One of my frustrations with contemporary photographic technique, mine included, is the feeling of sterility. Digital processes have become so sophisticated that nearly every picture you see is dusted and anti-scratched to a state of frozen perfection. After awhile it all feels so airless. Alec Soth is onto something. Lomos and Holgas aside, so much [...]
Cell Phone Tower Apparently, the times are changing. Emphasis below mine. Meanwhile telephones become cameras, desktop printers morph into mini-printing labs, and high-definition screens threaten to dislodge the venerable photographic print from gallery walls. Guess that’s why my printer was so cheap. Is an inkjet print venerable? Or only traditional process prints? Should I have [...]
Image Courtesy of Francois Courtois I found this site while looking through my referer stats on stattracker. I haven’t had Kate translate the french for me yet, but his photos – here & here – are excellent.
Thursday’s NYT featured this article on Bert Teunissen, a Dutch commercial photographer who’s been working on documenting traditional day lit structures. There’s fabulous dark quality to the light in these structures. It’s the kind of light that I associate with high windows and northern latitudes, but I’m not entirely sure if other factors are at [...]
Paul Butzi, whose article on the Monday Night Photo Club served as inspiration for the Stills photo critique club, has got not a new blog (for those of you who were counting, yes that was 3 links in one sentence). Apart from being a pretty darn good photographer, Butzi has got some awfully good writing [...]