Portland Press Herald Tuesday November 26, 2024
Paul Caponigro, who studied with Minor White and went on to become one of America’s foremost landscape photographers and an expert in the traditional silver gelatin process he used to create his black-and-white images, died on died on Nov. 10. The cause was congestive heart failure, noted his son, the photographer John Paul Caponigro. Kari Wehrs, photography program chair at Maine Media Workshops + College in Rockport, where Paul Caponigro taught one of the first classes 50 years ago, described his impact at the Portland Press Herald: “He is still known today really as one of the masters of analog photography,” said Wehrs.
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Fahey/Klein Gallery Tuesday November 26, 2024
Through January 11, 2025, the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles presents “Albert Watson: No Idle View,” a retrospective celebrating the acclaimed photographer, whose career, notes the gallery, began in LA during the 1970s. The exhibition showcases a “distinctive style that is deeply rooted in cinematic sensibility,” notes the gallery. “A lot of my pictures are confrontational and controlled; they’re not observational or voyeuristic,” says Watson. “I aim to create something that is strong, powerful, memorable, interesting and technically correct, not lazy.”
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DP Review Tuesday November 26, 2024
Last summer, Venus Optics unveiled its Laowa CF 12-24mm f/5.6 Zoom Shift lens for APS-C mirrorless cameras in China. Now the unusual lens is available outside China. The world’s first wide-angle zoom shift lens, it gives users control over perspective without being locked into a single focal length. But, notes DP Review, that versatility does come with a cost: The lens's f/5.6 maximum aperture is relatively slow for APS-C cameras. You also only get plus or minus 7mm of shift.
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AnOther Tuesday November 26, 2024
Austin, Texas-based photographer and filmmaker Beth Garrabrant is best known for her work with Taylor Swift, and for photographing the making of several films and television shows. Now she is bringing out her first monograph, Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard. The book, which features images made between 2001 and 2017, considers how depictions and perceptions of youth affect one’s own experience and memory of being young, notes AnOther. “I just know what I have experienced and what it looked like,” she says.
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