Archives for March 2010
Spring Fever
The rediscovery of the sun always makes me reach for the SX-70. I don’t know how that works, but it does.
I only have 8 packs of Polaroid film left!
Photo Reads
Over the last couple of days I’ve been collecting links to some of my favorite longer-form articles, essays, blog posts, and interviews about photography on a new blog called Photo Reads. I can’t promise to update it every day, but I do spend quite a bit of time online looking for stuff like this anyway, so I thought I would share the results with everyone else. continue reading
Lee Friedlander
“The subject of landscape as a photographic possibility is both pleasurable and very difficult. The subject itself is simply perfect, and no matter how well you manage as a photographer, you will only ever give a hint as to how good the real thing is. We photographers don’t really make anything: we peck at the world and try to find something curious or wild or beautiful that might fit into what the medium of photography can hold.”
Chamonix 45N-1
Chamonix 45N-1
I’ve been shooting exclusively with a large format camera for about a year now. There have been many times in the last twelve months when I’ve seriously questioned that decision. My previous 4×5 camera was heavy, wobbly, and didn’t like to stay in focus for very long. I got so tired of carrying that thing out for a whole day only to come home with a sore neck and a stack of out of focus negatives.
Another film giveaway
If you can use 100 rolls of expired color film, check out James Pomerantz’s expired film giveaway.