Category Archives: photographers & exhibitions

Here is a 1967 photo of Mark (recently passed away), taken by one of my early mentors, Ralph Gibson (whose hand also appears with Mark’s in this photograph).  She refers to this photograph as “The Enchanted Hand”.  Mark says that … Continue reading →

Mark Ellen Mark died on Monday.  Her documentary work came along early in my photographic career — we were of the same generation — and served as a great influence to me.  This is just one of many images that … Continue reading →

Herman, an old friend from Kansas City, reminds me, following my posts about Lynsey Addario, that David Douglas Duncan came out of Kansas City and was recently the topic of this very interesting Kansas City Star piece: http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/books/article21602583.html Duncan was one of … Continue reading →

A while back, we caught interviews on Charlie Rose, Fresh Air, the PBS NewsHour and elsewhere of Lynsey Addario, a “conflict” (i.e., war zone, etc.) photographer who has covered situations in almost every global trouble spot, from Africa to Afghanistan and … Continue reading →

Old phototog sidekick Bill, himself a former pro surfing photographer, sends along this link to an article on the work of Doug Falter.  Just one example ….

The other evening we streamed from Netflix the 2013 film, “A Thousand Times Good Night”.  Juliette Binoche played the lead as a conflict-zone photojournalist who could not stay away from the action.  The director, Erik Poppe, was a photojournalist himself … Continue reading →

This is just one example of several famous photographs painstakingly recreated in miniature by Swiss photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger.    

Writing recently in the New York Times Magazine, Teju Cole in his “A True Picture of Black Skin”, explores how Roy DeCarava in his lifetime captured something very special about black subjects and their lives in his photographs.  DeCarava, who … Continue reading →

Here’s a time-lapse piece by Joe Capra, done with 80 megapixel images, each at 10328×7760 pixels. Please don’t do this one at less than fullscreen.  See the backstory here. 10328×7760 – A 10K Timelapse Demo from SCIENTIFANTASTIC on Vimeo.