Blind Tuesday February 22, 2022
Converting a long career’s worth of analog images into digital files taught PPD reader Max Hirshfeld “that at 70, I’m still young enough to learn.” At Blind, Hirshfeld looks back at his archive of photography made on the streets of Washington, D.C. In 1973, he writes, while working in the darkroom at the National Portrait Gallery, he began wandering the “old” part of downtown D.C., “the area of the city that still had some soul.” It was “energizing to observe the chaos and randomness of big-city street life that I found there,” he notes. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Tuesday February 22, 2022
PetaPixel recently reported that a photographer covering the Biathlon World Cup in Ruhpolding, Germany successfully captured a speeding bullet with a Nikon Z9. Now PP notes that Lithuania photographer Vytautas Dranginis has done the same at the Winter Olympics, using another mirrorless camera: the Sony Alpha 1. Dranginis has captured at least 6 photos containing bullets leaving rifles being fired during the shooting portion of biathlon events, notes PP. Read the full Story >>
International Center of Photography Tuesday February 22, 2022
Are there too many images in the world? Too many of the wrong kind? Too many that we don’t like or want or need? Those questions may seem very contemporary, but the issue of image overload dates back to the 1920s, with the rapid increase in illustrated magazines and the birth of what would come to be called the mass media, notes the International Center of Photography in New York, where the exhibition “A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload” is on view through May 2. AnOther has more. Read the full Story >>
Eventbrite Tuesday February 22, 2022
The Projections series from The Photo Closer’s Frank Meo kicks off its sixth year with presentations from New York-based artist Allison Hunter and Smeeta Mahanti, a portrait and lifestyle photographer based in San Francisco. “They both bring a fresh, intriguing viewpoint to the work they create,” notes Meo. Zoom it on Feb. 23, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm EST. Read the full Story >>
