Fred Herzog
Posted on 30/04/10.
We first became aware of Fred Herzog’s photography during a trip to Vancouver, where the photographer lives and works. He was born and grew up in Stuttgart, but was evacuated from the city during the aerial bombardment of the Second World War and moved to Canada in 1952. His work focuses primarily on “ordinary” people, the working class, and their connections to the city around them. He worked primarily with slide film (mostly Kodachrome), which limited his ability to exhibit, and also marginalized him somewhat as an artist in the 1950s and 60s when most work was in Black and White. Thanks heavens he didn’t follow the crowd, he captured amazing decisive moments with incredibly vivid and colourful results.
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Dan Weiner
Posted on 26/04/10.
Dan Weiner (1919-1959) was born in New York City. He was drafted into World War II and worked as a photography instructor in the Air Force until the end of the war. He discovered the versatility of the 35mm camera and began to use it regularly. Following the war, he pursued work as a photojournalist, refining his belief that the photographer has a moral responsibility to illuminate social ills and to comment on significant events in history. He stated “my generation is probably the first in history to become conscious of the great forces that are at work in our society through the visual media — the magazine, the newsreel, television — rather than the written word.” Weiner’s life was tragically ended by a plane crash while he was on assignment in 1959.
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Todd Hido
Posted on 20/04/10.
Todd Hido (b.1968, Kent, Ohio) is an American contemporary artist and photographer. He graduated from the California College of Arts & Crafts in 1996 and is currently based in San Francisco. We particularly like his work that involves urban and suburban housing across the U.S., produced as large, highly detailed and luminous color photographs.
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The Swing Era
Posted on 13/04/10.
We just came across this book and its fantastic cover in a local thrift store. A “break” in the Lindy Hop is shown in this high-speed action picture taken in 1943 by LIFE photographer Gjon Mili. Dancers Kaye Popp and Stanley Catron demonstrate the dance, named originally for Lindbergh’s 1927 flight to Paris. Also seen here is another image from the same series. More to come from the great Gjon Mili soon, watch this space.
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Gjon Mili
Posted on 13/04/10.
Albanian born Gjon Mili arrived in the United States in 1923. Fifteen years later, he was a photographer for Life (a relationship that continued until his death in 1984). Working with Harold Eugene Edgerton of MIT, Gjon Mili was a pioneer since the 1930s in the use of photoflash to capture a sequence of actions in one photograph. Trained as an engineer and self-taught in photography, Gjon Mili was the first to use electronic flash and stroboscopic light to create photographs that had more than scientific interest. Since the late 1930s, his groundbreaking pictures of dance, athletics, and musical and theatrical performances revealed the beautiful intricacy and graceful flow of movement too rapid or too complex for the eye to discern. Here are just a few images, well worth a google though to see some amazing shots.
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Adobe announce CS5 launch
Posted on 31/03/10.
Adobe have set up a site giving sneak peaks at some of the new features of CS5. The most notable demo so far is for Photoshop’s ‘Content Aware’ delete, of which there is a video demo. Extremely impressive and worth watching if you’ve ever had to edit a photo…!
Link: http://cs5launch.adobe.com/
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Serendipity
Posted on 26/03/10.
Looking in a thrift store at the camera section we found this old Polaroid. We have no idea how this image was made but what a serendipitous discovery, because if we would have designed one, it would look exactly like this.
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