I Still Shoot Film

Love love love, go check this guy out because he is crazy talented…

Henri Cartier-Bresson is generally considered to be the father of modern photo-journalism and street photography… check out these amazing photos of Europe and the United States in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, & 70’s.

so much great stuff…

Love, love, love… especially the film stuff :)

Jane Fulton Alt’s work on New Orleans and Katrina is honest and poignant; her “Crude Awakenings” series on the oil spill is also amazing. Check her out.

I love, love, love San Francisco photographer Winni Wintermeyer’s raw, natural portraits. They are amazing, check it out.

I love Greg Lotus. If you don’t recognize him by name, you make recognize the gazillion covers he’s shot for Vogue and W. Check it out.

Sarah Small takes absolutely amazing photographs of people with animals… and it’s totally not what comes to mind when I say “people with animals.” In fact, I think she did the lookbook for this Danish brand that I am obsessed with called Engbirk, and if she didn’t someone totally jacked her style. Check her out.

(from the Denver Post Blog)

These amazing photographs of the United States from 1939-1943 were taken by the photographers of the FSA, and are the property of the Library of Congress. I previously mentioned the importance of the photographers of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) and included all of them in my List of Essential Photographers…

Basically, the photographers of the FSA were commissioned to create “visual encyclopedia of American life,” but more specifically American life during and after the Great Depression and the New Deal. At the time, photographs were a means to show the public a) just how bad the situation really was during the Great Depresison and b) the accomplishments of the programs established by the New Deal. For more in depth inforrmation about photography and the FSA, I highly recommend reading Naomi Rosenblum’s A World History of Photography. 

How could I forget David Hockney?? I totally left him off my List of Essential Photographers, which is just craziness… and I’ve never posted a link to him ever…. my brain must have been elsewhere. For those who are not familiar with Hockney, he is arguably the founding father of all that is modern photocollage. His patchwork photos are recognizable anywhere and even started a movement of followers who photograph in the same style.

I will now stand corrected that David Hockney is one of the few people who has professionally worked with small Polaroids, by turning them into giant photocollages.

The black and white urban landscape portfolio of Russian fine art photographer Alexey Titarenko is unbelievable. His work can be found in museums and galleries around the world, including the the Russian State Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the  European House of Photography here in Paris. Did I mention he shoots film?

Christopher Anderson’s Holga’s @ Magnum Photos

I first fell in love with Clyde Butcher when I was about 14; I was either given or bought (I can’t remember) his book Seeing The Light.  I saw a portrait of him standing waist-high in the swamp with an 8x10 view camera and thought it was the coolest thing I’d seen ever. He’s not unlike a modern-day Ansel Adams, which is ordinarily not so much my style, but even after all of these years I can still stare at his black and white landscapes for ever.

Specifically this image, “Moonrise” has always been my favorite, and still rocks my world now: