23 Apr, 2013 | Posted by: sellmyphotos





SHERLOCK HOLMES PHOTOGRAPHER -- He Hunts for Vintage Cameras That Contain Undeveloped Film – Michael Zhang: “Two years ago, photographer Chris A. Hughes purchased a 1914 French Richard Verascope camera from an elderly man who was clearing out his camera collection in preparation for retirement. He discovered slides in the camera bag that were captured by a French soldier during World War I. Since then he has searched for found film and has purchased cameras, antique film that he has developed and published through a webpage. http://petapixel.com/2013/04/18/photographer-hunts-for-vintage-cameras-that-contain-undeveloped-film



OLD PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS -- Free Digital Versions in the Public Domain - Michael Zhang: "Project Gutenberg is a digital library volunteer effort that takes old public domain and converts them into freely available eBooks for the benefit of the general public. Founded back in 1971, the library now has over 42,000 items in its collection.
Among the books in its collection are a number of old books on the subject of photography. One such book is the 1881 title, The Art and Practice of Silver Printing by Capt. Abney and H. P. Robinson (shown above).
http://petapixel.com/2013/04/11/free-digital-versions-of-old-photography-books-that-are-in-the-public-domain/


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09 Apr, 2013 | Posted by: st





THE GREAT DAYTONA FLOOD OF 1913 - Bill Pote: “It was not only the biggest natural disaster to happen to Dayton and other communities along the Great Miami River – it was the worst natural disaster to happen in the entire country.”
http://mostmetro.com/entertainment/visual-arts/dayton-art-institute-great-dayton-flood-exhibits.html


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02 Apr, 2013 | Posted by: st





CIVIL WAR-ERA PHOTOGRAPHY -- David Wilcox: “The Seward House Museum will launch a series looking back on the Civil War by literally doing just that: examining the photography of the era. SOURCE:
http://auburnpub.com/lifestyles/capturing-conflict-seward-house-lecturers-lead-look-at-civil-war/article_83353207-89f4-58b7-93df-1de03139aafe.html


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26 Mar, 2013 | Posted by: st






CELEBRATION -- National Geographic Celebrates 125 Years with Vintage-Photo Blog – Conor Risch: As part of the celebration of their 125th year, National Geographic recently launched a Tumblr blog that unearths “lost” photographs from the Yellow Monster’s image archive, which is said to include more the 10.5 million images. “The response has been incredible,” Digital Creative Director Jody Sugrue told PDN. “It’s been overwhelming. SOURCE: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/03/national-geographic-celebrates-125-years-with-vintage-photo-blog.html
PHOTO: J. Baylor Roberts\NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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19 Mar, 2013 | Posted by: st





SOME FOLKS YOU KNOW -- From the 1980’s….a young Annie Leibovitz talks about some of her celebrity portrait photos including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Steve Martin, John Belushi, Lily Tomlin, & Richard Pryor. Also other photographers you might recognize: Galen Rowell, John Elk, Henry Scanlon, and Rohn Engh –who? (SCROLL DOWN TO #13)
http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldOfPhotographyTV




This Week in Photography History: The Birth of Diane Arbus. Abram Goglanian: “Diane Arbus is a name often associated with the strange or abnormal in the photography world with her portraits of the “deviants and marginal people of society”. She led a troubled life and battled with bouts of depression; she ultimately chose to take her own life in 1971. Today we celebrate the day of her birth and take a retrospective look into her life and work. http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/03/14/this-week-in-photography-history-the-birth-of-diane-arbus/





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13 Mar, 2013 | Posted by: st




COASTAL RUBBLE -- A Passion for Wrecks and Images Give a Photography Enthusiast a Second Career – Dean: “Pongsatorn Sukhum runs an engineering business in Bangkok but his continued work in underwater photography, and in particular, his images of World War II wrecks off the coast of Thailand are an example of how talented enthusiasts can keep their professions while maintaining their passion for image-making and even contributing to the preservation of the subjects they love to shoot. http://blogs.photopreneur.com/a-passion-for-wrecks-and-images-give-a-photography-enthusiast-a-second-career?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotopreneurBlog+%28Photopreneur+Blog%29
PHOTO: Pongsatorn Sukhum



125 YEARS -- National Geographic celebrates. Amar Toor: “National Geographic unveiled a Tumblr site devoted to showcasing some of the more obscure photos in its vast archive. The Tumblr, titled Found, was launched in celebration of the magazine's 125th anniversary, and although their initiative still young, National Geographic's archivists have already published some remarkably beautiful images.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/8/4078266/national-geographic-launches-found-tumblr-for-old-photos





WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: Latinas build confidence through photography in Los Angeles. -- Nadine Natour: “For ten high school girls enrolled in the photography program Las Fotos Project, the summer of 2012 was a lesson in disguise. Founded by freelance photographer Eric Ibarra, Las Fotos Project helps its young Latina members build their photography skills and their confidence. http://nbclatino.com/2013/03/08/womens-history-month-latinas-build-confidence-through-photography-in-los-angeles/
PHOTO: Angelica

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12 Feb, 2013 | Posted by: st





SPACE SHUTTLE - Dr. Scott M. Lieberman: “By 6 a.m., it appeared. Columbia was going to try to return on the first available orbit, and I was happy because it meant that it would pass by at 8 a.m. Shortly before 7 a.m., Columbia turned tail first and fired her main engines for a short burn that would decelerate her enough to fall out of orbit. After that, she was committed to re-entry and a pass over East Texas.
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20130201/NEWS01/130139931




BACK THEN -- A timeline of over 100 years of photography at The ProvinceThe Province publishes its first issue on March 26, 1898 and cost one cent. There are few photographs or illustrations published in the newspapers during the early years. Those images that did run had to first be converted into engravings.
http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/timeline+over+years+photography+Province/7944438/story.html




Lady Clementina Hawarden The Scottish aristocrat whose pioneering photography drew admiration from Lewis Carroll/ Mike Merritt: “She was a Scottish pioneer of photography and Lewis Carroll admired – and bought – her work. Now an important collection of 37 prints by Lady Clementina Hawarden is to be auctioned in London next month.
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/pictures/the-scottish-aristocrat-whose-pioneering-photography-drew-admiration-from-lewis-carroll-1-2778249
PHOTO: Clementina Hawarden


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29 Jan, 2013 | Posted by: st





ONLY WHITE FACES -- 'Racism' of early colour photography explored in art exhibition. David Smith: (In Johannesburg, South Africa) “Can the camera be racist?" The question is explored in an exhibition that reflects on how Polaroid built an efficient tool for South Africa's apartheid regime to photograph and police black people.” SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jan/25/racism-colour-photography-exhibition


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22 Jan, 2013 | Posted by: st







THE WORLD WITHOUT MEN -- : Helmut Newton's iconic images which transformed fashion. These distinctive images show how a man who preferred to shoot models in the street instead of studios changed the face of fashion photography. SOURCE:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265352/Helmut-Newton-Sprinting-runway-trekking-desert-high-heels--stunning-collection-iconic-pictures-renowned-fashion-photographer.html
PHOTO: Helmut Newton






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15 Jan, 2013 | Posted by: st




ANTIQUE CAMERA REVEALS World War I photos - Claudine Zap: “A collector of vintage photography equipment got an extra bonus when he picked up a French camera at an antique store: never-before-seen images circa World War I.” SOURCE: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/world-war-photos-found-inside-antique-camera-203437991.html
PHOTO Courtesy Anton Orlov
World War I soldier holding bomb


January 9, 1839. This date in science: Daguerreotype photography was made public. Elizabeth Howell: “On January 9, 1839, the French Academy of Sciences announced Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre’s daguerreotype photography process to the world.” SOURCE: http://earthsky.org/human-world/this-date-in-science-daguerreotype-photography-made-public PHOTO: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre




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08 Jan, 2013 | Posted by: st






RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU -- Photographing the Ordinary - Michael Coyne: “Aspiring photographers always want to go somewhere else to take photographs because they think that the elsewhere is more exotic, exciting and photogenic. I believe the best place to start learning to document is in your own backyard. SOURCE: http://rising.blackstar.com/history-is-right-in-front-of-you-photographing-the-ordinary.html

PHOTO: W. Eugene Smith





A-HEAD OF THEIR TIME? Pics of Victorians holding own heads said to be examples of early image editing. SOURCE:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4723172/
victorian-images-trick-photography.html









HAVANA RETRO: Yusimi Rodriguez: “Yesterday, he mistook me for a tourist and offered to take a snapshot of me using his “old technique.” He was the first of his type of photographer I’d seen in a while. http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=85102
TAKEAWAY: Here’s a lesson that illustrates how the long finger of government can extend down into the profession of photography. What kind of government could confiscate a warehouse full of cameras? (And that was back in 1967.)



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02 Jan, 2013 | Posted by: st




IMAGES OF EMANCIPATION -- Maurice Berger. “The daguerreotype’s pride of place speaks not only to Sojourner Truth’s love for her grandchild but also to her passionate engagement with photography. As Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer write in their groundbreaking new book, “Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery” (Temple University Press), Truth was probably the first black woman to actively distribute photographs of herself. SOURCE:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/images-of-emancipation/
PHOTO: Henry P. Moore


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18 Dec, 2012 | Posted by: st




BACK THEN -- Terri Jo Ryan: “Waco's wild world of 19th-century photography.
Competition was keen in the business world of late 19th century Waco, when the city was still young and the West was kind of woolly. And not all the “snipping” took place in the streets of Six Shooter Junction. Indeed, some of the more entertaining “shots” fired in the commercial wars in the area took place in the pages of the local newspapers” http://www.wacotrib.com/news/183611561.html



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12 Dec, 2012 | Posted by: st




TOP SPORTS PHOTO OF ALL TIME -- Cassie Armstrong: “Longtime Orlando Magic team photographer, Fernando Medina, has been recognized by Sports Illustrated in its 100 Greatest Sports Photos of All Time for his iconic image of Michael Jordan’s last shot of his Chicago Bulls’ career. Medina’s Jordan photo was chosen number one by SI out of the 100 Greatest Sports Photos of All Time.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/multimedia/os-fla360-orlando-magic-team-photographer-has-number-one-sports-photo-of-all-time-20121130,0,392106.story
PHOTO: Fernando Medina



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20 Nov, 2012 | Posted by: bswenson




EARLY TRICKERY: “The First Hoax Photograph Ever Shot. Michael Zhang: “1840 held an interesting development: the first hoax photograph. It was snapped by a French photography pioneer named Hippolyte Bayard. He was to Daguerre what Tesla was to Edison. There was a rivalry between the two photography pioneers, and although Daguerre became known as one of the “fathers of photography,” Bayard claimed to have actually invented photography first. http://www.petapixel.com/2012/11/15/the-first-hoax-photograph-ever-shot/




A NEW PASSION: Photographer rediscovers tintype photography.
Dan Havlik: “The antique process of tintype photography is over 150 years old, but photographer Harry Taylor says it offers him something that shooting digital does not. Taylor has long been a digital photographer but rediscovered tintype. “
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2012/11/15/photographer-rediscovers-passion-for-tintype-photography-following-tragedy
PHOTO: Harry Taylor

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13 Nov, 2012 | Posted by: st




PHOTOGRAPHY IN WAR -- Battlefield Images, Taking No Prisoners. Carol Kino: “AS a form of photojournalism, war photography can sometimes seem to be telling the same story over and over across conflicts and eras. But as technology has grown more sophisticated, photojournalists have been able to bring us ever closer to its daily realities and to offer new ways of understanding the experience of those who live through it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/arts/design/war-photography-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston.html?pagewanted=all
World War 1 - Destroyed village of Vaux, France
PHOTO: Edward Steichen


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30 Oct, 2012 | Posted by: bswenson



THE CALM BEFORE -- Jessica Roy: “Photos of an apocalyptic Gotham-style sky looming above New York’s skyscrapers are juxtaposed with pics of good-humored folks mugging for the camera next to empty water bottle aisles. It’s a pretty holistic portrait of East Coasters preparing for a superstorm.” SOURCE: http://betabeat.com/2012/10/instacane-is-back-and-telling-the-story-of-hurricane-sandy-in-sepia/



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30 Oct, 2012 | Posted by: bswenson





DAGUERREOTYPE TO INSTAGRAM: 100 Ideas That Changed Photography Maria Popova: “100 Ideas That Changed Photography —an equally concise and intelligent chronicle of the most seminal developments in the history of today's most prevalent visual art.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/from-daguerreotype-to-instagram-100-ideas-that-changed-photography/264061/

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30 Oct, 2012 | Posted by: st






VICTORIAN ERA TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY -- Belindal: “Boswell’s Magic Lantern Show. Going abroad as a Victorian Briton must have been amazing. Trotting round the world, owning most of it, and looking on all that you surveyed with a firmly held conviction of your own innate superiority. Arthur Boswell did just this in the late Victorian era. On his travels, he built up a collection of 14,000 glass slides later acquired by the local archive in his native Bexley, England. “SOURCE: http://londonist.com/2012/10/lanternshow.php
PHOTO: Arthu’r Boswell



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16 Oct, 2012 | Posted by: st



PHOTO HISTORY -- A snapshot in time:: 200 Years of Photography. Visual scenes are captured by hand tracing over a projection using a camera obscura.
http://www.dreamstime.com/uploaded_files/200%20years%205M%203%20copy.pdf


The Greatest Photo Collection Never Seen; The Vivian Maier's Unpublished Photo's - Heather Murphy: “Since Vivian Maier’s photographs were unearthed at an auction several years back, her work and her story have captivated people across the world. The idea that a lifelong nanny was secretly an astoundingly good street photographer—that the greatest collection of photos of Chicago from the 1950s through the 1970s had been sitting undiscovered in a storage unit on the South Side.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2012/10/01/vivian_maier_s_unpublished_photos_the_greatest_photo_collection_never_seen_.html
PHOTO: Vivian Maier




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09 Oct, 2012 | Posted by: st




THE WILD WEST -- Photos by early USFS employees captured West’s grandeur. The box from a Bozeman, Montana basement turned out to belong to Joseph C. Whitham, and held more than 1,000 negatives of the former forest supervisor’s photo collection. Mixed in were 40 black-and-white prints with Swan’s stamp on the back, documenting an adventure the men shared. SOURCE: http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/territory/windows-to-the-wilderness-photographs-taken-by-early-u-s/article_88df21e2-0f28-11e2-b4fe-001a4bcf887a.html


ANOTHER DIRECTION -- ‘Radical’ photographers helped shape art into activism. The social and artistic impact of the Photo League: priceless. Between 1936 and 1951, the Photo League arguably was New York City’s premiere photography cooperative and school. The daily fee to use the Photo League’s darkroom: 25 cents. The Photo League became the target of congressional anti-Communist investigations, with individual members blacklisted. The stress caught up with the institution, and by 1951 the Photo League folded. Only a few members went on to enjoy successful careers as professional photographers.
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/66591/radical-photographers-helped-shape-art-into-activism/



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02 Oct, 2012 | Posted by: st




THAT FAMOUS PHOTO -- John Kelly: “ Meet the people behind thiis Washington D. C. photo. I recently bought a vintage print of what I now realize is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a policeman and a kid taken in Washington. The cop went on to become the chief of police. The kid’s harder to find out about. It seems like it’s worth tracking them down. How many Pulitzer photos were snapped in D.C. but were not of politicians?”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/meet-the-people-behind-a-famous-dc-photo/2012/09/22/c24d6868-03ec-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.html
PHOTO: Denny Beall


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25 Sep, 2012 | Posted by: st




THE UNREAL WAR -- Richard Barnes brings Civil War to life with centuries-old film camera technology.
The Civil War was the first war to have dead soldiers photographed before they were buried – most notably by Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner – two pioneers of photojournalism. Drawing on those photographers for inspiration, Richard Barnes goes to different Civil War reenactments and shoots the battles using the same laborious techniques Brady and Gardner used: wet plate photography.
http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/20/13992104-photographer-brings-civil-war-to-life-with-centuries-old-technology PHOTO: Richard Barnes

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18 Sep, 2012 | Posted by: st



BACK THEN -- History in Color: Rare Photographs of Czarist Russia
Alissa Ambrose: “What is remarkable, however, is that this vivid image was taken a century ago—a time usually seen only in black and white. A bright orange orb hangs just above the horizon under an expanse of blue and yellow sky. It’s hard to take an interesting picture of a sunset, and at first glance, there is nothing remarkable about this one.
http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/13/history-in-color-rare-photographs-of-czarist-russia/#1
photo: Sergei Mikhailovich




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11 Sep, 2012 | Posted by: st




THE SHY POET -- Dave Itzkoff: “The Amherst College Archives and Special Collections is now displaying a daguerreotype that it says depicts Dickinson and her friend Kate Scott Turner, probably taken around 1859 on a visit to Amherst.
SOURCE: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/still-no-new-pynchon-photo-but-heres-emily-dickinson/?partner=rss&emc=rss


GERONIMO -- Chris Wilkins: Today in photo history – 1886: Apache leader Geronimo surrenders in Arizona. Captured Apache leader Geronimo, third from right in front row, is joined by other captured Apaches as they are photographed en route to their imprisonment in Florida in this 1886 photo. http://photographyblog.dallasnews.com/2012/09/today-in-photo-history-1886-apache-leader-geronimo-surrenders-in-arizona.html/

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05 Sep, 2012 | Posted by: bswenson





POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY -- Japanese internment camp photographs.
May-Ying Lam: “When Japanese immigrants and Japanese-American citizens were torn from their daily lives and herded into internment camps with guard towers during World War II, they were told to only bring what they could carry. The ban on cameras by the Western Defense Command was lifted in the spring of 1943. At that time, Bill Manbo’s 35mm Zeiss Contax became an outlet as well as a way of writing his family’s story at a time when even Japanese descendants born on American soil had their loyalty questioned.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/colors-of-confinement-life-inside-a-japanese-internment-camp/2012/08/31/7438da6a-f314-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html
PHOTO: Bill Manbo
TAKEAWAY: Not all ethnic Japanese families were interned in camps. In its wisdom, the Western Defense Command also placed USA-born families in small communities around the country. I know, because the second baseman on our high school baseball team in 1947 was Hank Nakamura from Fresno, California.





IT HAS LANDED -- Jerard: “Inspirational Photos by Neil Armstrong – Primary Photographer on the First Successful Manned Mission to the Moon. As the primary photographer of that first successful manned lunar mission in 1969, Neil Armstrong, was responsible for some of the most iconic images of the modern age. As the photographer, contrary to popoular belief, Armstrong did not actually appear in many of the famous photos he took on the moon. Most of the iconic images we know of today – are of his lunar romping partner Buzz Aldrin. There is one well-known shot of him climbing into the Lunar Module “Eagle.” It was Armstrong who uttered the famous, “…the Eagle has landed,” to Houston when they touched down in the Sea of Tranquility on the moon’s surface. “
http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2012/08/inspirational-photos-by-neil-armstrong-primary-photographer-on-the-first-successful-manned-mission-to-the-moon/
PHOTO: Neil Armstrong/Nasa


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29 Aug, 2012 | Posted by: bswenson




Photographer Eugene Atget captured old Paris as it disappeared. Vigen Galstyan
IT is telling that the man who passed to us an immortal image of a city left hardly any photographs of himself. Eugene Atget's best-known portrait was taken just before his death in 1927, by Man Ray's assistant Berenice Abbott.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/photographer-captured-old-paris-as-it-disappeared/story-e6frg8n6-1226456020030

PHOTO: Eugene Atget





BACK TO THE FUTURE -- Reinventing Instant Film in an Age of Instant Imagery. Adam McCauleyIn the world of photography, innovation has a shelf life. By 2008, some 60 years after Edwin Land’s invention of the Polaroid camera, analog photography had been usurped by the power of the digital age. Four years after the end of that era, a passionate group of instant film fans — under the title of the Impossible Project — have worked hard to create another era.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/reinventing-instant-film-in-an-age-of-instant-imagery/



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21 Aug, 2012 | Posted by: st





MYSTERY SOLVED? Kissing couple in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous V-J Day photo (1945) to be reunited. Chris Wilkins: “Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photo of a sailor and nurse kissing on V-J Day has been the subject of intrigue over the past 67 years, with numerous people claiming to be the subjects of the photo. This has to be one of the most famous photos ever published in LIFE magazine.” http://photographyblog.dallasnews.com/2012/08/kissing-couple-in-alfred-eisenstaedts-famous-v-j-day-photo-to-be-reunited.html/

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14 Aug, 2012 | Posted by: st



KODAK COLORAMA -- "World's Largest Photographs" Return to Grand Central Terminal. From 1950 to 1990, the Kodak company displayed what were described as “The World’s Largest Photographs,” on one of the balconies inside New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. Measuring 18 feet tall by 60 feet wide, these iconic photographs served both as advertisements and as a series of frozen moments— a type of window into which viewers could peek into an idealized rendering of American society. http://www.justluxe.com/travel/new-york-news__1808243.php

EVOLUTION -- Tim Stone: In Focus: the evolution of photography from daguerreotypes to Instagram “Photographic technology has developed at a rapid pace. >From the 19th century’s cumbersome daguerreotypes to today’s compact digital cameras; photography has become one of the most accessible art mediums.”
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/blog/the-evolution-of-photography-from-daguerreotypes-to-instagram-120809/default.htm?WT.ac=TV_TV-Arts-Blog%7Cdaguerreotypes-digital_ABC%7CABCArts%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3E


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24 Jul, 2012 | Posted by: st




DOPING, CHEATING -- "Insta-Celebrity" a la 1908; David Davis: Davis: “The Story Behind The First Great Sports Action Photograph, Taken In 1908. I don't remember when I first encountered the photograph that you see here, but I was immediately transfixed. Here was this Charlie Chaplin-esque figure, with a glazed look in his eyes, surrounded by a crowd of excited people. What the hell was going on?
http://deadspin.com/5927530/doping-cheating-and-insta+celebrity-the-story-behind-the-first-great-sports-action-photograph-taken-in-1908


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17 Jul, 2012 | Posted by: st




FIRST ONE -- Abraham Riesman: “This is the first photograph ever posted on the Web. Upon first glance, it looks like any other poorly Photoshopped pic posted on Facebook, but this is no ordinary snapshot. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/07/10/this-is-first-photograph-ever-posted-on-internet/

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10 Jul, 2012 | Posted by: st



HOUSE HISTORY How to dig up your house's history. Shirley Salemy Meyer: “The construction of Julian Sellers' bungalow in St. Paul, Minn., was started in 1926 and finished in early 1927. The builder was a Swedish immigrant. The family who first lived there included a married couple, their 6-year-old daughter and the wife's mother. Expert house historians advise novices to focus on one question at a time and to keep notes on exactly where information was found to trace a house's history.
SOURCE: Associated Press ; http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/realestate/2018535736_realhousehistory01.html


FROM ABOVE -- "Britian from Above" project displays archival photographs The “Britain from Above” project preserves 95,000 of the oldest and most valuable photographic negatives in the Aerofilms collection, dating from 1919 to 1953. The negatives, which consist of both glass plates and early film negatives, are carefully conserved and scanned into digital format for public view.
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/29/12482990-britian-from-above-project-displays-archival-photographs?lite


NUMERO UNO -- First Photograph To Travel To Europe For First Time in 50 Years. Alicia /dietrich: “The first photograph will be loaned, along with 119 other images and photography-related items from the Harry Ransom Center's Gernsheim collection, to the Reiss Englehorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany, for the exhibition "The Birth of Photography-Highlights of the Helmut Gernsheim Collection." The exhibition runs from Sept. 9 through Jan. 6, 2013.
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/06/26/first-photograph-to-travel-to-europe-for-first-time-in-50-years/
PHOTO: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce


EVER EVOLVING -- A Short History of Photography: The Daguerreotype. Darren Rowse: “We live in an amazing time for development in the field of photography with new cameras and technologies being invented and released all the time. But where did it all begin? This video takes us way back to the first photograph and the development of the Daguerreotype – an early photographic process. SOURCE: http://digital-photography-school.com/a-short-history-of-photography-the-daguerreotype
PHOTO: Robert Cornelius (Self Portrait)


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26 Jun, 2012 | Posted by: st



NO BIG BIRD -- Susan Gamble: “This is a publicity photograph taken for the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Services (BCS) in the early 1940s. Back then, the organization was called the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities. Since 1866, the organization has supported at-risk children and families in Brooklyn.”
http://brooklynhistory.org/blog/2012/06/20/brooklyn-history-photo-of-the-week-kids-playing-in-the-yard/


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12 Jun, 2012 | Posted by: st



HISTORIC PHOTO ARCHIVE -- Re-Emerges at the New York Public Library. James Estrin: “Roy Stryker, founder of the Farm Security Administration’s photography project, was determined to compile a visual encyclopedia of the United States in the 1930s and ’40s and preserve it for future generations. The New York Public Library has not only digitized more than 1,000 images, it has also made them available today on a special NYPL site.”
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/a-historic-photo-archive-re-emerges-at-the-new-york-public-library/
PHOTO: Dorthea Lange

BLURRY FILM -- Steve Meltzer: “Sixty-eight years ago, on June 6, 1944, the Hungarian born photographer Robert Capa waded ashore on the beaches of Normandy with two Contax cameras wrapped in oilskins tucked into the folds of his jacket.
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2012/06/06/photographers-on-photography-the-d-day-landing-and-robert-capas-slightly-ou

PHOTO: Robert Capa

FREE CAMERA LOANS -- Canon U.S.A. Encourages National Parks Visitors to Unleash Their Creativity This Summer with Free Photography Workshops. Canon's Photography in the Parks Program Equips Visitors with Free Camera and Camcorder Loans, Professional Photography Lessons and a Unique, Hands-On Experience to Create Lasting Memories http://www.marketwatch.com/story/canon-usa-encourages-national-parks-visitors-to-unleash-their-creativity-this-summer-with-free-photography-workshops-2012-06-04

LONG DISTANCE PHOTOS -- Family Reunions. Julie Bosman: “In Singapore, it is a common practice for entire families to gather on special occasions for a formal picture. The growing tendency of younger family members to take jobs abroad, however, has left many modern portraits missing a relation or two. So the Singaporean photographer John Clang devised a solution, piggybacking on the video-calling technology that already helps ease the dislocation of separated family members: Skype. SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/03/magazine/skype-portraits.html
PHOTO: John Clang

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29 May, 2012 | Posted by: st






OFFBEAT HISTORICAL PHOTOS -- Historical offbeat photography from yesteryear that was just a bit bizarre or just slightly ahead of it’s time. You be the judge. http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2012/05/photos-offbeat-historical-photos/36340/


Mark F. Moran: “Collectors snap up vintage photography. Although many categories of antiques and collectibles have declined in value during the last two decades, one area that has bucked the trend is vintage photography.
http://www.postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1497940

THE OLDIES -- The recently unveiled collection in the Town Hall includes about 80 vintage cameras from an Eastman Kodak camera which sold for $3 in 1907 to a 1939 Kodak Baby Brownie camera which was worth about $1.25 when it first came out.
http://www.capebretonpost.com/Living/2012-05-25/article-2988655/Antique-photography-display-attracting-a-crowd/1


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22 May, 2012 | Posted by: st




SHAKER LIFE IN 1936 -- Rebecca Dravis: “The photographs tell a story -- two elderly women, faces lined with the evidence of hard work, modesty and a devotion to a greater calling. "A Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA," running from May 26 through October 2013 at Hancock Shaker Village. (NY) ” http://www.advocateweekly.com/ci_20636241/photos-capture-shaker-life-1936
PHOTO : Noel Vicentini


NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- There are many ways to look at the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, since it embraces about 100,000 images. Michael Carlebach’s new book, A Distant New York, Strangely Familiar “Bain’s New York: The City in News Pictures, 1900-1925” (Dover Publications), which chronicles the work of the George Bain News Service, depicts ordinary life at the turn of the 20th century and some of the extraordinary moments that have always defined this mad city.
Source: DAVID W. DUNLAP - NyTIMES http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/a-distant-new-york-strangely-familiar/?emc=eta1
via: Roy iwaki



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15 May, 2012 | Posted by: st




VIVIAN MAIER -- Touring the Nanny-Photographer’s Past. Richard Cahan: “Vivian Maier was a mysterious character. The nanny-photographer left behind thousands of photographs, but little written information about her life. That’s why I flew to France: to find more about Ms. Maier’s French roots.”
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/learning-more-about-the-nanny-photographer/
PHOTO: Viviam Maier


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01 May, 2012 | Posted by: st



REMEMBERING -- The L.A. Riots: Two Photographers Remember Covering The Unrest. This story is part of a special Neon Tommy series revisiting the upheaval 20 years ago surrounding the Rodney King trial. Ted Soqui covered the riots for LA Weekly. His photos of the destruction are among the most iconic from the event. This week’s issue of LA Weekly features a cover story in which Soqui and a fellow reporter return to the scene of the violence that rocked South Los Angeles, creating dramatic before-and-after imagery.
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/04/la-riots-photographer-ted-soqui-remembers-covering-unrest
PHOTO: Ted Soqui



NEW YORK CITY -- Cristian Salazar: “NY portrayed online in 870,000 images. ‘The two men were discovered dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-story Manhattan building, as if dumped there, one man sprawled on top of the other. The rare crime scene photograph from Nov. 24, 1915, is one of 870,000 images of New York City and its municipal operations now available to the public on the Internet for the first time.’”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjvTQiS6ATMwNodLWnF6HqWqyC1Q?docId=e3ba8e739f314267a5de6a6847106303



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24 Apr, 2012 | Posted by: st




QUAKE -- 1906 Earthquake and Fire, From Muni's Perspective. Chris Roberts: “The public transportation infrastructure that was to become Muni suffered extensive damage, and images from that disaster culled from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's collection of photos are now available for public viewing online.”
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/1906-Earthquake-and-Fire-From-Munis-Perspective-147829595.html


DOCUMENTING USA -- '72, EPA battled pollution; now it's politics. Dina Cappiello: “Forty years after the Environmental Protection Agency sent an army of nearly 100 photographers across the country to capture images at the dawn of environmental regulation, The Associated Press went back for Earth Day this year to see how things have changed. It is something the agency never got to do because the Documerica program, as it was called, died in 1978, the victim of budget cuts. SOURCE: Wall Street Journal;
http://online.wsj.com/article/APf0f65a5e72e74795a1b9db650c5c9fd4.html
PHOTO: Flip Schulke

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17 Apr, 2012 | Posted by: st




WAY BACK WHEN -- Photography pioneers worked to capture light. Cliff Sain: “Photography might be a relatively quick and easy process now, but long ago photography was not very easy or convenient. Not only did each picture require several minutes, or even hours, of exposure to light, but equipment was bulky and delicate and the process required the use of chemicals that were expensive and hazardous.” http://www.news-leader.com/article/20120410/NEWS05/304100038/Newspapers-in-education-history-of-photography
PHOTO: Mathew Brady


FLORIDA INNOCENCE -- Joseph Steimetz captured Sarasota, Florida USA in simpler time. Dale White: “SARASOTA". His photographs depict Sarasota and much of the rest of Florida in a way that — seen through a modern prism — depict an age of innocence. http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120409/ARTICLE/120409598
PHOTO: Joseph Janney Steinmetz

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