1. 23 May


    roomdark:

    This is a little old now, but a great documentary on William Klein. Worth spending an hour on.

    Some thoughts after watching this in full:

    I didn’t realize the significance of Klein’s black and white New York photographs, and really never connected the dots until they blatantly bring up Moriyama, which is super cool… I need to look more into that work.

    Also what the fuck with the sexual harassment of the models standing in the street posing for Klein? (referring to the stripe dresses and the striped crosswalk photo) … Those women looked NOTHING like prostitutes, and even if they were what gives anyone the right to just gawk at them and grab their ass? Fuck em, the glaring men sorta makes the photo, but I would never put a model I work with in a situation like that (and that’s not to say Klein had bad intentions - he clearly didn’t - just watch the scene).

    Also .. I had a third thing but I forgot. Regardless, anyone interested in photography that has/had only a passing interest in Klein (such as myself) should watch this. Eye opening, fascinating, etc.
     

  2. 23 May



    LOVE ONLY MATTERS ONCE : LOMO

     

  3. 22 May



    Street Level Japan Tumblr: Photography reading list sent to me by a friend

    streetleveljapan:

    Azoulay, Ariella. The Civil Contract of Photography. New York: Zone Books, 2008 Chpts. 1-4; 1- 215.

    Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida.

    Batchen, Geoffrey. Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

    Baudelaire, Charles. “Review of the Salon of 1859.”

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  4. 22 May



    if anyone has a list of Luftwaffe Leica IIIC serial numbers, please message/email me. I have a IIIC with an asterisk serial number that I think is a factory rebuilt Luftwaffe camera.

     

  5. 22 May


    tokyobluesphotoblog: William Eggleston’s Cameras Though it’s hardly shocking for a master photographer of Eggleston’s stature to stockpile cameras, his collection, devoted mostly to Canons and Leicas, has grown into something of an obsession (“I have about 300 right now,” the photographer says). Known for large-scale, color-saturated prints that quietly document the soul of the American South, the 74-year-old elevates scenes of ordinary life with compassionate scrutiny. In addition to classic chrome Canons and Leicas, he owns rare, custom-painted Leicas in shades of blue, green and dark gray. His camera case—a leather briefcase bought at a Memphis shop and retrofitted in collaboration with a woodworker friend—is similarly customized. Eggleston is currently archiving all his negatives, some 1.5 million of them. “That’s a guess,” he says. “I haven’t really counted.” Eggleston shot this portrait of one of his three camera-filled cases using a digital camera. ‘I don’t particularly like using it,’ Eggleston says. ‘Technology and I don’t really get along too well.’ Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578481214024861412.html#ixzz2U1jIyCy1 Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578481214024861412.html#ixzz2U1j65eOh (via Photographer William Eggleston’s Canon and Leica Cameras - WSJ.com)

    tokyobluesphotoblog:

    William Eggleston’s Cameras

    Though it’s hardly shocking for a master photographer of Eggleston’s stature to stockpile cameras, his collection, devoted mostly to Canons and Leicas, has grown into something of an obsession (“I have about 300 right now,” the photographer says). Known for large-scale, color-saturated prints that quietly document the soul of the American South, the 74-year-old elevates scenes of ordinary life with compassionate scrutiny.

    In addition to classic chrome Canons and Leicas, he owns rare, custom-painted Leicas in shades of blue, green and dark gray. His camera case—a leather briefcase bought at a Memphis shop and retrofitted in collaboration with a woodworker friend—is similarly customized. Eggleston is currently archiving all his negatives, some 1.5 million of them. “That’s a guess,” he says. “I haven’t really counted.”

    Eggleston shot this portrait of one of his three camera-filled cases using a digital camera. ‘I don’t particularly like using it,’ Eggleston says. ‘Technology and I don’t really get along too well.’

    Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578481214024861412.html#ixzz2U1jIyCy1

    Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578481214024861412.html#ixzz2U1j65eOh (via Photographer William Eggleston’s Canon and Leica Cameras - WSJ.com)