Helmacron posted:

But gursky has no skill. you can intimitate him with a disposable camera, with less arrogance. he cheapens photography, he's the reason why that hairy gently caress you have to work with snorts at your excitement over a photographic moment because he painted abstract in high school, 15 years ago, and nearly won award for it but didn't because his grades were too low because he was hooked on the pot.

Musket posted:

Oregoons:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/daido-moriyama-photographs-from-five-decades/Event?oid=3305520

Daido Moriyama: Photographs from Five Decades. Open through the 26th of this month.

Arinel posted:

Literally practice makes perfect.

dukeku posted:

Missy Prince always makes me feel bad, we haunt the same back roads and she always does it better.

Santa is strapped posted:

I always wondered how fine art photographers get that fine art look to their photos, they havea very recognizable desaturated look to them.

Santa is strapped posted:

Herein I correct my previous statement to "a lot" instead of all.

dukeku posted:

SANTIAGO LYON posted:

: There were the “Turf Builders,” photographers who accompanied the White House advance teams in the Reagan era, sending one photographer to reconnoiter the photo opportunities on foreign presidential travel. They visited the scenes where the president was going to be photographed and took notes on the locations and distances to assist the photographers who would later travel with the president. They produced a guide that told you what lens to use and what the light was going to be.

xzzy posted:

That picture is messing with my head. It seems like such a boring subject, there's nothing going on, I can't find any reason for it to be awesome.

Yet it's totally compelling. How the gently caress does that work?

Bottom Liner posted:

I think the subject matter is very interesting, and technically they're fine, but the style is just like every art school portfolio I've seen in the past X years.

NoneMoreNegative posted:

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I'm hesitant to go as far as 'awesome', but I really like the red/blue double exposures here:

http://www.magsarchive.com/2012/12/ursula-vargues-victoria-saravia-playboy.html

This one especially:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RVz2CsxwUNI/UMOkctXYA6I/AAAAAAAACn8/81eERQN9RNg/s1600/062.jpg

I'm kinda surprised that something so 'arty' would run in a skin magazine - it doesn't look very condusive to cranking one out

Paragon8 posted:

Playboy, especially its European counterparts, can have exceptional photography.

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Charlie Haughey (Chieu Hoi to his friends in the Army 25th Infantry Division), a now-retired cabinet maker, was drafted to the US Army in 1967. He served a tour of duty in Vietnam from March 1968 to May 1969 with the 25th. Charlie, a photographer from a young age, was commissioned by his commanding officer to take photos—not traditional combat photos, but morale-boosting content to uplift the spirits of the members of the unit. When he left Vietnam for good, Charlie brought back to the United States almost two thousand negatives that had captured his unique view on the war and life in the army. The negatives lay in boxes until the fall of 2012, when a chance meeting brought them out of dormancy.

dukeku posted:

Ed Ruscha.

8th-samurai posted:

Spending a time thinking about you work can only improve it.

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The best documentary work is as complex as its subject matter, does not attempt to fully resolve itself, and forces the viewer to interpret the work and engage with the subject matter independently. Filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Werner Herzog come to mind. Why no still photographers? Because the best still photographers have fled from any association with “documentary” as the field has become increasingly parochial, stiff and old-fashioned. Still photographers are the most conservative and least ambitious of visual artists because they are tethered to the photojournalistic tradition and to the general public’s misunderstanding of the medium as a tool of faithful communication. For documentary to be born again, those practicing it and those looking at it must accept that truth cannot be found or created within its bounds, only art.

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It's a bit hyperbolic. And French-born, Beijing-based photo preservationist Thomas Sauvin is the first to say he's really not trying to rescue all the world's photos, let alone China's, let alone Beijing's. Even still, he's managed to save about half a million negatives from being recycled.

What happens to trashed negatives if Sauvin doesn't get to them first? In China, at least, they're collected, dropped in acid (along with old X-rays), and what remains — the silver nitrate — will fetch a decent price.

But these negatives are positively priceless. They're almost all family snapshots, with some advertising photography mixed in, dating from around 1985 to 2005 — the height of film point-and-shoots and a period of China's economic opening to the West. How does that translate in photographs?

According to Sauvin, it's in the appearance of Ronald McDonald, in portraits of happy new television owners, in posters of Hollywood actors, and in the very few vertical photos found among the half-million: women modeling their new refrigerators.

Sauvin's project, Beijing Silvermine, is not new to the Internet. A short documentary (worth watching if you want to learn more) made by Sauvin and his friend Emiland Guillerme was featured as a Vimeo staff pick a while back, which is how I discovered the project.