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Susie Linfield – The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence – http://www.scribd.com/doc/43666325/The-Cruel-Radiance-Photography-and-Political-Violence

Estetica în Fotografie Explicată de Alain Briot – http://www.scribd.com/doc/33267004/Estetica-in-Fotografie-Explicata-de-Alain-Briot

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the image, deconstructed – http://imagedeconstructed.blogspot.com/

The purpose of this weekly blog is to create a greater understanding of the psychological approach to photojournalism.

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“Going Candid… An Unorthodox Approach to Street Photography” by Thomas Leuthard.

A book about street photography in the digital age. Forget what you know about street photography and read how Thomas Leuthard (85mm) explores the street with his camera. Find useful tips and tricks on how to approach people, getting closer to them and get the best out of you street experience. His workflow starts without a camera and ends in the galeries of this World. It’s not about the decisive moment or how you setup your camera. It’s more about the approach of getting a successful street photographer who will build a successful community around the World. It’s all about sharing and socializing. You will be taken to a journey through the big cities of this World looking into the eyes of strangers. Candid is the key word and you will not be disappointed. Stay tuned for an exclusive book which will change your life as a street photographer.

http://book.85mm.ch/GoingCandid.pdf
http://book.85mm.ch/

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Potential Film Developing Problems – http://www.ohio.edu/people/schneidw/darkroom/film_developing_problems.html

Potential Film Processing and Printing Problems http://www.ohio.edu/people/schneidw/vico222/problems.html

Black and White Film Development Problems – http://www.silverlight.co.uk/tutorials/basicpf/filmprobs.html

The Massive Dev Chart is the world’s largest source of processing times for developing black & white film – http://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.php

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Does the Decisive Moment still exist? – http://carteblanchephotography.blogspot.com/2011/07/does-decisive-moment-still-exist.html

Does the decisive moment still exist? (Part 2) – Decisive moment, Street photography and Internet – http://carteblanchephotography.blogspot.com/2011/07/does-decisive-moment-still-exist-part-2.html

Does the decisive moment still exist? (Part 3) An old-fashioned irrelevant concept or a new beginning? – http://carteblanchephotography.blogspot.com/2011/07/does-decisive-moment-still-exist-old.html

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In 1970 I founded and edited a new London-based journal, Album. It only survived for one year, 12 issues. But during that time it published images by significant photographers, many of them before they were “names,” and often for the first time, at least in Britain.

Contributors included Bill Brandt, W. Eugene Smith, Elliott Erwitt, Edouard Boubat, George Rodger, David Hurn, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Charles Harbutt, Les Krims, Tony Ray-Jones, and a host of others.

A fuller account of Album’s life can be found, and downloaded, from this website under “Magazine Memoirs” in the section Essays and Articles.

Original copies of Album are rare and difficult to find. I felt it might be useful if every page of each issue was available to any interested photographer, historian, and critic; here they are, as PDFs.

http://www.billjayonphotography.com/albumintro.html

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Martin Parr: how to take better holiday photographs
Don’t be scared of photographing a storm-out, crying fit or strop, advises the Magnum photographer – http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/24/martin-parr-take-holiday-photographs

We are in danger of having a whole generation – and this will continue into the future – that has no family albums, because people just leave them on their computer, and then suddenly they will be deleted. You have to print them and put them in an album or a box, otherwise they could be lost. And write captions. You might think you are going to remember what is happening in a picture, but you probably won’t in 10 years’ time.

Stick your pics in a proper family album
The evocative Dear Photograph website only underlines the impermanence of digital photography – http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/14/digital-photography-not-forever-prints

The reason is that while digital technology has generally been very good for photography as a mass medium, it has also made the resulting imagery much more fragile and impermanent. Of the billions of photographs taken every year, the vast majority exist only as digital files on camera memory cards or on the hard drives of PCs and servers in the internet “cloud”.

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Has the Düsseldorf School killed photography? – http://www.professionalphotographer.co.uk/Magazine/The-Business/Has-the-D-sseldorf-School-killed-photography

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What you see is not what you get! – Viewfinder Parallax Error – http://www.dianacamera.com/blog/what-you-see-is-not-what-you-get-viewfinder-parallax-error.html

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Robert Frank: Dissecting the American Image – http://jnocook.net/frank/frank.htm

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Lomography Super Newbie Guide – http://analogbreakfast.wordpress.com/lomography-super-newbie-guide/

Lomography in theory is a hodge-podge of previous photographic ideas. In terms of approach the closest would be the concept of snap shot photography where any one could capture a photo and shooting from the hip means to take the photo impulsively. Which of course can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at things or maybe your skill and experience level. Initially this will mean good photographs produced merely out of luck and an instinctive sense of when the right moment comes but as you progress further, like any other field, it will become a mix of skill, and other extraneous factors that you learn to make the best of. Mind you that, shooting by means of muscle memory and impulse is something that is aimed for in some art forms and religions. Like a skillful archer, swordsman or painter it has to come to a point where you must master the fundamentals , commit them to muscle memory then you let all the theory and lessons go. Learn but do not obsess.

Eddy Peters theorizes that lomography is the reclamation of urban space, similar to skateboarders, Lomographers , use the city by way of documenting it and its intricacies and inanities. By means of lomography, the shooter creates an aesthetic that suddenly gives value to mundane objects like the shoes the shooter is wearing or signs on the road or random objects & weirdos encountered on the street or wherever the shooter is.To the lomographer, these are the things which comprise the essence of his or her world.

In terms of the movement, if we remove the marketing ploy of LSI, at its core and as someone observed and relayed to me once. Lomography to a large extent is closest to Dadaism which was an anti-thesis to traditional formalistic art. Lomography attempts to ignore most of the rules of traditional photography like composition, sharpness, color correctness, aperture, depth of field and so on. Which is not to say you need not learn these things. It is also to a large extent, a movement that resists but does not condemn digital photography. It is a counter culture favoring the traditional form of photography with the use of analog cameras and films. At the same time, lomography takes advantage of the internet by forming forums, groups and communities dedicated to a technology that is removed from the digital world. In terms of the aesthetic sensibilities of the images the closest would be an aspect of photographic impressionism or impressionist photography in the sense that it leans towards images that are softer in focus or the way the human eye would see what is being photographed. A disclaimer to this is that we are not speaking of the later aspects of impressionist photographs which are heavily manipulated in the dark room to make them look like paintings, which in today’s time is the equivalent of photoshopping your images till they no longer resemble the original.

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Tutorial: All About the Dreaded Fungus

Fungus can slowly take over and destroy your precious lenses and film. If you are still not aware of this problem that could be growing on your gear, get acquainted with this guide which explains, among other things, what fungus is, what it does to your equipment, and how you can prevent it.

http://www.lomography.com/magazine/tipster/2011/09/27/tutorial-all-about-the-dreaded-fungus

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Nu stiu daca urmariti, dar este o revista dedicata fotografiei analogice
le negatif

http://ivitopp.com/negatif/book-2/back-issues
Tot acolo, pe site la ei, poti trimite fotografii pentru numerele viitoare

• Acest răspuns a fost modificat acum 14 ani, 11 luni de către Marius Manastireanu.

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No Layout is a digital library for independent publishers, focusing on art books and fashion magazines. It is meant as a support for printed publications, allowing users to flip through full content on any screen without downloads or apps. A promotional and archive tool.

http://www.nolayout.com/

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In an attempt to save money a few years ago, Kodak even started to reduce the amount of silver in its best-selling black and white Tri-X film, which was the industry’s standard. Unfortunately it rendered it anaemic in many snappers’ eyes and sales dropped.

It’s a shame Kodak couldn’t hold on. There is something of an underground revival going on, with camera shops opening in discreet venues around our big cities, often masquerading as coffee shops. The value of some film cameras has doubled in recent years.

Processing labs are reporting their best turnover figures in five years as many photographers come back, often using black and white film. Many magazine editors in Tokyo and New York now insist their photographers use film rather than digital.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/05/kodak-photography

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