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“Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the picture as judgment that the photograph is good.” – Garry Winogrand (1928 -1984, street photographer)
Today is the birth date of Garry Winogrand, a master of street photography, born on January 14th, 1928. He photographed America in the sixties and seventies, capturing candid shots using a small Leica rangefinder with a wide angle lens so that subjects remained unaware. Only a small portion of his hundreds of thousands of images were developed or published, some of his books include The Animals, Public Relations, Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures, Winogrand 1964, and Figments from the Real World.
Photo via Masters of Photography
Happy b-day Garry!
tilt-shift brings another perspective to architecture… #tiltshift #canon
11.03.11 : photo.a.day - UCSD Geisel Library at dusk, leaving school.
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5 frames, and the shot was made. #davidlynch.
So here’s a portrait we did of director David Lynch. This was shot for the icon issue of the now defunct project of Shepard Fairey and Roger Gastman called Swindle Magazine. We were told we had no more than 30 minutes with Mr. Lynch, not because he was a diva or anything but that he can’t handle doing one thing longer than 30 minutes apparently. We decided to shoot him with 4x5 film, Kodak Portra 160 to be exact with one soft box (like every 4x5 shot we ever shoot). We shot 4 frames that felt great so we asked if he would like to smoke. He said “I would love to, it’s one of my favorite things to do”. He lit up, we shot this one last frame and called it a day because we knew we had it. 5 frames, have never even looked at the other 4. As we were packing up our gear he said “It was a real pleasure watching you guys work” and he walked off. Thank you Mr. Lynch for your time.
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Where Are They Now of the Day: Ruth Orkin’s “American Girl in Italy” was snapped exactly 60 years ago this Monday. Its subject, Ninalee Craig, poses above in the very same orange shawl featured in the iconic photo.
Craig, then 23, was traveling through Europe when she met Orkin, then 29, at a budget hotel in Florence. “We talked about traveling alone and asked each other, ‘Are you having a hard time? Are you ever bothered?’,” Craig recalls. “We both found that we were having a wonderful time, and only some things were a little difficult.” They decided to walk around the city looking for the perfect scene to illustrate what it felt like being a young single woman traveling alone.
It was during two hours of “horsing around” that Orkin snapped the well-known shot. Craig vehemently denies that the picture was staged. “The men were just there,” she says. “The only thing that happened was that Ruth Orkin was wise enough to ask me to turn around and go back and repeat [the walk].” Orkin’s daughter Mary Engel, keeper of her mother’s photographic archive since Orkin’s passing in 1985, mostly agrees with Craig, but says Orkin did ask “the man on motorcycle to tell the other men not to look at the camera.”
Addressing the question of the photo’s foreboding mise en scène, Craig says it’s wrong to view it through a negative lens. “It’s not a symbol of harassment,” she says. “It’s a symbol of a woman having an absolutely wonderful time!”
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Where Are They Now of the Day: Ruth Orkin’s “American Girl in Italy” was snapped exactly 60 years ago this Monday. Its subject, Ninalee Craig, poses above in the very same orange shawl featured in the iconic photo.
Craig, then 23, was traveling through Europe when she met Orkin, then 29, at a budget hotel in Florence. “We talked about traveling alone and asked each other, ‘Are you having a hard time? Are you ever bothered?’,” Craig recalls. “We both found that we were having a wonderful time, and only some things were a little difficult.” They decided to walk around the city looking for the perfect scene to illustrate what it felt like being a young single woman traveling alone.
It was during two hours of “horsing around” that Orkin snapped the well-known shot. Craig vehemently denies that the picture was staged. “The men were just there,” she says. “The only thing that happened was that Ruth Orkin was wise enough to ask me to turn around and go back and repeat [the walk].” Orkin’s daughter Mary Engel, keeper of her mother’s photographic archive since Orkin’s passing in 1985, mostly agrees with Craig, but says Orkin did ask “the man on motorcycle to tell the other men not to look at the camera.”
Addressing the question of the photo’s foreboding mise en scène, Craig says it’s wrong to view it through a negative lens. “It’s not a symbol of harassment,” she says. “It’s a symbol of a woman having an absolutely wonderful time!”
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To many, Agnès Troublé is the woman behind French label Agnès B., responsible for outfitting chic Parisians in snap-up cardigans and other understated classics. But to followers of contemporary art, Agnès is patron first, designer second. In addition to maintaining an extraordinary personal collection (which began with a Basquiat self-portrait), Agnès aided the photographer Ryan McGinley in the early stages of his career, financed the production of French subtitles for Harmony Korine’s films, and has for several years operated Galerie du Jour, in Paris, showing off the likes of Nan Goldin and those who have followed in her wake: McGinley, Korine, Dan Colen, Ryan McGinness, and Dash Snow, among others.
In April, Agnès opened a new Agnès B. store and gallery, in Soho, which is currently featuring the work of seven up-and-coming French photographers. (The show also includes drawings by Abdelkader Benchamma, Lionel Avignon, and Kiki & Loulou Picasso, a curatorial decision that Agnès explains as “discreetly hinting at the most eminent figure of French photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who in his later years all but abandoned photography and never stopped drawing.”) Here are a few of my favorite photographs from “Certain Young French Photography and Drawings.”
tilt-shift perspective on the campus of UCSD.
08.02.11 : photo.a.day - Trees on campus, UCSD.
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Photography Is Not A Crime of the Day: Freelance news photographer Phil Datz, a credentialed member of the press from Long Island, was arrested last Friday while filming Suffolk County police activity on public property, and charged with obstruction of governmental administration.
It is explicitly legal to record police in public in the state of New York.
Following a statement from both the Press Club of Long Island and the National Press Photographers Association denouncing the arrest, Police Commissioner Richard Dormer released his own statement saying he was working with the Suffolk County district attorney to have all charges dropped.
Datz told Newsday he was “very encouraged” by Dormer’s statement, but had not personally heard back from the police.
Suffolk County PD refused to release the identity of the Fifth Precinct sergeant who made the arrest.
See Also: What to do when police tell you to stop taking photos, video.
DSLR shooting major motion picture of George Lucas.
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Look closely, and you’ll see one of those cameras is a Canon DSLR.
Lucasfilms commissioned Philip Bloom to shoot parts of Lucas’ upcoming film Red Tails exclusively with DSLRs.
Bill Brandt, Micheldever, New Hampshire, 1948
Thursday Feature: I’ll be putting up inspirational posts/images every Thursday. They’ll be loosely related to themes that are found in my work. Pop culture, celebrity, the sublime, photography vs. non-photography, documentary, etc. Anything goes. Renaissance painting to the home shopping network. ANYTHING. Enjoy!
Winogrand is one of my all time favorites.
Julius Shulman was a genius and LOVED his photography… everyone should watch this documentary about Julius’ work….
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
Julius Shulman, c. 1960
Thursday Feature: I’ll be putting up inspirational posts/images every Thursday. They’ll be loosely related to themes that are found in my work. Pop culture, celebrity, the sublime, photography vs. non-photography, documentary, etc. Anything goes. Renaissance painting to the home shopping network. ANYTHING. Enjoy!
