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Phasing out my E100G | RDP
Andrew Hetherington at Focus on Imaging: "So the problem now is this: I have about 100 rolls of slide film in my freezer. By the time they are gone I need to have figured out how to afford a camera that costs more than most cars. If any of you can swing me a few jobs for Chanel or Prada I promise you now that I will lend you the camera when I get it."
photography  film  portraiture  slidefilm  kodak  fuji  phaseone  from instapaper
10 weeks ago by blech
What That Puppy on Pinterest Says About the Internet | The Atlantic
Megan Garber: "Almost all of the advances taking place within our established social networks have emphasized images at the expense of text. There's the rise of Pinterest, most obviously, and its almost text-free explosion of pictures and pins. And the less-meteoric-but-still-pretty-remarkable rise of Flickr and Instagram and Hipstamatic and their fellow photographic networks. But there's also Facebook, doubling down on its photo-heavy Timeline. And Google+, selling itself on its video Hangouts. There's the small matter of YouTube. And the viral profusion of Tumblr. Even Twitter -- spare, text-y little Twitter -- has, in its latest web redesign, emphasized user avatars, not to mention video and image attachments, much more boldly than it ever did before." This is a good post, with more questions than answers.
internet  image  text  pinterest  facebook  twitter  photography  from instapaper
11 weeks ago by blech
Finding San Francisco | de Young Museum
"Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964 opens tomorrow at the de Young. Although the primary subject of the exhibition is the city we call home, many of the locations represented in the pictures were difficult to pin point. During his preparations for the exhibition, curator James Ganz tried to track down some of the more mysterious sites portrayed, which resulted in a San Francisco adventure of his own." Closes 3 June 2012.
sanfrancisco  photography  exhibition  todo  history  arthurtress  via:@hchamp  from instapaper
12 weeks ago by blech
The Facebook Problem | Martin Parr
'The more drink is taken, the bigger the “Facebook Problem” becomes. You walk into a crowded bar or party, lift your camera and everyone in front of you starts posing and smiling, producing the kind of image in the past associated with the social pages in magazines, but now the stock that fills up Facebook." "The image is unlikely to disappear, as they have probably been photographed many times already that night on countless mobile phones."
photography  facebook  culture  martinparr  via:antimega 
12 weeks ago by blech
The origins of Instagram style · robinsloan | Storify
'How's that for a tagline? "Instagram: pictures of things that don't mind having their pictures taken."' Robin Sloan on what gets posted to Instagram (but I'd caution that a) you're seeing things your friends post and b) there are some photos of (young, attractive, usually female, often self-taken) people in the Popular tab. Still, worth reading.
culture  instagram  iphone  photography  robinsloan  internet  etiquette  via:couch 
february 2012 by blech
SXSW 2012 Q&A: Jesse Chan-Norris | Scatter/Gather
"I’ve been taking digital photos for over a decade, but it’s only really been in the past five years or so that the photographs that I’ve been making exist solely in their digital form. Before that, even digital photos would most likely have been printed to be shared, but the advent of high speed everything and social everything else has made that unnecessary. This, in itself, has been wonderful for the near instantaneous dissemination of information (if a bit overwhelming in terms of volume), but it also means that we are no longer leaving behind this physical trail. I would like to talk about what this means."
photography  digital  preservation  history  archives  sxsw  jcn  from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
Not good enough | Preoccupations
A nice round-up of thoughts about Instagram and Flickr, pulling together some of the links previously featured here (and expanding on them),
instagram  flickr  links  photography  from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
A Giant in Kite Aerial Photography | George Lawrence
Simon Baker: "One of the most spectacular photographs in the book is of San Francisco after the great fire following the 1906 earthquake. I had seen it before and assumed that the camera was carried aloft by a balloon over San Francisco Bay." "Newhall related that the camera was lifted into the air by kites, but he had little to say about how it was kept steady to make such a sharp image or how much it actually weighed. For answers to these and other questions, I began a long research."
sanfrancisco  photography  aerialphotography  kite  history  research  earthquake  via:@maximolly 
february 2012 by blech
'Walker Evans' review: Photographic eye on America | SFGate
'"Walker Evans," the exhibition at Stanford's Cantor Center showcasing the photographer-artist who plumbed the poetics of documentary, makes this point only inadvertently. Consisting of vintage prints and related Walker ephemera from the collection of Elizabeth and Robert Fisher, it succeeds at least in making us wish for a refreshed view of Evans' work, even if that continues to elude us.' Stanford, closes 8 April, 2012.
photography  art  exhibition  sfba  stanford  todo 
february 2012 by blech
Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240 | BAM/PFA
"From 1970 to 1987 Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public. These images often served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings, and prints." Berkeley. Closes 20 May, 2012.
photography  art  exhibition  sfba  berkeley  todo  via:twitter  via:@leyink 
february 2012 by blech
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire | NYTimes.com
"Pictures are supposed to be worth a thousand words. But a picture unaccompanied by words may not mean anything at all. Do pictures provide evidence? And if so, evidence of what? And, of course, the underlying question: do they tell the truth?" Worth a read. From 2007.
nytimes  photography  truth  news  from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
New Perspectives on Old Perspectives | Huffington Post
"The web project [...] highlights the work of NYPL patron Joshua Heineman, who started creating his own moving images from Library stereograms as an art project for his blog. The Library's NYPL Labs team was so impressed it decided to build on his idea. Here's his story about how the idea took shape and grew into a Library project." A good project and a good read.
photography  library  sterogram  nypl  web  archives 
january 2012 by blech
2012: The Dust Blows Forward | Digital Photography Review
"There will be light, and then there will be nothing. But how will the camera market fare? Read on, as I ponder out loud." Ashley Pomeroy on photography.
photography  cameras  technology  comment  ashleypomeroy  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
I know what love is | Letters of Note
Ansel Adams: "The person of the one who is loved is a form composed of a myriad mirrors reflecting and illuminating the powers and thoughts and the emotions that are within you, and flashing another kind of light from within. No words or deeds may encompass it."
anseladems  photography  love  via:hitherto  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
Technological change: The last Kodak moment? | The Economist
"While Kodak suffers, its long-time rival Fujifilm is doing rather well. The two firms have much in common." "Both firms saw their traditional business rendered obsolete. But whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business, with a market capitalisation, even after a rough year, of some $12.6 billion to Kodak’s $220m. Why did these two firms fare so differently?" Interesting stuff on the death of film (and why seeing the end coming can't always save you from it).
technology  cameras  photography  chemistry  film  kodak  fujifilm  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
Francesca Woodman -€“ review | The Observer
"Seeing so many photographs of Woodman, mostly naked, often posing in empty rooms with peeling paint and fading wallpaper, is a slightly disconcerting experience, though. It's not just that she becomes more elusive the more photographs you see, it's more the tightrope walk she takes between an almost adolescent self-obsession and artistic self-exploration."
photography  art  francescawoodman  london  exhibition  review  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
Clive Thompson on the Instagram Effect | Wired
"In old analog cameras, many such filter “effects” were a chemical byproduct of the film, so photographers became expert at understanding the unique powers of each. Fujifilm’s Velvia film, with its high saturation and strong contrast, attracts photographers looking to capture the vibrancy of nature, Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom notes. But casual photographers rarely developed this type of eye, because they just wanted to point and shoot. What Instagram is doing—along with the myriad other photo apps that have recently emerged—is giving newbies a way to develop deeper visual literacy." The argument for filters.
wired  instagram  photography  cameras  film  seeing  howilearnt... 
january 2012 by blech
Why Instagram Is So Popular | TechCrunch
Citing the three main reasons as "Quality, Audience, & Constraints", Nate Bolt's piece on Instagram is worth a look.
instagram  photography  iphoneography  mobile  cameras  howilearnt... 
january 2012 by blech
Kodak's long fade to black | latimes.com
"Like the passing of distinguished individuals, the passing of great corporations should prompt us to ponder the transience of earthly glory. So let's pay our respects to Eastman Kodak, which at this writing appears to be a shutter-click from extinction."
photography  technology  film  chemistry  kodak  latimes  business  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
Sutured San Francisco | BLDGBLOG
"Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2007," [Leigh Merrill] writes, "I began looking at the complexity of its urban environment. The Bay Area presents a unique blend of residential living that sits between urban and suburban in a way that never quite reconciles one with the other."
sanfrancisco  architecture  photography  manipulation  essay  via:stml 
december 2011 by blech
On the ‘Subway’ Photographs by Bruce Davidson | The New York Review of Books
"In the spring of 1980, I began to photograph the New York subway system." A great read from the photographer of the amazing Subway series.
photography  newyorkcity  subway  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
Glamour of the Gods | National Portrait Gallery
"Glamour of the Gods is a celebration of Hollywood portraiture from the industry's 'Golden Age', the period 1920 to 1960." Closes 23rd October 2011.
london  photography  exhibition  todo?  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century | Royal Academy of Arts
"Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi each left Hungary to make their names in Germany, France and the USA, and are now known for the profound changes they brought about in photojournalism, as well as abstract, fashion and art photography" Closes 2nd October 2011.
london  art  photography  todo/gone  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
Boston’s photographic colors | Bostonography
"Here’s what we did: grabbed some 50,000 geotagged photos from Flickr, analyzed the pixel colors of each photo, then mapped a grid of the most frequent color hues." "Every dot on this map shows the most common hue of photos around that point." "A notable outcome (drawback, perhaps) is that dark and unsaturated brownish colors, very common in photographs, show up as orange on the map."
boston  photography  flickr  geotagging  colour  visualisation  via:straup  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
Street life | FT.com
"Daniel Meadows’ images of working-class communities in 1970s Britain bear witness to the reinvention of the craft and purpose of photography." Well worth a read, this, on photography, documentation, and working class communities.
photography  danielmeadows  martinparr  uk  history  1970s  manchester  via:@joemoransblog  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
The Emotional Breakdown | Friends of The Web
A write-up of one of my favourite projects at Photo Hack Day in NYC, which takes the Guardian's Day in Pictures and passes it through face.com to get, well, the emotional breakdown. It's also interesting when used on a Big Picture style gallery (like the London riots).
photography  emotion  guardian  analysis  photohackday  hackday  visualisation  from delicious
august 2011 by blech
Peter Campbell · At the Royal Academy | LRB
A review of Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century at the Royal Academy and Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978- 2010 at the Whitechapel Gallery. Both look interesting, although Campbell definitely prefers the former: "As photography moves into the museums of modern art it loses some of the sprightliness and poetry that the Hungarians brilliantly exemplified." (Subscriber only.)
lrb  review  london  photography  exhibition  todo/gone  subscriberonly  from delicious
august 2011 by blech
Evolution of Space Mission Control Rooms | socks-studio
"MCC, the spaces, which, equipped with dozen of computers and screens, are the sites deputed to manage the flights, from lift-offs to landings. Let’s have a look to their evolution from the early missions to today." The deferred loading was annoyingly slow for me, and there's not much text to go with the pictures, but still, worth bookmarking, I think.
nasa  space  missioncontrol  photography  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
‪Stand Your Ground‬‏ | YouTube
"On Tuesday 21 June 2011 six photographers were assigned different areas of the City to photograph. Some used tripods, some went hand held, one set up a 5 x 4. All were instructed to keep to public land and photograph the area as they would on a normal day." "All six photographers were stopped on at least one occasion. Three encounters led to police action."
video  london  photography  police  law  securitytheatre  via:tomtaylor  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
Mapping the World's Photos | Cornell University
For some reason, I didn't have this bookmarked. Now I do. "We investigate how to organize a large collection of geotagged photos, working with a dataset of about 35 million images collected from Flickr." "We illustrate using these techniques to organize a large photo collection, while also revealing various interesting properties about popular cities and landmarks at a global scale."
flickr  photography  geography  places  tourism  pdf  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
Vivian Maier | London Street Photography Festival
"The London Street Photography Festival is proud to host the first UK exhibition of the most talked about photography phenomenon in recent months: Vivian Maier. Forty-eight framed prints will be exhibited, both black and white and colour, alongside a selection of her fascinating silent films." I considered going to Chicago in February for this, so if you're near London going to King's Cross would seem to be worth it. Closes 24th July.
london  photography  exhibition  vivianmaier  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
All Real Atemporal Stuff. No Authenticity | POSZU
"Using a word like “nostalgia” is such a desperate sign of being out of touch, out of date, and so awfully-temporal in an atemporal time. “Nostalgia” assumes that there still was a temporal order in which someone could purposefully choose to “rewind”. It implies someone wants to “turn back a clock”, as if all our “wrist watches” weren’t synced to regulated network time via cell phone towers."
photography  culture  history  art  nostalgia  atemporality  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
The Faux-Vintage Photo: Full Essay | Cyborgology
"We have associated authenticity with the style of a vintage photo because, previously, vintage photos were actually vintage. They stood the test of time, they described a world past, and, as such, they earned a sense of importance."
photography  design  culture  art  hipstamatic  atemporality  nostalgia  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
Total recall: why retromania is all the rage | Music | The Guardian
From synth pop to Hollywood remakes to collecting manual typewriters, we're busy plundering the past. But why the fatal attraction?
guardian  history  culture  nostalgia  photography  music  simonreynolds  from instapaper
june 2011 by blech
*Public Library: An American Commons | SFPL
"Public Library: An American Commons is an exhibition and photographic survey of public libraries throughout the United States by San Francisco based photographer Robert Dawson." Plus supporting events (including a talk in Noe this Saturday, 14th May). Closes 12th June.
photography  art  sanfrancisco  libraries  todo/done  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
Joel Grey/A New York Life | Museum of the City of New York
"Joel Grey/A New York Life examines the enduring impact that performer and photographer Joel Grey and his adopted city have made on each other. Through rare artifacts from his stage and screen career, objects from his personal collection, and his own photography, the exhibition offers a unique look at New York through Grey’s eyes."
newyork  newyorkcity  photography  exhibition  todo/done  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
Pictures with movement that take 'stills' to next level | Mail Online
"using GIFs, a type of picture format similar to a JPEG which has been around since the invention of home computers" Oh, Daily Mail, discovering animated GIFs now they've got all "artistic" on Tumblr, and completely getting their history wrong, how we love* you. * may be sarcasm.
dailymail  internet  web  formats  photography  longportraits  art  photoshop  from delicious
april 2011 by blech
Sohei Nishino - Diorama Map London | Michael Hoppen Gallery
"Discovered in 2008 by Michael Hoppen, 28 year old Nishino’s extraordinary photographic dioramas, monumental in size, map out the artist’s personal impressions of the  world’s major cities in several thousand intimate details." If you're in London, go and see this.
london  exhibition  art  photography  hockneyesque  diorama  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Diorama map London (Detailed info) | Sohei Nishino
I mentioned this on notes.husk.org, but as it's just come up again: this looks amazing, a composite map of London made out of a huge number of 6x4 black and white prints. It's currently being shown at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London, and if I were any closer I'd be heading there to see it.
london  art  photography  composite  hockneyesque  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
London’s latest landmark | FT.com
A Financial Times article on the construction of the Shard, including a sequence of construction photos, and some details about the way they plan to use an internal crane to finish the construction. Worth battling the FT's crazy article limits for.
london  shard  architecture  construction  photography  via:antimega  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Has the Business Card Finally Had Its Day? | Huffington Post
Andy Miah: "How should we regard the business card in a digital age, both in terms of its future, and in terms of what their function may be as historical artifacts? For a few years now, I have been photographing business cards that I have received and I decided today that they should go into the public domain."
businesscards  privacy  publishing  flickr  photography  future  andymiah  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
David Bailey's Nokia experiment | The Guardian
"Cameras do influence the way you take pictures: you get different results using a Box Brownie or a Leica; a Polaroid or a large-format plate camera on a tripod. But the N86's main attraction seems to be the obvious one: you can use it when you've left your real cameras at home." From a little while ago, but interesting. (Also: Hockney had not heard of Flickr.)
guardian  photography  mobilephone  technology  nokia  n86  2009  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Travel Journal | Joseph Johnson
"New York / London / San Francisco 2010 is a self-initiated publication documenting my travel during 2010. The aim was to communicate my experiences to others by outlining my daily activities and exhibiting my photography." Looks interesting (particularly the map design and the London photos).
book  photography  travel  design  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Nostalgia for the Now | HiLobrow
"A new app, Decim8, attempts to take on the nostalgia challenge by introducing the look of digital artifacts: hard edges, high-chroma blocks of color, and partial repetition. Instead of mimicking errors of paper and ink, it celebrates errors of light and speed." "Nostalgia is not neutral. We need to remember, along with all the memories, that our lives in the now are partially cast from the look of our past."
photography  nostalgia  filters  history  memory  via:rodcorp  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
The slow-photography movement | Slate Magazine
"Defined more carefully, slow photography is the effort to flip the usual relationship between process and results. Usually, you use a camera because you want the results (the photos). In slow photography, the basic idea is that photos themselves—the results—are secondary. The goal is the experience of studying some object carefully and exercising creative choice. That's it."
photography  seeing  art  technology  camera  via:@joemoransblog  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Bookshop and gallery | powerHouse Arena
Looks like this might be worth a visit if I get to NYC again.
newyorkcity  nyc  photography  gallery  books  via:britta  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Guernica / Detroitism
"There are three principal conventions of Detroit writing in the major media." This article looks at all of them, with the thread of the ruin photography running through the article.
us  detroit  urbanism  decay  photography  comment  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
Gapers Block : A/C : Chicago Arts & Culture - Getting the Right Angle on Vivian Maier
"By now you may have heard about Vivian Maier"
us  chicago  photography  discovery  attribution  history  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
San Francisco Labyrinths | JMG-Galleries
"When I first discovered the Lands End Labyrinth I was surprised and excited. Little did I know that it would lead to a series of cascading discoveries across the San Francisco bay area and lead me to meet the man responsible for it all."
sanfrancisco  labyrinth  photography  history  art  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
State of the World 2011 | The WELL
Bruce Sterling (and Jon Lebkowsky) on Twitter, Brazil, photography, Flickr and The Future. And that's just the first nine or so posts. Goodness knows where this'll go after that.
thewell  brucesterling  photography  flickr  twitter  brazil  politics  via:iamdanw  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Quick on the Draw: Impressions of µ4/3 | Prime Junta
I've always liked Petteri Sulonen's camera reviews, so it's good to see him writing about Panasonic's compact interchangable lens offerings. "The best thing about the GF1 is shootability. It feels like everything is at my fingertips. After a bit of tweaking, all of the critical controls are one or two button-presses or dial-turns away."
camera  photography  panasonic  microfourthirds  review  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Call for participation for PDA 2011 | Personal Archiving
"Relevant themes include but are not limited to family photographs and home movies; personal health and financial data; interface design for archives; scrap booking; social network data; institutional practices; genealogy; email, blogs and other correspondence; and funding models."
archive  photography  memory  conference  via:straup  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
From a rock to an old place | BBC- Nick Booth's blog
"Websites like Flickr are not just collections of pictures. They are places where people forge links which are strong enough to change the places we care about."
flickr  community  geography  photography  bbc  @podnosh  via:straup  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Instagram Captures 100,000 Addicts | Amit Gupta likes you!
Of all the responses preserved in this Tumblr discussion, the one I sympathise with most is Sean Bonner's. Still, it's an interesting product to watch.
instagram  iphone  camera  photography  sharing  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Hipstamatic & Photographs Like Paintings | The Atlantic
"When you use Hipstamatic, it practically forces you to shoot arty photographs. We can all be cell phone pictorialists now."
photography  technology  cameras  iphone  art  history  via:visivo  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography | V&A
"The essence of photography lies in its seemingly magical ability to fix shadows on light-sensitive surfaces. Normally, this requires a camera. Shadow Catchers, however, presents the work of five international contemporary artists - Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller and Adam Fuss - who work without a camera. Instead, they create images on photographic paper by casting shadows and manipulating light, or by chemically treating the surface of the paper." This is the sort of thing London does that I'll miss.
london  v&a  photography  art  exhibition  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
"1,000 Cameras" - RayKo Photo Center | SF Weekly
"Babcock has spent the summer creating 1,000 cameras for the exhibit, and he says anything that can keep out light and accommodate a pinhole or lens as well as film or photo paper will work." Closes 5th November.
sanfrancisco  art  camera  photography  todo/done  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
"Vernacular Photograph as 'Accidental Art'" | SF Weekly
"Exhibits consisting of such 'commonplace' photographs, however, add a layer of meaning into the mix: the curator's. He sees something in his collection of found photographs." Closes 27th November.
sanfrancisco  art  photography  gallery  todo  foundphotography  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Are the best pictures on Facebook or Flickr? | The Observer
"Among Facebook's 15bn photographs there are, no doubt, some memorable and beautiful images, but to date I haven't seen any. That's not true of Flickr, which continues to be one of the wonders of the world and hosts hundreds of thousands of terrific pictures."
flickr  facebook  photography  johnnaughton  observer  aesthetics  via:straup  via:preoccupations  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
So I made a magazine | john poisson
"I was also aware that dumping them en masse into Flickr wasn’t going to be an interesting way of conveying what I was up to all summer. So I published a magazine instead." This is something I need to do.
photography  flickr  magazine  travel  travelogue  via:straup  magcloud  printing  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Photo/Synthesis | de Young Museum
"Photo/Synthesis highlights the dynamic trend in the field of contemporary photography, collages, assemblages, and other multi-part or composite photo-based projects."
sanfrancisco  art  photography  todo/done  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
San Francisco Panarama | Tom Pope
"2008 celebrates the 130th anniversary of Muybridge's panorama and in that year Tom Pope and James Doyle re-photographed the panorama on the original site. Employing the largest Polaroid camera in the world; the Polaroid 20x24." For some reason I have a (really nicely produced) leaflet about this, but I have no idea any more where I picked it up.
sanfrancisco  panorama  polaroid  photography  images  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
Muybridge Panorama Thumbnails | America Hurrah!
Eadweard Muybridge's 1878 panoramic photograph(s) of San Francisco (as currently on display in Tate Britain's presentation of the Corcoran Gallery's touring exhibition).
sanfrancisco  photography  panorama  history  images  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
Nasa Commons: 50 years of photos | The Observer
Coverage of the Flickr Commons in the Observer. "The image is from a collection of photographs, Nasa Commons, that have been put together by Nasa, Flickr and Internet Archive to commemorate 50 years of photographing the space agency's spectacular ventures." (Minor peeve: NASA don't seem to have set the date taken metadata properly. Otherwise, c'est bon.)
observer  news  photography  flickr  commons  nasa  space  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
Goodbye London - Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies | NGBK
"Sombre photographs by Jon Savage and Homer Sykes show entire neighbourhoods of London that stood empty due to speculation, but also document the development of growing protest movements that generated new forms of solidarity. In addition to the squatting movement, the exhibition looks at the gay movement, feminism, industrial disputes and solidarity with international liberation struggles."
berlin  london  exhibition  art  photography  employment  politics  culture  todo/done  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
iPhone Polaroids: A Semiotics Primer | Hyperallergic
"Where does the split happen between the aesthetic quality of a Polaroid and the way we fetishize that aesthetic?"
polaroid  iphone  photography  semiotics  article  aesthetics  via:hchamp  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
Current Exhibitions: Exposed | Tate Modern
"Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects." Closes 3 October, 2010.
london  photography  exhibition  surveillance  privacy  tatemodern  todo/done  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
Bruce Davidson (Room 8) | Explore Tate Modern
"Bruce Davidson's Subway series documents life in the New York subway, recording the animated energy of train carriages and station platforms across the metropolis." It's only a room, but it's in the free part of the museum, and you never know when things are going to move. Might make a nice taster for Exposed, too.
london  newyork  newyorkcity  subway  transport  photography  todo/done  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
Stuart Whipps ‘New Wooabbeleri’ | Focal Point Gallery
"the artist has produced an ambitious body of work, this time with the Thames Gateway as his focus of attention." Requires a trek to Southend, but might be worth it. Closes 3 July, 2010.
southend  art  gallery  photography  architecture  todo  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
Blood and tongues of fire | SFMOMA- Open Space
Subtitled 'volcanos and the psychology in the sky,' this is a look at the artistic response to vivid post-volcano sunsets. "An unscientific search of Flickr shows that the tag 'sunset' had a minor peak (about half again as many hits as usual) on April 15th and 16th–the dates the ash from Eyjafjallajokull began drifting over Europe. We’re reminded of Penelope Umbrico’s 5,377,183 Suns from Flickr, which [is showing] in the SFMOMA in the 75th Anniversary Exhibition."
sanfrancisco  art  volcano  sunset  flickr  photography  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
Redefining the Camera
"My iPhone can tell me where I am, tell me where the sun is and the moon will be, put watermarks on my images, stitch panos, apply tilt-and-shift-like effect, email them or send them directly to places I want them, and much, much more. My US$7999 D3x can't do any of those things. Doesn't anyone else find something wrong with this picture?" The whole thing piece (collection, really) is long, but well worth reading if you're interested in cameras, customisation, and computing.
camera  photography  technology  iphone  nikon  computer  comment  future  via:ssp  from instapaper
april 2010 by blech
New! Astronomer's Galleries | Flickr
"First, we'd like to introduce Astronomer's Galleries: every month we've lined up a professional astronomer to curate a new astrophoto gallery." "Secondly, we'd like to invite you to make your own galleries from photos in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year group."
flickr  galleries  astronomy  photography  astrophotography  via:foe  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
milkshake whispering | this is aaronland
Aaron continues to be bewlideringly amazing. I have no idea how to summarise this, but you should read it. I read it and I intend to go back tomorrow and read it again.
maps  visualisation  boundaries  photography  justreadit  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
Collection: The Icarus Project | Flickr
Photos by Robert Harrison from his DIY weather balloon edge-of-space rig.
space  aviation  hacks  photography  uk  technology  flickr 
march 2010 by blech
Father captures Earth from weather balloon | Daily Telegraph
"Robert Harrison used his ingenuity and a collection of cheap parts worth just £500 to take the spectacular shots using a Canon camera which he launched 35km above the planet's surface."
space  aviation  hacks  photography  telegraph  uk  technology  via:deusx 
march 2010 by blech
addLib | WOW
"addLib changes your photos into graphic design pieces. The types of design are infinite. It produces beautiful and sophisticated pieces one after another based on the golden ratio and a fractal theory."
iphone  camera  app  application  photography  design  via:blackbeltjones 
march 2010 by blech
Deep city | designswarm thoughts
"instead of doing what a lot of internet-types are doing which is to see the city from above (maps and all) or from below (infrastructure and all) or even the surface of it (advertising and LED walls), I was going to focus on what makes my experience of cities (having lived in large ones like Amsterdam, Paris, London, Milan, Montreal) unique and enjoyable. A user’s experience."
cities  presentation  montage  photography  urbanism  writing  everyoneiknowisdoingawesomeshit  re:alexandrasonsino  via:straup 
january 2010 by blech
Discover spectacular photography on Flickr | Lurvely
A Flickr-based website using favourites data to recommend photos.
flickr  favourites  recommendations  photography 
january 2010 by blech
Home | ffffl*ckr
A Flickr-based website using favourites data to recommend photos.
flickr  favourites  recommendations  photography  via:infovore 
january 2010 by blech
On Lenses For Small Cameras | dpreview
An analysis of lenses for Micro Four Thirds and similar cameras. "The lenses we'd really like to see [are] fast, compact primes covering a range of focal lengths from wide to short telephoto." I don't disagree, but I do wonder if there's not too much wishing going on in here; there are very few digital-specific primes for APS-C bodies. On the other hand, the new mounts can't reuse working (but not optimal) older lenses. We'll see.
photography  camera  lens  fourthirds  microfourthirds  panasonic  dpreview  comment 
january 2010 by blech
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