The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York announced plans to exhibit a major retrospective of Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the great masters of photography.
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The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York announced plans to exhibit a major retrospective of Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the great masters of photography.
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Improper Photography. What a chillingly lovely and delicate phrase, “Improper Photography“.
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I had run across a headline on one the many online news feeds that I read, “Webster Man Arrested for Improper Photography”.
My first though was, ‘oh, my students do that all the time!’ But no. It is a legal term and it is a state jail felony in Texas.
Ever want to have Adobe Photoshop help you crop an image using the ‘Rule of Thirds’ or ‘Diagonal Rule’ or, perhaps, the ‘Golden Section’, ‘Golden Spiral’, or ‘Golden Triangle’ etc? Now there is an easy way to compose your image, in Photoshop, to many of the commonly accepted compositional techniques.
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Terry Gross has another fine interview; this time of singer/songwriter/poet Patti Smith. The incentive and drive for the interview is the memoir Patti Smith has published, Just Kids, recalling her life and times with famed and infamous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Do not go to see the Man Ray exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City!
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention is a dangerous show and may be permanently damaging to your creative photographic health.
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Update 15 January, 2010: Many large organizations are receiving donations, but smaller ones, such as Doctors Without Borders, who have long had a presence in Haiti, need addition donations. They already have 1,000 people on the ground and are setting up an inflatable hospital. Please help the terribly distressed people in the streets of Port…
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