Although it didn’t quite reach the $4,338,500 mark Andreas Gursky’s Rhine II fetched at auction, an image coined as the world’s most expensive photo, Canadian photographer Jeff Wall’s Dead Troops Talk (shown above) came pretty darn close this past Wednesday at Christie’s latest Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
Have 20-minutes? Live in the San Francisco Bay area? If so, you might want to take a stroll down to Michael Shindler’s Photobooth – an unassuming analog photography shop, gallery, and studio – the latter of which is solely dedicated to practicing the art of the 150-year-old photographic medium of tintype.
Although Stanley Kubrick will forever be known by many as the accomplished and regarded film director responsible for classics such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining, fewer associate Kubrik as the young staff photographer for Look Magazine, getting his feet wet in the industry during the 1940′s.
After four years of sorting through 2.2 million photographs in New York City’s Municipal Archives in an effort to make records accessible to anyone and everyone, the city’s Department of Records officially debuted their online photo database yesterday, April 24th.
In a series of images released by the Institute for the Study of Tolitarian Regimes in their publication entitled Prague Through the Lens of Secret Police, it seems as though Soviet-era Czechoslovakian secret police inadvertently contributed to the realm of street photography in an effort to crack down on crime.
Passion. Fascination. Motivation. Characteristics and values London-based street photographer Matt Stuart, like many others who partake in the craft, wears on his sleeve when immersed in the concrete jungle, capturing candid, but fleeting moments with his Leica stapled to his wrist.
At a time when citizens all over the United States are constantly being punished and arrested for exercising their constitutional right to free press comes the passage of a fundamental law in Connecticut that provides citizens, especially photographers and filmmakers, the opportunity to carry out legal actions against police officers who arrest them for recording in public. Senate Bill 245, which was introduced by Democratic State Senator of Connecticut Eric Coleman, was approved and now must go before the House, and is planned to go into effect on October 1st of this year.
If you have yet to be acquainted with Joel Grimes and his fantastic approach to composite portraiture, the hour long video above, presented by Catherine Hall and Sarah Lane of TWiT Photo, is a great way to get accustomed to a great resource in the world of photography.
Getty Images, a leading stock photo agency based out of Seattle that many of us are very familiar with, has released information pertaining to the 2012 Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography. Established back in 2004, the grants objective is to endorse distinction and brilliance in photojournalism by providing photographers of all levels with the financial means to pursue their creative dreams, specific to personal and journalistic importance.
The Pentax K-30 Leaked – Announcement Coming Next Week
Developing Rumor: The Latest Canon T4i (650D) Speculative Specs Emerge
The Instagram Concept Camera Becoming A Reality? Creators Looking For You To Fund This Ambitious Project
A Vertigo-Inducing Demo of the Dolly-Zoom First Practiced by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958
An Intimate Look at ‘Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back’ Through Rare Behind-the-Scenes Production Photos
Canon T4i and Mirrorless Talk Re-emerges – Announcements Coming Next Month?
Autumn – Getting Cinematic with the Sony NEX-5N: Quick Workflow Overview
Getting Cinematic with the Sony NEX-5N: The Digital Visual Style
Oh Really? Nikon’s Questionable Facebook Status Update
The Week in Reader Photos: January 1, 2012.
The Week in Reader Photos: January 8, 2012.
The Week in Reader Photos: December 11, 2011
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