The Basic Book of Digital Photography: Book Review Digital photography is fascinating, fulfilling, and just plain fun. Little wonder that in relatively few years it has become far more popular than film photography. (It was 1994 when the first consumer digital camera appeared.) In our fast-paced times, we all want instant gratification – and that’s what you get with digital photography. There’s no Submitted: on 30th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · What · When · Book Of Digital Photography · Book Review · Digital Camera · Instant Gratification · The · WhenPhotography Comes of Age: Street Seen More than a collection of captivating photographs, Street Seen establishes the foundation for how viewers learned to consider photography and notions of reality. Submitted: on 12th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Foundation · PhotographySomething old, something new: 2009's best photography books | Sean O'Hagan From reissues of classic editions to an eye-opening collection of mobile-phone snaps, photography books in 2009 captured a medium in flux. Sean O'Hagan picks his favourites In 2009, photography grappled more than ever with the notion that the mobile phone, rather than the cheap digital camera, may yet make photographers of us all. It seemed apposite, then, that it was also a year in which old... Submitted: on 28th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Captured · Digital Camera · Opening · Photographers · Photography · Photography Books · Photography Books InLos Angeles: Portrait of a city | Photography book review Edited by Jim Heimann. Essays by Kevin Starr What feels like the entire history of Los Angeles is laid out in this great slab of a book, one of the gloriously opulent productions in which photography publisher Taschen specialises. The first known photo of LA was taken in 1862, 12 years after California's accession to the Union, when the city was little more than a ramshackle collection of sma... Submitted: on 24th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · What · When · Book Review · Essays · History · Los Angeles · Photography · Photography Book · Photography Book Review · Photography Publisher · Review · Union · WhenNew Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal With its stark yet oddly romantic images of American factories, intersections and trailer parks, William Jenkins's 1975 exhibition rewrote the rules of landscape photography. Does it have the same impact today? It is 35 years since the term "new topographics" was coined by William Jenkins, curator of a group show of American landscape photography held at George Eastman House in Rochester, New... Submitted: on 8th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · American · House · Photography · Romantic · Trailer · WilliamBed o’ Books Still Lives #3, 2005. Photography by Maria Friberg. Submitted: on 22nd Feb 2010 Tags: · Lives · Photography · Photography ByIn pictures: Okavango Delta: Floods of Life Africa's most spectacular water system comes to life in a new photography book Submitted: on 4th Mar 2010 Tags: · New Photography Book · Photography · PicturesFanciful Flaneurs (or, The Benefits of Looking Up) When I took photography in college, I had a short, enigmatic, repetitive professor who wore bright red socks daily and told us, almost daily, that the way to find good pictures was to look up.... Submitted: on 8th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Up · When · Photography · Pictures · UpPhoto of the Day Unfrozen Wish I could say the same for my hands. I have special gloves I use for winter photography outings. They're the kind that look like mittens, then peel back to half-fingerless gloves, so I can operate the camera while keeping the rest of my hands warm. The last time I saw them it was cold, but not bitterly so. Now that the temperature's plunged they seem to have grown legs and walked off. ... Submitted: on 12th Jan 2010 Tags: · Gloves · The · I Can · PhotographyThe Death of Literature It's a long time in coming, you know. Here's Susan Sontag in 1975: Geoffrey Movius: In one of your recent essays on photography in The New York Review of Books, you write that “no work of imaginative literature can have the same authenticity as a document,” and that there is “a rancorous suspicion in America of anything that seems literary.” Do you think that imaginative literature is on t... Submitted: on 12th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Death · Essays · Literary · Literature · New York Review Of Books · Photography · Review · Susan · Susan Sontag · Write
