DIYPhotography Thursday December 14, 2023
In the age of AI art, you might enjoy something a little more … old fashioned. DIY Photography has a comprehensive guide to pinhole photography. “The process of designing and building a camera may seem daunting, but with a bit of patience, the help of this guide, and some further reading, you’ll be able to do it. You can use this information to figure out what you want to build, gather some simple materials and tools, and build it!,” notes Matt Bechberger, a photographer and a maker from Canada.
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The Atlantic Thursday December 14, 2023
In an essay in The Atlantic, photographer Corinne Dufka notes that her images of war are hard to take in, but necessary. “[L]ooking squarely at the misery delivered by leaders who promised to do good for their people—is important. More than that, refusing to see it, whether out of personal or political discomfort, is a form of misinformation,” she writes. Dufka’s new book This Is Warincludes work from more than a decade on frontlines of conflicts from El Salvador to Bosnia and Liberia.
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DP Review Thursday December 14, 2023
As the year comes to a close, DP Review looks back at what the camera industry produced in 2023 with its DP Review Annual Awards. “Nikon delivered the full-frame retro camera its users have dreamed of for years, Fujifilm brought high-end video specs to medium format, Panasonic finally jumped on the phase-detect autofocus bandwagon, and Pentax joined Leica in the monochrome camera game,” notes DPR. Meanwhile, Sony made waves by launching the first full-frame camera with a global electronic shutter.
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Smithsonian Thursday December 14, 2023
“The world of photography has left an indelible mark on this year through a stunning array of captivating books,” notes Smithsonian, which has drawn up a list of what it considers the 10 best photography books of 2023. Among the standouts is Believable: Traveling With My Ancestors by Lola Flash, “a poignant exploration of our shared humanity that, at the same time, embraces our rich differences,” notes Smithsonian. There’s also Eugene Richards’s In This Brief Life, which looks back at 50 years of social documentary photography.
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