Autoweek Monday February 7, 2022
Jesse Alexander, an American motorsports photographer who covered Formula 1 and various open road races in the 1950s, died on December 15, 2021 in Santa Barbara, California, notes Autoweek. He was 92. “As a kid my stepfather gave me a camera,” Alexander said in a 2016 interview. “My dad was an avid maker of home movies and, watching that self-expression, photography naturally became a way for me to express my own creativity. And I’ve always loved cars.” Read the full Story >>
Hatje Cantz Monday February 7, 2022
Growing up in a rural town of the Czech Republic during the collapse of communism there, aspiring painter Marie Tomanova watched bootleg DVDs of Sex and the City and dreamed of New York. Now she’s in NYC and reinvented as a photographer, notes Dazed. Her debut book Young American, featured an introduction by photographer Ryan McGinley, and her latest book, New York New York (Hatje Cantz, 2021) continues to pay homage to the city and the extraordinary next generation of New Yorkers Tomanova has encountered. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Monday February 7, 2022
If you want to transfer the color palette or color grading style from one photo to another, you can do it in Photoshop. Or, notes DIY Photography, you can simply import the source and target photos, click a button and have it done for you using Image Colour Transfer, a new web app. Within the app, you can play with seven pairs of sample images. From the “Samples” drop-down menu, select one of the target images and the source image will automatically appear next to it. Click the “Generate output image” button, and then click on the output image to download it. Read the full Story >>
National Portrait Gallery Monday February 7, 2022
Photographer James Van Der Zee created an extraordinary chronicle of life in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s and beyond, notes the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where the exhibition “James Van Der Zee’s Photographs: A Portrait of Harlem” remains on view through March 22. “For almost five decades, he was the photographer of Harlem,” said Diane Waggoner, a curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art tells BuzzFeed in a recent interview. Read the full Story >>
