The Reading Shortlist is an occasional post with a listing of recommended readings and links. A recommendation does not necessarily suggest an agreement with the contents of the post. For previous lists, please visit the site links page.
5B4 Photography and Books, Facebook Albums of Photography Books. Jeffrey Ladd has created a large archive of albums on 5B4's Facebook page of still photographs of pages from photography books.
Wayne Ford, Wayne Ford's Posterous, Bruce Davidson and the New York Subway. Ford discusses Davidson's processes and experiences making the book Subway, recently re-published by Steidl.
Bryan Formhals, LPV Magazine, The Digest – Sunday, January 22nd, 2012. The latest installment of Formhals' recently launched weekly wrap-up of articles, recommended links and summarized conversations.
Jason Fulford, Vice, Gregory Halpern's Stories From the Rust Belt. Fulford, publisher of Halpern's recently released book A, does a lengthy interview with the photographer about the book and about Halpern's perspective on photography.
David Gonzalez, Lens Blog, From a Window, Details Tell the Story. An exploration of William Gedney's late 1960s and early 1970s images of the Myrtle Avenue El in New York City before, during, and after its demolition.
Russet Lederman, The International Center of Photography Library Blog, Ed van der Elsken and Eikoh Hosoe: A 30-Year Dialogue. A history of the long-running photographic exchange between the two photographers, starting with van der Esken's Sweet Life.
Mashkulture, Stanley Kubrick's Photos of 1940s New York
Alec Soth, Little Brown Mushroom Blog, On Marrying a Photographer. Soth, who we recently interviewed as part of our Publisher Q&A series, looks at the work-life balance of a photographic family through Robert Adams and Lee Friedlander in response to a reader's question.
Showing posts with label Wayne Ford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wayne Ford. Show all posts
1.24.2012
1.09.2012
fototazo Begins Mentorship Program
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| © Natalia Lopera |
fototazo is launching a mentorship program as we start the new year. The program matches young, emerging Colombian photographers with mentors from across the spectrum of the photographic world - gallery owners, bloggers, academics, art directors and working photographers. The goal is to provide the mentorship photographers with commentary and advice on their work from professionals in the field and to expand their network and knowledge of resources beyond Colombia.
The process will be a semi-public one. Images from the photographers will occasionally be posted on this site along with commentary from the mentors under the belief that their advice and insight will frequently be useful to other photographers and seeing how they look at and talk about photographs will be of public interest.
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| © Oscar Ulloa |
The program will begin with four photographers, each matched with two mentors:
Photographer: Oscar Ulloa
Mentors: Matt Johnston co-runs The Photo Book Club as well as Phonar; he is a Professor at the University of Coventry in England; Kevin Thrasher is a photographer based in Richmond, Virginia
Photographer: Natalia Lopera
Mentors: Julia Schiller co-runs the site Actual colors may vary; Oliver Schneider co-runs the site Actual colors may vary
Photographer: Daniela Serna
Mentors: John Edwin Mason runs the blog John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History and is a Professor at the University of Virginia; Wayne Ford runs Wayne Ford's Posterous and co-runs The Photo Book Club
Photographer: Aura Lambertinez
Mentors: Charles Guice is Founder of Charles Guice Contemporary; Gwen Lafage is Founder of Gallery Carte Blanche
Bryan Formhals, Founding and Managing Editor of LPV Magazine, will be serving as a floating mentor and guest critic, periodically reviewing work from all four program photographers.
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| © Daniela Serna |
The mentorship program photographers will be delivering new work to the mentors in roughly a month at which point some of the work and comments will begin to appear in subsequent posts.
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| © Aura Lambertinez |
11.27.2011
Reading Shortlist 11.27.11
The Reading Shortlist is an occasional post with a listing of recommended readings and links. A recommendation does not necessarily suggest an agreement with the contents of the post.
Andy Adams (Moderator) with Molly Landreth, Amy Stein, and Phillip Toledano, Light Work, "Photo 2.0 – Online Photographic Thinking / SPE Conference at Light Work"
Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson, New York Public Library Series, "Publish Your Photography Book"
C.B. Liddell, Fujiland, "Interview: Nobuyoshi Araki"
Kate Namestnik, Online Conference on Networks and Communities, "Photography 2.0: How Web 2.0 has changed photographic behaviours and practices"
Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, "Viewer or voyeur? The morality of reportage photography"
Scot Sothern with Colin Pantall, Gomma Magazine, "Colin Pantall interviews Scot Sothern for Gomma"
Wayne Ford, Posterous, "Black Passport: the autobiographical work of photojournalist Stanley Greene"
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Andy Adams (Moderator) with Molly Landreth, Amy Stein, and Phillip Toledano, Light Work, "Photo 2.0 – Online Photographic Thinking / SPE Conference at Light Work"
Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson, New York Public Library Series, "Publish Your Photography Book"
C.B. Liddell, Fujiland, "Interview: Nobuyoshi Araki"
Kate Namestnik, Online Conference on Networks and Communities, "Photography 2.0: How Web 2.0 has changed photographic behaviours and practices"
Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, "Viewer or voyeur? The morality of reportage photography"
Scot Sothern with Colin Pantall, Gomma Magazine, "Colin Pantall interviews Scot Sothern for Gomma"
Wayne Ford, Posterous, "Black Passport: the autobiographical work of photojournalist Stanley Greene"
6.23.2011
f100 Martin Brink, Darcy Padilla, Hannah Smith Allen, Anna Shteynshleyger
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| © Martin Brink, from the series "Trash in Grass" |
fototazo has asked a group of 50 curators, gallery owners, blog writers, photographers, academics and others actively engaged in photography to pick two photographers that deserve (more) recognition - the underknown, the under-respected as well as not-appreciated-enough favorites. A little more information on the project is available in the first post in the series here.
We began the series with responses from Nicholas Nixon, Matt Johnston, Blake Andrews, John Edwin Mason, Aline Smithson, Colin Pantall, Michael Werner, Liza Fetissova, Laurence Salzmann, Bryan Formhals, Richard Mosse, Shane Lavalette, Amy Stein and Amani Willett.
Today we continue with responses from Wayne Ford and S. Billie Mandle.
Respondent: Wayne Ford is an award winning designer and art director who has created numerous designs for business, consumer and customer magazines, including The Observer color supplement, along with annual reports, books, exhibition catalogues and corporate branding projects, in both print and digital media. A professional and personal interest in photography has allowed him to travel extensively, and contribute to a number of magazines on the subject, as well as being a collector of photography and photographic books and regularly blogging about the photography that he is viewing. He is an awarded member of D&AD and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Selections: Martin Brink and Darcy Padilla
Martin Brink: "To me, the things that are beautiful and interesting in real life might not be the most interesting to photograph so I’m drawn to subjects that might often be overlooked," remarks Swedish photographer Martin Brink, who documents what many of us take for granted in his various series, including "The Daily Round" and "Walks." These subtle images combine, not to present a dramatic look at modern life, but a memorable look at the everyday that we so often take for granted and barely register in our hectic daily schedules, but which in many ways is more powerful and interesting than the beautiful and picturesque.
Darcy Padilla: On the February 28th, 1993, American photojournalist Darcy Padilla first met Julie Baird in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel in San Francisco. She lived in a neighborhood of soup kitchens and cheap rooms, with Jack the father of her first child, through whom she had contracted AIDS. Several months after Padilla first met Baird, she left Jack in a bid to break away from a life of drug taking. From this initial meeting, Padilla began to document Baird’s "complex story of multiple homes, AIDS, drug abuse, abusive relationships, poverty, births, deaths, loss and reunion," following Baird from the backstreets of San Francisco to the backwoods of Alaska, in "The Julie Project," an emotionally powerful and sensitive series spanning 18 years.
Respondent: S. Billie Mandle has a BA in Biology and English from Williams College and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She was a 2010 NYFA Fellow in photography and teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the International Center of Photography. She lives in Brooklyn and Boston.
Selections: Hannah Smith Allen and Anna Shteynshleyger
Hannah Smith Allen: She is a photographer I know in Brooklyn whose work explores the intersection of history and representation. She is amazingly thoughtful and creative. Her images are richly layered - describing and transforming the worlds she explores.
Anna Shteynshleyger: A photographer whose work I greatly admire - especially her two series "City of Destiny" and "Siberia."
Today we continue with responses from Wayne Ford and S. Billie Mandle.
Respondent: Wayne Ford is an award winning designer and art director who has created numerous designs for business, consumer and customer magazines, including The Observer color supplement, along with annual reports, books, exhibition catalogues and corporate branding projects, in both print and digital media. A professional and personal interest in photography has allowed him to travel extensively, and contribute to a number of magazines on the subject, as well as being a collector of photography and photographic books and regularly blogging about the photography that he is viewing. He is an awarded member of D&AD and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Martin Brink: "To me, the things that are beautiful and interesting in real life might not be the most interesting to photograph so I’m drawn to subjects that might often be overlooked," remarks Swedish photographer Martin Brink, who documents what many of us take for granted in his various series, including "The Daily Round" and "Walks." These subtle images combine, not to present a dramatic look at modern life, but a memorable look at the everyday that we so often take for granted and barely register in our hectic daily schedules, but which in many ways is more powerful and interesting than the beautiful and picturesque.
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| © Darcy Padilla, from "The Julie Project" |
Darcy Padilla: On the February 28th, 1993, American photojournalist Darcy Padilla first met Julie Baird in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel in San Francisco. She lived in a neighborhood of soup kitchens and cheap rooms, with Jack the father of her first child, through whom she had contracted AIDS. Several months after Padilla first met Baird, she left Jack in a bid to break away from a life of drug taking. From this initial meeting, Padilla began to document Baird’s "complex story of multiple homes, AIDS, drug abuse, abusive relationships, poverty, births, deaths, loss and reunion," following Baird from the backstreets of San Francisco to the backwoods of Alaska, in "The Julie Project," an emotionally powerful and sensitive series spanning 18 years.
Hannah Smith Allen: She is a photographer I know in Brooklyn whose work explores the intersection of history and representation. She is amazingly thoughtful and creative. Her images are richly layered - describing and transforming the worlds she explores.
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| © Hannah Smith Allen, Fired Bullets from the series "Battle Grounds" (in progress) |
Anna Shteynshleyger: A photographer whose work I greatly admire - especially her two series "City of Destiny" and "Siberia."
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| © Anna Shteynshleyger, Axe, from the series "City of Destiny" |
4.22.2011
Of Interest 4.22: The Photo Book Club
The site, launched in March, selects one photography book to explore per month. It began with a discussion of Robert Frank's 1958 canonical work "The Americans." This month's focus is on Richard Avedon's first book "Observations," a collection published in 1959 of his iconic early portraiture. Upcoming in May will be a conversation based on Eugene Richards' "Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue," a portrait of three communities devestated by drugs - East New York, North Philadelphia, and the Red Hook housing projects in Brooklyn - published by Aperture in 1994.
Ford and Johnston envision the site as a collaboration, with readers encouraged to participate by submitting guest posts, book-of-the-month suggestions or comments, as well as being encouraged to blog about the book currently being discussed. A recent crowdsourced project on the site is another example of reader participation. It produced a map of recommended brick-and-mortar photography book stores as a Google map (at right).You can keep tabs on this welcome addition to the online photography community on Facebook and Twitter.
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