious talent. His self-portraits have really been he's gain-to-fame on Flickr, they're really illusionary and delicate. Lovely light tones and colors create an overall dream-like effect and transform his settings from ordinary to whimsical. Below are some of my favorites, along with a link to his Flickr.



Alex Stoddard's Flickr.

Daniel Berehulak

Daniel Berehulak is an amazing photojournalist that works for Getty Images. His work has won numerous awards, such as the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism 2011, as well as the World Press Photo 2011 award and even a Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of the floods that hit Pakistan.

http://awards.gettyimages.com/awards.cfm?display=photographer&photographerID=17&isource=corporate_website_awards

Claudia Hart at Bitforms Gallery, Chelsea

Photographer and multimedia artist Claudia Hart has an upcoming exhibition, When a Rose is Not a Rose, at the Bitforms gallery in Chelsea.

This exhibition is part of her The Real and the Fake project, where Hart juxtaposes obviously virtual images with photographs. While visually the distinction between the virtual and the photograph is obvious, the interpretation of what represents "real" or "fake" is not so obvious. A segment of her exhibition places detailed and intricate photographs of industrialized foods against computer generated apples, in an attempt to question ourselves as to what real or fake truly represents.

In this particular segment of her The Real and Fake project, Hart reflects on Gertrude Stein's line "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" from her poem Sacred Emily and contemplates the denial of death in her exhibition. A very interesting exhibit to browse for those of us that are interested in photography as a tool in multimedia.

The exhibition opens on on October 25th and will be shown until December 3rd.

The Bitforms gallery is located on 529 West 20th St.

Source: http://www.bitforms.com/upcoming-exhibitions.html#id=152&num=1

Vivian Maier - Street Photography

As some of us in Analog just finished our street photography assignment, I thought it would be interesting to share the work of Vivian Maier. Maier was a nanny who took photographs in her spare time, however her work was never discovered until recently a massive chest containing thousands of her negatives was auctioned off. John Maloof now owns these photographs and has produced a book and showcased her work in several exhibitions. Maier's work has now received massive critical acclaim. Her photographs depict riveting and unique moments making her work inspiring in her approach to street photography.

(Maier lived in New York for some time so her work is really a great source of inspiration for all of us.)

http://www.vivianmaier.com/

Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience

I wanted to share what I brought to the Aperture "What Matters Now" exhibition we participated in a few weeks ago. For this year's anniversary of 9/11, Marco Grob shot a series of videos and photographs for Time magazine focusing on 40 people, varying from General David Petraeus to the 9/11 first responders, and interviewed them about their experiences on the day of 9/11 and the decade following the disaster. This is my favorite piece I've seen to date focusing on the subject of 9/11. I never would have thought that an online exhibition of sorts would be able to be effective, but everything about the way this website and series is set up works perfectly. You are given the option to read the interview or watch a video of it, and every interview is accompanied with a portrait. I recommend watching as many videos as you can and reading about the project itself, it is worth the time. There is also the option to share your story, photographs, or videos relating to 9/11 which will become part of the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

http://www.time.com/time/beyond911/

George W. Gardner

I know that a lot of us in analog are about to begin our documentary projects. I have always loved the genre of documentary because you're photographing to preserve something, but you can twist the stylistic elements of your images any way you'd like so that they do the subject matter justice. I have always admired George Gardner's photographs of America for this reason--they're so distinct. Much like Robert Frank's series on Americans, Gardner stays true to setting and subject matter, while still incorporating his own characteristics. I encourage everyone to check out his work, because I feel that with his documentary photographs, he's achieved what I believe to be the most important element for this genre: a feeling of intimacy between subject and viewer.

America, 1960-1985

Basic Lighting

This week in my section we covered some of the basic principles of lighting, both with continuous source (hot lights), and flash (specifically dedicated flash units for digital cameras).

Lighting is a subject that is pretty near and dear to me to me so I thought I'd share a few more resources that I have found helpful to photographers new to using artificial light.

One of the best free resources is David Hobby's website, STROBIST. David was a photojournalist for the Baltimore Sun and was often confronted with situations that required sophisticated lighting, but he worked alone and couldn't carry big studio equipment. He devised a method of using small inexpensive strobes and started publishing his tutorials on his blog.  Strobist has 250,000 followers at this point.

I'm also going to upload a few chapters from my books to my website that students will be able to download (these will also be available on the blackboard site for my section).  Because my publishers will get mad if I leave them up for too long they will only be available for a week or two.  Go to the "Written Word" section of my site, the "Light is Color" and "Lighting" have useful tips for using small flash or hot light effectively

If you are shooting with a Nikon camera I'll also recommend Joe McNally's book entitled "Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes"  It's very Nikon specific and you will have to wade through Joe's deathless prose (he does tend to ramble), but there is a lot of useful information there

Vancouver Riot

I was in Vancouver this summer, but left the day before the riots broke out after the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup. This shot is pretty amazing, especially in light of the recent protesting/rioting down on Wall Street. It's insane how when so much chaos is going on, a photographer only has moments to capture that perfect image.

Here is the article on the incident and the photograph itself:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/17/vancouver-kiss-couple-riot-police#

For those of you who don't have time to read the whole thing, this is what the photographer said about it:

The photographer was being buffeted by rioters and riot police when he spotted the couple. "I was about 20 or 30 yards away," he said. "There were these two people on the ground in this empty street. Initially I thought one of them was hurt." He took a few shots and then the moment was lost.

"It was complete chaos. Rioters set two cars on fire and then I saw looters break the window at a neighbouring department store," he said.

"At that point the riot police charged right towards us. After I stopped running I noticed in the space behind the line of police that two people were lying in the street with the riot police and a raging fire just beyond them.

"I knew I had captured a moment when I snapped the still forms against the backdrop of such chaos but it wasn't until later when I returned to the rink to file my photos that my editor pointed out that the two people were not hurt, but kissing," Lam said before the real story behind the photo came out.

Mark Citret

I recently visited Santa Fe, NM this summer and walked into the Verve Gallery of Photography. Mark Citret (b. 1949) was showing his black and white photography and I was completely enthralled. [I'm seriously partial to lines, shapes and forms in photography,] and so there's my opinion. However, I really encourage you to check some of this work out on his website. In the mid to late 1980s he produced a large body of work with the working title of “Unnatural Wonders”, which is his personal survey of architecture in the national parks. He spent four years, 1990 to 1993, photographing “Coastside Plant”, a massive construction site in the southwest corner of San Francisco. But, my personal favorite is his gallery of "Artifacts." Very abstract stuff.

Link: www.mcitret.com

Tim Hethrington's Diary

A really wonderful short minute film that feels like a war photographer's dream

Diary 2010

A Frightening Possibility

I returned to my dorm this evening to find a disturbing story waiting for me on the New York Times website. There is a possibility it seems, that Eastman Kodak may file for bankruptcy some time in the not too distant future. I don't think anyone believed Kodak's future to be a bright one but I didn't expect to hear things like this for some time to come.

New York Times: Lens

The New York Times runs an excellent photography blog entitled Lens, which covers amazing photographers and different slideshows showcasing the best photographs around the world every week. I just saw ran across this one taken by James Mollison on the many different places children sleep around the globe. It's pretty fantastic. Check it out.