Just Shoot, Shoot, Shoot: An Interview with David Burnett, Part II
Interview by John Camp (Part I is here) John Camp: David, on your days off, do you walk around with a camera under your arm? David Burnett: About four years ago I needed a carry around camera, and ended up...
Just Make the Damn Picture: An Interview with David Burnett, Part I
Interview by John Camp Introduction: I'm a writer—a novelist —and a few weeks ago my publishing company sent a well-known professional photographer out to Santa Fe to take my picture for the backs of upcoming novels...which shows a bit of...
Sir Stirling and a Blonde
A great story of the "my best shot" variety, over on Jalopnik—U.K. shooter Neill Watson tells how he got a popular shot of racing legend Sir Stirling Moss. "What makes it a winner? The ingredients. A world famous racing driver...
The Kid Did Alright
So you remember my post about the (rare) sale of Eggleston prints at Christie's, to benefit the Eggleston Artistic Trust? Well, so I showed up at the auction with $150,000 in my pocket, fully intending to walk away with the...
A Nice TOP Story
Philip Rosenberg, Keck Observatories and Milky Way, Mauna Kea, Hawaii 25 second exposure, Nikon D3, 24mm ƒ1.4 lens. I've long since ceased to be amazed by "internet stories," but they continue to be a pleasure when they happen to me....
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...
