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Thursday, February 2013
If you watched the Super Bowl last month, or even if you didn't, you might have seen the popular "Farmer" commercial for Ram trucks, which features a slideshow of beautiful photos by a range of great photographers including William Albert Allard, Andy Anderson, Jim Arndt, Daniel Beltra, Mark Gooch and others. The only...
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Thursday, December 2012
Ok, here's something we'd never do: climb to the top of a giant crane or a towering building without safety gear and take spectacular photos while dangling from on high. (Sounds good in theory but…)
For self-described "skywalkers" Vitaly Raskalov and Alexander Remnov, however, it's more than just a theory, it's a...
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Wednesday, December 2012
While there are 7,000 languages on the planet, half of those unique voices are in danger of being silenced within a generation or two. That's the dilemma highlighted by a new exhibition, titled "No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World," at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.
The show features...
In 2011, Steve Crist of AMMO Books published EDWARD WESTON: 125 PHOTOGRAPHS, with photos from scans of the photographer's original prints from an extensive collection at at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.
This was a slip-cased, large format book with high quality printing on heavy paper, and while it was reportedly a very nice item for collectors, it...
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Wednesday, October 2012
I'm not a big fan of watermarks on photos: never have been, never will. They are, of course, a necessary evil for protecting your images from being stolen but sometimes I feel the type of watermark a photographer uses on his or her photos can show a surprising lack of taste.
Kip Praslowicz has a hilarious send-up of...
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Thursday, September 2012
“Visa pour l’image” is the largest exhibition of photojournalism in the world and this year’s top awards went to Chilean photographer Tomas Munita and American Stephanie Sinclair.
Munita received the top award, the ‘Visa d’or’ (Gold medal: daily press photography) for his photography of the effects of war on the lives of ordinary Syrians, while Sinclair received the...
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Wednesday, August 2012
A series of photos shot in American malls in the 1990s that sparked interest on the Internet yesterday are slated to become a book, thanks to a successful Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign.
The artless but revealing documentary style photos, were captured by musician and photographer Michael Galinsky with "a cheap Nikon FG-20 and an even cheaper lens" in malls from Long...
One of the most intimidating things for aspiring photographers is taking pictures of people you do not know. It can be an uncomfortable experience that often doesn't result in the candid, revealing portraits you may have hoped for.
That's why we like Portland, Oregon-based photographer Jimmy Hickey's video "How to Photograph a Stranger."
Hickey breaks down his formula for...
The official photograph of François Hollande, France’s new president, was unveiled on June 4th. The photo (at right) taken by photographer Raymond Depardon shows Hollande in the garden behind the Elysée Palace, France’s White House. It reflects Hollande’s campaign promise to have a “normal” presidency and it will hang in thousands of town halls, post offices, and government...