Bryan Formhals
I’m the founder of LPV Magazine and an Online Marketing Analyst at
B&H Photo. My interest in photography and digital media has taken me
from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to New York, introducing me to some of the most
creative and intelligent people around.
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- Busy week on Tumblr http://t.co/5P98JqnW Do more there than I do with @lpvmagazine Basically, two blogs!
- @neiltyson Awesome. Will pick up the book when it arrives.
- David Lynch photo at the bodega @ Franklin Corner Cafe http://t.co/ahcqETa6
- @shanolyno @alexjdsmith well, what's your intent?! ha. I use them just to mess around. Nothing too terribly serious.
- @alexjdsmith @shanolyno Come on guys, it's not about the photos. This is basic :) Visual status updates. "here I am with/eating/doing"
- "Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work" by @jonahlehrer http://t.co/fcOseH3C Fantastic and insightful. Read it sooner than later.
- What are you up to this weekend? Me? Think I might make an effort to take a long walk with the Mamiya and Bessa. Could be fun!
- "You Are Attracted To People You Actually Have A Shot At" via @Awl http://t.co/9ESquIz0
- "It's True: We Really Are All Publishers Now, Including Brands" http://t.co/SB78viLJ
- Extra pushy this morning are we New York? Also, apologies to the dude I body checked at the Court Square Station. Mad crowded.
- Need more time to work on my own photography.
- I'm completely incapable of picking the right end of the train on the way home. Should always just go right down the middle.
- @evatography ha. happy I could help :)
- @evatography Yeah, I wish Calexico was closer to my apartment :)
- @evatography it hit the spot! you go there often?
- Waiting for my burrito and chips w/guac @ Acapulco Restaurant http://t.co/KJ90Ct2m
- Alright, after owning Greg Halpern's book, and now seeing it on the wall, I think I'm ready to write this essay!
- Gregory Halpern, good stuff. @ Clampart http://t.co/IEhnyI7l
- Joel Sternfeld, First Pictures @ Luhring Augustine Gallery http://t.co/faEX4s7g
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via LPV Magazine
There are billions of photographs online (in reality any person has access only to a very small fraction of it), and the question often becomes how one can have any faith in one’s photographs if there are so many others already out there (you might have noticed: I just called it faith, instead of trust - pick the word that comes closer to what you feel). For me, the answer has always been very simple. It comes in the form of a question: What does it matter if other people take photographs? What do other people’s photographs have to do with your own photographs?
The Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012.
Photo courtesy of NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
Ed note: Perfect for your desktop background. Click the photo for the 8000x8000 image
h/t Gizmodo
Mark Steinmetz’s new book captures both the spirit of American youth and the mood of Summer. See more here.
cwnl:
All-Sky Milky Way
Copyright: processing Lorenzo Comolli, images Lorenzo Comolli, Luigi Fontana, Giosuè Ghioldi, Emmanuele Sordini
This single image is able to show the entire sky, thanks to the truly dark sky of the Namibian savanna and to the absence of mountains. Only some small trees from the Tivoli farm are visible toward West.
by Joel Sartore
“Sartore uses an anecdote of the gray gibbon monkeys he shot recently at the Miller Park Zoo in Illinois. They’re on the verge of being “phased out.” There are too few in captivity to continue propagation — and too few in the wild to bring in.”
(via One Man’s Quest To Capture America’s Endangered Zoo Animals (With A Camera) : The Picture Show : NPR)
© courtesy of Bryan Formhals from ‘The Electric Sunshine Velocity Trip’
Side by Side Official Trailer (2012) (by Company Films)
“The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. We show what artists and filmmakers have been able to accomplish with both film and digital and how their needs and innovations have helped push filmmaking in new directions. Interviews with directors, cinematographers, colorists, scientists, engineers and artists reveal their experiences and feelings about working with film and digital—where we are now, how we got here and what the future may bring.”
- 8 Steps for Perfect Prints
Our own Bonny Diadhiou of the Fine Art Department got some magazine love from Popular Photography magazine in their recent article “8 Steps for Perfect Prints”. Hey, our retoucher Kole gets some love too !
by Hin Chua
“It may please you (it certainly pleases me!) to know that I will be having a solo show in Paris in a couple of weeks. I first met with the great crew at La Petite Poule Noire during Paris Photo in November and we spent the next month discussing the possibility of an exhibition. I’m thrilled to say this has come to pass.” via Hin’s Tumblr
Congrats! Well deserved.
But for years the true identity of the artist Banksy has been a closely guarded secret, known to just a handful of friends. Now a Mail on Sunday investigation has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting that the artist is former public schoolboy Robin Gunningham.
““We know story. However, it’s the ‘telling’ of stories that is becoming ever more complex and ever more exciting. This is because we have seen two massive shifts. One is the distribution of technology—the other is the distribution of creativity. Everyone is a storyteller, and with technology more and more people have access to tell theirs to other people all over the world.””
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Jonathan Mildenhall, Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy and Content Excellence at Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Company and ad agency McCann Erickson are exploring the future of storytelling as the inaugural underwriters of the Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab. Read on->
The narrative machete is the way through the democratic jungle,” he continued. “You need a beginning, a middle and an end.
Robert Frank made, what, 28,000 photographs for ‘The Americans’”? says Jim Leisy, a fine art photographer, book publisher and head of the Portland Art Museum’s volunteer-based photography council. “But he edited all of that down to 83. That’s what separates good from great, the professional from the amateur. The great ones are also editors. They are willing not to cling to a photograph.
- Money in Photography
These sentiments are common, but I’ve never seen them stated with so much bite and humour.
“As the mass money dries up, there is a trend to aspire to be closer to the Versailles salon of the Sun King. From riding on the back of a Pentagon war machine subsidy, picking up grants from uber-hedge fund mega-predators or corporate lobby foundation fronts, becoming the in-house photographer for ’1 Percent Monthly’ magazine, to simply engaging in a seemingly endless ponzi scheme-esque money-go-round: I grant you, you bursary him, he awards her, she judging panels him, he workshops them…and round we go again. Until it ends up on the wall of a disused church, viewed by a hermetically sealed bubble of like-minded peers, in a southern French city where the unemployment rate is 30 percent.”
“Public Transit Areas, Ocean and Pacific Avenue, Looking East” (Long Beach, CA, 1975)
“Some people ask, “What’s so important or compelling about taking pictures of such unpleasant subjects like city dwellers?” … My work may be beautiful or it might not be, that just isn’t what I am concerned with. I try to be open and face the city… . To me it’s not unpleasant or unbeautiful, it’s just life—which has to be threatening sometimes if it is going to be interesting.”
—Anthony HernandezCopyright Anthony Hernandez
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