02 18 10

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The International Center of Photography is the first American museum exhibiting work on the reclusive and mysterious Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý. ICP - International Center of Photography / The Museum at ICP1133 Avenue of the Americas @ 43rd St.NY-10036 New York Until May 9 For more of this work, check out Tichy Ocean, his official foundation, at www.tichyocean.ch. Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you’re doing worse than anyone else in the whole world. Photo via Make: Scavenging photography of Miroslav Tichý

The International Center of Photography is the first American museum exhibiting work on the reclusive and mysterious Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý.

ICP - International Center of Photography / The Museum at ICP
1133 Avenue of the Americas @ 43rd St.
NY-10036 New York

Until May 9

For more of this work, check out Tichy Ocean, his official foundation, at www.tichyocean.ch.

Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you’re doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.

Photo via Make: Scavenging photography of Miroslav Tichý

Filed ↓ Exhibition Photography DIY New York Miroslav Tichy

02 07 10

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07.02 - Links for the week end A newly arrived immigrant eats noodles on a fire escape Photograph: Chien-Chi Chang/Magnum The magic of a Magnum photograph - the Guardian nearly 200,000 original press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, will be preserved, catalogued and made accessible by the Ransom Center - Magnum Photos sells its US press print archives MSD Capital, die Investmentfirma des US-Computerunternehmers Michael Dell kauft das US-Printarchive von Magnum. Alle Mitglieder mussten dem Verkauf zustimmen. Die Fotografen behalten die Rechte an ihren Bildern, viele bekommen einen Anteil aus dem Erlös der Transaktion. New York in Black and White - old shots of the Big Apple at the Wired New York Forum The Jazz Loft Project - Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965. From 1957 to 1965 legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith made approximately 4,000 hours of recordings on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan. NPR - Tales Of The Tape: Introducing The Jazz Loft The Jazz Loft Project Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26709-2 Freelensing - a Guide to Freelensing at Photojojo für die deutschsprachingen rüber zu kwerfeldein -> FREELENSING: Interessante Foto-Effekte mit einfachem Trick erzielen (ohne Photoshop) Remember the Martin Becka photographs of Dubai ? Here Dubai through the eyes of Christopher Wilson. His photography of the Burj Dubai, the tallest building on the planet, won The People’s Choice Award in Architecture Photography at the PX3 (PARIS).

07.02 - Links for the week end

A newly arrived immigrant eats noodles on a fire escape Photograph: Chien-Chi Chang/Magnum

  • The magic of a Magnum photograph - the Guardian nearly 200,000 original press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, will be preserved, catalogued and made accessible by the Ransom Center - Magnum Photos sells its US press print archives MSD Capital, die Investmentfirma des US-Computerunternehmers Michael Dell kauft das US-Printarchive von Magnum. Alle Mitglieder mussten dem Verkauf zustimmen. Die Fotografen behalten die Rechte an ihren Bildern, viele bekommen einen Anteil aus dem Erlös der Transaktion.
  • The Jazz Loft Project - Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965. From 1957 to 1965 legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith made approximately 4,000 hours of recordings on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan. NPR - Tales Of The Tape: Introducing The Jazz Loft

    The Jazz Loft Project Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26709-2

Filed ↓ Architecture Award Black and White Books Chien-Chi Chang DIY Jazz Links Magnum New York Photography W. Eugene Smith

11 12 09

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The BigShot Camera The camera’s not currently for sale since the group is still doing field tests..

The BigShot Camera

The camera’s not currently for sale since the group is still doing field tests..

Filed ↓ Digital DIY

10 14 09

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Konica Wai Wai

thanks ebay , this is my new Toycamera. The Konica Wai Wai with fixed-focus super wide 17mm lens,a fixed aperture of f/8 and fixed shutter speed at 1/100.

This disposable camera comes pre-loaded with ISO 800 colour film. But they can be reloaded with a little DIY. Instructions for how to do this are readily available on the Internet.

How to reload a Wai Wai video .

Filed ↓ Konica Wai Wai Analogue DIY