From Lexar.
Lexar, the leading maker of storage cards for digital cameras, has a section of its site dedicated to showcasing the work of professionals who use its products. Click on the picture to go there. Howard Schatz’s work is especially original.
It’s nice to see a manufacturer displaying the purpose of its products rather than […]
Some very original new work.
I first wrote of Vince Laforet when complimenting his superb photograph of the welder atop one of the Chrysler Building’s gargoyles.
From the April 2008 issue of Condé Nast’s Portfolio. Picture by Vince Laforet.
Click on this link to be directed to his photographs for a piece in Condé Nast Portfolio addressing changes […]
Drama imitates life.
He was the supreme bully. A man drunken on power and privilege.
He made his home in a fabulous mansion in the best part of town.
Powerful men quaked in his presence. He extracted vast sums from them under threat of imprisonment.
Having accomplished everything anyone could dream of by his forties, only the presidency […]
A fine French photographer.
A reader writes:
Thomas,
You often make reference to great or at least famous photographers. I am French and when I was a child (I am 56 now) I used to flip over my uncle’s photography books. There was one French photographer I loved and I would like to share it with you, here […]
Arnold Newman got it right.
Some three years ago I wrote about Karsh’s wonderful portrait of Churchill, a portrait which is very much a confirmation of the man’s qualities. The unyielding, courageous bulldog. To say that it had an impact on me is an understatement. Our son is named Winston.
But there’s another portrait […]
LIFE photographer Peter Solmssen writes.
On the the most satisfying aspects of this journal is that I get to exchange correspondence with some great photographers. Today’s column is guest authored by one of those - Peter Solmssen.
Peter Solmssen was a photographer with LIFE magazine during the golden era of photojournalism. Here is his story.
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A forgotten name
From its post-war inception in the late 1940s, the German Leica Fotografie magazine, under its founding editor Heinrich Stöckler, profiled much that was best and most banal in European photography.
I subscribed in the 1970s (mostly because I wanted to get published there!) and managed to find most of the back issues to those […]
A special technique makes for special pictures
I may have grumbled about Irving Penn’s love of darkroom technique before, but there’s no denying the originality of the results. So it’s no surprise t