Posted October 14, 200816 yr Berenice Abbot Henri Cartier Bresson Joe Rosenthal Marc Riboud Enid Crow - From the Disaster Series (is the disaster her face or is it in the distance?) Feel free to add to these if you come across some great photography.
October 14, 200816 yr Margaret Bourke-White, not just for her photography but her groundbreaking accomplishments and willingness to push her limits to get the image. Info from NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1175402 Margaret Bourke-White was one of the most famous photojournalists of the 20th century. A Bourke-White picture made the cover of the very first issue of Life magazine. She was one of four staff photographers on the first masthead, the only woman on staff, and invented the photo essay for the magazine. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on an exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., that focuses on Bourke-White's earliest works, before Life. "Margaret Bourke-White hung out of bombers to take pictures, climbed out on a gargoyle high atop the Chrysler Building to take pictures, was the first Western photographer to go to the Soviet Union, covered the dangerous days of India's partition," Stamberg says. Biographer Vicki Goldberg says Bourke-White was fearless from the beginning. When Bourke-White went into Cleveland's steel mills in the 1920s, she would get so close to the pouring metal that her face would turn sunburn-red and her camera finish would blister, Goldberg says. The Phillips Collection show -- Margaret Bourke-White, The Photography of Design, 1927-1936 -- is a salute, in 140 black-and-white images, to the might of American industry. She began as a commercial photographer, documenting the achievements of corporations. Curator Stephen Bennett Phillips says Bourke-White's work reflected the importance of industry to the capitalist society of America. As Stamberg reports, "Margaret Bourke-White was in love with the shapes of industrial design -- the mechanical muscle and sheen of it. She took extreme close-ups of the inner workings of production." In one example, 1930's Industrial Cable, Bourke-White zeros in on a "beautiful fabric" of metal wires woven like braids of gold yarn, Phillips says. He says the major achievement of her early photographs was that she was able to show the moguls of industry the hidden beauty in the worlds they dominated. .......... clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
October 14, 200816 yr i could use this too -- good idea for thread :clap: helmut newton, larry clark & ralph gibson terry richardson juergen teller wolfgang tillmans ryan mcginley
October 14, 200816 yr Wolfgang is one of my favorite photographers. They had a show of his at MCA in Chicago a couple years back, and it was excellent.
October 15, 200816 yr Beautiful photos. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 15, 200816 yr Margaret Bourke-White made another Cleveland photo that I like, of the Cleveland skyline framed by the ornate railing of the Old Viaduct. I don't know where one might find an online copy of it.
October 21, 200816 yr camilio jose varga and his invincible cities shots are about at the top of my urban photography inspiration. http://invinciblecities.camden.rutgers.edu/intro.html flick thru real quick to check out his time lapse frontage of 65 e125th st harlem: 1977 1980 1980 1981 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1997 1998 2001 2001 2001 2004 2007 2008
October 25, 200816 yr today was a cold, rainy day & my spouse is in dayton so i went to a 'zine book fair and later to this excellent photo show up at the bronx museum that you all would dig called, "street art, street life." yes, all our fav photographers were repped there. so i was even finally inspired to buy that awesome 'back in the days' jamal shabazz book i always look at everywhere i see it lying around, but never bought it until now. ha! :mrgreen: http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions.html http://www.jamelshabazz.com/
October 26, 200816 yr Speaking of inspiration, for two days when I was 18 I sold those motivational posters door-to-door. You know, the ones that say "perseverance" or whatever with a dramatic scene. They were two of the most surreal days of my life, with visits to a Moose Lodge, a Civil War museum, a backwoods car detailing (chop?) shop, and culminating the second day with an unannounced visit to a European Massage parlor with my boss, who had a curly mullet. He was doubly trying to sell the girls motivational posters for their waiting room and trying to impress me with the kinds of riches that awaited me if I dedicated myself to the business. Oh yeah, before each day, the salesmen (and one metal chick) had to stand in a circle and do motivational chants before sallies to their respective territories. Anyway, I really hate Ran McGinley and Wolfgan Tillmans. Their sh!t is lazy but painfully forced. It's like, I really lived some sh!t a lot nuttier an unpremeditated than what they photographed, and even though I'm actually a photographer I didn't find a need to photograph it! Here is some real inspiration...it's the kind of stuff I crank when I'm in the shower in the morning, if this link actually works (this kind of stuff isn't even on Youtube): http://www.imeem.com/people/CdX9IT/music/BMbSSo4J/the_stooges_johanna/ http://www.imeem.com/people/-7xHNp/music/oWlpgnmH/iggy_and_the_stooges_scene_of_the_crime/
October 26, 200816 yr Anyway, I really hate Ran McGinley and Wolfgan Tillmans. Their sh!t is lazy but painfully forced. It's like, I really lived some sh!t a lot nuttier an unpremeditated than what they photographed, and even though I'm actually a photographer I didn't find a need to photograph it! :laugh: why not? don't you like money? :wink: but seriously, you sound like my photographer friend in columbus on that. you're probably not a big fan of american apparel either.
November 8, 200816 yr ^ Those were interesting. Some a bit horror movie worthy..... ya know, the kind with a murderous axe wielding maniac.
November 8, 200816 yr ^ Those were interesting. Some a bit horror movie worthy..... ya know, the kind with a murderous axe wielding maniac. Starring C-Dawg.
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