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"Not for Camera View" -- Strong Towns

"Not for Camera View" -- Strong Towns Photographer Johnny Sanphillippo's habit of photographing ordinary places has attracted a fair amount of negative attention and suspicion over the years. "Why not capture what the landscape really looks like? America is mostly...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 29, 2020 9:36 AM

Photo essay: Detroit as I knew it

Photo essay: Detroit as I knew it Photographer Herman Krieger, born in Detroit in 1926, documents with then-and-now photographs the places he lived, studied, and worked before leaving the city in 1951. "The houses in Detroit, in which I lived,...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 4, 2017 11:17 AM

10 most Influential Active Street Photographers

10 most Influential Active Street Photographers Who they are and what they've contributed to the art of street photography....

Posted by Michael Bates on January 6, 2017 5:34 PM

PetaPixel: Understanding Golden Hour, Blue Hour and Twilights

PetaPixel: Understanding Golden Hour, Blue Hour and Twilights A guide to the photographic characteristics of sunrise, sunset, civil, nautical, and astronomical twilights, and the Golden Hour and Blue Hour. An iOS app called PhotoPills helps you plan photography around sun...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 12, 2014 4:26 PM

Yogi's Den: Our World - HDR Photography the Easy and Inexpensive Way

Yogi's Den: Our World - HDR Photography the Easy and Inexpensive Way Using a Canon point-and-shoot camera's bracketing function and a processing website to create beautiful High Dynamic Range photos of Philbrook Art Center...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 28, 2014 9:32 AM

FSA photographs: Follow-up interviews with families of people in John Vachon's portraits

FSA photographs: Follow-up interviews with families of people in John Vachon's portraits Author Joe Manning has found and interviewed some of the subjects (or the descendants of the subjects) of Farm Security Administration photos of Depression-era farm families....

Posted by Michael Bates on March 14, 2014 12:29 PM

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives - About this Collection - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives at the Library of Congress Dramatic photos from the Great Depression, many of Oklahoma and the American southwest....

Posted by Michael Bates on July 16, 2013 2:52 PM

Bounded Rationality: Masterpieces of American Photography - Philbrook Museum Exhibit

Bounded Rationality: Masterpieces of American Photography - Philbrook Museum Exhibit "If you have never seen an authentic fine art photograph, you are missing something you should experience. There is absolutely no comparison between a high quality fine art print and...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 23, 2009 6:35 PM

Bounded Rationality: Weekend at Gilcrease Museum

Bounded Rationality: Weekend at Gilcrease Museum Ansel Adams photography exhibit -- 138 of his most famous prints -- runs through January 4, 2009....

Posted by Michael Bates on November 25, 2008 6:17 PM