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MAGNAchrom magazine issue #5 is up: night photography

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FINALLY! The 5th issue of MAGNAchrom is ready for you to download at www.magnachrom.com

This issue is quite special — Not only is it dedicated to all things related to night photography, including an interview with Tom Paiva, one of the most prolific night photographers in the world, but we also have an exclusive in-depth review of 24 ballheads from Gitzo, Manfrotto, Arca-Swiss, ReallyRightStuff, Velbon, Giottos, Freedom, AcraTech and Novoflex (seven of which received an Editor’s Choice — read to find out who won!)

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1, ISSUE 5

HOT MODS: Large Format Fisheye
4-SQUARE: Alex Watanabe
PROJECT: Ambient Night, Kit Courter
TECHNIQUE: Film for night photography
TRAVELS: Night and the Built Environment
ARCHITECTURE: Kirk Gittings: The Edge of Darkness
EXPERIENCE: Images of Night
CENTERFOLD: Philip Pankov
EQUIPMENT: Adventures in 4×10
CUSTOMIZE: Vacuum frame for LF holders
EXTREMES: Longyearbyen
INTERVIEW: Tom Paiva
PORTFOLIO: Larry Wright
REVIEW: 24 Ballheads Compared

As always, we hope you value this latest issue of MAGNAchrom, as we value your continued support.

Be sure to let us know what you think, and as a reminder: we want to feature your medium and large format photographs in MAGNAchrom, so please consider contributing.

MAGNAchrom is a labor of love. Enjoy!
J Michael Sullivan
Editor/Publisher, MAGNAchrom

MAGNAchrom — The Alternative Journal of Medium and Large Format Photography

MAGNAchrom is available as a free PDF download for registered users (which is also free).

Stieglitz’s photo-secessionist art journal Camera Work reissued

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As Jeremy Moore writes on APUG, he is reissuing Alfred Stieglitz‘s Camera Work via on-demand printer Lulu:

Well, the time has finally come and the first 4 issues are being offered to the public!

Just to give you a more detailed description of what I’m doing: I was able to gather a set of all 50 issues on loan and am in the process of scanning the issues and creating a digital master set to be uploaded to lulu.com for reprinting. With the availability of books with high quality (well, offset) reproductions of the illustrations seen here here and here [on Amazon].

My main concern is the text (though every page in the original is accounted for!), so the books are being printed in b&w to keep the costs down. They will be released in volumes of ~300 pages (which is 3–4 issues depending on individual issue length) with a cost of US $19.99/volume.

The first installment of 4 volumes is available now from lulu.com.

Photography banned in downtown Silver Spring, MD, US

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A fellow named Jordan writes via Boing Boing:

Security guards in a Silver Springs business district are enforcing a "no photography" policy, under the false claim that the street in question is private property. The Peterson Company, which manages the buildings on this DC-area street, claims the right to protect their brand. Not to be dissuaded, photographers have contacted NowPublic contributor Bill Adler (he of sippy-cup fame) and formed a Flickr group to post photos of the area in defiance of the ban, and a protest is being scheduled by area photographers. this is the latest in the ongoing trend of private guards enforcing frivolous or nonexistent laws in the name of "security".

Read article at NowPublic