My latest library find is "Tete a Tete" by one of the greatest photographers of all times - HCB (Henri Cartier-Bresson). HCB is more known for his street photographs than portraiture. It was interesting to find a book concentrating on this less known part of his photographic legacy in my small, local Fremantle library. E. H. Gombrich in his introduction concerns himself more with the concept of a "good" portrait than with work of HCB. I quite liked it actually as he asks some really interesting questions in the process.
Read MoreThe common denominator here is David Burnett - great photojournalist who shot quite a few iconic people and events of the last 40 years.
Read MoreThis is a beginning of a long and fruitful career taken with her very first camera at the age of 18 (1968, Clark Air Force Base, Philippines) By “her” I mean one of the most successful and most recognizable photographers of the world: Annie Leibovitz.
Read MoreI’ll focus on just this one photo essay by
Bruce Gilden. He is a highly controversial photographer, pages after
pages could be written just about him.
This essay is known either as a “Picnic with a Gangster” or “Picnic with
Sergey”. As you can imagine Sergey is a (small time-time)gangster. He
‘s Russian who’s whole life has been shaped by Soviet Union. He’s
familiar to me a little, I am Polish and I’ve seen this type before a
few times.
The Afghan Girl is one of those unforgettable photographs. It speaks to everyone on one level or another, even to people who don't think highly of photography in general.
Read MoreIf you want to be a better photographer you need to study the masters. Buy their books, look at their photographs, find out how they work and think. One of the masters for me is Trent Parke. I'll skip the bio note here. All the information can be found on the Magnum website (his photographs as well) My favorite work of his is the series of photos taken during a trip around Australia (Minutes to Midnight) which took more than 2 years to complete.
Read MoreI had to watch this short video twice. The first time was all about the pictures. I heard the words but was not registering them fully, images were my focus-the composition, lighting, people, emotions... and they are powerful enough.
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