If you think your Internet presence isn’t all that it could or should be, you’ll want to download Photoshelter’s new guide, 11 Secrets To A Great Photo Website. Among those secrets: how to keep things clean and simple, how to be SEO-ready, why you should consider running full-bleed images, how to put your contact info everywhere, and how to become ready to sell your work. Read the full Story >>
Are you one of the 15,000 users of the Atmos Shogun 4K recorder? If so, notes Cinema 5D, you’ll be happy to know that the company will be manufacturing a new selection of “add-on” Shogun accessories. Even better, if you own a Shogun you can get a bundle of these accessories for free, throughout June. Included: a Shogun Armor Case; a matte LCD protection panel; and a custom-fit Shogun sun hood. Go here for more info. Read the full Story >>
In Picture This: How Pictures Work, illustrator Molly Bang explored a single idea as the central concern of all picture book art: How does the structure of a picture—or any visual art form—affect our emotional response? She takes Red Riding Hood as her experimental subject and proceeds to delineate every possible emotional response to the classic fairy tale, using shapes cut out of construction … Read the full Story >>
Talk / Screening / Performance / and Beyond Tuesday, April 19 Aperture and Parsons presents: Dru Donovan, 6:30 pm. Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info Design Research, Writing and Criticism presents: Mark Wasiuta | The Making of “Environmental Communications: Contact High,” 6:30 pm. School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, NY, NY. Info The Stoop Series presents: Welcome to … Read the full Story >>
One of the benefits of entering AI-A.COM’s annual competitions is becoming a subscriber to DART: Design Arts Daily. Here you will find breaking news about art/artist events on the weekly DART Board, and illuminating book and exhibition reviews; artist interviews; and the popular annual Indie Bookstore rundown. So today's post is a PSA. Here’s what to do: • If you … Read the full Story >>
Finding just the right little holiday gift for someone you might not know very well—a favorite teacher, a special librarian, or something for a Secret Santa Christmas party—can become a nagging problem, especially if you’re running out of time. This is where creative paper gift products can come to the rescue. You know, all those irresistibly arty little items you find at the front … Read the full Story >>
Eight years after launching its Grants for Editorial Photography prize, Getty Images is now introducing its Contour Portrait Prize, dedicated to emerging portrait photographers. Entries for the initial edition of the competition will be accepted from June 13 to August 5, reports the British Journal of Photography. You can submit between 10 and 20 images, along with a biography, a brief explanation of your work, and a description of what you would like to accomplish in your career. The winner receives a $10,000 grant. Go here for more info. Read the full Story >>
Earlier this month, as part of IFP Film Week in NYC, three filmmakers had the opportunity to pitch a feature-film idea to a panel of current and former studio executives in an event called "The Art of the Narrative Pitch.” The execs then critiqued the pitches. Now Indiewire gathers together some of their insights, such as: 1. Don’t bury important info; 2. Make your own role in the film clear; 3. Remember your audience; and 4. Be prepared for rejection, because, well, you know. Read the full Story >>
Magnum Photos has partnered with The Photography Show to create a competition called “30 under 30,” which, explains the British Journal of Photography, is aimed at “identifying some of the world’s best emerging documentary photographers.” Organized in association with IdeasTap, an online platform for young artists, the competition is open to all photographers, worldwide, aged between 18 and 30. Go here for more info and to enter the competition. Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Monday, September 11-Sunday, September 17 & September 21-24 Photoville 2017. Exhibitions, Workshops, Talks, Screenings, Beer Garden/Food Trucks, Dog Run, and more! Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY Info [Dumbo] Monday, September 11-Suday, September 17 After School Special | Film and Animation Festival featuring Bill Plympton, Mark Ulano, and more. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 27-Sunday, March 1 | Gala Preview Wednesday, February 26 The Art Show | Art Dealers Association of America. Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, NY, NY Info “The nation’s most respected and longest-running art fair is comprised of 72 booths presented by ADAA member galleries and offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with … Read the full Story >>
“For a photographer, an agent fills many roles: manager, marketer, negotiator, artistic advisor, sounding board, support system. Or as Facebook might say about the relationship: It’s complicated. No wonder there are so many ways things can go south.” So notes PDN in a recent article featuring interviews with a number of photographers and their reps about problems that arise. Want to know more? See item 1 for info on New York rep Frank Meo’s upcoming Photographers Business Workshop. Read the full Story >>
Next week, the Type Directors Club opens its sixty-second annual typography exhibit, with selections from the annual typeface design competition. At a special presentation on Tuesday evening, the 29th TDC Medal will be presented to Émigré (Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans), the design firm/digital type foundry that arrived in Berkeley at the same moment as the Macintosh computer. Between 1984 and 2005, Émigré published Émigré magazine, … Read the full Story >>
New Exposure, a photography competition sponsored by Bottega Veneta and Vogue magazine, is back for its second edition. The talent contest aims to help young photographers break into the business: The winner, to be unveiled during New York Fashion Week in September, will take home a $10,000 cash prize, as well as a year-long mentorship with the Art+Commerce agency and another one with Vogue photo director Ivan Shaw. Go here for more info on how to enter. Read the full Story >>
Every two years NYC’s January chill melts a bit when the Outsider Art Fair opens its doors. Since its first incarnation 28 years ago, in the Puck Building under the guidance of Sandford Smith, the event has furthered the dialog on what Outsider Art is. Back in the day it was pretty much restricted to European ideas bent on celebrating Art Brut, tamed a … Read the full Story >>
You have until August 25 to apply for a short grant from the National Press Photographer’s Association. The program funds small-scale, tightly focused projects by newspaper photographers—though recipients are picked on the basis of their proposals and ability to tell a visual story, not on employment statues, notes NPPA. This year the awards have been doubled in size from previous years, with six winners receiving $6,000 grants. Go here for more info and to register. Read the full Story >>
Are you the kind of person who loves to reverse-engineer images you come across, view EXIF data, or otherwise pull as much info as possible out of an image? Then pay attention: Fstoppers spotlights a newly released browser extension that allows you to view the histogram of any image on the web. With Image Histogram, an extension for Google Chrome, you simply right-click an image and view the histogram data. Brilliant! (In a geeky sort of way.) Read the full Story >>
If you’re an Instagram ace and like movies, Netflix wants you: PetaPixel reports that Netflix is looking to hire three “Grammasters” to take an all-expense-paid trip to document a variety of iconic movie sets. That’s good enough, but you’ll also get paid $4,000 for the work! The job would require two weeks of your time, during which you would travel across the United States to capture well-known movie locations. Go here for more info. Read the full Story >>
Have you made your travel plans for the big Photokina exposition in Cologne, Germany? A thousand exhibitors from around the world will be showing their newest photo products at the show, but that’s only part of the story. There will also be exhibitions, such as Photokina Academy, in which 10 universities present projects examining living conditions around the world; Photokina CGI, looking at the confluence of computer-imaging and traditional photography; and Photokina Communities, which looks at how social networks are changing photography. Read the full Story >>
Holiday Pop-Ups / Special Events Tuesday, December 8 - Saturday, December 19 David Zwirner Books, 529 West 20th Street, NY, NY. Info Saturday, December 12 Aperture Holiday Book Bazaar | Book Signings, 1-7 pm. Aperture Gallery, 527 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info Howard Greenberg Gallery Holiday Book Fair, 11am-5 pm. 41 West 57th Street, NY, NY. Info Continuing through December 19: 37th Annual Holiday Sale. … Read the full Story >>
