The most famous and most controversial celebrity photographer in the world....Ron Galella

"I think at the time Jackie became my girlfriend," Galella muses. "I wasn't married, I didn't have a girl friend..."


Roger Ebert has great piece on Paparazzi Ron Galella in The Chicago Sun-Times.

Photos by Ron Galella

360 Degree Panorama of President Obama's State of the Union

The New York Times published a cool 360 Degree Panorama of President Obama's State of the Union Speech. Photographed by Doug Mills/The New York Times

Photo: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

Photographer Nadav Kander

Israeli born Nadav Kander has a unique and special vision. Check out the portfolio and also a very cool youtube Channel. that includes 'Yangtze, The Long River'.

Photos by Nadav Kander

So You Want To Be a Photographer, Writer, Musician.....

Horror stories among professional shooters have become legion. Last April, Time Magazine paid $30 for an iStockphoto shot of a jar of change (illustrating "The New Frugality") that ran on the magazine's cover. Other photographers complained that a Time cover in the past (commissioned, not stock) might have paid thousands. Britain's Independent newspaper recently pulled photos of snow scenes off Flickr and declined, for a time, to pay, even though the photographer clearly labeled the shots with a copyright. Trails.com will pay $15 for articles about the outdoors. Livestrong.com wants 500-word pieces on health for $30, or less. In this mix, the 16 cents a word offered by Green Business Quarterly ends up sounding almost bounteous, amounting to more than $100 per submission.  (from The Los Angeles Times)

Last April, Time magazine paid $30 for this iStockphoto shot of a jar of change. (Los Angeles Times)

Fantastic time lapse photography by Tom Lowe

This is some of the best time lapse work I have seen. Tom also has a few short "how to" videos showing his set up and equipment. Shot with the Canon 5D 2.





Timescapes Timelapse: Mountain Light from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.




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Alex Roman's The Third & The Seventh CG animated Video

Here is a beautiful piece of Computer Graphics work by Alex Roman that tries to illustrate architecture art with a photographic point of view. Watch out photographers. The time is now.





The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
.Fullscreen it, please.

A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.

W. Eugene Smith in Haiti

Haiti has a long and tragic history. Many photographers have photographed the county and its people.

In 1958–1959, W. Eugene Smith photographed Haiti during the reign of "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Papa Doc's regime is widely seen as one of the most corrupt and repressive in modern history. He exploited Haiti's traditional belief in voodoo to establish a personal militia, the feared that zombies had raised from the dead.  Some history HERE

Smith's photo essay on a psychiatric institute in Haiti are hard to find on the web but the book Let Truth Be the Prejudice

Photographer Dennis Stock dies

Magnum Photos

THE SALTON SEA

I had a very productive 2 day expedition to The Salton Sea this week.The Salton Sea is a massive lake in the California desert southeast of Palm Springs and about 50 miles from the Mexican border. It was created by accident in the early 1900s as dikes broke on the Colorado River as men were trying to irrigate the Imperial Valley. The water flowed for years creating the lake which has no natural inlet except for irrigation run off. People have tried (and failed) many times to create resorts, retirement communities, etc. The lake is filled with fish but for unknown reasons there are massive die offs every so often littering the beach. It has also turned into an important bird flyway. This all makes for a very strange beauty. We also went to "Slab City" and Salvation Mountain which the creator (no pun intended) Leonard Knight has been painting since 1984.

I am leading a photo workshop to The Salton Sea March 6th and 7th.

January 2010: Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer on the Environmental Meltdown Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

January 2010: Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer on the Environmental Meltdown Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com