SLR LOUNGE Thursday November 11, 2021
Photographers who work with babies learn the secrets of comforting their subjects. And both photographers and parent learn that getting babies to calm can be a difficult task requiring patience and practice—but mostly patience. A new video from SLR lounge has useful tips for photographers working with newborns. Read the full Story >>
HYPERALLERGIC Thursday November 11, 2021
In July 1964, Georgia O’Keeffe purchased her first Polaroid camera. “She was like a kid with a fine new toy,” her friend the photographer Todd Webb later wrote in his journal. “She said it was better than Christmas.” O’Keefe had already been making photographs for a decade as a crucial if little known component of her creative practice and personal life, notes Hyperallergic. The new exhibition “Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer” at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is the first exhibition devoted to O’Keeffe’s photography. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Thursday November 11, 2021
“Seasoned photographers know that the search for the right laptop comes down to far more than a list of individually impressive specs. The perfect laptop for photo editing will not always be the one with the most bells and whistles, because perfection here is about so much more: usability, ease, intuition — all the things that combine to create not just powerful imagery, but a powerful workflow as well.” So notes PetaPixel, which picks the top laptops for photographers in a number of categories from PCs and Apples to budget laptops and detachable 2-in-1 laptops Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Thursday November 11, 2021
On a cold day in December 2014, photographer Frank Herfort was waiting for a train at Shchukinskaya, a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, when he became mesmerized by the uniformly sculpted aluminum panels along the track. The experience, he writes at The New York Times, launched him on a six-year effort to photograph all existing Soviet-era metros—770 stations in 19 cities—inspired by “the mystique, the immensity, the pervading sense of colossal authority” of the railway system. Read the full Story >>