Sale’s Over
On behalf of Charlie and myself, a big thanks to everybody who made this sale such a success! I hope to have some news about our next (Spring) sale soon. I think it's going to be big news, but I...
Addendum to Egypt
I had a chance to speak to Peter about his technique. Like many photographers he prefers not to talk about technique, because he doesn't consider it the point of photographs. However, he mentioned that as a point of preference and...
Dispatches from Egypt: Peter Turnley in Cairo
The turning point in the Egyptian Revolution, Tahrir Square, Cairo, February 11th–13th Exclusive to The Online Photographer Words and Photographs by Peter Turnley I've witnessed and photographed many of the most important moments of geopolitical change of the past thirty...
Stub Update
Brief update...belatedly, I'm off to Chicago to see "The Woodmans" (the trip had to be scrubbed yesterday). The sale is going swimmingly—the 200 mark is in sight. So far, Charlie has been content to let it run—he printed 50 or...
Charles Cramer Print Offer
Aspen in Fog, Boulder Mountain, Utah Charles Cramer—a very modest and very down-to-earth guy, yet supremely skilled and incredibly hardworking—has many connections to Ansel Adams, including the fact that he teaches printing and photography at the Ansel Adams Gallery in...
BAD Pictures
The Egyptian Revolution I've just this minute heard from Peter in Cairo. We'll feature a ground-level photojournalistic report on TOP very soon—Tuesday, it looks like. Good pictures, those will be. (More about the "BAD pictures" of the post title later...
New Premium Silver Paper from Ilford: Art 300
One of the distinct strangenesses of my life these days is that TOP is almost so successful that I no longer have enough time to write for it. Any more going on behind the scenes, and the blog itself will...
Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman, On Being an Angel, 1977 Falling squarely into the category of "Photographers You Should Know" (but might not yet) is Francesca Woodman, who is receiving a flurry of attention right now. And who is Francesca Woodman? Given that...
‘The Last Resort’ by Martin Parr
I've been meaning to mention this for months (years?)...be it hereby known to all that Dewi Lewis Publishing reprinted Martin Parr's The Last Resort in hardcover a couple of years ago. (Here's the U.K. link .) The Last Resort is...
Quote o’ the Day: ‘My First True Visualization’
Ansel Adams with his "first true visualization," Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, 1927, an early picture that remained important to him for the rest of his life - As I replaced the slide, I began to think about how...
Unlearning
Well, I'll be darned. They say you learn something new every day, but I guess that goes for unlearning, too. Did you know Ansel Adams didn't use the term "previsualization" in his writings? A reader named Steve Smith pointed it...
It Doesn’t Matter How You Get There If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going
By Ctein The title of this week's column is practically my personal mantra when it comes to photography and photographic printing. I didn't come up with it; credit goes to Randy Nelson, currently Dean of Pixar University, formerly "Alyosha" of...
