Bryan Formhals
I’m the founder of LPV Magazine and the Social Media Manager 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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- RT @Powhida: Restraint taxes me.
- @barrywhughes I hope so.
- RT @bbcbreaking: Ray #Manzarek, keyboard player in The Doors, dies at 74
- RT @mashable: Yahoo Unveils New Look for Flickr - http://t.co/8qQjvKG6Ps
- "Showing Hollywood the way: how 'Upstream Color' hit iTunes without leaving theaters" http://t.co/bM6QW0dfVw
- "Bloodthirsty 'factual' TV shows demonise wildlife" http://t.co/UbgVv19ke9
- RT @MichaelMechanic: Report: Poverty flees to the suburbs—suburban poor now outnumber urban poor, and growing faster. http://t.co/U6KK6Qckoz
- "Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future" http://t.co/LkPgPlRdKZ
- RT @AntDeRosa: This is the first scary part of the new post-Yahoo Tumblr: Marissa Mayer writes: “Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization…
- "Is Free Thinking A Mental Illness?" http://t.co/YFPkqjPmuI
- And now we're stuck with the stupid moon. http://t.co/DFDF10tSkF
- The last 10 rolls have provided signs of hope.
- @XOPK CK is one of favorites.
- Notes from scanning: "too many mono scenes. foreground, let people float into the frame. color, closer, color, closer, color, closer."
- @jmcolberg and ads ads ads on mobile. I already see way too many. The number of ads on the FB mobile app is absurd.
- @kukkurovaca yeah, that's always a good target, but it's tough to make that case when the compositions stink.
- RT @waxpancake: The Tumblr community reacts to the Yahoo news: http://t.co/AHGrnw50Mq
- Is this what the Tumblr dashboard will look like after the Yahoo! acquisition? http://t.co/40cPFN2ipQ
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…one of my favorite quotes is from the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer: “Talent hits the target no one else can hit; genius hits the target no one else can see.” I think the key to seeing the target no one else can see is in being patient, waiting for it to appear so you can do the right thing, not just the expedient thing. Learning to wait is one of my greatest accomplishments as I’ve gotten older.
The works I show together don’t necessarily have anything in common, except for the fact that I find them significant,” he says. “It’s my little kingdom. One of my clients is on the committee of a museum, and other committee members were calling him crazy for buying outside of the zone they deemed safe. ‘Why’d you buy that?’ they’d demand. I told him what to say the next time they ask — and it’s the only answer I think is valid. ‘Because I like it.’
The Atlas Group
The Atlas Group is a project established in 1999 to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. One of their aims with this project is to locate, preserve, study, and produce audio, visual, literary and other artifacts that shed light on the contemporary history of Lebanon.
They have produced and found several documents including notebooks, films, videotapes, photographs and other objects. Moreover, they organized these works in an archive, The Atlas Group Archive. The project’s public forms include mixed-media installations, single channel screenings, visual and literary essays, and lectures/performances.
Much of what gets immediate attention in the book world I perceive as almost too well thought out or just extremely clever. It looks complete and well designed yet it leaves me wondering why I should ever pick it up twice. I sense almost a distrust of photography on the part of many bookmakers now. But I am also a self-described dinosaur. I want the pictures to make me fall under their spell when they are irreducible in form, not by the ideas laid upon them.
I was more interested in taking pictures, and most of the time, I just didn’t pursue it,” Sid, 75, said. “I don’t like that whole system. Besides, to publish a book you have to be able to schmooze, and I just don’t have the technique.
Photograph by © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos
Opening tonight at Aperture: Life’s a Beach, photos by Martin Parr:
In Life’s a Beach, one of Britain’s most beloved photographers takes us on a color-saturated journey through a place loved by all, the seaside, with its general absurdities and local quirks. Martin Parr has been photographing this subject for many decades, documenting all aspects of the tradition, including close-ups of sunbathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge, and the eternal sandy picnic underway.
Click here for more information. See more of Martin Parr’s work on LightBox here.
Tammy Mercure. Guns. (self-published, 2012)
Based in Tennessee, Tammy Mercure has self-published a monthly, topical series of hand-bound photobooks each with 10 images and a letterpressed cover. With titles such as Guns, NASCAR, Religion, Elvis, Civil War, and Kudzu, Mercure mines the cultural relics and contemporary lifestyles of the Deep South with a humanizing, yet, offbeat, touch.Selections from the 10x10 American Photobooks project, co-sponsored by the International Center of Photography Library, Tokyo Institute of Photography and the Photobook Facebook Group.
Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.
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