Fine Art Photography
by Cory Rice ·Posted
If you’ve visited an art museum lately, you probably noticed that contemporary artists have been creating photographic works on an increasingly large scale. With advancements in digital printing, the ability to create massive photographs on practically any surface has become much easier than in the darkroom days. This has led to an explosion of creativity and larger-than-life photographs appearing in myriad forms. For the purpose of this article, “fine art” is used to designate photographs created on unconventional media at a large scale.
by Cory Rice ·Posted
In 1843, Anna Atkins made history when she bound her cyanotype impressions of algae into the first photographically illustrated book, Photographs of British Algae. A few months later, inventor of the salted paper print and acquaintance of Atkins, Henry Fox Talbot, published The Pencil of Nature, the first commercially
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On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome Margit Erb and Michael Parillo, of the Saul Leiter Foundation, to discuss Saul Leiter’s career and their work preserving the art and the legacy of this pioneer of color photography.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Leiter veered from the traditional religious path his parents desired for him and moved to New York City to follow his own calling. Met with early success in
A photographer’s gift is to record his or her encounters with the world in pictures. If that photographer meets with success, pictures from their archive are published in magazines and books, exhibited in museums and galleries, licensed for commercial use, and sold as prints. With careful planning, these images have a life that endures well beyond that of the artist, through the continuing efforts of a legacy keeper.
Such is the relationship between the trailblazing work of 20th-Century photographer Ruth Orkin and the ongoing endeavors
by John Harris and Cory Rice ·Posted
Photography is a passport into life in the world outside of ourselves, as well as a powerful way to come to understand who we are.
Who is this person who, through the possession of a camera, has made a profound connection to another human being? Who is that person who can photograph a surgery, hike over crevasses, climb fire escapes for the view, wander in and out of crowded, foreign spaces, fall in love with the
by John Harris and Cory Rice ·Posted
Photography is a tool of empowerment that has allowed me and millions of others to tell our stories.
Growing up in a religious family with very traditional values, my true identity was lost. Like many other girls from Iran, from the age of seven, I had to cover up. My school photo shows a girl barely visible from layers of cloth covering her up. You say to yourself, this is not my true-self, but this photo will be
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On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome editorial, fashion, art, and music photographer Olivia Bee. That’s a lot of tags and she’s earned them all in a relatively short time span. Her “origin story” is well-documented in photo circles, so we won’t go into that much, but in a career now a decade old, we discuss where those early successes have brought her, what she enjoys about photography, and what she is
by John Harris and Cory Rice ·Posted
Photography is the outcome of a battle between the two sides of my brain. Before my drone lifts off, I have no idea what the ground around me looks like from above. When I’m flying, my left brain is seeking the attention of my right brain to try to identify any deadly hazards such as helicopters or powerlines and to pay attention to the quickly draining battery levels. But my right brain is fascinated by the
by John Harris and Cory Rice ·Posted
Photography registers the world’s optical unconscious: the traumas and ecstasies, the losses and joys that forge the true meaning of our lives in ways not ruled by conscious thought.
— Ulrich Baer, author, podcaster, creator
Photograph by © Cory Rice
by John Harris and Cory Rice ·Posted
Photography is a way for me to depict the injustices I saw when I was a criminal defense lawyer. It brings together my journalism and legal backgrounds, allows me to snoop into my subjects’ lives, takes me to places I wouldn’t ordinarily explore, and opens up my own world.
—Sara Bennett, photographer
Photograph by © Cory Rice
by John Harris and Cory Rice ·Posted
I have spent over 20 years working with historical photographs and, for me, photography is the most powerful way for our pasts to connect with our present. No more compelling way to recognize who we might be than by seeing another version of ourselves—from another time, another culture, or another place. And from crisis to catastrophe to impossible triumphs, photography has documented it all. We are, of course
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Of course, there are several renowned photography book publishers, but if you know just one name in photo book publishing, it should be Aperture. Edward Weston, Diane Arbus, Stephen Shore, Sally Mann, Deana Lawson, and Martin Parr are just a few of the artists who have had at least one of their most significant books published by Aperture Publishing. Book publishing is just one of the ways that this non-profit organization, founded by Minor White and others,
by John Harris and Cory Rice ·Posted
When I photograph someone, I try to capture the person’s feelings, so when someone else sees that image, they can feel what that person is feeling. For me, photography is capturing the greatness of a person, to find the truth of each moment.
—Kwame Brathwaite, photographer
Photograph by © Cory Rice
by John Harris and Cory Rice ·Posted
Photography is very personal for me. Every interesting experience in my life and every fascinating person I have met along the way have been the result of trying to create a photograph. Photography is the catapult that has thrown me head-first into situations I’d never find myself in otherwise. These can be equally beautiful, hilarious, and horrifying, sometimes all at the same time.
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