Posts tagged with "photography"
Gear 07/14/2008
Drool Over the Hasselblad H3DII
Wow. a 50mp Hasselblad !!!
Available in October 2008 for only $39,995
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Art 07/08/2008
True Norwegian Black Metal
If you’re into photography and scary music, then Peter Beste’s new book called True Norwegian Black Metal is for you. I had a chance to check it out the other day, and the images are absolutely incredible.
The book has 126 Norwegian Black Metal Photographs; An Introduction by Metalion of Slayer Magazine; Essays by Editor Johan Kugelberg and Peter Beste; 3 Panel foldout black metal time line by Tara G Warrior; 32 page section of old black metal ephemera including rare and obscure photographs, flyers, letters, and interviews.
But If you’re really interested, then the real score is the deluxe limited edition of the book you can order off the website.
It is an edition of 666 (of course), and includes:
A hand numbered silkscreened slipcase (measuring 11.25” x 14.25”), a 20×26” silkscreened black metal logo poster, and a signed 8×10 original Peter Beste print, and If I had $225 to my name, I would definitely buy it.
Click-thru for some more images.
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Babble 07/02/2008
LOOK UP!!!
By popular demand, I finally added a lot more banner photos. There are now about 100 of them that will randomly come up, so if you’re truly bored and have nothing else in life to look forward to, refresh… refresh… refresh…
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Gear 07/01/2008
Rolleiflex MiniDigi 5mp Camera
Check out the Rolleiflex MiniDigi AF 5.0. It’s a shrunken version of the classic Rolleiflex twin reflex camera, complete with hand crank, but with modern tech like an auto focus lens, a 3 megapixel CMOS sensor, and a pop-up 1.1-inch TFT viewfinder with hood. It’s only 3” tall so it can fit comfortably in your pocket, and it comes in red or black.
Looks like a pretty fun toy to me, but I’m not sure if you really get anything different out of the image than you would get from just cropping your regular digital photos into a square format.
And it does get one horrible review on Amazon.
So I’m not sure why I just posted this then…
Click-thru to see the best of the sample images I could find:
Where to Buy
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Art 05/06/2008
Terry Richardson Photographs Some Real Jackasses
I really like most of Terry Richardson’s Photography, although some of it is a little too much for me. If you don’t know his name, you definitely have seen his work. He shoots a lot of the American Apparel ads, and the new Tom Ford ads*, and a lot more that you’ve seen.
Check out his new series of Jackass photos. They’re pretty cool
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Art 03/12/2008
Thomas Allen's Pulp Fiction
Minnesota based photographer Thomas Allen’s Pulp Fiction.
Allen’s photographs are inspired by his childhood experiences with pop-up books and View-Masters. He begins his process by cutting figures and images out of illustrated pages of old books and vintage fiction novels. Allen then cleverly rearranges and juxtaposes the forms to create three-dimensional scenes. Next, he carefully lights his subjects and photographs the scenes.
When separated from their original stories, the figures take on fresh roles in entirely new situations. Yet they retain their intended purpose of storytelling. Characters and objects originally created as two-dimensional illustrations are raised from their pages and given new life in three-dimensional space. The figures return back to two-dimensional objects, this time in the form of a photograph.
As a director would stage actors, Allen stages his cut-outs in ways that create humor, tension, mystery, and drama. A boxer fights his own shadow in Spar, and in Bookend a gunfighter stands over his recently fallen opponent. Although the characters are freed from the closed pages of books, the books themselves still remain present in each photograph. A ship sails across the curved pages of a dictionary-sized book in Swell. In Cover, a gunman finds safety behind the spine of a book. And in Recover, a worn paperback acts as a life raft to three weathered shipwreck survivors.
The work combines the humor of children’s pop-up books, the nostalgia of dime novels, and the drama of the stage. Allen’s inventive and evocative photographs capture characters and events in mid-action. And the viewer is left to wonder what will happen next.
Click-thru for a few more photos, or check out a lot more (18) of them here
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Art 03/05/2008
Joni Sternback's Incredible Photos
Check out this beautiful new series of tintype photos by New York based photographer Joni Sternbach. I think they’re really beautiful.
Click thru for a few more photos, or check out Joni’s site to see the whole series.
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Art 02/24/2008
Ryan Mcginley is a Good Photographer
All images © ryan mcginley.
Click for a few more photos, or check out his website:
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Art 02/21/2008
Half Half
So there’s no info on this guys photo blog, so I can’t even tell who he is, but I really love what he’s doing with simple paired images. They’re really beautiful.
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Art 02/20/2008
Stoner
If you’re in the Venice area this weekend, you should check out: the Ron Stoner show opening at Mollusk Surf Shop. The opening bash is this Saturday, February the 23rd, from 7 to 10pm with musical entertainment from Denny Aaberg and Sam Adams.
Mollusk Surf Shop Gallery
1600 Pacific Ave., Venice, CA
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