Some pretty incredible photos, here in a New York Times piece, on the ESA (European Space Agency) Rosetta’s spacecraft deployment of a lander on Comet 67P/C-G this week. Check out more photos at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/12/science/space/rosetta-philae-comet-landing.html.
(Grande Ronde Valley, 2014)
The other day I was approached with a small World War II black & white portrait of a military officer and his then-wife. For obituary purposes, the daughter of the now-deceased military officer wanted me to photoshop out the wife who had been replaced by another in later years. These kinds of projects are often a lot of fun, and can often entail challenging and time-consuming work. But this pales in comparison to the year-long project undertaken by aviakatz of the Painted Back blog to colorize this 1942 photo:
Read here about aviakatz’ painstaking process of tracking down the magazines displayed to render them in authentic color. Included is an expansive and fascinating gallery of most of the magazine and comic book covers depicted.
Yesterday afternoon Maury appears for just a couple of minutes with his new baby and his Mona-Lisa-wife in tow, so I quickly squeeze off a frame or two.
Some of the most engaging paintings that have stuck with me from childhood have been those by Edward Hopper. His “Nighthawks” was the first that I saw at about ten years of age, and is surely his most widely known.
Photographer Richard Tuschman uses Photoshop to create his “Hopper Meditations” as described here in an Adobe Inspire interview, combining live human models with tabletop dollhouse-size settings to achieve a a high degree of light control, among other results.
In an interesting experiment by ARS Technika writer/photographer, Lee Hutchinson, compares the photo capabilities of the latest Apple iPhone and an $8K Canon DSLR rig. See the full story here.
A view of DTLA by Ian Woods …
Yep, I miss my old photography loft at the intersection of the arts, garment and flower districts.
Woodkid (aka Yoann Lemoine) just released this video homage to the work of William Gedney, with a remix of a Max Richter track (as Max Richter is one of my very favorite composers, I will be talking more about this on my music blog):
In case you’re not familiar with the wonderful work of William Gedney, he was a reclusive photographer working mostly in the 60s and 70s, championed by the likes of Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. He was rarely, if ever, exhibited on a solo basis during his lifetime (died of AIDs in the late 80s). The only published book of his work was in 2000, to the best of my knowledge.
Duke University has a large collection of Gedney’s works and associated materials, and displays a nice slideshow here of some of his images. I highly recommend spending some time on the Duke University Library pages there to further explore the wealth of collected Gedney images and manuscripts.
My old photog sidekick Bill turns me on to this collection of photographs presented by The Atlantic.
This calls for a “WTF” …
UPDATE: Colbert weighs in: http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/4a4ahs/amazon-s-audacious-photography-patent
