Get The F*ck To Work · DEDPXL

http://dedpxl.com/get-the-fck-to-work/ Great post here by Zack Arias with some quotes on inspiration and a little bit of self reflection too. This all might ring true to home for of you artists out there.  The David Bowie video he links to is a must watch!Read more

Imogen Cunningham’s Sensual Photography | A R T L▼R K

Imogen Cunningham has been a favorite photographer of mine for her floral photography and environmental portraits of her children.  I enjoyed reading this post about her.  I did not know for example that she went to a technical high school in Dresden Germany, nor that she first opened a portrait studio in Seattle in 1910 which was really quite early still for photography in the west coast.  She and Anne Brigman, another one of my idol’s were photographing in theRead more

The Human eye is so sensitive, it can detect a single photon

Wow! Digital sensors and cameras still have a long way to go before they can replicate human vision. Here’s an article I read in the Los Angeles Times that covers the scientific study on the senstivity of the human eye which was reporting on an article called “Direct Detection of a Single Photon by Humans” by Tinsley et al, in Nature Communications.  In case you are like me and are interested in reading more about about the experiment, the Zaviri lab has theRead more

How the Fujifilm X-Pro2 Was Designed for ‘Decisive Usability’

I found this excellent article, by Aage Granasson, on the Fuji X-Pro2 really interesting because it went deep into the Fuji design criteria or design ethos.  I own a Fuji GX 680III and also have had some of the Fuji medium format compact cameras and do agree with the author about those purpose built cameras from Fuji.   Well worth the read… Source: How the Fujifilm X-Pro2 Was Designed for ‘Decisive Usability’Read more

This Odd House Is a Shrine to Early Photography

This Odd House Is a Shrine to Early Photography http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/odd-early-photography-shrine-portugal-casa-relvas Interesting read about an eclectic 19th century photographer in Portugal, named Carlos Relvas, who built his house to be a perfect studio upstairs with lots of windows for natural light and darkroom downstairs.  The creators project blog post is a great summary but there’s more information on the Case Estudio website itself though its a bit hard to navigate.Read more

Helmut Newton Retrospective at the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam

Recently I visited the Netherlands for a quick meeting and overnighted in Amsterdam where the FOAM Museum is.  If you are close or will visit this wonderful city this summer, then you should try to stop in at FOAM to see the Helmut Newton show which is quite fantastic!  The show runs until September 4th, 2016.    They have a large number of his photos spanning his entire career in many rooms spread over the three floors of the museum.   ThisRead more

Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review article on Kodak The first digital camera was invented at Kodak.  Kodak invested big money into commercial digital cameras early on, and they even bought some on-line photo sharing businesses.  So why if they had invested significantly into technology, why did they still fail to jump the gap when it came?   This article goes into a lot of detail but clearly a lot of big companies failed to see that the internet could reach directly toRead more

Excellent article on Diane Arbus

“Was Diane Arbus the Most Radical Photographer of the 20th Century?”  by Alex Mar I thought this article on Diane Arbus was very well written and revealed some facts about her personal and photographic life that I had not heard before.  Well worth reading!   And if you can, check out the show of her very early photographs at the MET in NYC that is currently running!   Here’s the link to the show details Diane Arbus Early Years    AndRead more

ACLU Releases List of Rights of Photographers

ACLU Releases List of Rights of Photographers You have broad rights to photograph in public.  Confrontation with citizens and authorities when you are photographing has become more frequent since 9/11. Police have been particularly sensitive to being filmed or photographed after Ferguson et al.  It’s a good idea to become familiar with laws and your rights so you can act professionally if confronted and hopefully defuse the situation.   The ACLU has put together a good list and review here:Read more

The Light L16 Camera is delayed

Today I and presumably quite a few others who also put a deposit down for the L16 received some mixed news today via an e-mail from Light.   The bad news is their camera will be delayed until 2017 sometime.  We had been told it would ship this summer originally, and I’ve been very excited to work with this new multi-aperture technology which may be the direction small cameras like mobile phones will take in the future.   The good news isRead more

Reblog: “5 Japanese Photographers you need to know”

I’m reblogging this post on Japanese Photographers since I thought it was worthy of attention. To save time the 5 photographer’s in their list are below.  If you click on the name it will take you to a Pinterest image search of that photographer so you can see more images from each photographer on the list.  Be advised many are NSFW! Shomei Tomatsu (1930-2012) Eikoh Hosoe (1933-) Ihei Kimura (1901-1974) Daido Moriyama (1938-) Nobuyoshi Araki (1940-)  Read more