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Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2008,
Vice Magazine - Beijing Skins and Punks
Vice Magazine is a blog about music, lifestyle, clothing, photography, etc. It's available in german and english.
I especially love their photoblog. There are several galleries of street- and/or partyphotos, just showing the cross-section of a city - mostly scandinavian ones -
Link to Photoblog: click
There was a set of photos taken in Beijing. The theme is "skins and punks". Those photos really impressed me so here's a short preview but I advise you to look at all photos of this set.
Previews:
Link to whole set: click
Vice Magazine
Ricarda
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Freitag, 24. Oktober 2008,
world-famous photos 2
You may not have any interest in photography, and though you probably know some of these shots because they went around the world.
Maybe some of you disagree when I say this also refers to street photography, but I think it's really interesting to see how a photo can influence the world and reach that many people.
I'll post some photos from time to time, choosing photos from today and from the past, from Europe and anywhere else, from famous events or just awesome examples of 'normal' street photography. I hope you enjoy and get some inspiration, maybe :)
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper
Date: September 29, 1932
Place: Atop the General Electric Building in New York
Photographer: Charles C. Ebbets
About:
Now hanging in many living rooms as a big poster, the photo was taken when the GE building in New York City was just under construction. Ebbets was documenting this process, and so he happened to shoot this scene, about 250 metres above New York.
Symbol:
The photo turned one of the most famous photos of the 20th century.
Website:
The photographer's daughter established a website for his photos: Ebbetsphoto-Graphics.com
Ariane
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Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2008,
Murphy strikes back
I do believe in the evilness of Murphy's Law... and when clicking around I found Murphy's Law rules based on photography.
Top five of (in my opinion's) best statements:
- Lenses are attracted back to their source - hard rocks.
Corollary:
The more expensive the lens, the greater the attraction.
- Your batteries will always go dead during a long exposure (so with the shutter open).
- when you drop a lens cap, the inside part always lands face down in the mud.
- The nature shots invariably happen on two occasions:
when animals are ready.
when you're not.
- Photo Assistants are essential, they give photographers someone to yell at
Read on
Murphy's Law (via Nerdcore)
Ricarda
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Sonntag, 19. Oktober 2008,
the oldschool cigaretta look
and she wanted to say... by Branimir Petev
Photographer: Branimir Petev
Age: 22
Residence: Currently I'm living in Sofia, Bulgaria. But I'm original from a city called Lovech where I've grown up. Since then I've been living in Amsterdam for a few months and 3/4 of a year in Napoli, Italia. My recent photos are taken on the streets of Sofia. And some of them are from Pompei, Napoli.
The Story:
First I started with street. Because I'm now 3rd year in film school - film directing. So I'm mostly interested in documentaries. So when I started shooting few months ago (I bought my nikon d80 5 months ago) I started with photojuornalistic style and street candid shots. Still loving it. Have been in a studio just twice. So I bought an old russian rangefinder (fed-2 and fed-5) one lubitel 166. A Nikon F60. And Kiev 88TTL. Experimenting with them all. But still am not scanning the results...
Why am I prefering the streets? Because of the candids. Nothing in pose, in roll. Just the truth. The images that are passed by the others. The things that are left behind. Just like an old romantic guy, who is willing to see the ignored one.
The photo:
The photo was taken in front of the national theater in Sofia. Of a girl, who at that moment was with her friends playing badminton. At one point she sat on the stairs and in perfect line between me, her and the sun, that was setting down. I had the Nikon D80 with a 28-105 Nikkor lens. Set it on b&w with high contrast and tones + normal sharpening. Nothing special... just was willing to capture the strange contrast in that girl. The beauty of her face and the oldschool cigaretta look. I took several photos... one other seconds after this is link.
Where to find:
DeviantART
Myspace
Ariane
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17 minutes~
17 minutes is a homepage based on streetphotography - categorized into people, places, signage and pictures with stories.
-What the photographer says-
I'm just an ordinary guy with a camera or two who likes people. The aim of this site is, foremost, to display my work to a wider audience than my family and friends. I hope that the images make an impression, to make us more aware of our surroundings and the people in it.
Many of the people I photograph are marginalised by society, often by dint of their own chosen lifestyle or perhaps just by unfortunate circumstance of life or birth. I hold no pretensions of hoping to change society on a large scale through my work. Don McCullin, a far better photographer than I could ever hope to be, openly accepted his own failure in that sense.
However, I believe that if I can influence just ONE person to stop and look again at a lonely soul on the street and perhaps throw a few coins in their hat, or just to smile and say "Hello", then it will all be worth while.
© Copyright by 17 Minutes
17 Minutes
Ricarda
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Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008,
world-famous photos
You may not have any interest in photography, and though you probably know some of these shots because they went around the world.
Maybe some of you disagree when I say this also refers to street photography, but I think it's really interesting to see how a photo can influence the world and reach that many people.
I'll post some photos from time to time, choosing photos from today and from the past, from Europe and anywhere else, from famous events or just awesome examples of 'normal' street photography. I hope you enjoy and get some inspiration, maybe :)
The jumping soldier
Date: August 15, 1961
Place: Bernauer Straße, Berlin
Photographer: Peter Leibing
Background:
A tiny bit of a history lesson, after WW2 Germany had been seperated into four parts, and so had been Germany's capital Berlin. Three of them were affiliated into one, the German Federal Republic. The fourth one turned into the German Democratic Republic, controlled by the Soviet Union, and very far from a democratic state.
Until 1961, however, many people fled from the GDR, and as these people were mostly young, intelligent and important, the gouvernment decided to build a wall instead of just a normal boundary to keep people in.
About:
The photo shows a military man from the GDR who was involved in building the wall - but instead of doing what he was supposed to, he jumped over the boundary, into freedom.
The soldier's name is Conrad Schumann, and the photo was taken by Peter Leibing - both were only 19. It turned to be the photo of his life.
He later said that he "had only one chance to take this photo" and that he waited for, like, hours, just watching the soldier on the other side who looked nervous - and he was lucky with it.
Symbol:
Since then the photo has become a symbol for freedom and the will to risk everything for it.
Ariane
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Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008,
the rain mood
Rain Shelter by Brian Q. Webb
Photographer: Brian Quentin Webb
Age: 34
Residence:
I was born-and-raised in the South Bay area of Los Angeles but have been living and working in Taipei, Taiwan for the last 9 years. I am a primary school teacher and teach primarily English but also some cultural classes. I try and get back to LA at about once a year to visit family and friends.
The Story:
I don't remember when I "got into" street photography, but I do know that I've always been shooting people. I got my first SLR (a pentax k1000) when I was twelve and the first thing I did was load it with Kodachrome and walk around randomly taking pictures of people doing stuff. When I was in High School I was introduced to the darkroom and started loving b&w, although I still shot color as part of the yearbook staff. Actually, I never took a class in photography but I used my position on the yearbook staff to gain entry into the darkroom and figure out how to do it myself. It took a couple of rolls before I even knew that you couldn't expose film to red light. :D
In college I became the youngest photo editor of the newspaper (I went to college when I was 17 and the previous editor graduated in mid-year) and so I had another excuse to use the darkroom and keep shooting.
After college a need for work and money forced me to give up photography and sell my kit. After I moved to Taiwan I started feeling the need to take pictures again. Being so immersed in a culture so different then the one I was raised in helped spur on what I had been repressing since I sold my cameras and the day after Y2K I went to a local shop and picked up a very used Nikon FG and 50mm lens. I've been shooting continuously ever since, mostly street photos in B&W.
The Photo:
About the photo itself, I love rainy days and tri-x. Nothing beats that combination for pure mood (see link). Crosswalks make it easier as you know which direction people are going to go and they must walk within a specific area on the way.
The Camera:
Currently I use a Voigtlander Bessa R2 and R2A. I have a variety of lenses, but primarily stick to a CV 35/1.4 Nokton Classic SC and CV 28/1.9 Ultron. For 35mm I like Tri-X and PanF the most and do most of my development in Kodak HC-110.
Where to find:
DeviantART
Blog
Website
Ariane
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Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2008,
shake it. shake it like a polaroid picture
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I'm currently preparing a Polaroid Streetphotography Book. - will be shown at Kafe Kunst Fest December 14th, taking place at Kafe Kult, Munich.
I've you've got some time and you live in the near area of Munich you should definitely come there! It's worth a visit.
Well, back to topic.
So these two Polaroids are a preview for the book. They show to typical scenes of Munich.
Left one:
A television crew. We've got several television companies stationed in and around Munich so if you go to the city centre you will always see them. They also asked me a few times to interview me but I always declined X)
Right one:
Munich is floated by Japanese people. They're all walking around with their cameras, trying to get as much snapshots as they can get...Don't get me wrong - I don't think it's a bad thing.
Ricarda
Eingestellt von pedestrian-zone 18:36
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