Photography is Not a Crime
Just because a person is standing on a crowded city street taking photographs doesn’t mean that he or she is a terrorist. But that doesn’t stop police from hassling photographers daily in some of the biggest cities. Boing Boing just posted an interesting link to a new organization based out of London that is trying [...]
Julius Shulman 1910–2009
Image by medienfrech via Flickr The photo world just lost one of its masters. According to the Los Angeles Times, photographer Julius Shulman died yesterday from being really freaking old. Shulman is best known for his architecture photography. I look at a room or a house and I just see a box. This man could [...]
ScanCafe Final Update
I just realized that I never posted a final review of my ScanCafe experience. Well, after nearly three months of waiting, I received a nice little box from ScanCafe with a fancy DVD (full-size case with custom art) and my original photos in the shoddy packaging I had originally sent them in. After dropping all [...]
ScanCafe Update #2
So, nearly two months after I placed my order, ScanCafe sent me the email I had been waiting for. My photos were ready for review. Just about 170 snapshots dating back to 1979 were available online for me to peruse, reject, and order. Just as Pop Photo stated in their review a few months back, [...]
Outsource Your Life
One of my biggest regrets as a photographer is not better maintaining my archive of negatives. And by better maintaining, I mean not throwing out. I accidentally tossed hundreds of negatives when I moved and miss them dearly. Recently I stumbled across a box of negatives in my parents attic from shows dating back to [...]
Bill Bernstein “About Face”
One of my favorite photographers, Bill Bernstein, is having his work featured at The Christian Herald Building in New York City. The series, “About Face: Portraits from the Bowery Mission,” documents the transients who call the mission home. Each portrait has been reproduced as a massive 43×62″ exhibition print.
