photographic resources
Here you'll find listings of general photography sites, specialty photography sites, photo magazines, sites profiling photographic greats, and photographer and gallery sites on the Web. Don't blame me if you don't get anything else done today.
General Photography Sites
Charles Daney's Photography Pages
Not meant to be complete, but Charles has a
little bit of everything in photography and digital imaging resources: Photography
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My God. Just what it says. If it's photography and it's on the net, it's here.
Beaucoup photography links. Another good
starting place.
Easily one of the best photo sites on the web, with something for everyone from a hobbyist playing with his or her first digicam to experienced professionals making a living at the trade. The forums are lively and filled with genuinely useful information, particularly for those of us still working in traditional silver. There’s an incredibly extensive gallery of work by photo.net members, so of which is exquisite. And so of which, naturally, is not. You can set up an online portfolio and, if you’re so inclined, invite total strangers to review your work. Mine is at:
Specialized Resources
Company site for the one of the world’s oldest and most famous camera manufacturer. It's not just a camera...it's an obsession. Just look at the resale value of their 60-year-old rangefinders.
A forum for submitting photographs and having them critiqued, including listings of viewers favorite photographs.
For the gearheads, this site invites viewers to weigh in with the opinions on photographic equipment. It's kind of like hanging out at a party and listening to the shooters talk up or down their latest acquisitions.
Photo Magazines
American Photo has a joint website with Popular Photography magazine, offering forums, reviews for the gearheads, and news about the photographic world.
Online photography magazine for shooters of many experience levels. Articles are marked for beginners, general, intermediate, and advanced photographers. Contests, photo gear, book reviews, how-to, photo gallery, the photography business, and many links.
Dedicated to the collection of fine-art black and white images, mostly in silver. There’s some very fine work here. Serious art photographers can find a wealth of ideas and fill the image bank of the mind’s eye, which is what learning photography is all about.
Excerpted online version of hip print magazine specializing in cutting-edge documentary photography.
Online version of print magazine for professional shooters, with a great deal of material to offer. Regular news updates, some fine galleries, especially those of "legends" and "masters." A good, moderated photo discussion board and a bulletin board for photographers going on assignment.
Old school magazine with a wealth of info for pros and gearheads. Recently added an online discussion forum.
Photographic Greats
Now, sadly, the late poet of the instant, master of the fleeting composition. Much has been made of how he achieved his remarkable tableau, but the answer is as straightforward as his technique: Bresson had an intuitive grasp of human nature and was quick as a cat.
Frank has done much more than the photo book
"The Americans," but it's the work he's known best for and what
you'll find at this site devoted to these sly, zenlike photographs of the
margins and understitching of 1950s
Memories. Fragments of experience. An instant of unforgettable insight, rich with association and mystery. Black and white pushed to its edge, gray tones becoming ghostly. Gibson reaches into the murk of our unconscious and brings wet gems to the surface.
A great many superb photographers do not have sites devoted solely to their work, but you can find information and photographs of some of them here, including: Diane Arbus, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Harry Callahan, Imogen Cunningham, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz, Clarence John Laughlin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tina Modotti, Paul Outerbridge, Cindy Sherman, Eugene Smith, Weegee, Minor White, and Gary Winogrand.
One of the great lives of the 20th Century, Miller modeled for Vogue, was Man Ray's photographic assistant and lover, married the curator who brought Picasso's work to England, and, as a photojournalist, covered the Allied campaign in Europe during World War II, including savage pictures of the Dachau concentration camp. Her richly realized photographs reflect the many art movements intimately entwined with her life.
A sculptor and painter as well as photographer, Ray was one of the original surrealists and among the most successful, never lapsing into the self-parody of some of his contemporaries. His photograms, objects places directly on the printing paper and exposed to light, were dubbed "Rayograms" and caught the spirit of Dadaist posters. Stunning silvers and grays distinguish his prints, as does a hallucinatory sensibility and an erotic appetite.
Besides being one of the greatest masters of composition, tone, and clarity, Weston fought for photography's recognition as its own, unique medium and not as a poor relative to painting and drawing. That such a notion today seems quaint indicates Weston's accomplishment. Peppers as sensuous as nudes, nudes as timeless as stone, and stone that encompasses the universe. In short, genius. The Weston site also features the work of Edward’s very talented sons and grandsons.
Photographers & Galleries on the Web
This art gallery in Dallas, Texas, not only represents a wonderful roster of artists, but offers books, information for art consultants and collectors, a photography magazine called SHOTS, information on how the gallery reviews photographers' work, and an excellent section on how art dealers look at the photography market. Good art if you like photographs and great tips if you make them.
Evolving Beauty: Photography of Eric Boutillier-Brown
Boutillier-Brown specializes in photographing the nude, and he has a fine, sensitive feel for this demanding subject, but he is also very generous with the insight he has gained as a photographer, and his photo diaries detailing his work and its evolution are fascinating.
Lovely, mysterious imagery from a
Terrific art gallery in
Excellent, luminous landscapes shot in large format, plus a fine assortment of links. Clean, intelligent website, and clean, intelligent work.
Eolo Perfido is talented Italian photographer and graphic designer. In addition to his portfolio, which has some especially fine portrait work, his site features an exceptional set of links. Recommended.
A nicely designed site with a extensive
collection of strong international work, most of it, not surprisingly, from
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