Larry Fink on his role as a photographer. Quoting Lisette Model, “You are the subject, life is the object.”
Magnum "Postcards" Crew Needs Your Help
If you live in San Antonio, Del Rio, El Paso, Las Cruces, Tucson, Las Vegas, Bakersfield, Fresno, the “Postcards From America” crew could use your help when they’re in town.
Does going free hurt membership programs? | Tyler Green
The financial case for free admission, supporting museums’ primary mission of making their collections available.
“I don’t really like reading about the technicalities of photography and printing. So often it appears to be an obfuscatory exercise in how complex, expensive and unattainable photography is, using equipment that is above and beyond anybody but the most practised professional. This kind of writing closes doors. It can make us feel inadequate in the face of larger pockets than our own. It stops us doing things. It is elitist and, in a strange way, intimidatory with its high-budget and technical bravado.”
Ofer Wolberger’s latest, “Visitor”.
Tech, demand and unemployment: A portrait of structural change | The Economist
The development of a large pool of inexpensive, semi-pro talent will have permanently driven down the price art directors are normally willing to pay. The permanently depressed market value of the pro photographers’ skills will force many of them to develop other skills, or accept a diminished standard of living. A booming economy will certainly help simply by offering a wide array of well-advertised alternative opportunities. But adaptation to a structural shift in the economy isn’t simply a matter of finding something else that pays. It’s a matter of finding something you want to do that pays. People, like photographers, accustomed to relatively creative and non-monotonous work might find any of the available options hard to accept.
Two-Way Lens: Simon Roberts
Simon Roberts is the latest to lend his answers to Michael Werner’s “Two-Way Lens”. If you are at all interested in photobook publishing, Simon’s blogging while he was creating and producing We English is a valuable resources and, in my opinion, one of the key early efforts in our current much-discussed “golden age of the photo book”.
'too hard to keep' archive
Jason Lazarus started an archive of photographs deemed “too hard to keep.” Submissions may include photos of friends, family, pets, places, and/or objects considered too hard to view again. Lazarus created a repository for these images so that they may exist without being destroyed.
There’s a drop-off at SF Camerawork.
