May 2012
7 posts
Workshock with Settimio Benedusi →
dark photographers
I love the style/approach of these “dark” BW photographers. Their images are so strong, so dramatic, so emotional, so expressive.
Antoine d’Agata
Michael Ackerman
Anders Petersen
Daido Moriyama
Eikoh Hosoe
Marco Vernaschi - Placebo
Jacob Aue Sobol
However, somewhere I read a critic saying that it is questionable if all the pictures have the “depthness” that...
April 2012
1 post
February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
2 posts
QUOTES ON PHOTOGRAPHY
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about...
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
5 posts
Japanese photography
If there is one country in the world that makes the most pictures, it must be Japan. But they are not only made only by the Japanese tourists but also by great photographers. Recently I got more and more interested in Japanese photography. I am going to compile a list of websites of Japanese photographers that I like:
- Nobuyoshi Araki http://www.arakinobuyoshi.com/ - Daido Moriyama...
the philosopher and the trickster: daido moriyama... →
There is so much written on western photography, rarely I find well written articles on Japanese photography. This is a great essay on the differences (and common things) between Moriyama and Araki. Quoting (my favorite part) from the original essay by Stacy Oborn:
[…] for example: one is taught by practicing artists and in academia that it is extremely desirable to have a “project.” that...
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
2 posts
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
Photo quotes
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” — Robert Frank
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
“The photograph serves the experience if it is to be profound.” — Larry Fink
“Good photography is like porn for the eye. It...
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strawberries and milk
nina - cinemagraph tutorial
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
4 posts
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
3 posts
Links
heroes Richard Avedon, Russell James, Herb Ritts, James Nachtwey, Flor Garduno, Joyce Tenneson, Mark Tucker, Tim Kelly, George Lange, Keith Carter, Eolo Perfido, Ondrea Barbe, Frank Ruiter, Erwin Olaf, Larry Fink, Douglas Kirkland, Eikoh Hosoe, Giovanni Gastel, Amedeo Turello, Gabriele Rigon, Giorgia Fiorio.
sites www.fotoclublibero.ch, www.toscanafotofestival.net, The Big...
June 2010
4 posts
Interview with Eikoh Hosoe →
May 2010
5 posts