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On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome a true photography legend—curator, critic, and author, Vince Aletti. Anyone who lived in New York in the 1980s and ’90s, and is interested in photography, will know of Aletti as the photography critic at the Village Voice. He went on to review photo exhibitions at The New Yorker until 2016. He has also curated exhibitions at the International Center of Photography and White Columns gallery, and has authored many
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This week, we welcome two photographers who know the joys of spending a late afternoon waiting for super cells to form, or that perfect lightning strike to appear, as well as the perils of rising waters, golf-ball-sized hail, and projectile debris in flight. Our topic today is extreme-weather photography, and we welcome photographers from two different continents to tell us about their shooting styles, safety precautions, gear, and their general thoughts on weather, social media, and the photography business.
We are joined first by
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Whether you’re planning a street-photography trip in Tokyo, or a trek through the mountains in Patagonia, we discuss ways to plan your trip and how to visualize and prepare for the images you take on location. We also discuss how to anticipate action, position yourself for great photos (time of day, camera placement, etc.), and how to compose strong images by creating drama inside each frame. Katsuyoshi Tanaka’s extensive experience as an editorial photographer and travel workshop leader provides you with techniques you can use to create
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At the B&H Depth of Field Wedding and Portrait Conference, being held this week in New York, we were fortunate to sit down with a straight-up legend—Albert Watson. It would be hard to overstate his accomplishments as a photographer, and his ability to master a range of photographic genres—from fashion and advertising to still life, fine art, and reportage—is uncanny. He has shot more than 100
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In terms of its sheer reach and influence on photographers, there is no magazine that compares to LIFE. From the 1930s into the 1970s, it was the weekly go-to for news, lifestyle, entertainment and, of course, world-class photography. With the likes of Margaret Bourke-White, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, and Alfred Eisenstadt under contract, and a commitment to the photo essay, LIFE was a groundbreaking publication that has yet to be equaled. At its most popular, it sold 13.5 million copies per week.
With America
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Photography is a way of life, it’s the therapy that keeps me calm and my heart beatin’. It allows me to pay attention to people that I might otherwise ignore, especially when it comes to veterans and folks struggling with mental health issues.
— Michael McCoy, photojournalist, U.S. Army veteran, PTSD counselor
Photograph by © Cory Rice
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Photography was an escape for me. I had a pretty poor and tough family life growing up—alcoholism, drug addiction, prison—that I had to get away from. Almost anyone can get a camera these days and, if you’re talented, you can get pretty far with just a camera... photography helped me get away.
My grandpa’s life was totally different; he was a photographer in Maine/Massachusetts, had gone to work with Native
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It has been a fabulous year for the B&H Photography Podcast, with an incredibly diverse set of topics we discussed, and guests we welcomed. The podcast team is very thankful to those who gave their time to talk about our shared passion, and to the listeners who join us every week, and those who chime in with comments
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Photography is light and time and the manipulation of them. I would just want to point to the blurred lines of what constitutes a photograph, things like photograms or using magnified light to burn designs, because it ultimately isn't defined by a specific lens mechanism or chemical reaction. The only constant is light and time.
— Matthias Brown (Traceloops),
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In 1958, Art Kane, already a successful art director looking to jump-start his photography career, pitched the idea of a “class photo” for Vogue magazine’s annual jazz edition. In addition to individual photographs of jazz legends, he proposed a group portrait of musicians gathered on a stoop, in Harlem. For music and photography aficionados, the photo, now commonly referred to as “A Great Day in Harlem,” is an iconic image and, on today’s episode of the
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On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome photographer Rick McGinnis and curator Julie Grahame, to discuss blogging and archiving. While this is certainly a broad subject, we will focus on the work of our two guests while considering how best to keep a collection of photos vibrant and valuable.
Rick McGinnis
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Photography is the art of capturing light to stop time and flatten space.
— August Pross, Co-owner, LTI-Lightside Photographic Services
Photograph by © Cory Rice
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This year marks the anniversary of the shooting date of two iconic photographs, taken at the same location, forty years apart. In 1958, Art Kane created the image that has come to be known as “A Great Day in Harlem.” The photo presented fifty-seven of the world’s greatest jazz musicians gathered on a stoop on East 126th Street, in Harlem, New York City. Over time, this photo has become legendary: a movie was made about it, and many recreations have been staged around the world, but none as interesting as the photo that was made by the great