misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 27 2007 | photography, street photography, candid, America, photo gallery, photojournalism
Quoted: camera back is never vertical, as prescribed by classic procedure; if the figure fills the frame the lens will be pointed at the subject's navel, and the camera back will be inclined some forty-five degrees downward from vertical. In this posture any lens will violate our belief that we should see the walls of buildings as parallel to each other, but the wide-angle lens, because of its broader cone of vision, will exaggerate the effect, and destroy all sense of architectural order. To retrieve a kind of stability Winogrand experimented with tilting the frame, making a vertical near the left edge of his subject square with the frame, and then a vertical near the right edge, or a dominant vertical anywhere between. In the process he discovered that he could compose his pictures with a freedom that he had not utilized before, and that the tilted frame could not only maintain a kind of discipline over the flamboyant tendencies of the wide-angle lens but could also intensify his intuited sense of his picture's meanings...
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 12 2009 | movies, art, light, photography, artist
Quoted: What I watched was beautiful, hypnotic, mysterious and as close to a representation of three-dimensional imagery as I’ve ever seen without wearing funny glasses. It was pure cinema. As it happens, it was so pure that no celluloid had threaded its way through a projector. I hadn’t been watching a film, after all, or digital images, only light and shadow. Using an illusion machine of his own invention that he calls the Nervous Magic Lantern — an apparatus containing a spinning shutter, a light and lenses that he hides behind a black curtain when he isn’t performing what he calls “live cinema”
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 07 2009 | art, photography, news, photo gallery
Quoted: Instead of spontaneity, Mr. Penn provided the illusion of a seance, his gaze precisely describing the profile of a Balenciaga coat or of a Moroccan jalaba in a way that could almost mesmerize the viewer. Nothing escaped the edges of his photographs unless he commanded it. Except for a series of close-up portraits that cut his subjects’ heads off at the forehead, and another, stranger suite of overripe nudes, his subjects were usually shown whole, apparently enjoying a splendid isolation from the real world.
includes a slideshow
ShareViewed: 1 Time - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - May 18 2009 | video, photography, blog, essays, photo gallery, photojournalism
Quoted: Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web.
ShareViewed: 18 Times - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 31 2008 | photography, fashion, flash, lightShareViewed: 2 Times
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 31 2008 | art, color, photography, architecture
Quoted: His early themes of Sunday leisure and local tourism gave way to enormous industrial plants, apartment buildings, hotels, office buildings, and warehouses. Family outings and hiking trips were replaced by the Olympics, a cross-country marathon involving hundreds of skiers, the German parliament, the trading floors of international stock exchanges, alluring displays of brand-name goods, and midnight techno music raves attended by casts of thousands. Gursky’s world of the 1990s is big, high-tech, fast-paced, expensive, and global. Within it, the anonymous individual is but one among many.
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ShareViewed: 6 Times - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 20 2008 | photography, photo gallery, urban, city
Quoted: Strolling the dark streets until dawn, a young photographer captured images of a world all but lost.
ShareViewed: 15 Times - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 07 2008 | painting, art, abstract, photography, Germany
Quoted: work is full of tension between depicted reality and the actuality of painting: process and material.
to chew on later...
ShareViewed: 1 Time - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 06 2008 | art, gallery, news, painting, photography
At New York galleries till Sat. Slideshow included in article.
Quoted: The elephant in the room in both cases is the German painter Gerhard Richter, especially his drizzly gray images of the members of the Baader-Meinhof ... straightforward history paintings based on news photographs depicting (by now) famous moments from the Bush administration...
ShareViewed: 1 Time - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 15 2008 | photographer, photography, documentary, India, movies, photo gallery
check out "Bollywood"- his photos from the Indian film industry.
Quoted: Official Web Site Of Jonathan Torgovnik / Photographer
ShareViewed: 1 Time - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - May 09 2008 | books, art, photography
Quoted: Phaidon Press is the world's leading publisher of books on the visual arts
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