Tod Brilliant [photos on Flickr, personal site] recently launched Pola-Fiction:
There isn’t much to this, really. I’ve selected fifty of my favorite Polaroid pictures that I’ve taken in the past few years. Using each for inspiration, I will pen a small story and post it here. Most likely, this will be at the rate of one story every two or three days until I’m done.
The first two photo-story combos are up and are well worth a look!
Now this is WTF I’m talking about!
A very practical book from the author of Adventures with Pinhole and Home-made Cameras
Exploring simple lenses is a truly comprehensive examination of the fascinating world of shooting with single-element lenses. It features twelve main chapters, twelve appendices, and a glossary. Its highly detailed coverage includes an extensive Gallery section, as well as diverse practical topics, such as construction methods, more than 50 lens assembly ‘case histories’, and guidelines on basic and advanced exposure control. More esoteric areas deal with image-formation using non-optical household items, and unconventional lens mounting and focusing techniques.
All the photographs use traditional film-based image-capture, with a wide variety of equipment, including 35mm SLRs, 35mm rangefinder cameras, medium format SLRs, medium format rangefinder cameras and large format cameras.
Supplied with five 100 x 100mm neutral density (ND) filters.
I’m ordering this up for review right now and will report back soon!
Buy Exploring Simple Lenses for US $22 (postage included) from AlternativePhotography.com
Shutter Stories Magazine has just gone live, featuring interviews with photographers Yasuhiro Ogawa, Jim Zuckerman, Martin Bailey, and Noah Grey. The interviewing is solid, with a good balance of technique, process, and art in general.
As an added bonus, I was pleased to discover that I really like a lot of Jim Zuckerman‘s work. While I usually have a hard time connecting with high fidelity landscape photography, he seem to really know how to work it, turning digital’s shiny smoothness to his advantage.
The February 2007 issue (Vol 2, Issue 7) of mooncruise*, an online magazine featuring photography and music by international artists, is now up and ready for viewing.
PHOTOGRAPHY by: Andreas Sturm, Larissa Cleveland, Linus Lohoff, Lonya Plotkin, Martin Sigmund, Michael Kristian, Mirela Zdjelaric, Nopoto Project, Noras Ness, Ola Wartak, Simon Hoegsberg, and Thomas Gauck.
MUSIC by: FNDMNTL
mooncruise.com (requires Flash 8)
While it’s a bit late to the party, the 2007 f295 pinhole photography calendar looks like a real ass-kicker! Preview images are available here on f295.
Contributing artists
Bruce Berrien, Stratford, Connecticut, US
Bryan Bogater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
Nancy A. Breslin, Newark, Delaware, US
Mark Richard Brown, Annandale, Virginia, US
Raimundo Civera, Montserrat, Spain
Al Clark, Perth, Scotland
Katie Cooke, Edinburgh, Scotland
Alan Cooper, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Mary Donato, Boise, Idaho, US
Daryl Duckworth, Hanover, Pennsylvania, US
Chris Ellinger, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Zeno Felkl, Leupoldsdorf, Germany
Sandra Fletcher, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
Elena Guseva, Foster City, California, US
Steve Irvine, Big Bay, Ontario, Canada
Earl Johnson, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, US
Bob Jones, Running Springs, California, US
Danny Kalkhoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Murray Leshner, Holland, Michigan, US
Tony Lim, Hong Kong, China
Julian Lynch, Limerick City, Republic of Ireland
Erin K. Malone, San Francisco, California, US
Stuart C. Miller, Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Nicolai Morrisson, Poughkeepsie, New York, US
Andrew Needham, NSW, Australia
Ole Fredrik Nydal, Norway
Tom Persinger, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Antonio Prianon, Reunion Island
Justin Quinnell, Bristol, UK
Carl Radford, Glasgow, Scotland
Tim Sandstrom, San Jose, California, US
Clifford Street, Washington, Tyne & Wear, England
Steven Taft, Sarasota, Florida, US
Wolfgang Thoma, Willebroek, Antwerp, Belgium
Marv Thompson, Clinton, Iowa, US
Dennis Venema, Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Ralph Young, Fayetteville, Georgia, US
It’s 26 pages, 11 × 8.5 inches, coil binding, full-color interior, runs March 2007 – February 2008, and costs US $16.29. Get your copy here!
Special thanks to Katie Cooke for helping track down everyone’s URLs.
The current issue of Ag magazine features "an illustrated essay by Tom Persinger [of the f295 Pinhole & DIY Photography fora] on the aesthetics of lensless photography", including work by Hans Brinkman, Mary Donato, Chris Ellinger, Carl Radford, and myself.
Ag, "the international journal of photographic art & practice" is published quarterly in the UK and should be available in artsier-fartsier newsstands.
Documentary photography Blueeyes Magazine write:
Happy new years! I’m very happy to finally announce the publication of Blueeyes Magazine’s 14th issue, with incredible new photography from Matt Black and Mikhael Subotzky. Issue 14’s essays document two separate hidden communities linked by each photographer’s passion for connecting our lives to those we may easily lose sight of within the larger global picture.
Check it out at blueeyesmagazine.com
Tread wrote a nice review of the documentary film about photographer William Eggleston, William Eggleston In the Real World. Eggleston, having been the first to gain recognition for presenting colour photographs of the mundane as art, is often credited as "the first photoblogger".
Read Tread’s review at his photoblog, gotreadgo.
For a limited time you can get a year subscription to Camera Arts magazine for $15—which is 65% off the cover price—if you live in the US.
Full details in this PDF, but the basic deal is to use order code N612CAM for normal and X612CAM for gifts when subscribing on their Web site. You can also order by phone at 800-697-7093 and choosing option #4.
This is one of the only photography magazines I bother to read at all as it’s actually about photography rather than gear fetishism and Photoshop tutorials. There’s some great photography in there, which is well printed, as well as actually interesting interviews and articles. By Grapthar’s hammer, what a savings!
In keeping with the Hasselblad philosophy of developing products of outstanding quality that are ahead of their time, and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Victor Hasselblad’s birth, Hasselblad is launching at photokina a truly innovative publication for professional photographers – Victor by Hasselblad. By showcasing the work of selected photographers and describing how they capture their best images, Victor by Hasselblad hopes to inspire professional photographers to new levels of digital photographic excellence. Setting a new standard in photographic magazines, Victor by Hasselblad will be published quarterly in print with an online presence that will be refreshed monthly.
Continue reading the announcement at the Photonika Web site or the magazine itself at victor.hasselblad.com.