Pirelli Calendar Photog: Mario Sorrenti
Photo by Mario Sorrenti One of the premier showcases for European photographers, the Pirelli Calendar, is just out for 2012. The picture above is one that the World's Best Photography Magazine calls "one of the very few PG-13 images" from...
Random Excellence: Lindsay McCrum
Photo by Lindsay McCrum I've been accused of featuring too many female photographers in my "Random Excellence" posts (which, as longtime readers know, means randomly encountered, not that their excellence is accidental). But I can't help what I feel like...
Random Excellence: Robert Phillips
Robert's portrait of Thomas Struth, another leading photographer of the Düsseldorf School, taken last July. (Struth has several famous photographs of people in museums looking at artwork, including the one on the cover of the Stefan Gronert book which you...
‘Everywhere You Look, There’s Always a Gursky’
Videos are hard for me, because I don't like having my attention monopolized for as long as 23 minutes, 21 seconds. But now might be a great time to watch Ben Lewis's "Gursky World," from 2002. A reader named Mathijs...
Meet Anthony Vizzari
Anthony Vizzari by Anthony Vizzari by Anthony Vizzari. Anthony Vizzari, photograph collector, camera collector, photo shop proprietor, and photobooth aficionado, is the subject of Philip Bloom's latest short. Not only is it about cameras and photographs, but it was shot...
Another Worthy Kickstarter Campaign
Harold Feinstein now Here's pretty much what you need to know: "At 80 years old, with 60+ years in photography, he has yet to have a monograph printed of his classic black-and-white photographs." Not to take vocab for granted, a...
If You Have Talent, Find Your Own Way
Each week, a leading street photographer would issue an instruction and a large band of photographers would take to the streets and capture their interpretation of the theme. The resulting pictures were then uploaded to the photo-sharing site Flickr where...
Speaking of Great Color Photography…
...You've got to see this, a Vimeo slideshow retrospective posted by Leica Camera to commemorate Steve McCurry being awarded the 2011 Leica Hall of Fame Award*. Possibly the best short presentation of McCurry's work ever? And a compelling argument for...
Congratulations Jim Davis
Kudos and three attaboys to Boston Globe photographer Jim Davis, left, who says he's been prepared for more than 20 years just in case he ever got a chance to photograph a triple play. His chance finally came in the...
The Urban Prisoner by Matt Weber
After I featured him in "Random Excellence" a few days ago, Matt Weber very kindly sent me a copy of his book, The Urban Prisoner: Photographs by Matt Weber . It's a insider's view of city life by an outsider...
Meet David Peat
David Peat, Your Move, Paris A diagnosis of cancer two years ago inspired Scottish filmmaker David Peat to finally begin making prints from the street photography he's been doing on the side for forty years. This little news item with...
Hand on Fire
After the explosion, he saw "bits" of himself in a tree, and took stock of what was missing (an arm and two legs). Then he took stock of what remained—right hand, eyes. And he thought, "I can work." From the...
