Category Archives: Blog News

Ansel Adams Or Uncle Earl?

A Bay Area woman may have solid proof to support the assertions of the Ansel Adams estate that negatives a Fresno man bought at a yard sale were not taken by the famed nature photographer as he claims. She thinks they may have been taken by her Uncle Earl.
via KTVU San Francisco, via The Online [...]

Grassland consists of 22 full-page c-prints and one digital print tipped in on the inside cover

Several years ago, a self-published photography book could cost an arm and a leg to produce, carrying the potential to be so costly as to deter artists from attempting the leap of photographic publication. But low and behold came the arrival of the print-on-demand book – an exciting new avenue for emerging or mid-career photographers [...]

Ansel Adams discovery sparks row as family say negatives are fakes – Telegraph

Bill Turnage, managing director of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, said: “It’s an unfortunate fraud. It’s very distressing.”
via  Telegraph.

Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale

Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 — negotiated down from $70 — are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million, according to a Beverly Hills art appraiser.
Those boxes contained 65 glass negatives created by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams in the early period of his career. Experts believed the [...]

Monocle Mediterraneo

“The creation of the Monocle newspaper is a response to our growing audience and the desire to launch a highly targeted product to reach them when they have time to read and listen at their leisure,” says Brûlé.
“There’s a huge amount of talk about the death of print, thanks to various types of ‘pad’ devices, [...]

Soup of the day

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there are a lot of things wrong in the design of Helvetica

People go on about Arial and how awful it is, and Comic Sans, what an atrocity that is, why not the same about Helvetica?
via Creative Review.

Stash Artists

I can honestly say I’ve never had as much fun looking at photographer’s portfolios as I did when I looked at these. In keeping with their entire brand, the Stash “books” are anything but.
via Hmab: The Lounge.

Hearst Magazines Readies App Editions

Hearst Magazines sold more than 12,000 downloads of its Popular Mechanics iPad edition since its release on July 8 and is gearing up to release many more apps this year, including app editions of Esquire; Marie Claire; O, The Oprah Magazine; Food Network Magazine; Cosmopolitan and Harper’s Bazaar.
via Advertising Age – MediaWorks.

Canon Wonder Camera Concept

Canon argues you won’t need to shoot stills when its video is capable of keeping everything in focus all the time — you’ll just pick out your favorite scene from the movie reel.

via Engadget.
thx, paulo

A lost opportunity?

“Another thought for the Fotofest staff: As photographers we receive advice on how to prepare ourselves for the reviews. Have the reviewers received any advice/training? Some are truly excellent, and I’m personally satisfied if the reviewer actively and honestly engages with my work regardless of whether they like it. Some people can successfully be both [...]

When you are sure about your work, you are ready to be found

So, the question is, “Are you good? “ Simple, easy, and sure way to find out is you. No one can answer this question but yourself. If you aren’t sure if your work is good, then probably your work is not good enough. Don’t ask somebody else. Instead, hang your work and live with it. [...]

Working at the National Enquirer Is Just Like Working at Any Other Newspaper — But Weirder

The writing in the tabloids sucks. You know it and I know it — and so do the people who work there.
Well, at least the copydesk knows it. I’ve never seen a media outlet so dependent on its copyeditors. The writers turn in real crap, their editors fix only some of it, and the copyeditors [...]

Martin Nachtwey – more famous than Krispy Kreme doughnuts

I always say to young photographers, you’re screwed. They don’t like it, but there it is. If you really must insist on becoming a photographer like myself you need to carve a niche. Incubate your otherness. Detach yourself, and shoot like no-ones watching. Because they won’t be, not at your pictures. And iron your gingham [...]

That’s my only guideline

“I have either to learn or have fun when I’m working. That’s my only guideline. If I’m not doing either, I just stop.”
–Stephen Shore
via wayneford’s posterous.

Artist Statements

Sending out a bad artist statement is like sending out a CV printed on crappy paper, with stains on it. It doesn’t help to make you (or your work) look very good.
But aren’t you a photographer, a visual artist? If you had wanted to become a writer you would have done so, right? Over the [...]

Unilever to Double Digital Spending This Year

“I think you need to fish where the fish are,” Mr. Weed said during a question-and-answer session with WPP Chief Executive Martin Sorrell. “So I’ve made it fairly clear that I’m driving Unilever to be at the leading edge of digital marketing.”
via Advertising Age.

Engaged Observers

“The journalistic photographer, can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest — yes. Objective — no.”
–Eugene Smith, 1948
via  latimes.com.