By guest writer Laura Lucas of Big Picture Research I’m often asked if visual research is easier today than it was before computers. It’s a tough question to answer because there’s good and bad with all change. Technology has certainly delivered access and opened new doors but that doesn’t always mean it’s easier. I consider …
There is, in all probability, a podcast for everything these days: give an enthusiast, or a professional, a recorder and access to uploading resources, and… voila! But whereas there might be some obscure ones at the farthest ends of human endeavor (there’s – honestly – one about the history of ribbons, another on issues pertaining …
Time to explore photo docs – starting with one of the best..and one of our favorites: In the age of digital streaming, there are so many outlets that can be accessed to provide insights into the minds of photographers, and the applications of photography. A living digital archive exists on the Internet for anybody wanting …
Re-posted with the kind permission of PACA/DMLA. A young Turkish Cypriot woman holding a rifle in 1964 Cyprus – a stark photograph of troubled times, a face without a story. Until now. Last week Lebrecht photo library was contacted by the Australian nephew of the young woman. He was stunned to imagine that his aunt, …
Sometimes, if there ain’t a museum for what you want, you just have to set it up yourself…which is precisely what Bill Becker, a television producer and writer and noted historian of photography (his research has been published in American Heritage, History of Photography: An International Quarterly and other forums) did. Also; if you don’t …
by Julian Jackson Rex Features is a fixture of the British media industry. It celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Founded in a front room in 1954 by husband-and-wife team Frank and Elizabeth Selby, it has provided news, celebrity and royal imagery globally for six decades, in the process turning into a global media operation, …
By Michael Masterson How often do you wish a film wouldn’t end, that it would continue to unspool and reveal more and more about itself? “Finding Vivian Maier”, part documentary, part detective story, part exposé, is that kind of film. Its subject is slowly revealed as one of the world’s great “street” photographers, rivaling Garry …
Guest post by Julian Jackson Werner Forman was an intrepid photographer, who traveled all over the world to document the greatness of ancient civilizations. During his 75 year career he went into places nobody had been before with a camera, to take stunning visual images. He was the co-author and sole photographer of more than …
Photo lovers captivated and mesmerized by the story of the negatives in a suitcase and the mysterious nanny/street photographer Vivian Meier are in for a treat with the just released documentary, Finding Vivien Meier. See where it is screening near you here and go see it immediately. Her story is not what you expect and …
Guest post by Julian Jackson August 2014 will be the 100th anniversary of one of the most destructive conflicts that has ever taken place: World War One, or the “Great War”, as it was named at the time. Although centered on Europe, battles took place all over the seas and nations as far apart as …